Instructions
Background: Americans were interested in expanding westward to the Pacific Ocean. Traveling to the West was an arduous experience that railroads could shorten and simplify. Railroad construction in the American West by necessity infringed on Native American territory and created unrest and uneasy relations between the Native American peoples and the railroad builders.
Purpose: In this assignment, you will explore and explain the argument against this expansion/infringement by using both the information from Chapter 17 and your analysis of the maps.
Explain why railroad construction should not go through Native American territory in the American West. Remember, your focus here is on Indian Removal and Westward Expansion AFTER the Civil War, not prior (i.e., not the Trail of Tears or the cotton plantation economy).
For purposes of this assignment, the American West is defined as all territory west of the Mississippi River.
Explain geographically the regions of the map that are relevant to your argument. See the links below for a visual of historic maps.
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