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Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898

Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development

Explain who settled the West after 1865 and why, how the bison's destruction and broken treaties led to war, and how American Indians resisted assimilation.

Topic 6.3 · 14 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Who went west, and why
  2. 02Competition for land and the destruction of the bison
  3. 03Broken treaties and wars of conquest
  4. 04Assimilation, and how Native nations endured
  5. 05How historians have seen the West
  6. 06Worked examples
  7. 07Where students lose points
  8. 08On the exam

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