Development of the American West

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Development_of_the_American_West

GPTKB entity

Statements (95)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Westward_Expansion
gptkbp:conflict	gptkb:Mexican-American_War gptkb:Indian_Wars gptkb:Texas_Revolution
gptkbp:effect	environmental change economic growth expansion of U.S. territory displacement of Native Americans
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Development of the American West
gptkbp:involvedGroup	gptkb:Native_Americans miners ranchers settlers cowboys railroad workers
gptkbp:keyEvent	gptkb:California_Gold_Rush gptkb:Homestead_Act gptkb:Transcontinental_Railroad gptkb:Louisiana_Purchase
gptkbp:location	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:notableFigure	gptkb:Andrew_Carnegie gptkb:Annie_Oakley gptkb:Billy_the_Kid gptkb:Brigham_Young gptkb:Charles_Crocker gptkb:Geronimo gptkb:J.P._Morgan gptkb:James_K._Polk gptkb:John_Bidwell gptkb:John_D._Rockefeller gptkb:John_Muir gptkb:Leland_Stanford gptkb:Lewis_and_Clark gptkb:Mark_Twain gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant gptkb:George_Armstrong_Custer gptkb:James_J._Hill gptkb:Charles_Marion_Russell gptkb:Forty-Niners gptkb:Red_Cloud gptkb:Buffalo_Bill_Cody gptkb:Grenville_Dodge gptkb:James_Marshall gptkb:Jay_Gould gptkb:Stephen_F._Austin gptkb:Frederick_Jackson_Turner gptkb:Henry_Wells gptkb:John_Butterfield gptkb:William_Fargo gptkb:Black_Kettle gptkb:Theodore_Judah gptkb:Cornelius_Vanderbilt gptkb:John_C._Frémont gptkb:John_Sutter gptkb:John_Wesley_Powell gptkb:Sacagawea gptkb:Sam_Houston gptkb:William_Clark gptkb:Wyatt_Earp gptkb:William_Tecumseh_Sherman gptkb:Mark_Hopkins gptkb:Pat_Garrett gptkb:Chief_Joseph gptkb:Crazy_Horse gptkb:Sitting_Bull gptkb:Doc_Holliday gptkb:Jesse_James gptkb:Zebulon_Pike gptkb:Thomas_Durant gptkb:Buffalo_Soldiers gptkb:Calamity_Jane gptkb:Collis_P._Huntington gptkb:Kit_Carson gptkb:Wild_Bill_Hickok gptkb:Charles_Goodnight gptkb:Chinese_railroad_workers gptkb:Pony_Express_riders Mormon pioneers outlaws lawmen Oregon Trail emigrants Buffalo hunters Mountain men Stagecoach drivers
gptkbp:period	19th century
gptkbp:relatedConcept	gptkb:Gold_Rush gptkb:Manifest_Destiny frontier land rush
gptkbp:relatedLegislation	gptkb:Homestead_Act_of_1862 gptkb:Dawes_Act
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Trans-Mississippi_Exposition_(1898) gptkb:Trans-Mississippi_Exposition_1898
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6