The movement started with farmers who drove the Cotton Kingdom toward the west. More individuals started to move out west alongside the Cotton Kingdom with expectations of discovering gold in California and the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Native Americans were forced to give up their land and move onto reservations whenever gold or silver was found on their land. This conflict between the settlers and Native Americans as a group was known as the
The movement started with farmers who drove the Cotton Kingdom toward the west. More individuals started to move out west alongside the Cotton Kingdom with expectations of discovering gold in California and the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Native Americans were forced to give up their land and move onto reservations whenever gold or silver was found on their land. This conflict between the settlers and Native Americans as a group was known as the