Post Civil War Texas
Reconstruction Indian Removal Jim Crow Laws A Time of Progress A Time of Bitterness Expansion of the railroads west Innovations in Technology Growth of Cities Rise of Industry (Cattle, Oil, Steel, etc…) Population Growth Indian Removal Jim Crow Laws Lingering anger of losing war
Indian Wars Texas and the U.S.
Native Americans Struggles Native Americans in North America at odds with different groups from the start
Native Americans In Texas Conflict with the following groups/nations Europeans(Spaniards) Mexico (Both Mexican and Anglo’s) Republic of Texas U.S.
Population Moves West (Manifest Destiny) Indian hunting grounds encroached Indians angered and fight to defend homeland
Treaties Made and Broken To keep peace, U.S. brokers many treaties with Native Americans Most of the time they are broken Native Americans mistrustful of White Men (U.S.)
Reservation System Native Americans offered a chance to be moved to a reservation Reservation- Land set aside by U.S. Government for Native Americans settlement Native Americans would have to farm and depend on U.S. Government for assistance Most Native Americans not pleased with reservation system Some tribes refuse and resist Plains Native Americans angered at extermination of Buffalo Native Americans resistance intensifies
War in Texas President Grant sends in William T. Sherman and Phillip Sheridan to Texas to tour forts and begin pacification (Forced Removal) Wars with Native Americans Intensify
Native Americans Combatants Main Combatants Comanche Apache Kiowa
Native Americans at a disadvantage Low numbers Weapons and other supplies scarce Fighting the full might of the U.S. Army. Not resistant to diseases
Quanah Parker Son of captured American Woman (Cynthia Ann) Last Comanche Chief Fought U.S. Hard Realized it was a losing battle Assimilated in American Culture Convinced other Indians to do so
Buffalo Soldiers African American soldiers stationed out in the Texas and U.S. frontiers Helped fight and later keep the peace with the Native Americans