+ 8.2 Western Expansion & the American Indians How did the pressures of westward expansion impact Native Americans?
+ Conflicts with Indians View of Nature Indians believe they were a part of nature Americans transforms nature to make life easier Americans are lure west b/c_ Indians have no immunity to _ Gov’t builds a RR across the continent This moves Indians to_ Americans hunted buffaloes close to _ Manifest Destiny
+ Red River War
+ Custer Vs Sitting Bull
+ Custer’s Last Stand
+ Violence with Indians Red River War Indians attack _ Comanche surrender Little Big Horn 1876 Montana Dakota gold rush brought Americans Crazy Horse & Sitting Bull VS 2000 Indians VS _ Custer b.c.s a martyr for fighting to the death Nez Perces 1877 Idaho Force to move to OK Tried going to Canada but stopped at the border Wounded Knee 1890 SD Sitting Bull _ Revenge for Little Big Horn
+ Little Big Horn
+ Dawes Act
+ Dawes Act 1871 Assimilation- adopting the culture & civilization of America Indians begin to be treated as individuals and not as a independent _ Removes _ Pushes the idea of individualism & _ Boarding school education for Indians
+ 8.3 Transforming the West What economic and social factors changed the west after the Civil War?
+ Vigilantes: Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday
+ Transcontinental RR
+ Transcontinental RR 1863 Linking east _ Built by private companies and not by _ Central Pacific starts in _ Union Pacific starts in _ Brought the nation together Products are moved quickly & efficiently
+ Cowboys
+ Ranchers & the Cattle Kingdom Open Range System Cattle openly _ So owners used ‘_’ “rounding up’ done by hired _ Cattle Drives to _ Open range era ends due to the invention of the _
+ Homesteaders
+ Americans who settled the western frontier Given 160 acres if they : lived on the property for _ dug a well built a _ Faced windstorms, blizzards, droughts, and locusts Necessity Brings Inventions Cheap fencing – Sod covered land – Water – New methods –
+ Boomer Sooner
+ Last of the Frontier Uninhabited wilderness in the west that was free The last territory – Opened up to settlers on ‘boomer’s stormed in to stake their claims Problem, some sneaked in before & took the _ these people were called ‘_