The West and Native Americans
Guided Notes
Federal Government Aids Settlement of West
• Settling the West ______but several things helped it along.
• ______: An incentive which gave nearly free land grants given to settle western lands
• ______: Made travel to west easier and provided infrastructure to send agricultural goods back east.
• ______: Provided federal troops to fight against Native American resistance to westward expansion.
• ______: Supported by President Andrew Jackson this led the horrific ______Cherokees died on their way to reservations
Homestead Acts
• Program passed by the ______.
• Gave an applicant ownership of a plot of land on unsettled ______
• Owner had to live on land for ______, improve the land, and pay a fee of around $30
Exodusters
• ______to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado after the Civil War.
• First general migration of blacks after the Civil War, many of whom left the south to ______.
Cattle Drives (______)
• Cattle drivesinvolved cowboys on horseback moving ______
• 10 million cattle were herded from Texas to ______for shipments to stockyards in Chicago and other eastern cities.
• ______served as the ending point for most cattle drives.
• What seemingly simple invention stops most cattle drives by 1886?
______
Buffalo Hunted to Near Extinction
• In 1865 there were 30 million buffalo grazing the western plains, ______there were fewer than a thousand.
• Many Native Tribes relied on the buffalo to ______.
• The overhunting of the Buffalo by white hunter ______.
Indian Wars ______
Buffalo Soldiers
• Term first coined by Native Americans to ______.
• Term eventually became synonymous with all black soldiers that ______
• Military units still ______after the Civil War.
Indian Chiefs
Name and Role: / Name and Role: / Name and Role:Battle of Little Bighorn (______)
• Native American victory in which General ______by the Sioux.
• Wild West Shows, which were popular during the period, frequently depicted ______as a courageous fight against Native American violence.
The Ghost Dance
• This was a revival movement with the goals of ______the Native tribes and ______to the way it once was, with their fallen comrades resurrected and whites gone.
• The movement spread across reservations and ______
• It was a ______with slow steps and no instruments performed in special clothes that had magical symbols painted on them
• When it is learned ______allows the movement to start in the Sioux tribes the Gov’t arrest him, ______in the process.
• Shortly after the Sioux(Lakota) are forced to surrender at ______
Battle of Wounded Knee or the Massacre at Wounded Knee? (______)
• It represented the ______of the U.S. government’s military operations against Native Americans.
• ______of American Indian Wars.
• During the disarming of the ______, fighting broke out
• Lakota Killed/Wounded: ______
• Soldiers Killed/Wounded: ______
Dawes Act (______)
• The act ______many tribes as legal entities, wiped out ______, and set up ______with 160 free acres.
• The land not allotted to individual N.A’s was sold to railroads and white settlers, with this money going to fund ______intended to ______Native Americans into white culture.
Assimilating N.A. into “White” culture
• The ______in Pennsylvania served as the flagship Indian boarding school from 1879-1918.
• The goal was to rid ______and for them to learn the ______
• Motto of the Carlisle Indian School:______
Frederick Turner’s Frontier Thesis (______)
• In 1890 the US Census states that the ______, but it’s mystique remained.
• Turner argued that American democracy was formed by ______
• By the time of Turner’s death, most leading history department’s were teaching courses on the importance of ______.
• An alternative theory to the one proposed by Frederick Turner was that “______” for ambitious and enterprising Americans.