The West and Indian Wars

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The West and Indian Wars
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Anti-Chinese Feelings

• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
• No Chinese immigration
• Cant be citizens

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Sand Creek

• 1864-Colorado militia massacres Indians at Sand
  Creek
• Plains Indians ban together

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Red Cloud
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Pacify the Sioux

• Sioux angry over gold miners in their land
• Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
• Government would not build road through Sioux
  land

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Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
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Little Big Horn

• Custers Last Stand
• Motivates U.S. army to track down anymore
  resistance

George Custer
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Arrest of Sitting Bull

• Government afraid of Ghost Dance movement
• Sitting Bull killed
• Leads to Wounded Knee

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Wounded Knee

• Hundreds of Indians massacred
• Ends resistance

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Dawes General Allotment Act

• Indian families granted 160 acre farmstead
• Land good for 25 years
• Indians encouraged to abandon culture and live
  like whites

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Transforming the West

• Mining and Ranching

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Mining Towns

• Vigilantes self-appointed law enforcers
• Boomtowns
• Mining town
• Empty as soon as
• gold/silver ran out

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Railroad
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Cattle Ranching

• Mexicans developed open-range system
• Cowboys came from Mexican vaqueros

Texas Longhorn
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Closing the Frontier