Exploring American History Unit VI

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Exploring American HistoryUnit VI A Growing
America

• Chapter 18Section 2 War for the West

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Wars for the West

• The Big Idea
• Native Americans and the U.S. government came
  into conflict over land in the West.
• Main Ideas
• As settlers moved to the Great Plains, they
  encountered the Plains Indians.
• The U.S. Army and Native Americans fought in the
  northern plains, the Southwest, and the Far West.
• Despite efforts to reform U.S. policy toward
  Native Americans, conflict continued.

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Main Idea 1 As settlers moved to the Great
Plains, they encountered the Plains Indians.

• The U.S. government negotiated treaties with
  Plains Indians Plains Indians, including the
  Sioux, Pawnee, and Cheyenne, lived by hunting
  buffalo.
• Buffalo were used for food, shelter, clothing,
  and utensils.
• Conflict grew with the Plains Indians as miners
  and settlers increased in number.

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Struggle to Keep Land
The Treaty of Fort Laramie
reservations, areas of federal land set aside for
the indian.
Crazy Horse.
1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge
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Main Idea 2The U.S. Army and Native Americans
fought in the northern plains, the Southwest, and
the Far West.

• When Native Americans resisted confinement on
  reservations U.S. troops forced them to go.
• buffalo soldiers
• Geronimo

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Fighting on the Plains

• Northern Plains
• In 1876 George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse and
  Sitting Bull at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
• Massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.

• Far West
• Nez Percé.

• Southwest
• Navajo
• Long Walk

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Main Idea 3Despite efforts to reform U.S.
policy toward Native Americans, conflict
continued.

• Ghost Dance movement
• Sarah Winnemucca,
• Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887

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Treatment of Native Americans- 1820-1850
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Treatment of Native Americans- 1867-1886

• 1867-1886 - 20 years of war and containment
• 1871- No more treaties to be made, Indians are
  wards of the state

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Treatment of Native Americans- 1867-1886
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Treatment of Native Americans- 1887-1934
1889- Ghost Dance Helen Hunt Jacksons books.
Dawes Act 1887-. Indian Citizenship Act
June 2, 1924 1934- Indian New Deal-
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Buffalo
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The Ghost Dance- Hope to the People
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Wounded Knee