U.S. History
Mr. Boothby
12/16/2015
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Chapter 26: The Great West and Agricultural Revolution PT1
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Indians in the WEST/ Saloons/ THE END OF THE REAL INDIANS!
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From Last Night: EXPLAIN THE…
The DAWES GENERAL ALLOTMENT ACT 1887!
WHAT? WHY? HOW?
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Silently Read Pages 590-600
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1. Why were cultural clashes between the Natives and the expanding
America taking place? What were some early attempts to “appease” this?
2. What were a few battles that took place that are historic (List
Chivington’s and Custer’s) explain what happened there?
3. What were a few ways that Americans and the American Government
began “taming” the Indians? Why do you think they/WE felt the need to do
so?
4. How would you feel like if you were an Indian in 1888 and given the
forced “Dawes Act”? At your age would you care? Would you
assimilate??? How do you deal with changes NOW?
***KEYS***y the 1880s, the nation began to realize the horrors it had committed on the
Indians. Helen Hunt Jackson published A Century of Dishonor in 1881 which told of the
record of government ruthlessness in dealing with the Indians. She also wrote Ramona
in 1884 which told of injustice to the California Indians.
MORE MINING…
"Fifty niners" also rushed to Nevada in 1859 after gold and silver were discovered at
Comstock Lode…LEAD TO Bland Allison Act and…
THE MORGAN SILVER DOLLAR 1878-1921!
Women gained the right to vote in Wyoming (1869), Utah (1870), Colorado (1893), and
Idaho (1896), long before the women of the East.
Frontier mining played a vital role in bringing people and wealth to the West. The
discoveries of gold and silver also allowed the Treasury to resume specie payments in
1879 (payments for silver).
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1. How were cultural clashes between the Natives and the expanding
Americans? What were some early attempts to “appease” this?
In the West, soldiers spread cholera, typhoid, and smallpox to the Indians.
They also reduced the bison population through hunting.
The federal government tried to appease the Plains Indians by signing
treaties with the "chiefs" of various "tribes" at Fort Laramie in 1851 and at
Fort Atkinson in 1853. The treaties marked the beginning of the reservation
system in the West.
2. What were a few battles that took place that are historic (List Chivington’s
and Custer’s) explain what happened there?
At Sand Creek, Colorado in 1864, Colonel J. M. Chivington's militia killed
400 innocent Indians.
In 1866, a Sioux war party attacked and killed Captain William J.
Fetterman's command of 81 soldiers and civilians in Wyoming's Bighorn
Mountains. The Battle of the Little Bighorn was a rare Indian victory in the
plains wars.
In 1876, Colonel George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry was
slaughtered as they tried to suppress the Indians after the Sioux attacked
settlers who were searching for gold in the "Great Sioux reservation."
The Nez Percé Indians were sent to a dusty reservation in Kansas in 1877.
3. What were a few ways that Americans and the American Government
began “taming” the Indians? Why do you think they/WE felt the need to do
so?
As a result of perceived Indian dangers, news reports of Custer’s Last
Stand…Newspaper FEARS…
The "taming" of Indians was accelerated by the railroad, white men's
diseases, and alcohol.
After the Civil War, over 15 million bison grazed the western plains. By
1885, fewer than 1000 were left after the bison had been slaughtered for their
tongues, hides, or for amusement. Running Bison off cliffs to starve/move
Indians and leaving the animals to rot!
4. How would you feel if you were an Indian in 1887 and given the “Dawes
Act”? At your age would you care? Would you assimilate???
The Dawes General Allotment “Severalty” Act of 1887 dissolved many tribes
as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of land, and set up individual
Indian family heads with 160 free acres. If the Indians behaved like "good
white settlers" then they would get full title to their holdings as well as
citizenship. The Dawes Act attempted to assimilate the Indians with the
white men. The Dawes Act remained the basis of the government's official
Indian policy until the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.
Explain the CAUSE and AFFECT of the Dawes Act…
CAUSE (FEAR):
In 1876, Colonel George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry
was slaughtered as they tried to suppress the Indians after the
Sioux attacked settlers who were searching for gold in the "Great
Sioux reservation."