U.S. History
Mr. Boothby
2/12/2015
The Learning Target: The Wars for the WILD WEST
Reservations/ Fort Laramie Treaty/ Sand Creek Massacre / Custer’s Last Stand/
Massacre at Wounded Knee/ Dawes General Allotment Act
Reaction (ONLY 1/2 Page if “On Task” FAST)
Why do you think some people consider sharecropping worse than slavery?
Would you IF you were trapped in “the system” after the 13th, 14th, and 15th?
Explain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0iC ZXDht0w&feature=related
Silently Read Pages 542-549
The Wars for the West:
Silently Read Pages 542-549
The Wars for the West:
1. What events started the wars in the West?
2. What were the consequences of the wars in the West?
3. How did the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 end all Native
American life…as “they” knew it? What was the point?
4. Why were the horse and buffalo so important for the plains
Indians?
5. CREATIVE WRITING (1/2 Page?)
The year is 1889 and the West is Wild.
Create a newspaper article that covers the dangers of the Wild West.
There are still a few Indians and Washington has just became an
official state (1889)
Changed
Reservations…
Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887
Made them like
cities!
MAKE
THEM…LIKE US!
160
Acres
Banks,
etc…
80
Acres