Exploring American History Unit VI – A Growing America

1. Exploring American HistoryUnit VI – A Growing America Chapter 18Section 2 – War for the West

2. 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.

3. 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.

5. 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

7. Main Idea 2:The 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

8. 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

9. Main Idea 3:Despite efforts to reform U.S. policy toward Native Americans, conflict continued. • Ghost Dance movement • Sarah Winnemucca, • Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887

12. Treatment of Native Americans- 1820-1850

13. 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

14. Treatment of Native Americans- 1867-1886

15. Treatment of Native Americans- 1887-1934 1889- Ghost Dance Helen Hunt Jackson’s books. Dawes Act 1887-. Indian Citizenship Act June 2, 1924 1934- Indian New Deal-

16. Buffalo

17. The Ghost Dance- Hope to the People

18. Wounded Knee