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American Indian History19th Century
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Broken Treaties
• Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
--government agency for managing American Indian issues
• U.S. government gave American Indians money and promises of other land and supplies in exchange for their land
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Reservation System
• created to serve desire for farmland and gold• gave government control over American
Indians• used to assimilate American Indians
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Violence in the West
• Sand Creek Massacre (1864)—as they were about to surrender, 200 Cheyenne were killed by American forces, mostly women and children
• Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)—Sioux killed General Custer and his entire battalion, last victory of the Sioux
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Violence in the West
• Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)—150 Sioux and 30 U.S. soldiers killed, marked the end of conflict on the Great Plains
• After some Nez Percé killed four white settlers, Chief Joseph led the tribe in an attempted escape to Canada.
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Wounded Knee
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Decline of the Buffalo
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Assimilation
• cultural absorption of American Indians into “white America”
• schools were set up for American Indians• made them learn and speak English• lost their cultural ties: “Americanization”• government felt this was for Indian survival
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Dawes General Allotment Act (1887)
• gave American Indians an allotment of reservation land for farming
• any remaining land would be sold• lost majority of their land• many Indians rejected this system• Some land was not suitable for farming
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The West
• What is a frontier? • How has the frontier changed throughout
American history? • What happened to the frontier?• How did this change the foreign policies of
the United States?
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Land Acts
• Homestead Act (1862)—law that encouraged settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers
• Morrill Act (1862)—federal law that gave land to western states to build agricultural and engineering colleges
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Who moved West?
• 1. whites from the East—searching for available cheap land
• 2. exodusters—African Americans who settled in the West after Reconstruction to escape the South
• 3. immigrants—northern and western Europeans (i.e. Scandinavians, Irish)
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