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Title: Native American History


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Native American History
  • Jackson to Progressive Era A History of
    Displacement

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American Westward ExpansionCauses
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Railroad Expansion
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Perceived Racial Superiority
  • Mining Opportunities
  • Farm Land
  • U.S. population boom
  • Missionary Work

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Westward Expansion and Native American
Experiences
  • Forcible Removal from land
  • Constantly at War
  • Spread of Disease (sometimes purposeful)
  • Series of Broken Treaties
  • Financial Hardship
  • Cultural Assimilation
  • Hunter Gatherer to Agriculture

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Trail of Tears 1838
  • Cherokee and Seminole tribes removed from land in
    Southeast U.S.
  • Moved to Oklahoma
  • Jackson refuses to follow Supreme Court decision

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Westward Expansion 1840s
  • Mexican American War
  • Oregon Trail
  • Fort Laramie purchased by U.S. govt
  • Seminole Nation V. United States
  • Bureau of Indian Affairs created
  • California Gold Rush 1849
  • Decline of Buffalo population

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Manifest Destiny Takes Hold 1850s
  • New Territories settled
  • Land gained from Mexican American War
  • Conflicts develop between settlers and Native
    Americans
  • Treaties are signed and ignored

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Southwest- Navajo and Apache Conflicts (1861-1886)
Manuelito
Geronimo
Kit Carson
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Navajo Conflicts 1860s
  • More settlers led to revolts and conflict
  • Americans distracted by Civil War
  • Kit Carson sent to Southwest
  • Navajo rebellions put down with harsh force
  • Long Walk to New Mexico
  • Navajo allowed to return to reservation

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Apache Conflicts 1860s-1880s
  • Cochise and Geronimo led uprisings
  • Used guerilla warfare tactics
  • Hid in canyons and mountains
  • Also crossed over into Mexico
  • Both were eventually caught and forced to live on
    reservations

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Wars in Southwest 1860s-1890s
  • After years of fighting the Navajo, Apache, and
    Cheyenne are forced on to reservations

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Sioux Wars 1865-1890
  • Sioux Nation is divided into
  • - Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota
  • Modern Day Northern Midwest
  • American settlers begin mining
  • Americans focus on Black Hills

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Sioux Wars
  • Fighting breaks out over Black Hills
  • Gold is discovered in Black Hills
  • Black Hills belonged to Sioux and were considered
    sacred
  • Colonel Custer sent to pacify Sioux

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Battle of Little Big Horn 1876
  • Colonel Custer stumbles into trap
  • Sioux Forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
  • Sioux defeat Custer easily
  • Custers Last Stand- No Americans surivve

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Massacre at Wounded Knee 1890
  • Military attempts to move Sioux off reservations
  • Military removes rifles from Sioux
  • Shot is fired Massacre ensues
  • 300 Sioux men, women, and children are killed.

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Assimilation through Legislation
  • Indian Appropriation Act- Tribes can no longer
    negotiate as sovereign nations
  • Dawes Act- Native Americans moved off tribal
    reservations on to individual land allotments
  • Indian Education Act- Mandatory boarding school
    education, children removed from parents

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