Western Growth

Reasons to Move West

Religious

Faith
Spread

Christianity

Mormons:

Escape

persecution

Gold

Available

land
Farming, ranching, mining

Minorities Out West

Women
Greater
freedom,
flexibility
out West
Immigrants
Chinese
Irish
Blacks
Went West in large numbers after
Civil War
Buffalo Soldiers

Impact on Natives

Destruction of
buffalo population
Dawes Act (1887)
Natives

forced
on reservations

Then

land taken,
given to settlers

Assimilation:

Americanize
Natives into
society

Violent Confrontations

Some
natives
resisted
violently

Violent
response

Custers
Last
Stand:

Battle of Little Big Horn

Crazy Horse led Natives to last victory

Wounded Knee

Location
of last big
armed
conflict
between
troops,
Natives
Sitting
Bull
started
uprising, govt sent army to arrest
Gunfight: Deaths of Sitting Bull, 300
(mostly) unarmed Native men, women, kids

Five in Five Review

1. Which of the following BEST describes why Mormons moved westward
to Utah on the Oregon Trail?
A. They found gold there
B. Being a Native American tribe, they were forced to live on a
reservation
C. They were fleeing religious persecution due to their belief in polygamy
D. They were hoping to set up missions to convert Native Americans
2. All of the following describe minorities in the west EXCEPT
A. Women enjoyed greater flexibility than they did in the East
B. Chinese and Irish immigrants helped built the transcontinental
railroad in the years between 1862 and 1869
C. Blacks migrated to the West in large numbers after the Civil War
D. Jews moved West to escape persecution on the East Coast
3. Which of the following statements describes the Dawes Act?
A. Prevent abuses in the pricing of fares by railroad companies
B. Integrate Native Americans into American society

C. Prevent oil companies from setting a price above the market price

D. Slow the migration of blacks from the south to Kansas

4. Which of the following describes the role of Chief Sitting Bull?

A. He signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie and lived with his people in
peace for the remainder of his life
B. He started the uprising at Wounded Knee that ultimately resulted in
the death of over 300 men, women, and children
C. He was the leader of the U.S. 7th Calvary
D. He led the Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Bighorn
5. Which of the following would be the BEST way to describe the U.S.
governments approach to dealing with Native Americans on the
frontier?
A. Negotiations, in which the aim was to share land peacefully with
the tribes that had lived there for generations
B. Compensation, in which the U.S. government paid tribal leaders
whatever amount of money the two sides agreed the land was
worth
C. Barter, in which Native Americans surrendered the land in exchange
for citizenship rights and the guarantee of being given land for
families to own and farm
D. Conquest, in which the United States used its military to take
Native American lands and relocate tribes to areas designated by
the U.S. government

Many Native Americans chose to violently

resist white settlement and relocation.

Do you think the Natives were justified

in their use of violence against U.S.
troops? Do you think the use of violence
by an ostracized or persecuted minority
is ever appropriate?
Outline your paper before you write it
Intro paragraph that introduces the issue
Thesis statement that makes an argument

Body paragraphs that support it

Remember: Flow, grammar, spelling
For More Info: Textbook, pages 408-417
Grading- One page: 80, two pages: 100