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8.2 Western Expansion & the American IndiansHow did the pressures of westward expansion impact Native Americans?

+Conflicts with Indians

View of Nature Indians believe they were a part of nature Americans transforms nature to make life easier

Americans are lure west b/c_

Indians have no immunity to _

Gov’t builds a RR across the continent This moves Indians to_

Americans hunted buffaloes close to _

Manifest Destiny

+Red River War

+Custer Vs Sitting Bull

+Custer’s Last Stand

+Violence with Indians

Red River War 1874-1875 Indians attack _ Comanche surrender

Little Big Horn 1876 Montana Dakota gold rush brought Americans Crazy Horse & Sitting Bull VS 2000 Indians VS _ Custer b.c.s a martyr for fighting to the death

Nez Perces 1877 Idaho Force to move to OK Tried going to Canada but stopped at the border

Wounded Knee 1890 SD Sitting Bull _ Revenge for Little Big Horn

+Little Big Horn

+Dawes Act

+Dawes Act 1871

Assimilation- adopting the culture & civilization of America

Indians begin to be treated as individuals and not as a independent _

Removes _

Pushes the idea of individualism & _

Boarding school education for Indians

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8.3 Transforming the WestWhat economic and social factors changed the west after the Civil War?

+Vigilantes:Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday

+Transcontinental RR

+Transcontinental RR 1863

Linking east _

Built by private companies and not by _

Central Pacific starts in _

Union Pacific starts in _

Brought the nation together

Products are moved quickly & efficiently

+Cowboys

+Ranchers & the Cattle Kingdom

Open Range System

Cattle openly _

So owners used ‘_’

“rounding up’ done by hired _Cattle Drives to _

Open range era ends due to the invention of the _

+Homesteaders

+Homesteaders

Americans who settled the western frontier

Given 160 acres if they : lived on the property for _ dug a well built a _

Faced windstorms, blizzards, droughts, and locusts

Necessity Brings Inventions Cheap fencing – Sod covered land – Water – New methods –

+Boomer Sooner

+Last of the Frontier

Uninhabited wilderness in the west that was free

The last territory –

Opened up to settlers on‘boomer’s stormed in to stake their claims

Problem, some sneaked in before & took the _these people were called ‘_