HIST 106 1st Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I American Farmers Outline of Current Lecture II Conflict and Conquest III The Movement West IV Native Americans Current Lecture Manifest Destiny In 1840 much of the west was still Indian territory Acts that furthered movement west o Homestead Act gave free land to those who promised to improve it o Pacific Railroad Act Chinese immigrants worked on railroads Diversity of American West People moving West encountered several Indian tribes Mexican Indians and freed black slaves were moving West as well Tribes in the Great Plains o Northern Plains o Southern Plains Choctaw creek Choctaw Chickasaw Seminole o Many tribes believed in Wonka Tanka great spirit o The introduction of the horse changed native American lifestyle able to hunt more effectively helped with military o Advertisement encouraged people to move west Problems for Native Americans Treaty of Fort Laramie o Ended Red Cloud s war by evacuating federal troops from Sioux Territory along the Bozeman Trail These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Granted Sioux ownership of the western half of South Dakota and rights to use Powder River country in Wyoming and Montana They were victims of racism They were accused of wasting the land o they weren t using their land for production Sand Creek Massacre o outside of Denver o Military group under Cornel John Chivington slaughtered Native Americans and used their bodies as trophies Red River War o took place in Southern Plains across Southern Texas and Oklahoma o bloodiest war of the era o US prevailed by the use of new technologies and denying the Indians food o rebellion was put down in 1875 Helen Hunt Jackson o wrote a speech against government policy o related to their suffering o wrote A Century of Honor o talked about how mistreated Indians are Dawes Act o offer 160 acres of land to adult members of Indian communities o those who accepted the land and agreed to allow the government to sell unallotted tribal lands could petition to become a citizen of the US o has good intentions o proved detrimental to tribes Ghost Dance Movement o Wovoka had a vision during a total eclipse of the sun o In his vision the creator told him if the Indian peoples learned to love each other they would be granted a special place in the afterlife o the creator also gave him the ghost dance which the shaman performed o Sioux was confronted by the US army and demand the Indians to give up guns o the Sioux surrendered but due to a misunderstanding shots were fired 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner o Significance of the Frontier in American History o focused on the issue that there was not no more unidentified frontier o thesis argues that frontier played a vital role in shaping American identity and culture Patricia Limerick o The Legacy of Conquest o claims native Indians had claim to land but we took it
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