James L. Roark Michael P. Johnson Patricia Cline Cohen Sarah Stage Susan M. Hartmann CHAPTER 17 The Contested West, The American Promise A History of the United States Fifth Edition Copyright © 2012 by Bedford/St. Martin's

I. Conquest and Empire in the West A. Indian Removal and the Reservation System 1. Early Indian policy 2. Manifest destiny and reservations 3. The Treaty of Fort Laramie 4. Life on the reservation 5. The Sand Creek Massacre

I. Conquest and Empire in the West B. The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds 1. Environmental and human factors 2. Industrial demands and the railroad 3. The Treaty of Medicine Lodge and the move to reservations C. Indian Wars and the Collapse of Comanchería 1. The last resistance in the West and the Great Sioux Uprising 2. Grant’s “peace policy” 3. The end of Comanchería

I. Conquest and Empire in the West D. The Fight for the Black Hills 1. The Second Treaty of Fort Laramie 2. The discovery of gold and battling for the Black Hills 3. The Battle of the Little Big Horn

II. Forced Assimilation and Resistance Strategies A. Indian Schools and the War against Indian Culture 1. Cultural battleground: Indian education 2. Indian resistance 3. Assimilation B. The Dawes Act and Indian Land Allotment 1. Farming and property ownership 2. Criticism of reservations 3. Reducing land and destroying culture

II. Forced Assimilation and Resistance Strategies C. Indian Resistance and Survival 1. Varied responses to U.S. reservation policy 2. The flight of the Nez Percé 3. Apache armed resistance 4. The Ghost Dance 5. Wounded Knee

III. Gold Fever and the Mining West A. Mining on the Comstock Lode 1. Silver in Nevada 2. Financing silver mining 3. The immigrant population in the cosmopolitan West 4. Another clash between Euro-American and Native Americans 5. Corporate Comstock 6. New technology, new dangers

III. Gold Fever and the Mining West B. The Diverse Peoples of the West 1. African Americans 2. Hispanic peoples 3. The Chinese 4. Chinese exclusion 5. Mormons C. Territorial Government 1. Benign neglect 2. Territorial governors

IV. Land Fever A. Moving West: Homesteaders and Speculators 1. Challenges 2. Women on the frontier 3. Success and failure 4. The Great American Desert 5. Oklahoma land runs B. Ranchers and Cowboys 1. The cattle kingdom 2. The end of the open range

IV. Land Fever C. Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants 1. Exodusters 2. Vaqueros 3. Tejanos 4. Migratory labor D. Commercial Farming and Industrial Cowboys 1. Farming revolution 2. Volatile markets 3. Western industrialism 4. The transformation of the American farmer