1. December 6, 2017
U.S. History Agenda:
DO NOW: DBQ
NOTES #27: How did the American settlement of the West affect Native Americans?
FILM: “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”

3. How did the American settlement of the West affect Native Americans
How did the American settlement of the West affect Native Americans? Notes #27

4. During the mid-1800s, the U.S. government began encouraging Americans to settle in the West.

5. For example, the Homestead Act of 1862 was passed to encourage settlement of the West by providing free land to American settlers.
Great Plains

6. As Americans began settling in the West, they came into conflict with Native Americans already living there, . . .

7. After originally numbering around 20 to 30 million in North America,
American bison decreased to less than 1,000 by 1890

8. which caused the Indian Wars to occur from 1860 to 1890 between the U
. . . which caused the Indian Wars to occur from 1860 to 1890 between the U.S. and Native Americans.

9. Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota (December 29, 1890);
about 200 Native American women and children were killed

10. After being defeated in the Indian Wars, Native Americans were forced to live on reservations by the U.S. government.

11. Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
By the late 1800s, the goal of the U.S. government’s policy toward Native Americans was to destroy their tribal bonds and weaken their traditional cultural values.
Students at the
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

12. For example, the Dawes Act of 1887 was passed to grant farmland to Native Americans (if they gave up their cultural ways) as part of a plan to assimilate them into American culture.   