at Fort Douglas. He thereupon led the Powder River expedition to quell the Sioux and Comanche in 1865‚ an action which signalled commencement of the struggle for the Bozeman Trail which raged in the watershed of the Big Horry Mountains for the next 16 years between the frontier Army and the Indians‚ culminating in the shocking defeat of Custer on the Little Bighorn and‚ in turn‚ the ultimate suppression of the warring Sioux and their allies. Connor’s expedition is called "on the whole a dismal failure
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California and Oregon and the congress had thus no intention of leaving this territory to Indians. In the early 1850’s the United States signed some treaties to reduce the tensions between them and the Indians. The treaty of Fort Laramie – with the Sioux‚ Cheyennes‚ Gros Ventres‚ and other tribes – allowed the United States to build posts and roads in the Central Plains. A second treaty at Fort Atkinson permitted them
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” This unhappy confinement along with the many other struggles faced by Native Americans set the stage perfectly for the rise of a new religious revival among the western tribes‚ beginning with the Lakota Sioux. The Lakota Sioux also known as the Teton‚ were the westernmost part of the Sioux nation. The Lakota relied heavily upon the buffalo and lived in small bands that were frequently on the move. Their mobile lifestyle helped the Lakota to avoid problems like disease that other Native American
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The knowledge that the government lacked to know was that the Bighorn Valley was the local gathering place for Indian tribe meetings and camped at Little Bighorn were seven to ten thousand Indians‚ mostly comprising of Sioux and Cheyennes. Sitting Bull and his allies among them. Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s army was defeated and Custer dies. After the Little Bighorn victory‚ Sitting Bull and a number of his followers fled to Canada to escape the government’s
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DBQ: Impact of Westward Expansion on Native Americans and the Role of Government Directions The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A–H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only for essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period. 1. Analyze the extent to which western expansion affected the lives of Native Americans
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Chapter 17-The West: Exploiting an Empire Time Period: 1850-1900 1. Beyond the Frontier -line of white settlement at MO timber country by 1840s What’s in the West? What land? -“The Great Plains”/Prairie Plains: rich soil and good rainfall (Wisconsin down to Texas) -High Plains: rough‚ semiarid (Montana down to NMex.) -Rockies: formidable barrier (Alaska to NMex.) -Western Basin: home to many NA‚ desert‚ held in by the Cascades and Sierra Nevada‚ MOST travelers here (Idaho and Utah)
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Comanche Indians were more talented equestrians and quickly adapted once introduced to the horse. Children learned how to ride at a young age and grew up learning how to achieve tasks such as hunting‚ gathering‚ and warfare on the back of a horse. The Sioux Indians adapted the horse lifestyle but were not as intermingled with them as the Comanche Indians. The Comanche Indians originated in the Northern Shoshones but were attracted to the abundance of buffalo and warm weather in the southern plains. When
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Plains 1) As the White settlers began to populate the Great West‚ the Indians‚ caught in the middle‚ increasingly turned against each other‚ were infected with White man’s diseases‚ and were stuck battling to hunt the few remaining bison 2) The Sioux‚ displaced by Chippewas from the their ancestral lands at the headwaters of the Mississippi in the late 1700s‚ expanded at the expense of the Crows‚ Kiowas‚ and Pawnees‚ and justified their actions by reasoning that White men had done the same thing
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Americans. In the middle of the Civil War‚ Congressional Northerners were looking to populate the West with free labor and they developed the Homestead Act of 1862. This Act would promise settlers 160 acres of land to populate and develop and after five years‚ the land would become theirs. Almost 400‚000 farms were developed and populated between 1862-1890. Although the settlers were dealing with locusts‚ tornadoes‚ hailstorms‚ and extreme heat‚ the success of these farms began to develop as corporate
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of Indians‚ bison‚ and wildlife‚ and sparsely populated by a few Mormons and Mexicans. • As the white settlers began populating the west‚ the Indians began to turn against each other and at the same time‚ were infected by white man’s disease. • The Sioux‚ displaced by Chippewas from the their ancestral lands at the headwaters of the Mississippi in the late 1700s‚ expanded at the expense of the Crows‚
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