Free Write-5 Minutes • What is something that you can not live without??? • What is it? • Why can you not live without it? • Does not have to be life sustaining…can be anything at all
Jan 02, 2016
Free Write-5 Minutes
• What is something that you can not live without???
• What is it?
• Why can you not live without it?
• Does not have to be life sustaining…can be anything at all
Horses • 1600s Pueblo Indians took thousands of horses from Spanish
• Changes the way of life of Plains Indians
• Allows them to travel much easier and follow the buffalo
• Hunting: – Native American migration mirrored the movement of
buffalo– They used horses and bows and arrows– Chased them into corrals- enclosures
• Uses – Tepees- tents– Travois-sled– Jerky- dried meat– Clothes
Buffalo
• The transcontinental RR also lured people out to the west
• This encouraged farmers, miners, settlers, and also cattle drivers move west
Transcontinental Rail Road
• Homestead Act- – Encouraged people to move west– Farm and cultivate the land – After 5 years it would become
theirs– Up to 160 acres
• Many Americans moving west felt they had rights to the land over Native Americans– Government also felt this way
• Oklahoma Land Rush– Sooners
Competition
Stop and Think
• What are some different things that lured people out to the West?
• Give at least 3 examples.• What was the Homestead Act?
• Dawes Act- Native Americans would receive a plot of land which they could farm on– Any extra land would be
sold to farmers, settlers, other companies to develop.
Reservations
Native American Battles• The Sand Creek Massacre- U.S. troops led by
Colonel Chivington slaughtered more than 200 men, women and children in the Cheyenne tribe.
• Custer’s Last Stand- Sitting Bull led an attack first and then General Custer led a counter attack which was unsuccessful. (Custer’s Last Stand)
• Wounded Knee- U.S. troops came into Sioux tribe and demanded weapons be put down. Fight broke out and hundreds of Sioux were slaughtered.
“Fight No More Forever”• Chief Joseph- Chief of the Nez
Perce– After being chased into the NW
and into Canada, finally he gave in and surrendered.
– Vowing to never fight again