Western Migration

Western Migration Leads to Conflict with Native Americans

Multiple Choice

Industrialization sped up migration West because it led to and increased demand for land and need for

• military bases

• raw materials

• cultural connections with Native Americans

• Settlement houses for immigrants

Multiple Choice

What resource was found in the west according to the map?

• coal

• cattle

• silver and gold

• timber

Multiple Choice

What does the map show us that settlers used the land in the west for?

• coal

• cattle and farming crops

• silver and gold

• timber

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the legislation that gave every head of a household 160 acres of land in the West?

• Dawes Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Homestead Act

• Pacific Railway Act

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of the Homestead Act

• To give every Native American private property

• To motivate Americans to migrate west and settle the land.

• To give land away to Railroad companies

• To increase land speculation

Multiple Select

Choose all the ways in which the Railroads impacted Western expansion.

• Led to trade between the farms of the West and the factories of the East.

• Led to people avoiding town along Railroad Routes.

• led to increased demand for Native American Land

• Led to safer, faster ways to migrate West

• Slowed down the destruction of the wilderness in the West.

Western Migration Led to a clash between Native Americans and U.S. Settlers/Government

Cultural Differences between White Settlers and Native American Plains Indians made things more difficult.

Multiple Select

Check all the boxes that you think would reflect some aspect of the Plains Indians Culture.

• Nomadic Lifestyle

• Belief in private property

• Belief in ownership of land and things.

• Belief in Christianity

• dependence on the buffalo for way of life

Government Policy Shifts towards Native Americans after the 1860s

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​*The demand for resources and land in the West will change the life of American Indians.

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Multiple Choice

According to image whose land is for sale?

• The Railroads

• Native American Land

• The government's 

​Native Americans were DISPLACED from their homes following the Government's new Policy

Multiple Choice

What does displace mean?

• to move someone/something out of its original position.

• To give someone a place to stay.

​When the Government Displaced the Native Americans they "reserved" land for the Native Americans and forced them to live on the land.

Multiple Choice

What term do you think means the land the US government set aside for Native Americans when they displaced them from their homelands.

• Arenas

• Wilderness

• Reservations

• Ranches

​The Reservation System

​*Set up to keep Native Americans off their ancestral homes

​*Forced Native Americans to build cabin homes

​*lived off some government rations

2 Main Goals of the Reservation System

• Take Native American Land

• ​Destroy Native American culture

Native American Resistance

• The demand for Indian land and the reservation system led to Indian resistance

• Especially on the Plains

There will be decades long conflict and battles between settlers and the U.S. government and the Plains Indians.

​The Sioux

​***One of the last Plains Indians groups that worked to resist the U.S. Government's reservation policy

Destruction of the Buffalo made resistance difficult and changed Native American life.

​Video on Destruction of Buffalo

​Watch the video and then there will be questions to follow.

Multiple Choice

At the beginning of the 1860s how many buffalo roamed the Plains?

• 30,000

• 1 million 

• 30 million 

Multiple Select

Choose two ways in which factories in the East used Buffalos.

• Factories used as belts for machines

• Factories used the fat to oil machines

• Factories turned hides into coats and shoes to sell

• manufactured buffalo meat sausages

Multiple Choice

How does the destruction of the buffalo impact the Native Americans?

• They had to move to Mexico  

• They were forced onto reservations 

Multiple Choice

By 1889 how many wild buffalo are left on the Plains?

• 85

• 85,000

• 15 million

Multiple Choice

True or False: The demand for resources in the West changed the life of Native Americans 

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Choose 3 ways that settlement West and the US government changed the way of life for Native Americans

• The US government gave Native Americans control over their futures.

• Displaced Native Americans from lands

• Worked to destroy Native American culture

• Destruction of the buffalo

• Government supported cultural centers to teach native American ways

Multiple Choice

This map shows what actions taken by the US government towards Native Americans

• Refusal to implement the reservation system

• The establishment of colleges for Native Americans

• The Displacement of Native Americans from tribal lands

Multiple Choice

As Americans moved west, what occurred as Americans came into contact with American Indians?

• Cooperation and Respect between settlers and Native Americans

• Conflicts and battles

• The ability to adapt and peacefully coexist.

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of the US Government's attempts to "Americanize" and assimilate the Native Americans?

• To educate Americans on Native American ways

• To force the dominant culture of America to take on aspects of Native American life

• To force Native Americans to live like white Americans and abandon their own cultures

Open Ended

What was one reason why the U.S. government and the Plains Indians found conflict in the late 1800s?

Poll

The US government's policies towards the Native Americans was justified.

• Agree

• Somewhat Agree

• Somewhat Disagree

• Disagree

• I don't know yet.