Apush Notes Chapter 26

Chapter 26 Notes

The Clash of cultures on the Plains

1. Note the overarching trends that affected the lifestyle of the Native Indians:

a. Ecological damage

i. The herds of buffalo was greatly diminished over the years, forcing the Native Americans to fight each other in order to feed off of the few buffalo there was left.

b. White settlers’ encroachment

i. Pushed into confined territories

ii. Forced some cultures to be lost after the initial concentration of these people

c. Treaties, the reservation system and the ghettoization of Indians

The treaties, reservations, and ghettoization of the Indians resulted in the forced placement of almost all Native Americans in the “frontier land.” Eventually this led to the loss of culture in the Native American lives.

“Buffalo Soldier”: African American soldiers—Bob Marley makes a reference to this term when he challenges why African American soldiers have been used to “win wars for America”

The End of the Trail

2. How did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Dawes Act of 1887 impact the physical settlement of the Indians? (see bottom of p 602) These acts made the Native Americans to be placed in fixed lots of land. These new placements made it extremely hard for the Native Americans to actually practice their long-held customs.

3. What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?

a. Purpose: To educate the Native American people into becoming “white”

b. Underlying intent of the Dawes Act: forced assimilation and forced removal of Indians from their ancestral lands

c. Method: The US government refused to recognize Indian tribes, struck deals with individual Indians instead, taking most of the land in the process

4. The Effects of the mining industry:

a. (railroads)- implementation of large business and industry into the West;

b. (Native American Indians)-were pushed into even...