SOL 4a:
Westward Expansion: Impact on Native Americans Notes
Essential Question:
How did the lives of American Indians change with Westward Expansion?
Please draw a picture or write a paragraph on how you’ve seen Indians from the “Wild West” portrayed
in movies, tv shows, or any other aspect of pop culture.
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Opposition of American Indians to Westward Expansion: ___Battle of Little Bighorn (Sitting Bull
and Crazy Horse); Geronimo___________________________________________
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Forced relocation from traditional lands to reservations: ____Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce _
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Reduced population through warfare and disease: __Battle of Wounded Knee________
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Assimilation attempts and lifestyle changes: _Reduction of buffalo population, children were
separated from their parents and sent to learn the “white culture” and were forbidden to
practice their own_____________________________________
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Reduced their homelands through ____treaties_______________________ that were broken