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U.S. Government Impact on Native Americans in the West

Explore how the U.S. government influenced Native Americans in the West during the mid-1800s, leading to conflicts and the forced relocation onto reservations. Discover policies like the Homestead Act and Dawes Act that aimed to assimilate Native Americans into American culture.

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U.S. Government Impact on Native Americans in the West

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  1. December 7, 2016 U.S. History Agenda: DO NOW: DBQ NOTES #27: How did the U.S. government affect Native Americans in the West?

  2. How did the U.S. government affect Native Americans in the West? Notes #27

  3. During the mid-1800s, the U.S. government began encouraging Americans to move west.

  4. For example, the Homestead Act of 1862 was passed to encourage settlement of the West by providing free federal land to settlers. Great Plains

  5. As settlers moved west, they came into conflict with Native Americans already living there.

  6. Native Americans resisted settlers moving west, which caused the Indian Wars to occur from 1860 to 1890 between the U.S. and Native Americans. Sitting Bull

  7. Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota (December 29, 1890); about 200 Native American women and children were killed

  8. After they were defeated, Native Americans were forced to live on reservations by the U.S. government.

  9. By the late 1800s, the U.S. government’s policy toward Native Americans was to destroy their tribal bonds and weaken their traditional cultural values. Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, PA

  10. For example, the Dawes Act of 1887 was passed to grant Native Americans farmland if they gave up their cultures, as part of a plan to assimilate them into American culture.   

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