AP U.S. History / Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
6.3 Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development
Notes
Settlement displaced Native nations: the reservation system, wars (Little Bighorn 1876, Wounded Knee 1890), destruction of the bison, the Dawes Act (1887) breaking up tribal land, and boarding schools for assimilation.
Practice
The Dawes Act (1887):
Assimilation policy.
Wounded Knee (1890) was:
End of the Indian Wars.
Near-extermination of the bison mainly hurt:
Food and culture.
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