Native Americans Dbq Essay
During the late 19th century Americans wanted to expand their land for the greater or their people. Little did they know their impact on the natives that occupied the west. The amount of land taken from them was so exponential that if it hadn't happened we wouldn't be where we are today(doc 1).Although there were reservations for the native americans, they used cruel methods to for them out of their land. Some examples of these are forcing them out or if they resisted they would have a battle. Other means of lowering the numbers of native americans was splitting the buffalo herd with the railroad and then killing most of them so the natives wouldn't have food. Their land was first taken because they wanted to make a railroad for the transportation
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This includes bison. Bison were a big help in indian culture. This includes their hide, meat and fur. But the TCRR split their herds in half and this lead to some indians not getting as much resources as they usually would. So the government decided to kill off the bison (doc 5) to lower the amount of native americans. This would help with taking land and moving them around. This would also help with more food for americans, if they ever needed it. The next and final point i want to make is how many battles and massacres that there was during this time period with the expansion of the west. Most likely one of the worst was the sand creek massacre. Two hundred natives were killed. Most of these deaths and massacres were for 2 things. Gold and land, these were important to many americans for money and food. But now it is 1 illegal to kill and 2 inhumane. During my DBQ i discussed most of the points on how the expansion affected us today and how we impacted the native americans. We would not be technically advanced or we would not have been where we are in land terms. Overall the expansion of the west had a big impact on american and native american history. It also affected other parts of the county with little native american population. Or some places might have a very large
This includes bison. Bison were a big help in indian culture. This includes their hide, meat and fur. But the TCRR split their herds in half and this lead to some indians not getting as much resources as they usually would. So the government decided to kill off the bison (doc 5) to lower the amount of native americans. This would help with taking land and moving them around. This would also help with more food for americans, if they ever needed it. The next and final point i want to make is how many battles and massacres that there was during this time period with the expansion of the west. Most likely one of the worst was the sand creek massacre. Two hundred natives were killed. Most of these deaths and massacres were for 2 things. Gold and land, these were important to many americans for money and food. But now it is 1 illegal to kill and 2 inhumane. During my DBQ i discussed most of the points on how the expansion affected us today and how we impacted the native americans. We would not be technically advanced or we would not have been where we are in land terms. Overall the expansion of the west had a big impact on american and native american history. It also affected other parts of the county with little native american population. Or some places might have a very large