'The Clash Of Cultures On The Plains'
Alex Lee
Period 6
Chapter 26
The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
The Clash of Cultures on the Plains (1)
• The Indians stood in the path of the advancing white pioneers.
• An inevitable clash loomed
• Migration and conflict were no strangers in the arid West
• After the Civil War, the Great West was still relatively untamed, wild, full of Indians, bison, and wildlife, and sparsely populated by a few Mormons and Mexicans.
• As the white settlers began populating the west, the Indians began to turn against each other and at the same time, were infected by white man’s disease.
• The Sioux, displaced by Chippewas from the their ancestral lands at the headwaters of the
Mississippi in the late 1700s, expanded at the expense of the Crows, …show more content…
• Invention of the Colt .45 revolver (six-shooter) and Winchester repeating rifle changed this.
• Generals Sherman, Sheridan, and Custer (at Little Bighorn) all battled Indians.
Receding Native Population (2)
• Violence reigned supreme in Indian-White relations
• In 1864, in Sand Creek, Colorado, Colonel J. M. Chivington’s militia massacred in cold blood some 400 Indians who apparently thought they had been promised immunity. These Indians were absolutely harmless, and the soldiers killed innocent children and women with no mercy.
• In 1866, a Sioux war party ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman’s command of 81 soldiers who were building the Bozeman trail to the Montana goldfields.
• No survivors, and one of the very few Indian victories
Two
years later, in 1868, another Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed, in which the government
•
abandoned the Bozeman trail after the Battle of Little Bighorn.
• The “Great Sioux Reservation” was now fully guaranteed to the Sioux tribes.
However,
in 1874, a new round of warfare began when Custer led a “scientific” expedition …show more content…
• The life that we live today is one that those pioneers dreamed of, and the life that they lived is one of which we can only dream.
The Farmers Take Their Stand (13)
• In the Greenback movement after the Civil War, agrarian unrest had flared forth as well.
• In 1867, the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, better known as The Grange, was founded by Oliver H. Kelley to improve the lives of isolated farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activities.
• Eventually, it spread to claim over 800,000 members in 1875, and the Grange changed its goals to include the improvement of the collective plight of the farmer.
• The Grangers found most success in the upper Mississippi Valley, and eventually, they managed to get Congress to pass a set of regulations known as the Granger Laws, but afterwards, their influence faded.
The
Greenback
Labor Party also attracted farmers, and in 1878, the Greenback Laborites polled
•
over a million votes and elected 14 members of Congress.
• In 1880, the Greenbackers ran General James B. Weaver, a Civil War general, but he only polled 3% of the popular
Period 6
Chapter 26
The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
The Clash of Cultures on the Plains (1)
• The Indians stood in the path of the advancing white pioneers.
• An inevitable clash loomed
• Migration and conflict were no strangers in the arid West
• After the Civil War, the Great West was still relatively untamed, wild, full of Indians, bison, and wildlife, and sparsely populated by a few Mormons and Mexicans.
• As the white settlers began populating the west, the Indians began to turn against each other and at the same time, were infected by white man’s disease.
• The Sioux, displaced by Chippewas from the their ancestral lands at the headwaters of the
Mississippi in the late 1700s, expanded at the expense of the Crows, …show more content…
• Invention of the Colt .45 revolver (six-shooter) and Winchester repeating rifle changed this.
• Generals Sherman, Sheridan, and Custer (at Little Bighorn) all battled Indians.
Receding Native Population (2)
• Violence reigned supreme in Indian-White relations
• In 1864, in Sand Creek, Colorado, Colonel J. M. Chivington’s militia massacred in cold blood some 400 Indians who apparently thought they had been promised immunity. These Indians were absolutely harmless, and the soldiers killed innocent children and women with no mercy.
• In 1866, a Sioux war party ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman’s command of 81 soldiers who were building the Bozeman trail to the Montana goldfields.
• No survivors, and one of the very few Indian victories
Two
years later, in 1868, another Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed, in which the government
•
abandoned the Bozeman trail after the Battle of Little Bighorn.
• The “Great Sioux Reservation” was now fully guaranteed to the Sioux tribes.
However,
in 1874, a new round of warfare began when Custer led a “scientific” expedition …show more content…
• The life that we live today is one that those pioneers dreamed of, and the life that they lived is one of which we can only dream.
The Farmers Take Their Stand (13)
• In the Greenback movement after the Civil War, agrarian unrest had flared forth as well.
• In 1867, the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, better known as The Grange, was founded by Oliver H. Kelley to improve the lives of isolated farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activities.
• Eventually, it spread to claim over 800,000 members in 1875, and the Grange changed its goals to include the improvement of the collective plight of the farmer.
• The Grangers found most success in the upper Mississippi Valley, and eventually, they managed to get Congress to pass a set of regulations known as the Granger Laws, but afterwards, their influence faded.
The
Greenback
Labor Party also attracted farmers, and in 1878, the Greenback Laborites polled
•
over a million votes and elected 14 members of Congress.
• In 1880, the Greenbackers ran General James B. Weaver, a Civil War general, but he only polled 3% of the popular