Apush Chapter 13 Summary

Chapter 13 Notes: Changes on the Western Frontier

Native Americans -Native Americans of the plains hunted, farmed, and traded in traditional ways. -Plains people relied on the buffalo for a variety of survival needs -The booming of the cattle industry in the late 1800s contributed to the decline of the Plains Indians’ culture. -The Sioux (war-like plains tribe) resisted the efforts of the U.S. government, the army & the settlers to remove them from their sacred lands. -Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse led the Sioux in their resistance against the government. -Sitting Bull fought the army at the Battle of Little Big Horn; he felt the Native Americans should continue to live in their traditional ways; he surrendered to the government in 1881 to prevent his people from starving; he continued to dislike the whites & their government; reservation police killed him in 1890; he remains an iconic symbol of Native American resistance today
-The Ghost Dance Movement: a ritual that was believed would restore the Native Americans to their traditional way of life; Reservation police forcibly put down the movement, & arrested the leaders. -Battle of Wounded Knee: December 29, 1890; the Seventh Cavalry rounded up and killed 300 unarmed Sioux; this marked the end of the Indian Wars.

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