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Transforming the West
Transforming the West
-West is the supplier and place where all the raw material comes from
-Main supplier of the East

CONTENT:
Transcontinental Railroad
-Completed in the 1870’s, over 2 mountain ranges 1 company owned primarily by people who made money as storekeepers
-Government Project, but owned privately
-Land grant railroads
-Opened up the west, tied California and the East together
Indian Affairs
-Government took on Indian policy that wanted to get them out of the way
Western Mining
The Cattle Kingdom
The Myth of the cowboy in America Life

Indians:
Gen. Philip Sheridan
-In charge of getting the Indians out of the territory
-In charge of stealing land, bringing in disease, and ruining their habits of life
-They believed that anyone besides white were a lesser being, so white Protestants were justified in treating others to conform to their wishes and make them leave

Sand Creek Massacre: Indian Rivalry
-Chief that met with president
-Camp in Colorado, but the governor in the state went on the belief that they did not want any Indians
-Most of the Indian men were off hunting, so they came back to find that the rest of their family had been murdered
-Good example towards white men towards the Native Americans

Wounded Knee Massacre: Of Native Americans
-Against a sue village
-The U.S army went out and surrounded the village, massacred everyone within it

-Many buffalo were killed in order to starve the Native Americans (activity of the government)
-Used to feed the men in the army
(1870-80’s these two massacres began and ended Indian rivalry)
-Native Americans were left to be moved onto reservations
-Soon after, the white’s wanted the Native Americans to become just like them

Dawes Act: Way to force Native Americans to become farmers
-Others owned most reservations; Native Americans did not have property over land
-Congress passed this act in order to say that reservation Indians cannot be held
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