Please find your assigned

seat. Quietly.
Objective
Evaluate the impact of westward expansion on Native
Americans and their responses to the destruction of
buffalo, military conflicts, and the Dawes Severalty Act.
Standards
RH.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases
as they are used in a text, including vocabulary
describing political, social, or economic aspects of
history/social science.
Warm-up
Answer the Reading Like a Historian on pg 436.
What challenges might the family have faced while
traveling west?
Homework
Write two newspaper headlines that support key
changes in U.S. government policy toward Native
Americans during the mid-1800s. Then write two
headlines that oppose proposed policy changes.
2 support, 2 oppose
4 total
Complete the Mary Lucinda Bonney Biography
worksheet
Agenda
Review Classroom Expectations
Objective
Warm-up
Homework
Section 1 Vocabulary
Guided Reading
Quiz
Timeline
Exit Ticket

Vocabulary
Sand Creek Massacre unauthorized army attack that killed
about 150 Cheyenne Indians, mostly women, children, and
elderly people
Sitting Bull leader of the Sioux, led 2,000 Native Americans to
defeat U.S. Army troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
George Custer - brash leader of the U.S. Army troops who was
slaughtered along with his men at the Battle of the Little
Bighorn
Battle of the Little Bighorn - great victory for the Sioux over
U.S. Army troops
Wounded Knee Massacre -killing of some 300 Sioux men,
women, and children by U.S. Army troops; shocked Americans
and marked the end of the bloody conflict between the army
and the Plains Indians

Vocabulary
Chief Joseph leader of the Nez Perc who fled toward
Canada, but finally surrendered
Geronimo Apache leader who led raids on both sides of the
Arizona-Mexico border for years
Americanization government policy to force Native
Americans to learn to live like white Americans
Bureau of Indian Affairs federal agency that managed the
Native American reservations
Dawes Act law that broke up most Native American
reservations and turned Native Americans into individual
property owners
Traditional established, customary
Policy plan, course of action

Guided Reading
pg 438
As we are listening to the section, answer the Reading
Check questions.
1. How did Americans deal with Indians that stood in the
way of their westward expansion?
2. What were the U.S. Army and the Plains Indians
fighting over in the Indian Wars?
3. How did Native American resistance end in the
Northwest and Southwest regions?
4. What was the Dawes Act?
Time line
1864
Sand Creek Massacre
1867
Medicine Lodge Treaty
1868
Second Treaty of Fort Laramie
1874
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
1876
Battle of Little Bighorn
1877
Relocation of the Nez Perce
1886
Final Capture of Geronimo
1889
Ghost Dance Movement Begins
1890
Wounded Knee Massacre

The Battle of Little
Bighorn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJFz4NxqVV8
Exit Ticket
List the Indian Wars and summarize their outcome.