WESTERN MIGRATIONWHITE SETTLEMENT & NATIVE

AMERICANS

Goal 4.1 & 4.2

ReligionMormons

Joseph Smith Brigham Young

Gold

Gold Rush 1849Comstock Lode (1859)

Land

Homestead Act (1862) Sod houses

Morrill Land-Grant ActOklahoma Land Rush

Women, Immigrants, and African Americans in the West

Women Freedom

Immigrants Chinese Irish African Americans

Settlers move West

Conflict with Native Americans Ghost Dance Government policy Destruction of buffalo

US Army policy Hunting

Battles with Native Americans

Sand Creek Massacre (CO), 1864

Battles with Native Americans

Battle of Little Bighorn (Montana), 1876

Chief Red Cloud Gen. Custer

Chief Crazy Horse

Battles with Native Americans

Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce (Oregon) 1877

Battles with Native Americans

Wounded Knee (SD) 1890

“A Century of Dishonor”

Helen Hunt Jackson “Century of Dishonor”

(1881)Dawes Act (1887)

assimilation

Life on Reservations