The Struggle for the Plains
Subjects / History / American West, 1840-1895
As the predicted 'Manifest destiny' of the white Americans - to cover and control the whole American continent - began to be fulfilled, the native population of the Plains started to feel concern about their destiny. The Plains Indians had lived happily across the whole continent for thousands of years. This peace was shattered when white settlers began to arrive. The Indians were probably bewildered at first - these people attempted to build homes out of wood, wore strange clothes and shot bison at random, wasting most of the animal. Strangest of all, they tried to claim the land for their own. The Indians thought everybody knew that nobody could own the land - it was like a person to them. This difference in outlook spelled disaster for the Plains Indians, who soon found themselves at war with the American government and its army.
| Author: | Sally Thorne | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Peter McGowan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-076-9 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-576-4 |
Chapters
- Changing Government Attitude and Policy towards the Indians
- The Impact of Plains Settlers on the Plains Indians
- The Destruction of the Plains Indians' Way of Life
- The Plains Wars
- The Battle of the Little Big Horn
- The Ghost Dance Movement and the Battle of Wounded Knee
- Key White Americans: Sherman, Sheridan and Custer
- Key Plains Indians: Black Kettle, Red Cloud and Sitting Bull
- The End of the Plains Indians
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- The 'problem' of the Plains Indians; first policies - the permanent Indian frontier
- Settlers move West; changes in policy towards the Plains Indians; treaties and small reservations
- The Plains Wars and increasing conflict leading to the Sand Creek Massacre, 1864
- The Indian Wars after 1865
- Military leaders; General Philip Sheridan, William Sherman, Lieutenant-Colonel Custer and the final conflict with the Plains Indians
- The battle of the Little Big Horn
- The battle of Wounded Knee, 1890
- The close of the frontier in 1895 and its impact on native Americans
- The end of the Plains Indians
- Conflicts between settlers and the native American peoples: the clash of cultures
- The reasons for the Plains Wars and their outcomes
- The Battle of the Little Big Horn and its impact
- Custer and Sitting Bull
- Changing government attitudes and policy towards the Plains Indians
- The impact of the settlement of the West on native peoples to 1895
- The attitudes of white Americans towards the Indians
- The reasons for conflict between white Americans and Plains Indians
- The changing policy of the American Government towards the Plains Indians
- the reasons for, and consequences of, changes in policy
- The causes and consequences of the Plains Wars including the Battle of the Little Big Horn
- The impact of the reservations, the Plains Indians in the 1890s
- The movement of the Sioux to reservations
- The Sioux revolt in the 1870s
- The reasons for the Plains Wars
- the nature of the conflict
- the roles of Sheridan, Sherman and Custer, the battle of Little Big Horn and its consequences
- the roles of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Black Kettle
- the Ghost Dance
- the battle of Wounded Knee
- the end of Indian tribal life
- the destruction of the buffalo herds
- the Oklahoma land rush
- the reasons for the defeat of the Plains Indians
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