Notes

White Tribal Policies -
Cause: Natives were pushed back due to westward expansion/lack of power
effect: could not fight the Americans and had to move to their reservations and reap their unfair gov't decisions
example: natives enslaved by Columbus
Synth: While the US was unfair in their treatment of the natives they were not going to let that hault their own goals of expansion. The natives were just another roadblock the Americans had to move out of the way.

Indian Wars -
Cause: Native efforts to keep their homelands/reservations & stop whites from concentrating them further (philanthropy).
Effect: Native Massacre in the end
Example: Native push back from Spanish colonists and massacre from slavery and transmitted diseases such as smallpox
Synth: The natives made an effort to try and stop the Americans from pushing them around into different reservations but, just as in the past, when the natives stood in the white man's way they did not stand a chance and were killed in great numbers.

The Dawes Act - Americanization of the natives (mostly a failure)
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Building the Transcontinental Railroad -
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BIB:
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/29/671701019/2-years-after-standing-rock-protests-north-dakota-oil-business-is-booming