Transcript Problems with Manifest Destiny

Problems with Manifest
Destiny
The Native Americans
Clash of Cultures
Settlers’ view: Western resources were
there to be used (large scale use)
 Plains Indians’ view: saw settlers as
greedy and destructive (resources used
for necessity)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuXMBXSAOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEZTE-nEfyw
Fighting
Settlers passed through restricted areas
 Indians raided white settlements and
wagon trains
 Little Bighorn – most famous Indian war
battle and last Indian victory (giving up
Sioux land, gold mining)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0okOYydNzmo
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQLbhQxxFYI
Pushing Indians off their Land
The “Long Walk” – 1860s Navajo
Indians forced to move from Arizona to
New Mexico (Hundreds died)
 The Trail of Tears – 1830s Cherokee
Indians forced to move from Georgia to
Oklahoma (one quarter of the Indians
on trail died – out of 15,000)
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