1. CHAPTER 18:
Americans Move West
Section 2:
Wars for the West

2. VOCABULARY
 Reservation: Area of land set aside for Native
Americans

3. SETTLERS AND INDIANS
 Settlers moved to Great Plains – encountered
Plains Indians
• Cheyenne, Sioux, Pawnee, Comanche

4. The Plains Indians

5. SETTLERS AND INDIANS
 Settlers wanted Indian lands

6. SETTLERS AND INDIANS
 Settlers killed off the buffalo

7. Slaughter of the
Buffalo

8. SETTLERS AND INDIANS
 Conflict was inevitable

9. U.S. GOVERNMENT TRIES
TO KEEP PEACE
 Treaties were signed

10. U.S. GOVERNMENT TRIES
TO KEEP PEACE
 And then broken

11. U.S. GOVERNMENT TRIES
TO KEEP PEACE
 Indians were placed on reservations

12. U.S. GOVERNMENT TRIES
TO KEEP PEACE
 Some decided to fight back

13. THE STORY OF THE SIOUX
 Bozeman
Trail built
through
Sioux lands

14. Chief Red Cloud

15. THE STORY OF THE SIOUX
 Chief
Crazy Horse
attacks settlers

16. THE STORY OF THE SIOUX
 Gold
discovered in
the Black Hills

17. The Black Hills

18. THE STORY OF THE SIOUX
Chief
Sitting Bull
attacks miners

19. THE STORY OF THE SIOUX
 General
George
Armstrong
Custer sent to
put down Sioux

20. The Battle of Little Big Horn

21. Custer’s Last Stand

22. THE STORY OF THE SIOUX
 Battle of Little Big Horn was Sioux’s greatest
victory – Custer killed & his cavalry annihilated

23. THE STORY OF THE SIOUX
• Last victory for the Sioux
 Forced onto reservations – Sitting Bull killed
 1890 – Massacre at Wounded Knee

24. THE STORY OF THE SIOUX
• Women and children slaughtered
• Last major Indian “battle” of the West

25. Indian Reservations in the US Today