Unit+5

 __Readings__: - Text: Chapters 18-20 - One chapter from //Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee// (Chapter will vary each year) - Video: //How the West was Lost: The Cheyenne// - Video: //How the West was Lost: The Nez Percé// - Video: //How the West was Lost: The Lakota// - Video: //How the West was Lost: Kill the Indian to Save the Man// - Film: //Unforgiven// (A more realistic depiction of the West) - Book Excerpts: //Looking Backward// (influence behind many labor and reform leaders)  __Themes__: 1. Patterns in Indian/White conflict & resolution 2. White perspectives of “wilderness” and the “savage” 3. Motives behind white expansion & Indian resistance 4. The role of government in the national economy 5. Industrial stresses and our distraction from them 6. The power of workers to influence change 7. The continuing frontier, “white man’s burden”, & the need for resources  __Content__: · Plains Indian societies and worldview · The discovery of gold and the mass migration it caused · The effects of expansion on the Cheyenne & the Sand Creek Massacre · The cattle industry and the cowboy life, myth vs. reality · Chief Joseph and the Nez Percé flight to Canada · The Homestead Act and its consequences on the tribes, the land, & the settlers · The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the zenith of Indian resistance · The end of the Indian Wars & the closing of the frontier · The rise of big business & the labor movement response · The Gilded Age · Entertainment & sports · The expansion of government & party philosophies · Economic crisis of the 1890s · The Spanish American War  __Projects__: Students are given 5 free response questions from AP exams and must write well-constructed outlines for each, using the steps we have gone over in class.  Americans have always debated America’s role and motives regarding its foreign relations. Students will answer the following discussion questions using their notes from this and previous chapters and at least 5 other sources: 1. What are the repercussions of expansion in order to feed the U.S. economy AND are there other options? 2. Why did America feel the need to spread its “righteousness”? Where did it get this idea, and have any other countries or empires believed this? 3. Why does religious expansion usually work with economic and military expansion? Does one cause the other? 4. Were missionaries agents or pawns of the government during expansion?
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 * America, Brave Underdog or Evil Empire: **

__Document-Based Questions__: 1. The greatest damage done to Native Americans in the late 19c was by those who believed they had the best interests of Native Americans at heart. Assess the validity of this statement. 2. Assess the validity of the following statement:  In the battle for power within the emerging industrial economy of the late 19c, the workers steadily lost ground as big business entrenched itself. 3. How did American imperialist thinking shape its policies in Asia and Latin America in the late 19c and early 20c?

__Discussions__: 1. Was there really an end to Native American resistance? 2. Why wasn’t the fight for Native American rights as strong as that for abolition? 3. Bears, eagles, buffalo, & Indians: from near extinction to mascots 4. Do businessmen owe something back to society, besides just the product? 5. Is the “White Man’s Burden” still alive and well? If so, how are the goals phrased, today?

__Movies:__

 **[|Dances With Wolves]** **– A lieutenant is sent to a remote outpost in the Dakota Territory during the Civil War, where he encounters and is finally adopted by a band of Lakota.**  **[|The Outlaw Josey Wales]**- A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers, who murdered his family.  [|**Little Big Man**]  – A comedy in which an extremely old man tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.  **[|Son of the Morning Star]**(TV Movie)– The parallel lives of George Armstrong Custer and Crazy Horse until they come together in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.  **[|Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee]**(TV Movie)– Picking up after Custer’s defeat, the movie follows the lives of Charles Eastman (a Dartmouth-educated Sioux), Sitting Bull, and Henry Dawes, writer of the infamous Dawes Act.  **[|Tombstone]** **– Wyatt Earp’s plans to retire quietly in Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating in Kansas.**  **[|Far and Away]**- A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big land rush in Oklahoma in 1893.  **[|Geronimo: An American Legend]** – The pursuit and defeat of the last Apache resisters.  **[|Pale Rider]**- A mysterious preacher protects a prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to gain title of their land.  **[|Open Range]**- During the range wars of the late 1800s, a few cowboys try to defend themselves and their quickly disappearing way of life against a corrupt sheriff.  **[|Unforgiven]** **– A retired, Old West gunslinger reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a hotheaded young man.**  **[|Rough Riders]**(TV Movie) - This movie follows the rise of Teddy Roosevelt and his band of Rough Riders in the Spanish American War.