Response questions about Westward expansion
- In what way were boarding schools such as the Carlisle School and other such schools effectively “cultural genocide”? What were some of the methods employed?
- Be sure to also complete the Reading Like a Historian follow-up portion of this assignment
- What assumptions about Native Americans did sympathetic easterners make when proposing improvments on the reservations?
- 5. Mining, Ranching and Farming (268-276) – a. How did farming change over the course of the 19th Century?
- Describe the impact of new technologies and other factors on small entrepreneurs in mining, ranching and farming:
- What are some of the common stereotypes and myths about the ‘Wild West”? Why do you think these fabrications and distortions developed and persist?
