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 improvements 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?
