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The Settling of the West: Analysis Questions Question/Score 4 = A 3 = B 2 = C 1 = D 0 = F Student completely and correctly identifies required information with quality explanations. Student correctly identifies required information with some explanations. Student identifies required information with no explanations. Student identifies half of required information. Student does not complete assignment or identify any required information. 1. What national policies did Republicans pursue during the Civil War and Reconstruction to stimulate economic growth and consolidate a continental empire? What were the resulting achievements and costs? During the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, Republicans pursued national policies such as the raising of the protective tariff, the Treaty of Kanagawa, the Burlingame Treaty, and the gold standard to stimulate economic growth and consolidate a continental empire. The resulting achievements of some of these treaties, tariffs, and other policies were that American companies were able to trade with less competition a la import fees, the United States could trade with Japan, U.S. missionaries in China and Chinese laborers were on official terms, and it was easier to convert European dollars to American dollars at a better conversion rate when both dollars were backed by gold. Some of the costs of these pursuits were the Democratic backlash against tariffs, Japanese hostilities due to the fact that America forced Japan to trade with it, and the having to change the entire currency of the nation. 2. How did the trans-Mississippi west develop economically in this era? What problems and conflicts resulted? The trans-Mississippi West developed economically in this era through laws such as the Homestead Act and the Morrill Act. It also grew due to mining rushes, boomtowns, and ranchers. The issues with most of these conflicts had to do with both the environment and the native peoples already living on "white conquered" land. When white pioneers and ranchers began settling and spreading in the West, they often knew close to nothing about farming and killed much of the biodiversity in their acres. This had long-standing repercussions all the way into the 1930s with the Dust Bowl. Also when the white settlers came to the West, they kicked Native Americans off of their ancestral land which the natives did not like. The natives ended up fighting back, and succeeded for a while, but were eventually subdued onto reservations. 3. Why did US policies toward Native Americans in this era result in so much violence? Why did armed struggle continue as late as 1890, despite the US “peace policy” that was proclaimed in the 1870s?
United States policies towards Native Americans resulted so violently during and after the Civil War because the United States didn't take the Native Americans seriously. The United States saw the Native Americans as uneducated, unknowledgeable savages who didn't know how to help themselves. Because of this, all the policies that the United States made with the Native Americans weren't taken seriously either and were held by corrupt politicians and officials. Native Americans wanted their fair share of the treaties that they weren't, in reality, benefiting from so they rebelled to get their rights, as signed by the treaties. Despite the Native Americans clearly showing their prowess in many fields, the United States' bureaucratic system still didn't take them seriously which led to years of armed struggle as late as the 1890s.
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