8.12.2

Identify the reasons for the development of federal Indian policy and the Plains wars with American Indians and their relationship to agricultural development and industrialization.
            Land increases allowed cities and crops to form in the new areas of open land. Unfortunately, Native-American Indians owned the land that became possible for expansion. Both diplomatic and forceful ideas were used to try and take the land away from the Indians. The development of Federal-Indian policy was a successful action yet so was battles. Federal Indian policy was developed in the 1800s during the Industrial Revolution. As time progressed and the economy moved toward the west, relations with the US and the Indians did not go so well. The government started treaties that were in fact tricking the Indians into handing over land, some Indians believed that nothing was free so as real as it was battles were fought between them and the US Army. The next generation farmers were obsessed with the Great Plains ability to hold crops of vast size, however due to the large number of roaming buffalo in the plains, settlers began eliminating the animals rapidly. This interfered with the plain Indian’s survival and the lifestyle; because of this government established policies that created Indian reservations in Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, and other areas.


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