https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr In your T-Chart point out the myths vs. the facts of why people moved West. Fill in each side of the t-chart using bullet points and direct quotes. en-us 2020-11-16 19:11:32 UTC 2023-04-21 09:50:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Webbhumanities https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/928837653 2020-11-16 19:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/928837653 Webbhumanities https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/928838011 2020-11-16 19:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/928838011 Webbhumanities https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/928839387 2020-11-16 19:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/928839387 https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933297818 Facts in this source contain the idea of how the buffalo trade "contributed to the rapid reduction of the Plain Indian tribes by the 1870s"]]> 2020-11-17 18:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933297818 https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933303559 "Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone." 
The Americans wanted whole tribes of Natives to be removed. ]]> 2020-11-17 18:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933303559 https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933309064 This source mainly focuses on the buffalo trade being one of the main reasons for Native erasure, but they don't focus the colonists' brutality ]]> 2020-11-17 18:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933309064 https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933312825 The Americans wanted the Natives gone. They hunted buffalo not because it was popular, but because they knew buffalos' significance to Native cultures. ]]> 2020-11-17 18:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933312825 https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933316408 It highlights how desperate Americans were to expand, as U.S. army troops were being told "kill every buffalo you can." 
They knew this would make Indigenous people lose their land, so they made sure to kill off as much of their food sources as they could]]> 2020-11-17 18:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933316408 https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933322886 Forced relocation and/or slaughter of Natives was "the only way to bring a lasting peace and allow civilizations to advance" (General Phil Sheridan)]]> 2020-11-17 18:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933322886 https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933333249 They had many contradicting points as they would tell soldiers to kill as many bison as they could, but a telegram sent to Washington D.C. had stated that "they were not commanding them to kill bison."]]> 2020-11-17 18:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933333249 https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933338864 The buffalo hunting rate was way greater than the actual consumption of them. "People would shoot buffalo from train windows", meaning they just shot them for no reason and left them there. ]]> 2020-11-17 18:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933338864 https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933353124 Excessive buffalo hunting was supported by the government. ]]> 2020-11-17 18:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Webbhumanities/ref0i42cfe5pytlr/wish/933353124