AMH-3540 Lecture 3: Class Notes/Quiz 3 Study Guide
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Western indian wars terms: native alliances, jobs of soldiers in west. Clashes often with war dept. /army: garrison life. Very little payment, making 1/2 pay of east coast laborers. 250,000 enlisted, roughly 20-40% deserted/died: black regulars. More reliable because it was stable employment with stable pay. Eventually picked up by journalists and became derogatory. 4 cavalry and 3 regular: sioux confederation on northern plains. Sitting bull, red cloud, crazy horse: george custer. Battle of washita custer attacks village, kills and plunders. Black hills - sioux reservation, we found gold here: little big horn, wars of pacific northwest, modoc war, nex perce war, apache wars, geronimo, wounded knee. Sioux caught in ghost dance: ethics of war, question of genocide. Spanish american and philippine wars: monroe doctrine, roosevelt corollary, economic factors, hawaii, reasons for war, yellow journalism, manliness, uss maine, william mckinley, theodore roosevelt, black troops.
