Conflict on the Frontier Journal Entry The year is 1880 and you are a U. S. soldier on the Texas frontier. For decades, you have experienced conflict on frontier between Native Americans and the U. S. government. Write a journal entry describing your experiences. Your journal entry should describe the ongoing conflict and any attempts for resolution. Use information from today’s lesson in your journal entry.

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Describes the ongoing conflict on the frontier (20 points)

Who is fighting? Why?

Who is winning the conflict overall?

Describes the Medicine Lodge Treaty and its outcomes (25 points)

What was its goal? What were the terms?

Which Native American leader opposed the treaty? Why?

What was the outcome? (You should have information concerning ALL 5 W’s)

Gives a specific description of one battle between Native Americans and the U. S. (15 points)

Describes how you feel—as a U. S. soldier—about the conflicts on the frontier—Are you proud? Sad? Angry? Why? (20 points)

Historically accurate (10 points) (Your information MUST be correct)

Written in complete sentences; few to no spelling/grammatical errors (10 points)

Minus 1 point for each red or blue line underneath a word.

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