Oklahoma Social Studies USH.C.1.3.B
The Standard
- USH.C.1
- Analyze the transformation of the United States of America through its civil rights struggles, immigrant experiences, and settlement of the American West during the Post Civil War Era.
- USH.C.1.3
- Analyze the causes and effects of the continuing westward migration and territorial growth after the Civil War.
Describe Grant’s Peace Policy including the establishment of reservations and the use of religious organizations to assimilate American Indians through religious instruction and agricultural training.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · USH.C.1.3
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Grant’s policy used reservations and church-run agencies to change Native life. They describe the roles of religious instruction and farming lessons, and why officials said the policy would reduce conflict.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name actions taken under the policy and connect them to its stated goal of peace. They can also explain how forced moves and pressure to abandon Native practices affected communities.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think Grant invented reservations or that Native nations freely chose to move onto them. Others assume the word “peace” meant the policy had no coercive effects.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name two actions taken under Grant’s policy, including one role of religious groups. Explain one effect on Native communities.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed 1870s reservation map and a short policy excerpt; have them circle boundaries and note one restriction on Native life.
Ask students: Why might officials call this a peace policy while Native families experienced it as coercive? Use two policy details.
Make cards for reservation, church agent, religious instruction, and farming lessons; have pairs match each action to a stated goal and an effect.
Compare current and 1870s U.S. reservation maps; have students mark one boundary change and write a question about who made that decision.
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Related Standards
- 8.C.13.5.D
Describe the impact of Grant’s policy of government-run boarding schools and missions directed to assimilate Tribal members.
- 8.C.5.1.C
Examine Washington’s attempt to develop a cohesive American Indian policy through treaties, assimilation, and the delineation of Tribal lands.
- OKH.C.3.1.C
Summarize the intent of President Grant’s Peace Policy on the displacement of American Indians from their homelands.
- 8.C.13.5.C
Summarize the intent of President Grant’s Peace Policy on the displacement of American Indians from their homelands.
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