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Indian Removal Act year |
1830 |
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Significance |
$500k to establish districts west of Mississippi >60 removal treaties 60,000 migrated Changed attitude towards Natives |
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Limitations |
Natives would have worse conditions in the future |
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Fort Laramie Treaty date |
1851 |
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Significance |
Territory for individual tribes Undermined permanent Indian frontier from 1834 Plains dependent on handouts Sioux to Black Hills |
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Limitations |
Many didn't follow terms on both sides Less impact than later treaties |
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Medicine Lodge Treaty year |
1867 |
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Significance |
>5000 reps agree to smaller reservations with houses, barns & schools worth $30k Mandatory boarding school, language suppression, religion ban Conflict after |
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Limitation |
Kiowa, Arapaho & Comanche win millions from suing USA 7 years of peace afterwards |
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Indian Wars years |
1860s-70s |
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Significance |
Strengthened prejudice against Natives - genocide accepted Fetterman Massacre (1866) Battle of Little Bighorn Deaths |
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Limitations |
Didn't affect their way of life in the same way as other treaties Deaths vs Control |
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Dawes Act date |
1887 |
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Significance |
Plains family alloted 160 acres from reservations - not enough land Whites can buy spare land Split tribes up, more individual needs Women no longer in charge of land ownership - domesticity ⅔ land lost in 20 years |
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Limitations |
Five civilised tribes exempt Buffalo going extinct, farming only option Buffalo brought into land |
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When was gold discovered in Colorado Rockies |
1858 |
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When did Nevada become a state |
1864 |
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Which acts had been blocked by southerners for a long time |
Homestead Act, Morrill Land Grant and Pacific Railroad Act |
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Homestead Act date & definition |
1862 - 160 acres of public land by paying a small registration fee and living on the land continuously for five years |
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Morrill Land-Grant Act date & definition |
1862 - provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.” |
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When was the Sand Creek Massacre |
1864 |
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When was Board of Indian Commissioners created |
1869 |
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Board of Indian Commissioners limitations |
Corruption still fell through & Natives didn’t get the funds they needed - they couldn’t be kept on reservations because of inadequate wildlife White settlers were also infringing upon Native territory |
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When was the Great Sioux War |
1876 |
