Dakota War of 1862

Clyde, Ohio is a town located in Sandusky County about 40 miles southeast of Toledo. The city has a population of approximately 6,000 people. The community was founded by a young lieutenant who fought in many Indian wars. The town was not originally named Clyde. Before they were renamed Clyde, the city was called Centreville. The city was renamed after Clyde, New York, which was the hometown of an early resident. Clyde has a few prominent citizens that left their mark in their life and in their…

authorized or served as a claim against the United States government itself. At its worst, the government has slaughtered hundreds of native men, women, and children for their land and resources. This was particularly evident prior to the end of the Indian Wars in 1890. One such example of hurtful U.S. government action the Indian Removal Act. This act, proposed by President James Monroe in 1925 and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson in 1930, called for the Indians…

unique and alike to one another. From how the director was going with the theme of the movies and where there are really trying to get at. Dances with wolves; has a story and setting in the time frame of 1864 based in the great plains of south dakota where there is this guy named (John j. Dunbar) goes onto a trip to an abandoned Fort Sedgewick. But then he starts to encounter Sioux indians while…

Nebraska contributed to the Union cause during this time of the war and ranked second among all territories. The real problem in the Nebraska Territory during the Civil War was too protect te exposed frontier against Indian attack. In 1862, Nebraskans petitioned to their territorial government to organize a regiment for home defense because of the upraising of the Minnesota Sioux. They were granted permission…

His first encounter with whites occurred in 1862 when the Santee Sioux uprising occurred in Minnesota. In July 1864, the chief vowed to keep his people from the white man’s world, and to never sign a treaty that would force them to live on a reservation. The chief’s disregard for treaties and reservation…

The American West before its conquest and establishment was a metaphorical ideology formulated by the American government within the Young America movement. In an attempt to encourage pioneers towards the frontier and to “Go West”, the United States explored the powerful notion of Manifest Destiny, creating the perception that the undiscovered land was given to America through support of Providence. This ideology and its strict adherence during settlement, poses the question: Did manifest…

Between the years of 1862 and 1909, the government passed federal policies labeled as the Homestead Act which provided settlers and freed slaves with 160 acres of undeveloped land in the Great Plains area of the United States. The premise behind the act was to escalate westward…

The Civil War and its aftermath had great impacts on Native American tribes all across the country. At the start of the war, many tribes had decided to join the Confederacy, mostly because some of their tribe members had owned slaves. Since they were apart of the Confederate States of America, the Confederacy had decided to pay all of the annuities that the Government of the United States had provided. After the Civil War, the tribes that were apart of the Confederacy were severely punished. The…

The Homestead Act of 1862 was a law that allowed a settler to acquire up to 160 acres of land with the requirements of having lived on it for five years, improving it (building on it), and paying a nominal (nominal) fee of thirty dollars or paying per acre. The Homestead Act…