America Flashcards

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What was life like in minning towns

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-no prisons
-not fair justice
-no law officials
-saloons, rough and led to fights
-gambling, drinking, disease

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push factors for people moving in the 1840’s

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Over population
Escape religious persecution
Start a new life
Lack of farming land

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pull factors for people moving in the 1840’s

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Gold rush- wealth
Spare land
Mountain men
More resources

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Roles of people in plains indans tribes

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Men- to hunt, protect, make wepons and had important roles in religious ceremonies
Women- gathered food, cooked and look after kids
Children- the future, unofficial lookouts
Old people- pass on knowledge

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Belifs of plains indans

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-The importance of circles
-Sacred land
-Visions
-Dances and ceremonies
-The sun dance
-buffalo dance

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The permanent indian frontier

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Indians no longer view to separate nations, but as people under US control, is there a move on the permanent Indian frontier known as Indian territory

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The trail of tears

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during the removal of Indians into this territory, thousands died and became known as the trail of tears and was finished by 1838 the people that have moved to suffer from exposure disease and starvation, and many died before reaching their destination

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Indian appropriations act

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this led to the Indian appropriations act of 1851, which legally recognised reservations, which were intended to protect Indians from the westward expansion of white Americans, by giving them protected areas of land

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The fort larmine treaty

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The US government agreed that each Indian nation had its own hunting area and promising an annual money,

plains Indians agreed to not attack for settlers on the Oregon Trail and allow buildings on some roads and forts in the territory

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Little crows war

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Little crows war was really revolt against reservations. They had given up their homeland and had agreed to move into a reservation in Minnesota 1961. The crops failed on the conversation allowance that they had promised arrive from Washington, 12,000 people face starvation, little crows, angry because he tried to keep to his terms of the treaty in August 1862, Santee Sioux attacked with a white traders and settlers who lived in the agency, the attacks on settlers, and on the army continued for about three months before the army finally rounded up the rebellious Indians of the 370 who were tried to the uprising, 38 were hanged

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The cheyenne war/sand creek massacre

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in 1864, some Shyanne came to an agreement to move onto a reservation in Colorado under the chief black kettle, who is a peaceful man. The London, the reservation was dry and portal and made it impossible for the Indians to survive that they will come to Sand Creek Road. They were attacked by Colonel Sherrington and his men became known as Sandcreek massacre as most people killed women, children and the elderly of 500 people in the camp. Lisa 163 were killed. This is because the males have gone out to hunt buffalo..

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Red clouds war

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in 1862, gold was discovered in the Rocky Mountains in Montana, which led to another rush of golddiggers, and a new trial was made it past you, the hunting grounds of the sea and break the times of the Fort Larmie treaty. The US government didn’t act Redcloud was the time in to resistance, intrusion and attack travellers regularly by 1866 talk to set up with a red cloud at the same time Colonel Carrington was ordered to build a line of thoughts along the trail to protect the travellers. Red card is furious and withdrew from the talks and attacked soldiers and markers in autumn of 1866, or frequent battles between any troops that were sent out of the four and Indian surrounded it by the winter of 1866 the soldiers wanted to see it in the thoughts on the 21st of December 1866 detachment of 80 men led by Captain William Fetterman was Lord into a trap set by the zoo and we all killed in mutilated, the government admitted defeat and change the policy 

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The mormons

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moments of hand by Joeseph Smith in 1823, you can you just seen a vision of an angel. He told him to find some gold plated in on a hillside who translated the writings onto these plates and wrote the book of Mormon in 1830 Romans were persecuted for their beliefs which included polygamy and that they were gods chosen people. They also don’t believe in slavery after Joseph Smith was murdered to Tim wanting to be president Brigham Young, but I’m the leader and they moved the Mormons to Salt Lake City as at the time it was out of America and in Mexico

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Homesteaders

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The Homestead is for settlers to gain land on the planes for homes and farms as they got 160 ac.² of land. If they found it three years for free and started after the 1862 Homestead act

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The railroads

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The railroad was very important in America as not only did it help homesteaders and the law to travel more easily, and to transport goods across America, but it also meant that it disrupted the great flow herds, which affected the plains Indians my life and travellers began to shoot the Buffalo through the window of the moving train leading to near extinction of the Buffalo

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Little big horn

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The seagulls and was sitting bull in a village in a valley by the little bighorn river. There were 7000 to 2000 of which were Warriors Turno, George Custer and his fourth of 600% and two round up the Indians and paste them into the reservations, or to wipe them out ignoring old is Toilet from reinforcements, Custer attacked, undivided his forces into three forces To the forces percent up to the Little Big horn Valley and came under attack from Indians. Catherine. His forces tried to cross the river to attack the Indian camp, but failed to do so. They attempted to retreat to the higher ground but was surrounded and overwhelmed by crazy horse attack, customers men were outnumbered, and there were no survivors of the attack, the attack.

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Wounded knee

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New Year’s Day 1989, holy man, Cold War Vaca receive division is the Indian state piece from dance ago. Stan is a new world would come to help solve their problems. Ghost Town spread rapidly as many were struggling. At the time. The Indian agent is in charge of the reservations tried to ban the ghost dance, so the Nicole the army in as they saw as a war situation on the 28th of December. US soldiers caught up with Bigfoot in his followers. They were taken to rain disney on the 29th of December. Wants to warrior resisted and the US soldiers open fire with rifles and cannons 146, Indians and 24 soldiers were dead. The Indian dead included seven babies under the age of to this massacre marks, the end of the plainswars

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The dawes act

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disallowed the shared reservation and to be spoken up into individual plots individual Indians who accepted a plot would become landowning farmers and the citizens of US any leftover land assault in an Indian farmers. They also took the children send them into schools where they were to get new names and learn to speak British and began the mass genocide of plains Indians culture as it removed their culture from the children’s that it wouldn’t be able to be passed on to future generations.