America Flashcards
What was life like in minning towns
-no prisons
-not fair justice
-no law officials
-saloons, rough and led to fights
-gambling, drinking, disease
push factors for people moving in the 1840’s
Over population
Escape religious persecution
Start a new life
Lack of farming land
pull factors for people moving in the 1840’s
Gold rush- wealth
Spare land
Mountain men
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Roles of people in plains indans tribes
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
Belifs of plains indans
-The importance of circles
-Sacred land
-Visions
-Dances and ceremonies
-The sun dance
-buffalo dance
The permanent indian frontier
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
The trail of tears
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
Indian appropriations act
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
The fort larmine treaty
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
Little crows war
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
The cheyenne war/sand creek massacre
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..
Red clouds war
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 
The mormons
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
Homesteaders
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
The railroads
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