Ch. 18 Flashcards
1
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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- temporary resolution to the Indian Wars
- followed Great Sioux War
- granted Sioux rights to the Black Hills, cut short by the discovery of gold
2
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Caminetti Act
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- gave state power to regulate mines
- caused by mining clogging rivers leading to floods
- Sacramento River Commission, replaced rivers with canals and dams
3
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Edmunds Act
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- followed U.S. vs Reynolds
- granted freedom of belief but not practice for polygamy
- disfranchised those who believed/practiced polygamy
4
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Edmunds-Tucker Act
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- destroyed power of Mormon church
- confiscated all assets over $50,000 and the oversee of elections
5
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Lynching
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-punishment for horse theft and cattle rustling
6
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Homestead Act of 1862
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- granted 160 acres to any settler who lived on land for 5+ years/improved it
- greatest success in central and upper Midwest
7
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National Reclamation Act
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- caused by large scale commercial agricultural
- added 1 million acres of irrigated land
- ultimately benefitted corporate famers
8
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Omaha Act of 1882
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- Alice Cunningham Fletcher
- promoted assimilation
- allowed establishment of individual title to tribal lands
9
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Dawes Severalty Act
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- attempt to break up tribes
- gave land to individual Indians
- banned Indian religion/tradition
- broke up reservations
- reversed by Indian Reorganization Act in 1934
