deck 1 Flashcards

Question

what happened to the 13 colonies after the battle of independence?

Answer 1

they became states

Answer 2

George Washington

Answer 3

allowed them to buy 640 acres of land

Answer 4

50 million

Answer 5

abolitionist groups and christians

Answer 6

3/5 of a person

Answer 7

southwest was a slave territory and slavery was banned in the northwest. the Missouri Compromise

Answer 8

divisions against abolitioners southwest becomes dependent

Answer 9

Government began a policy of moving Indians onto reservations to clear them out of the way, us government kept breaking promises, transcontinental railroads disrupted indian hunting ground, land on the plains was being viewed as potentially unusable land for the settlers increasing settlement on the plains, gold- pikes peak gold rush led to massive settlement on the plains in Kansas/colorado region

Answer 10

Worst land in the worst area and would prevent them from hunting all together

Answer 11

Cheyenne and Arapaho promised a large reservation in the 1851 treaty of fort Laramie, Cheyenne and Arapaho had many chiefs one which was called black kettle, not long before gold was found on their land and prospectors began moving onto their lands, tensions between settlers and the Indians increased. Dog soldiers began attacking settlers, the governor of Colorado realised something had to be done and he persuaded black kettle to move his tribe to a new reservation at sand creek, the governor had a ulterior motive and asked war hero called colonel chivington to kill and destroy the tribe, on the morning of 29th November 1855 chivington led 700 troops to sand creek and they murder 130 Indians, chivington claimed the tribe fought back, this was not true as the majority of the tribe was women,children and the elderly they put up a white flag but it was ignored, black kettle escaped and survivors were promised compensation by the government this was never paid

Answer 12

Standing rock reservation in South Dakota

Answer 13

1.often badly run 2.little respect for the Native American culture 3.medical supplies were inadequate, food rations were often meagre

Answer 14

They were being slaughtered

Answer 15

1-They brought hunters 2-hunters saw an opportunity to make money, selling the hides, meat and bones 3-buffalo were being slaughtered in their thousands 4-not uncommon for a hunter to kill over a hundred buffalo a day 5-16 million kilos of buffalo bones alone had been sent east to become fertiliser 6-3million buffalo were killed by white hunters 7- by 1883 the vast herds of the 1840s were all gone

Answer 16

Indian tribes lost millions of acres of land They swapped it for 160 acres to own individually In a single day 1,920,000 acres of land in Indian territory was sold to homesteaders and land speculators Nearly 2/3rds of the land Indians had in 1877 had been taken

Answer 17

A new religion, ghost dancers believed that if they danced and prayed for long enough, a saviour would come to return the buffalo and sweep the whites from the land like a great flood

Answer 18

That the ghost dance was sweeping through Dakota and that sitting bull was going to join

Answer 19

The us army was sent in to arrest the ghost dancers and sitting bull was shot through his skull by Sioux police

Answer 20

Tried to escape to safety. They were chased down by General miles

Answer 21

The Indians were largely defenceless and the situation turned violent. The army shot the ghost dancers as over 250 others men, women, and children slaughtered in the massacre and on the 15th January, 4000 others surrendered