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Question 1

who were white settlers?

Answer 1

families who had come to America from Britain and other places in Europe

Question 2

who were the Native Americans?

Answer 2

native people who lived on the lands of America before the white settlers came to America

Question 3

What were the states?

Answer 3

areas that were well populated and had a settled form of government

Question 4

what could a state do?

Answer 4

could make their own laws as long as they didn’t go against the Constitution. state voters could also vote in the national elections and send representatives to congress

Question 5

how many people was needed to become a state?

Answer 5

60,000

Question 6

what were territories?

Answer 6

areas of land without enough settlers or stability to become a state

Question 7

what would each territory have?

Answer 7

was ruled by a territorial governor appointed by congress

Question 8

how many colonies where there first?

Answer 8

13

Question 8

what were the 13 colonies previously?

Answer 8

British colonies

Question 9

what was the battle of fallen timbers?

Answer 9

the us defeated the Native Americans because George Washington was scared that they were gonna join the British and Canada in the fight for the American land

Question 10

What was the treaty of Greenville?

Answer 10

the Native American chiefs were forced to sign the treaty giving up their land in the territories that became states

Question 11

what did the treaty of Greenville force?

Answer 11

forced the Native Americans to move further west and cross the Mississippi river into other Native American territories causing conflict

Question 12

when did America grow rapidly?

Answer 12

1789-1838

Question 13

what were the states that were formed in the period of 1789-1838?

Answer 13

Vermont (1791) Kentucky (1792) Tennessee (1796) Ohio (1803) Indiana (1816) Mississippi (1817) Illinois (1818) and Alabama (1819) Florida (1819)

Question 14

who was keen to expand across the continent?

Answer 14

Thomas Jefferson

Question 15

why was Thomas Jefferson so keen to expand?

Answer 15

after the purchase of Louisiana in 1803 it led to more trade routes to the west

Question 16

what task was Lewis and Clark given?

Answer 16

given the task of exploring new lands

Question 17

where did Lewis and Clark go?

Answer 17

they went through the Missouri river into the rocky mountains through to the Pacific coast

Question 17

when did Lewis and Clark go exploring?

Answer 17

they set out in may 1804

Question 18

did Lewis and Clark get on with the Native Americans?

Answer 18

they mostly got on well with the Native Americans

Question 19

who created the cotton gin?

Answer 19

in 1793 Eli Whitney created the cotton gin

Question 20

what was the cotton gin?

Answer 20

a machine that removed the seeds from the cotton and greatly increased the speed and quality of cotton production

Question 21

what was the “pushing” system?

Answer 21

to keep up with the speed of the cotton gin everyone had to work faster plantation owners developed a pushing system which was pushing workers to work as fast as possible they put the fastest pickers at the front of the line to set the pace for everyone else and they were forced to keep up

Question 22

what was the 230 million of acres of land called that Britain gave the US?

Answer 22

northwest and southwest territory

Question 23

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

Answer 23

they became states

Question 24

who was the first president of the United States?

Answer 24

George Washington

Question 25

what did president Jefferson do to encourage people to move west?

Answer 25

allowed them to buy 640 acres of land

Question 26

how much did Jefferson buy the Louisiana colony for?

Answer 26

50 million

Question 27

when was the declaration of independence?

Answer 27

1776

Question 28

which area of America depended on slavery?

Answer 28

the south

Question 29

who apposed slavery?

Answer 29

abolitionist groups and christians

Question 30

in terms of voting how much did an enslaved person count for?

Answer 30

3/5 of a person

Question 31

what did the government do with slavery in the northwest and southwest territories?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

why was opposition to slavery unsuccessful before 1838?

Answer 32

divisions against abolitioners southwest becomes dependent

Question 33

by 1820 what percentage of US exports were cotton?

Answer 33

42%

Question 34

Causes of growing tensions between the us government and the Indians

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What is a reservation?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

The significance of the sand creek massacre

Answer 36

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

Question 37

When was the battle of little big horn?

Answer 37

1876

Question 38

What was the name of the reservation sitting bull was sent to?

Answer 38

Standing rock reservation in South Dakota

Question 39

List 3 problems with the reservation?

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What was happening to the buffalo?

Answer 40

They were being slaughtered

Question 41

What was the impact of the railroad on the buffalo?

Answer 41

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

Question 42

The Dawes act 1889

Answer 42

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

Question 43

What was the ghost dance?

Answer 43

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

Question 44

What did the Americans start to fear?

Answer 44

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

Question 45

What was the governments response and what happened to sitting bull?

Answer 45

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

Question 46

What happened to the remaining ghost dancers?

Answer 46

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

Question 47

What happened at wounded knee and what were the consequences?

Answer 47

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