Government policy in the West before 1851

Question 1

What did the 1830 Indian Removal Act mean for the Indigenous peoples?

Answer 1

46,000 Indigenous peoples living in the east of America were forced to move to new lands west of the Mississippi River

Question 2

What name was given to the lands Indigenous peoples were moved onto as part of the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 2

Indian Territory

Question 3

What did President Jackson promise to the Indigenous peoples in the 1830 Indian Removal Act?

Answer 3

They would never have to give up Indian Territory, and they would be protected from other Indigenous tribes and from white settlers

Question 4

What was established in the 1834 Indian Trade and Intercourse Act?

Answer 4

A ‘Permanent Indian Frontier’

Question 5

Whose job was it to police the ‘Permanent Indian Frontier’?

Answer 5

The US Army

Question 6

What restrictions were placed on white settlers in the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act?

Answer 6

White settlers were banned from settling on Indian Territory

White traders could not sell guns or alcohol to Indigenous peoples

Question 7

Which territories became part of the USA in:

1845
1846
1848

Answer 7

1845: Texas
1846: Oregon County
1848: California

Question 8

What impact did the US gaining lands in the West by 1848 have on the status of Indian Territory and the ‘Permanent Indian Frontier’?

Answer 8

Before, the ‘Permanent Indian Frontier’ divided Indian Territory in the West from the white settlers in the East

Now, Indian Territory was in the MIDDLE of the USA and an obstruction between white American lands in the east and west

Question 9

What did the government provide money for in the 1851 Indian Appropriations Act?

Answer 9

Moving Indigenous tribes onto reservations

Question 10

Why did the US government move the Indigenous peoples onto reservations in the 1851 Indian Appropriations Act?

Answer 10

They hoped the Indigenous peoples would take up farming and abandon their nomadic ways of life