Making of America Flashcards
Tensions as America expanded
1776 declaration of independence gains 230 million acres of land given over to USA and is turned into the Northwest and Southwest territories e.g. Missouri 1821
George Washington spent 80% of the government budget fighting the natives
Jefferson divided territories to sell cheaply to farmers
Jefferson purchased Louisiana for just £15 million 1803
1804 Lewis and Clark on a voyage and looked for trade routes
North businessmen jealous over labour in south
South became dependant on slavery and cotton kingdom happens in south after 1793 cotton gin
1820 Missouri compromise
Slaves counted as 3/5 of a person, south gets more voting power
5 civilised tribes try to adapt to settlers cherokee organised gov
Cherokee beat state of Georgia in supreme court but still dont resist
1830 Indian removal act of 46,000 indians
3 hard wars against seminoles
1838 Cherokee in concentration camps, 18,000
Different visions of the American West
Horses and guns make the Lakota Souix more nomadic in hunting
Lakota Souix have a big issue with farmers and settlers ad the buffalo and land are sacred to the Great Spirit
Tipi provide shelter and movement
Tribes divided into bands, hard for government to institute laws
1837 bank collapse leads to people moving west on the Oregon Trail
Manifest Destiny God’s plan for whites to colonise west
Dangerous though as cholera, food and attack from natives
1840s Mormons driven out of Navoo after leader murdered then go to Salt Lake city
USA take over in 1848 and war in 1857 leads to a compromise
1848 Californian Gold thousands travel on the califonia trail aswell as companie
Levi Strauss earns money selling miners denim gear
60,000 population, now a state
1858 Pikes peak gold rush and town boosters
Natives angry and leader meets at fort laramie in 1859
Settlement and conflict on Plains
1869 Transcontinental railroad invented to help migrants get
Railroad companies get free land size of Texas around railroad
After civil war many trails like the the Goodnight loving trail made which spans 1000 miles
Cow towns like dodge city are ravenous until 1870s gun law
1880s beef bonanza
600,000 homesteaders
1862 Homestead act 160 acres given out
Sod housing built out of earth
Climate drought caused hardship
Turkey red weat used russian
Wind pumps used due to lack of water
Barbed wire invented in 1874
Railroads, ranching upset Natives so fight back
1862 Little Crow’s War uprising by Santee Sioux 38 santee hung
1864 Cheyanne rebell against their reservation 105 women and children killed at sand creek
Bozemail Trail to Gold mine broke fort laramine- Red clouds attack forts
Gold rush in Black Hills Custer’s troops killed at little big horn so US killed Crazy Horse
