Midterm Flashcards
Invention of the printing press (Started the Renaissance/Enlightenment that would allow for the Old World to move from a prescientific late-feudalist society to an industrialised one
1450
Old World meets the New World
1492
Spain makes contact with the Southwestern pueblo groups
-Settler colonialism; logic of extraction; catholic church urges Spanish to colonise under the guise of conversion; intermarriage
1505
Pilgrims, or Separatists, seeking religious freedom arrived in New England aboard the Mayflower
1620
Pueblo revolt (Pueblo groups in secret get together and revolt and overthrow the Spanish entirely wiping out one village that was completely under Spanish occupation)
1680
French-Indian War (precursor to the American Revolutionary War)
George Washington first military experience
France loses and cedes territory to the British
1754 -1763
‘Indian Reserve’ plot of land ceded to the British and then set aside for Native Americans
1763
Boston Tea Party (Perceptions of Native Americans symbols of freedom as European Americans rebelling against tea taxes dress up Native)
1773
Revolutionary War (affected Native Americans by opening up western settlement and creating governments hostile to their territorial claims.) Was one of the biggest defeats of Native Americans. Native Americans become seen as enemies of america
1775 – 1783
Northwest Ordinance (allowed for the seizure of Iroquois territory)
1787
First missionaries push into California
1790
Race becomes part of the equation and Natives are increasingly seen as uncivilised and less human
Late 18th century early 19th century
Industrialisation brought in the new idea of “progress”. Native Americans are now seen as a hindrance to progress as well as racially inferior. Manifest Destiny is also at play
Throughout the 18th century
The United States and Indigenous allies fight against the British and its indigenous allies. Starts the military career of Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson starts the Seminole Wars
War of 1812
Seminole Wars (Wars between the United States and Seminole in modern day Florida)
1816 – 1858
Indian Removal Act
1830
Trail of Tears (the U.S government forcibly removes the “5 civilised tribes” from the south and migrates them to present day Oklahoma. This is why Oklahoma is so densely populated with Natives today. Trails of Tears was motivated by race showing changing attitudes. Politicians who intermarried with Natives opposed Trail of Tears
1831 – 1850
California Gold Rush (Greedy white people come to where Native Americans had formerly resided in peace to get gold. Brings diseases. European Americans paid to kill off Native Americans)
1848 – 1859
Treaty of Fort Laramie – Treaty between United States and representatives of Native American tribes agreeing that the land covered in the treaty belonged to Native Americans. The Native Americans guaranteed safe passage for settlers on the Oregon Trail and allowed roads and forts to be built in their territories, in exchange for promises of an annuity in the amount of fifty thousand dollars for fifty years.
1851
Mountain Meadows Massacre (Church of the Latter Day Saints disguise themselves as Paiute and kill wealthy families on the way to California passing into Comancheria
1857
“Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, published a decade after the Gold Rush, gave scientific racism a new intellectual authority. Subtitled Or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, it seemed to offer a purely biological explanation for the global ‘success’ of northern Europeans at the expense of other peoples.” (from Wilson)
1859