native american relations in the us

Question 1

powhatan wars

Answer 1

1610-1677, feud between english settlers and powhatan confederacy in VA over territorial disputes, NAs were granted reservation land as a resolution

Question 2

pequot war

Answer 2

1636-1638, population in MA was too big so people wanted to go to CT vailley but pequots were already there who resisted the english and when they attacked a settlement and killed a few colonists they retaliated and killed 400 natives and burned their villages

Question 3

The beaver wars

Answer 3

1628-1701, the iroquois confederacy fought with french-backed algonquin tribes over fur and fishing rights, beaver was really important for its fur but it was being over hearvested so conflicts between trappers intensified, one of the bloodiest wars (this fighting is continued in the 7 years’ war)

Question 4

decline of the huron confederacy

Answer 4

1634- 1649, SMALLPOX huge impact on tribes, tribes up to 40,000 declined to 12,000 during 1630s, hurons allied with french and fought in 7 years’ war

Question 5

king phillip’s war

Answer 5

metacomet aka king phillip, settlers intruded on their land to make “praying towns” to convert people to christianity, he led attacks on settlements but ran out of food and ammunition and when he died the alliance fell apart and settlers sold a lot of natives into slavery to the west indies. it marks a turning point in which natives would never have peaceful relations with settlers again

Question 6

pueblo revolt

Answer 6

1680, spanish sought to gain control of soutwest, pueblos of new mexico revolted against juan de onate, they killed hundreds and drove the remaining settlers out of the region, the spanish returned 1692 and even though they got control over the terrirot, they were more lenient to the natives for fear of more conflict

Question 7

chickasaw wars

Answer 7

1721-1763, the chicksaws were allied with the british and fought the choctaws, who were allied with the french for control of the land around the mississipi river, the wars were deadlier because natives were now supplied with guns from europe, and this stopped at the end of the 7 years’ war

Question 8

decline of the catawba nation

Answer 8

1700s, used to be the most powerful and numerous tribe in carolina piedmont, allied with colonists and fought alongside patriots during revolutionary war but were always at war with other tribes like the iroquois, algonquin, and cherokee, and in additon they were weakened by smallpox and eventually they became so decimated by disease and war

Question 9

bacon’s rebellion

Answer 9

1676, nathaniel bacon wanted to expel the natives from western frontier of va and berkley says no and he gets mad and kills natives and then other tribes including those alliied with the english and then they burned and looted jamestown and then he died, early example of populist uprising in us

Question 10

Battle of Acoma

Answer 10

1598 Battle of Acoma: between Spanish & Pueblos leads to the creation of New Mexico

Question 11

first anglo-powhatan war

Answer 11

1610 First Anglo-Powhatan War: Lord de la Warr vs natives
Irish torture techniques, houses and crops burned
1614 marriage between Pocohantas and John Rolfe leads to peace
1622 natives strike back and kill 347 settlers
1625 1200 out of 8000 survived

Question 12

2nd anglo-powhatan war

Answer 12

1644 Second Anglo-Powhatan War: native defeat
1646 peace treaty eliminates coexistence with natives
1685 Powhatans considered extinct by English

Question 13

francisco pizzaro

Answer 13

1532 francisco pizarro, defeat inca people

Question 14

herman cortes

Answer 14

1519 Herman Cortes sailed to Mexico and causes the collapse of the Aztecs

Question 15

jay’s treaty

Answer 15

Jay’s treaty 1794
highly backlashed against jay cause it seemed like the terms of the treaty really only benefited the british
the british after the war would secretly give weapons to different groups like the shawnee, miami and delaware and kept their troops in the US ? why idk?
they also stole cargo from sthips and took slaves
Treaty said:
no compensation for damaged cargo or lost slaves
british will withdraw after 18 months
american planters still have to pay back debts
limited trading rights for british in the west indies

Question 16

western frontier impact (dawes severalty act)

Answer 16

attempts to assimilate natives on reservations, namely the 1887 dawes severalty act which broke up resevrations and redistributed land to the head of each native family, ignoring the sense of unity tribes had, considered natives an issue that could be solved

Question 17

ghost dance movement

Answer 17

1889, inspired by visions of prophet which claimed that through proper ceremony and magic, natives would live peacefully on their native lands, so they did the ghost dance but troops were like no. so they killed a lot of natives in the Wounded Knee Massacre over what they considered potential rebellion and uncivilized, especially since they wanted the natives converted to christianity

Question 18

little big horn

Answer 18

one of the battles that the natives, like the sioux, won agianst the western settlers, but the federal power ultimately overpowered them,

Question 19

AIM movement

Answer 19

• took back wounded knee and alcatraz
• 1968