New West Flashcards
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Concentration
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- two large reservations for Native Americans
- Government forced them to stay there
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Location
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- Area west of Missouri River to Pacific Ocean
- Indians & Spanish and living there
- africans who left South who wanted to use their skills
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Dawes act
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- illegal for individual tribes to Own land
- this will make them farm and be similar to whites which ruins their culture
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Economy
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- Dryland, hard time raising crops
- More land was sold to companies and my mining corps
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Environment
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- The close extinction of buffalo. People hunted for their skin for fashion
- arsenic and Mercury were used to collect minerals from crushed rocks, ruined land
- unregulated a lumbering from forests
