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
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