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0
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What is a written agreement between two or more nations

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A treaty

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What does Westward expansion mean?

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During the 1800s the movement of settlers and immigrants from the eastern United States to the Midwest and West

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What does ratify mean

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To approve formally

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What is a territory

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A part of the United States that is not within a state but is organized with its own governing leaders

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What is in an annuity

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Annual payment of food and money that the US government paid to the American Indians in return for their land.

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What is a reservation

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Land se aside, or reserved, by the US government for use by an American Indian group.

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What is something that is owed such as money, good, for services

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Debt

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What is in an assimilation

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Adopting the values, and habits of a larger group.

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The U. S. looked to expand west, but what did they have to do to be able to

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They had to get land from the Indians

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In what year did thousands of European Americans move west onto Indian land

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The early 1800s

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Was the westward expansion supported by the Government

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Yes

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What did the US have more of then the Indians did??

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Money, people, and military power

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What did they do to the treaties so then it favored the government more??

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They made the treaties really complicated

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Zebulon pike was sent by the ____________to acquire land for a fort in the year of_____.

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He was sent by the government in the year of 1805

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Where did Zebulon Pike find a place for a fort

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Where is the Mississippi in Minnesota rivers meet

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What did they call the fort Zebulon Pike found?

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B’dote

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What does B’dote mean??

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Place where rivers meet

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17
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How many Dakota leaders met with Zebulon Pike

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7

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18
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How many leaders decided to sell part of their land

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Two

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Where the pieces of land the leaders agreed to sell first small, big, or medium sized?

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Small

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The two small pieces the leaders agreed to sell were in what 2 places

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1: where The St. Croix and Mississippi come together
2: both sides of the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Minnesota River North to falls of Anthony

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They could not approve the land treaty yet because who needed to do that

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The US Senate

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In what year did they agree to pay the Dakota for the land, and how much did they pay them

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In 1808 and they agreed to pay the Dakota $2000

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In what year did The soldiers arrive to start building a fort and what did they name it

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In 1819 and they named it Fort Snelling

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What was The purpose of Fort Snelling

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To enforce US laws related to the fur trade- protect US trade from the British
And to keep peace between the Dakota and Ojibway

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What were Lawrence Taliaferro’s jobs

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He was an Indian agent-worked to keep the fur trade running smoothly, managing the relations between the government and Indians, and resolved disputes between the fur traders and the Indians

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What was the headquarters acrosst the river from the fort( Mendota) called

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American fur company

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Who was the head of the American fur company

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Henry Hastings Sibley

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28
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True or false, Henry Hastings Sibley was a terrible businessman

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False

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29
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Henry Hastings Sibley understood what

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The importance of building kinship with the Dakota

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30
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Who did Henry Hastings Sibley marry and did they have a daughter or son

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Red blanket woman and they had a daughter

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What was the resource value of the land for the Dakota and Ojibway

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  1. It belonged to the people who lived there
  2. Land held their ancestors graves and places of sacred tradition
  3. Provided food and resources for survival and transportation.
32
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What was the resource value of the land for the Americans

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  1. Land had resources from which to benefit

2. Lumber, land for farming, rivers for powering mills, land divided for homes and businesses( income)

33
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In what year did the demand for first drop

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In the 1830s which means the fur trade was less profitable

34
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The westward expansion increased in the 1830s what did the government want

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Land

35
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What year did Minnesota become Territory

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1849

36
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At the time that Minnesota became a territory how many Americans lived there

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About 5,000

37
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Who was the territorial governor

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Alexander Ramsey

38
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True or false,

the government plan was to offer a cash payment in one month

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False they wanted to offer a cash payment right away

39
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What was the government plan?

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  1. Offer a cash payment right away
  2. Annuities for the next 50 years
  3. Dakota could keep part of their land forever – called reservation
40
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What was the treaty motivations for land for the Dakota

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They felt they had no choice and could at least keep some land

41
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What was the treaty motivations for land for the Americans

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Wanted to populate and control ALLof north America

42
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What was the treaty motivations for money for the Dakota

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Money to buy needed for survival and pay off their debts

43
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What was the treaty motivations for money for the Americans

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Traders pay off their debt and make money buying and selling the land

44
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What was the treaty motivations for lifestyle for the Dakota

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Reservation land to keep their traditional life

45
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What was the treaty motivations for lifestyle for the Americans

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Americans wanted to change Indians to be more like them specifically farmers and Christians

46
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What is Pigs Eye Landing called today

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St. Paul

47
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What year was Pigs Eye Landing in

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1838

48
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Pig’s Eye Landing was downriver from what

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Fort Snelling

49
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What was Pigs Eye Landing named after

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A one eyed man who opened a tavern

50
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What was Pigs Eye Landing renamed and why was it renamed that

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Saint Paul and it was named that because a priest build the church

51
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What parties were involved in the 1851 first meeting for the treaty

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The US government, and TWO Dakota tribes.

52
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The second meeting, in Mendota, was how many weeks later from the first meeting

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Two

53
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When did they begin working on the Treaty

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July 18, 1851

54
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True or false, Ramsey offered money and the Dakota I wanted annuities also but Ramsey said no

Make false statements true

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False , Ramsey offered money and annuities to help The Dakota’s poor situation

55
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True or false when not all Indian leaders are at the meeting yet they refused to talk

Make false statements true

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True

56
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True or false, The Dakota elders wanted the government offer in writing and Ramsey did not agree

Make false statements true

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False Ramsey did agree to give The Dakota elders the government offer in writing

57
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On what day was the treaty signed by Ramsey a another official

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July 23, 1851

58
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The Dakotas still had some concerns about the treaty and still wanted a copy of the document what did they hoped would happen

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They hoped the government would not change or renege it

59
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They Dakota signed two copies of the treaty and document that said what

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That they would use treating money to pay traders

60
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How much land of the Dakota lose

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Most of their land, about 24 million acres

61
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What did the government pay in return for the land

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$500,000 +50 years of food, goods, and cash

62
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What was the government cheating

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They tried to change permanent reservations to temporary, and most of the cash payment went to the traders.

63
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What were the reservation goals for the Indians

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It was a place to live traditionally- hunting, fishing, ricing etc.

64
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What were the reservation goals for the government

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A place where Indians could learn to live as Americans

65
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Is it still hard to interpret treaty rights and they still have disagreements

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Yes

66
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What year was the Minnesota versus Mille lacs lake band of Chippewa in

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1999

67
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The Ojibwe won the Minnesota versus Mille Lacs band of Chippewah, so what did they get

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They were allowed to hunt and fish in traditional ways on or off of the reservation

68
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The state of Minnesota tried to change the treaty of the Minnesota vs. Mille Lacs band of Chippewa what did the Supreme Court say

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NO

69
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Part of annuities was set aside to teach what

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The Indians how to live like Americans

70
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Did the assimilation of the annuities being set aside to teach the Indians how to live like Americans cause great conflict

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YES

71
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How many people moved in to Minnesota after the settlement of the treaties

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Tens of thousands

72
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Dakota fought against assimilation for how many years

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The next 10 years

73
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In the next how many years did the Ojibway also signed treaties and

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30

74
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Explain why government officials, fur traders, and missionaries wanted to make treaties with the Dakota

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Government officials wanted to make treaties with the Dekota because they wanted their land.The fur traders wanted to make treaties with the Dakota because the Dakota would have to use money from the treaty to pay them back. Missionaries wanted to convert them to Christianity.

75
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What were three results of the treaty of Mendota and Traverse de Souix?

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The Dakota lost a lot of land because of the Mendota treaty. The Dakota fought against assimilations for next 10 years there were a lot of disagreements about the treaty. The Dakota got reservations by the Minnesota River also.

76
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How did the language differences make the treaty nogotiationd a problem

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sometimes the other people did not understand what they were trying to say. Also they had to go through the trouble of finding a translator.

77
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Why did some of the Dakota not want to make a treaty

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Some of the Dakota did not trust the government and thought that they would really cheat on them

They did not want to lose their land

They had traditional ways of doing things and did not want to lose those ways

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