The impact of Native Americans in 1865-1877 Flashcards

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Describe the lifestyle of Native Americans during the 1860s
• Buffalos

A

Buffalos provided Native Americans with everything they needed to survive.

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The importance of buffalos to Native Americans

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The buffalo determined their lifestyle, living conditions, laws, government and religious beliefs.

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The impact of Westward expansion on Native Americans

• Government policy

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From the 1860s, it became government policy to attract settlers to populate vast open spaces in the West.

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The result of Westward expansion on Native Americans in 1860s

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As white settlers pushed westwards beyond the natural frontier, the Native Americans were gradually removed from their traditional lands.

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The Great Sioux War in 1876

• What happened?

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The discover of gold in the Black Hills of Dakota meant gold prospectors and settlers poured into Native American territory.

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The Great Sioux War in 1876?

• Conflict between the government and the Native Americans

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The government believed that the Native Americans were being unreasonable, as they failed to compromise a $6 million deal.

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The Great Sioux War in 1876

• What did the government ask the Native Americans to do?

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The government demanded that all Native Americans should go to their reservations.

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The Great Sioux War in 1876

• Result

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A large and well-equipped US army wiped out the Native Americans.

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What was the reason behind the US government felt threatened by Native Americans?

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The US government felt that their Native Americans’ independent existence gave them a degree of self-determination, which was deemed unacceptable.

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What was the common perception of Native Americans?

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Native Americans were considered to be savages.

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What did the reservation policy include?

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A process of education, conversion to Christianity, training Native Americans to become farmers and separate them from their dependence on hunting the buffalo.

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The failures of the reservation policy.

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The ideal to transform Native Americans into farmers was not realised as much of the land allocated to reservations proved impossible to cultivate.

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What did the Native Americans think about the reservation policy?

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The total dependence on white Americans for food, clothing and shelter proved very humiliating.

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What did historians think of westward expansion?

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Material interest and naked expansion

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