The Plains wars Flashcards
Sand Creek Massacre 1864
Leads to the death of 200 Women and Children when Men were hunting
What did congress do to support westward expansion
dispatched troops to conquer indians and funded the state effort to slaughter them. The state subsidised railroad and farmers
Why did war erupt between Army and Indians
Americans threatened resources critical to the survival of Plains Indians
What did the 1867 Doolittle report do
Blamed violence on aggression of lawless whites
What does Arizona vs Apaches do
Confines Indians to reservations and transforms them into monogamous Christians
The Native American tribe the Comanches do what?
Reclaim land in Texas during civil war
What consequential legislation does the government pass
Pacific Railways act of 1862 and 64; morrill act and Homestead acts 1862-granting land-creates basic infrastructure for two thirds of a nations territory, public university system and free farms
What did congress do with unceded Indian lands
subsidised railroads
from 1862-72 what did congress give individual railroads
gifts of territory the size of medium sized us states- 33 million acres from Texas alone
What was the Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
Federal government accepted the area north of the Platte and east of the big horn mountains was unceded Indian land and agree to pay Indians annuities
Racial war develops
Indians need to leave reservations in winter to find food, if they leave the reservations they are killed
Annual 1868 Peace commissioners report
Indians should be confined to districts, children forced to attend school whereby it was not permissable to speak dialect
Grant 1869 inauguration speech-
Indians should be civilised and eventually made citizens
150 killed at the
Camp Grant Massacre
1871 appache
are killed by settlers
