WESTWARD EXSPANSION AND NATIVE AMERICANS

Question 1

the naqargo tribe

Answer 1

-covered large parts of Canada
-women owned family, house and livestock
-nomadic

Question 2

the Apache tribe

Answer 2

-moved seasonally with animals ( dears and buffalos)
-lived in wickiups in small groups
- never formed military alliances

Question 3

the Kiowa Tribe

Answer 3

-had a military alliance with the Comanshe

Question 4

the Comanshe tribe

Answer 4

-finest horse breeders
-made military alliances
-very open to new ideas, they were profit seekers by slave traders
-used spiderwebs to tell when a storm was coming

Question 5

the Apropos tribe

Answer 5

-had military and economic alliance with Comanshe
-did the sun dance

Question 6

why did native Americans and white Americans clash?

Answer 6

-Racism
-land getting taken
-growth in population
-westward exspansion

Question 7

manifest destiny

Answer 7

first written by journalist Jhon ‘L O Sullivan, in his essay in 1845. argued that white Americans should populate continent because it was their Devine rights, so they could spread Christianity and republican views.

Question 8

the homestead act of 1862

Answer 8

this act released 160 acres plots available to farmer for free on the basis that they would farm the land for 5 years, settler for newly arrived immigrants and farmers from the east came to meet the requirements. people interested in home steading first had to file there intentions at the nearest land office after a check for any ownership claims. The prospectors paid a filling fee of £10 to claim the land aswell as commission of £2 to the land agent. by 1865 20,000 homesteaders had settled on the plains but at the expense of Native Americans

Question 9

The timber and culture act of 1873

Answer 9

gave homesteader an additional 160 acres provided 40 acres were planted with tree’s

Question 10

the dessert land act of 1877

Answer 10

offered a further 640 acres at £1.20 an acre.

Question 11

how did railroads encourage westward expansion?

Answer 11

railroad expansion would encourage for migration to the area. 1862 Lincoln passed the pacific railroad act, authorizing 2 companies to build transcontinental railroads, running through native American lands

Question 12

the second gold rush

Answer 12

began in the black hills of Dakota in the mid 1870s, there was rumor’s about gold in the area since the civil war and prospectors had found gold in the hills in 1874. the issues was that the black hills belonged to the Sioux tribe

Question 13

The sand creek massacre of 1864

Answer 13

soldiers were drawn from the plains to fight in the east so they were replaced by volunteers who were untrained. this led to the sand creek massacre where a force of 700 troops attacked a undefended camp of the Cheyenne tribe, killing and mutilating women, children and elderly

Question 14

Great Sioux breakout of 1876

Answer 14

this broke out after the discovery of gold in the Dakota black hills, prospectors were going onto native American lands. at first the government tried to make a deal of £6 million for the land but they denied, the government believed that the natives were being unreasonable so they demanded that the natives should go to the reservations, any who did not respond by January 31st 1876 would be treated as hostile.

Question 15

battle of little bighorn

Answer 15

general Custer and his men were a part of an expeditionary force were sent to round up Sioux and Cheyenne tribe who left the reservation lands and refusing to return, without waiting for the rest of his force to arrive general Custer divided his men into 3 units . they all came under attack and overwhelmed by numbers, all died

Question 16

Reservation policy

Answer 16

in 1884 the government deemed that native Americans were ward of the US government. the dawes act ended communal ownership of lands.