Native Americans Flashcards
Indigenous
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place.
Migration
The process of people moving from one area to another.
Prospector
Someone who hunts for mineral deposits like gold.
A savage
A person who displays uncontrolled violence and brutality.
Teepee
A portable tent made with skins on a frame of wooden poles.
Oregon trail
A 2,000-mile trail made by people migrating from the East to the West of America.
Small pox
A serious disease that killed millions of native americans.
Manifest destiny
A 19th-century idea that the expansion of American settlements over indigenous ones was justified and inevitable.
Nomadic
A member of a group of people who move from one place to another rather than living in the same place.
Pioneer
A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.
Gold Rush
The sudden influx of migrants moving West in search of gold.
Forty-niners
A group of 300,000 migrants who arrivrded in California in 1849 looking for Gold.
Why did people migrate West?
Bank collapse, economic conditions in the East e.g. unemployment, wage cuts by 40%, escape East, free farmland in Oregon, manifest destiny, Oregon trail, the gold rush of 1849, government help, US army protected the trail and transcontinental railroad of 1869.
What is the Oregon trail?
A way to cross the Rockies.
Why did the Native American population decline?
The buffalo was hunted to extinction, Native American children were taken from their parents to be educated, gold led to the forced removal of Native Americans from their land, and Native Americans had no resistance to diseases like smallpox or malaria, which killed thousands.
