native americans quick knowledge

Question 1

Military methods to limit NAs (Early)

Answer 1

• simple seizure of land from the Indians was the first step in dispossessing them. This was easy with superior technology and density of population.
• Genocide used-by 1900 there were only 250 000 Indians left (Plains indians)
• Eviction: The Winnebago tribe for instance were moved off land 6 times between 1829 and 1866.

Question 2

Legal methods to limit NAs (Early)

Answer 2

• Trick treaties: Supplying the Indians with alcohol before getting them to sign away their birthright was a common tactic, giving them treaties they didn’t understand
• 1887 the Dawes Act: attempted to regulate NAs by allotting reservation land to the Indians. It was an attempt to eradicate traditional tribal ownership and instill the concept of private property among the Natives. -left them vulnerable to losing land
• Between 1887 and 1934 Indians lost 86 million of the original 136 million acres granted by the Dawes Act.

Question 3

EDUCATIONAL MEANS

Answer 3

• In the 1880s Indian children were put into federal-funded boarding schools. However these “educated” Indians were rejected by both white and Indian societies e.g. forced to cut their long hair at school Indian boys were shackled when they returned to their parents as a result

Question 4

Identify FOUR ways in which Native American lifestyle differed to that of settlers?

Answer 4

They were nomadic
Practised polygamy
Where non christian-had their own faith and religion
Had distinct tribal culture and hierarchy

Question 5

Explain the meaning of the word “nomadic”

Answer 5

in the native American case, they followed the buffalo migration. A community that moves location frequently as a collective

Question 6

What was the name of the belief that Americans had a “God given right to settle the rest
of the continent”

Answer 6

manifest destiny

Question 7

Which TWO tribes signed the Fort Laramie Treaty 1868 with the US government?

Answer 7

arapaho,sioux

Question 8

What was the Homestead Act and when was it signed?

Answer 8

Act that allowed farmers an 160 acre plot free on the condition that they farmed it for 5 years. 1862,-led to increased white prescence on the plains

Question 9

Three methods of assimilaiton

Answer 9

C0nversion to christianity, Turning Native Americans into farmers, the establishment of government reservations

Question 10

Why was “polygamy” used as a reason to “Americanise” Native Americans?

Answer 10

The taking of more than one wife. It went against christian beliefs and was used to show how ‘Savage’ the natives were to further assimilation.

Question 11

What opportunities did off reservation boarding schools offer to Native Americans -
identify TWO examples?

Answer 11

provided boys with vocational training and girls with the skills for domestic service

Question 12

Where were these two off reservation boarding schools located?

Answer 12

virginia and pennsylvania,

Question 13

In the period up until 1900, Native Americans were treated as “wards of the state”. What
TWO consequences did this have and why?

Answer 13

They lost their freedoms and didn’t have civil rights, placed onto reservations and forced to stay within certain areas without the freedoms white citizens had