Wuestions Flashcards
When was there sheriff
What were they like
Sheriff for territory with more than 5000 people. Poorly paid - no legal training - favoured friends
What were native women / men called
Squaws
Braces
Who looked after children
Men and women
How many Indians moves west in Indian removal act
50000
What was Indian appropriations act
Moved nomadic tribes into enclosed areas - reservations
How much money were th plains Indians meant to be paid annually in the Fort Laramie treaty
£50000
When the fort Laramie treaties
1851
1868
3 factors or increased settlement
Social and economic factors - homestead, immigration, plains on reservations
Military factors - end of civil war, slavery
Economic factors - railroads, new inventions
Effects of railroads
Easy connected to west ( manifest destiny )
Homesteaders - new equipment
Huge economic benefits
Towns grew rapidly
Transporting easier
Travel west = cheaper and quicker easier
Indians moved away
Buffalo declined
Attacks w surveyors
Increased settlement
4 effect categories of railroads
National impacts - manifest d
Effects on Indians
Impact on cattle industry
Settlement and farming
