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If a native lived in today's Florida, what region would that be?
Southeast
List the periods in which we categorize Natives.
Paleo
Archaic
Woodland
Mississippian
If a native lived in today's Maine, what region would that me?
Eastern Woodlands
List three staple crops the Southeastern natives grew.
Maize, beans, squash, tobacco and sunflower
What continent did Natives originate from?
Asia
After what American war did American settlers began to encroach or move onto Apache, Navajo, and Pueblo lands?
Mexican War or Mexican American War
How many natives were in the Americas in 1500?
10 million
What did the Spanish bring to the Plains natives?
HORSES
What is the name of the Choctaw's traditional housing?
Chukka
What was the purpose of the Indian Removal Act?
The Indian Removal Act called for the expulsion of all Native Americans from southeastern states and their relocation to the territory west of the Mississippi River.
How did the Great Plains natives use the buffalo?
Food, housing, and clothing
Name the treaty.
It was signed between Sioux & U.S. government established land rights and attempted to keep peace between white miners traveling to California for the gold rush & Sioux people.
Fort Laramie Treaty
What's the purpose of the Indian Appropriation Act?
The Appropriation Act ended federal recognition of Native American tribes as independent or as “domestic dependent nations”.
Name the 5 civilized tribes that the Indian Removal Act addressed.
Choctaw
Creek
Cherokee
Seminoles
Chickasaw
Define assimilation.
An effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European–American culture
Give one condition that Natives were living in during the 50s, 60s, and 70s in America.
low income, health issues, poor housing, little to no amenities, poor soil on land, police brutality, racism
What animal did the Paleo Indians follow and use to survive?
Mammoth
Which act granted full citizenship to natives you have not required it before 1924?
Indian Citizenship Act
Which two periods built mounds?
Woodland & Mississippian
Describe the conditions of Europe during contact with natives.
•About 60 million
•Farmland was worn out
•Grazing land was worn out
•Forests were torn down
•Major domesticated animals in Europe in 1491: horse, cow, pig, sheep, goat, chicken, camel, oxen, cat, dog
What was the purpose of the Termination Policy?
To bring natives out of the reservations into cities and mainstream society.
Define the Columbian Exchange, and list 2 items (on each side) that were traded/exchanged with the other world.
The exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between the New World (Americas) and the Old World (Europe).
Potatoes, maize
Horses, diseases
List two effects of natives having horses and guns.
- Travel farther
- Hunt more efficiently
What treaty did Sitting Bull refuse to sign?
Fort Laramie Treaty
Name the ACT.
This act divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation.
Dawes Act