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What did the Native Americans use to make jewelry?
stone, shell beads, and sometimes copper
What are the four main Native American regions we have learned?
Northeast, Great Plains, Northwest, Southwest
What was the main resource used by the Native Americans in the Great Plains region?
Buffalo
What was the religion practiced by the Native Americans in the Northwest?
Totemism
What Native American region lived in teepees?
The Great Plains
When was the united States founded?
1776
What were the rights that the laws placed by the United States were designed to protect?
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
What was the frontier?
What did the Louisiana Purchase do?
Doubled the United States territory
What did Lewis and Clark do?
Explored the land that was west of the Mississippi River.
What were some of the valuable resources buried underneath the ground in the United States?
coal, iron, oil, copper, and other minerals
What was one way the U.S. government tried to control and confront the Native Americans?
By encouraging immigrants and others in the eastern cities to move west.
What was the result of the legislations against Native Americans that was passed by the US government?
War and fighting between Native Americans and settlers
What did the Lakota Chief Red Cloud say about the "one promise" the Americans kept?
"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one: they promised to take our land, and they took it."
What were all Native Americans considered after 1871?
"wards of the federal government"
What did the Peace treaties promise Native Americans?
They were able to carve out a small piece of their ancestral land to live on as a reservation. They lost most of their freedom and land, but each tribe were considered and independent nation within the United States.
Why did the peace treaties not work?
Settlers continued to encroach on Native American land.
U.S. Soldiers attacked a peaceful village and killed over 100 Cheyenne Native Americans.
Where were most reservations located?
Oklahoma
Who was allowed to apply for a homestead?
Any settler who was 21 or older.
What did the US government hope to accomplish when it passed the laws such as the Homestead Act and the Indian Appropriation Acts of 1851 and 1871?
They wanted to stop the increased fighting and move the Native Americans to reservations in order to make their land available to new settlers.
What happened after the US government passed laws such as the Homestead Act and the Indian Appropriations Act?
What did settlers have to do if they applied for a homestead?
Live on the land for at least 5 years and improve it by creating a profitable farm or ranch.
Why did the US government no longer want to deal with tribes as a whole?
They hoped that if they dealt with individual Native peoples than the tribal structure would finally collapse.
What did the Indian Appropriations act allow the US government to do?
Stop treating tribes as a separate nation