Vocab
Define : Barter
To trade one thing for another without exchanging money.
Who was the first people in Kansas?
Native Americans / American Indians
What items would the French trade to the Natives?
Guns, alcohol, metals.
What were the Spanish looking for in Kansas? Did they Find it ?
Gold but they didn't find it.
Who was the president that signed the Indian Removal Act ?
Andrew Jackson.
Define : Agriculture
Growing crops and raising animals.
What is the biggest difference between NOMADIC and SEDENTARY tribes?
Nomadic move around to hunt and gather.
Sedentary stay in one place near their villages.
How would the French rule over the natives?
They would live with them and even get married with them.
When did the Spanish show up in Kansas ?
Hint : First, second, third, fourth?
They were second group of people in Kansas, but the FIRST europeans.
What did the Indian Removal Act do ?
It forced natives to leave their homelands and move to Kansas and Oklahoma.
Define : Missionaries
Person trying to spread religion in an area.
Why is the buffalo so scared to the Native peoples?
Many tribes believed it was the giver of life.
What tribe did the French convince to make peace with other tribes?
The Plains Apache.
Who was the first tribe the Spanish found in Kansas?
The Wichita!!
What were kids forced to do in missionary schools?
At least 3 things.
Cut their hair, learn and only speak english, become christians and learn American job skills.
Define: Economy
How people make and spend money
Why were horses so important to the Native Peoples?
They would use them to travel, hunt, fight , and carry stuff.
Why did the French want to form a relationship with the Comanche?
To make peace with other tribes.
Turk - the indian slave.
Coronado mistreated natives.
They ruled from afar.
They would not trade guns with them.
Why was it hard for other tribes to move to Kansas?
Hint: Environment
They came from very different places and were not used to the nature in Kansas.
Define: Assimilated
To absorb or join a culture.
It will make them either nomadic or sedentary.
Was the relationship with the French and Natives more positive or negative ? Give at least two reasons why.
Open trade, attempts to make peace, lived with the natives , caused slavery in native tribes, increased problems, diseases.
How would you describe the relationship between the Spanish and the Natives? Why?
What about the relationship between the French? Why?
Answer both!!!
Pretty bad - They did not like them and ruled over them unfairly.
Also bad - They did not like them and did not want them to take over Kansas.
Was the Indian Removal Act justified ?
Give two reasons why it was or was not right?
two reasons that make sense.