Early U.S. Indian policy
What belief justified the expansion of white settlers westward?
What is manifest destiny
1830 law that allowed the forced relocation of Native tribes
What is the Indian removal act?
Land set aside for native americans
What are reservations?
What did many tribes do in response to unfair policies?
Resisted through war, protests or legal action
1934 law that ended Dawes act
What was the Indian reorganization act?
What policy treated Native American tribes as separate, sovereign nations?
What is the treaty system?
President that strongly supported Indian removal
Who is President Andrew Jackson?
Goal of assimilations policies
Forcing native Americans to adopt white American culture
Conflict that ended native resistance on the great plains
What was the wounded knee massacre (1890)
What did the Indian reorganization act encourage?
Tribal self government
What did early treaties usually exchange land for?
Money, goods, or protection.
Region that tribes were forced to move too
What was Indian territory (present day Oklahoma)?
Act that divided tribal land into individual plots
What was the Dawes act?
Lakota leader that was killed at little big horn
Who was crazy horse?
1950s policy that tried to end federal recognition of tribes
What was termination?
Why were treaties often unfair to native Americans?
They were forced, misunderstood, or later broken
Forced journey of the cherokee
What was the trail of tears?
How did the Dawes act harm native Americans?
They lose millions of acres of land
Religious movement that hoped to restore native lands and culture
What was the ghost dance
Movement in 1960s70s that pushed for native rights
What was the American Indian movement
What Supreme Court case recognized tribes as “domestic dependent nations”
What is Cherokee nations vs Georgia (1831)
Major consequence of the Indian removal
Thousands of native Americans died, starvation, exposure
Slogan of Indian boarding schools
Kill the Indian save the man
Reason U.S.government feared the ghost dance
They believed it could lead to rebellion
What is tribal sovereignty today
The right of tribes to govern themselves