Gold Rush
When and where did the Gold Rush take place?
The Gold Rush took place in 1848 in California.
What year was the Homestead Act put in place?
1862
What year was the Dawes Act passed?
1887
When did the Indian Wars take place?
1860-1877
What does the word assimilated mean?
To be assimilated means that you are absorbing into the cultural traditions of a population or group.
What does nativism mean?
Nativism is an anti-immigrant, or someone who is against immigration.
How did the Homestead Act impact the west?
More people moved out west for a new opportunity and free land. The amount of buffalo that are killed increased, Native Americans were pushed off their land, and the culture of the Native American tribes was impacted.
What is the Dawes Act?
The Dawes Act authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. The Native Americans who accepted were allowed to become US citizens but only them.
What were the Indian Wars?
The Indian Wars were battles the Native Americans would get into with settlers as they began to move west because they didn't want to be forced off of their land.
What were children forced to do at these schools?
The children were forced to cut their hair, wear only uniforms, only speak English, and learn trades.
How did the Gold Rush impact the frontier?
Laid down the foundation for future towns and communities, made roads, and open up the west. It also brought more people out west.
Reasons why homesteaders moved West.
A chance to own land, to start fresh, have their own lives, a better oppurtunity
What was the overall objective of the Dawes Act?
The overall goal was to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by annihilating their culture and social traditions.
Why were the Indian Wars happening?
The main reason was settlers wanted to have land.
What year did the movement of boarding schools for the Native American children begin?
1870
What were some long-term effects of the gold rush?
The long-term effects were the mining industry exploding and individual gold diggers could not complete causing major mining conglomerates.
How did the 14th Amendment impact the Homestead Act?
The 14th Amendment impacted the Homestead Act because it allowed African Americans to consider homesteading because the 14th amendment guaranteed US citizenship to ex-slaves and African Americans.
What impact did the Dawes Act have on reservations?
The Dawes Act of 1887 impacted reservations because it destroyed the reservation system by subdividing tribal lands into individual plots.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
This was a battle between Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians and U.S. volunteer soldiers commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington. This battle was significant because it marked a turning point in the relationship between the American Indian Tribes and the U.S Government.
What was the most famous boarding school?
Carlisle Indian Industrial School located in Carlisle, PA.
How did the Gold Rush lead to the need for the Compromise of 1850?
As the Gold Rush happened, so did a huge increase in the population in the West and the need for a civil government also. People in California got in about slavery, and they ended up entering the Union as a nonslave state, also known as free due to the Compromise of 1850.
Why was federal land grant legislation so contentious?
This was so contentious because Northerners and Republicans wanted to open the land to settlement by individual farmers, while Southern Democrats sought to make the land available to only slaveholders.
How did the white settlers justify assimilation?
White settlers justified assimilation because they viewed their native traditions as barbaric and intolerable and believed that assimilation into white American society was the only acceptable fate for Native Americans. Christians argued saying that if the Native Americans accept Christianity they could be “saved” from the fires of hell.
What was the impact of these wars?
Native Americans were forced off their land onto reservations and they didn’t have a choice. Also, lots of lives were lost in these battles and the cultural ideas that the Native Americans had were being changed due to the new culture that was being forced on them.
What was the ultimate goal of assimilation?
Kill the Indian, save the man. This means they wanted to get rid of the Native American culture while allowing the person to live.