Extermination
killing an entire group of people or animals
Extermination
the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny
the forced separation of different racial groups in a country or community
Segregation
the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
Assimilation
wiped out up to 80- 90% of some populations
European epidemics
a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries (Often Unfair)
What are Treaties?
High poverty rates, low education, poor medical access.
The long term effects of segregation
Native Children were required to go
Why are Boarding schools important
Not teaching languages (Means?)
Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson (Forced removal of Natives)
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Poverty, poor environments, malnutrition
Living conditions of reservations
Ended Reservations
The Dawes Act
Smallpox
What disease did Europeans try to inoculate Natives with
the forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the United States to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Created the 1st Indian reservation in Oklahoma (1851)
Indian Appropriations Act
Reinstated reservations
-FDR’s “Indian Reorganization Act”
The act of taking Native scalps for money
Who are tribes sent on the trail of tears
Native Resistance to the reservation system
Indian Wars
Religious ceremonies outlawed
Native names, traditions and and languages were banned.
Examples of assimilation