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French and Indian war
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Indian Removal Act
-A law passed by congress that let the president negotiate with the Indian tribes to move westward.
-This act happened under Andrew Jackson's presidency.
-It removed the Indians from the southern states to territory west passed the missisippi river.
-Led to the Trail of Tears; relocation of the Indian tribes. -
Gold Rush
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The Lure of Silver and Gold
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Massacre at Sand Creek
- The battle between the Colorado Militia and villages of Cheyenne and Arapaho, Geronimo fought for the apracho land, caused because the tribes were in southern Colorado territory. -The Colorado group scalped the tribes people and also shot them if they tried to run away. -Overall this Massacre was very brutal and taken out of hand by the leader of the Colorado group, John Chivington.
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Death on the Bozeman trail
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Red River War
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Custer's Last Stand
-The Sioux and Cheyenne hekd a sundance. During it Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and Native Americans falling off their horses.
-This led to the Native Americans being ready for soldiers to come.
-The soldiers that came were led by Crazy Horse, Gall, an Sitting Bull.
-WIthin an hour all of Cluster's Seventh Calvary were dead. -
Dawes Act
-1887 congress passed this act aiming to "Americanize" Native Americans.
-Act broke up reservations and gave some of the land to individual Native Americans.
-Government would sell remainder of land to settlers, income would be used by Native Americans to by farm implements.
-By 1932, whites had taken 2/3's of territory set aside for Native Americans.
-In the end Native Americans recieved no money from the sale of lands. -
Ghost Dance Movement
Wovoka founded this movement. He spread ghost dance through the west. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
-The seventh cavalry gather around 350 starving and freezing Sloux and Lakota, Rand took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek.
-Soldiers demand the the Native Americans surrender all of their weapons to them.
-A single shot was fired, but no one knows wich side it came from.
-The soldiers started to take matter into their own hands and bring out the weapins like cannons.
-Children and more than 300 Native Americans were killed in minutes.
-This event brought the Indian Wars to a depressing end.
