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American Civil Rights- Native AmericansStudy online at https://quizlet.com/_b8o9sk
1. what was the Native American lifestyle like in 1865?: >were nomads
>had their own language
>had their own culture & ceremonies
>had their own tribal laws and government
2. what affected as a threat to the native Americans in the 1860s?: settlers
moved west as encouraged by the government to open up the rest of the continent,
partly because of their belief in manifest destiny
3. what was the governments policy towards the native Americans through-
out this period?: wanted to assimilate them into white settler society and therefore
destroy their customs and culture
4. what did native americans suffer from in the 1860s?: >the movement of
people due to the discovery of gold
>the building of railroads across the plains, added to the destruction of the buffalo
5. what act was passed in 1862?: Homestead Act, which gave farmers a 160
acre plot if they farmed it for 5 yrs
>which brought 20,000 settlers onto the plains
6. what was the policy of reservations?: >it started in the 1850s and it provided
land for the native americans to occupy
>it prevented them from moving freely and allowed the government to enforce
policies
7. how did resevervations help the us governmet?: >abolished tribal laws
>sending children off resevration boarding schools
>ending thr powers of the tribal chief
8. what was the act passed in 1887?: Dawes Act
9. What was the Dawes Act?: >divided reservations into allotments, which were
given to the native Americans turning them into landowners and citizens.
10. Why was the Dawes Act a failure?: Many native Americans were unable to
farm the land, because it was generally unsuitable for crops and sold it to white
people
11. what was the supreme court case pf Lone Wolf V Hitchcock 1903?: teh
court upheld the right of congress to revoke all treaties made with the native
Americans and therefore take away more land
12. what was the Indian Citizenship Act 1924?: Granted U.S. citizenship to
American Indians, including the right to vote in national elections;
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13. why was the Indian Citizenship Act a failure?: >most native Americans
didn't want citizenship or the right to vote
>many who did want to vote couldn't because of restrictions on voting such as
grandfather clause
14. what impact did Roosevelts New Deal have on Native Americans?: >teh
right to practise their religion
>the right to undertake ceremonial dances
>extension of political rights to women
15. what impact did the new deal have on resvertaions?: >building of schools
>encouraged women to take up education and a greater economic role
>ended the allotment policy
16. What was the Meriam Report 1928?: was made by reformers concluded that
Native Americans was the most impoverished people in the country
17. what changes were made as a result of the Meriam Report?: >banned off
resvertaion boarding schools
>increased funding for schools, healthcare
>a new chief Indian agent was hired
18. what did the policy of termination aim to do?: >speed up assimilation
>native Americans would no longer be 'wards of the government' and encouraged
to move to cities where there were jobs
19. why was the policy of termination unsuccessful for native Americans?: -
>unable to communicate
>often lived in the worst accommodation and working in poorly paid jobs
>50% returned to reservations, where conditions were awful
20. what was the employment rate among native Americans in 1953?: 18%
21. what was the life expectancy like for native Americans in 1953?: it was
only 44 years, 20 years below the national average
22. what was the only slight improvement from the policy of termination?-
: >those who stayed in the cities often established ghettos where it did help to
preserve culture
>they witnessed the growth of civil rights movement, which would influence their
own movements later
23. what was the restoration of land 1969?: some native Americans were of-
fered compensation for the land that they lost
>many tribes refused the offer, as they were far more concerned about getting their
land back
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