FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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The government created the reservations on the ancestral lands of the tribes so that they could have continued access to it.
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The government created the reservations in newly acquired territories in the American West.
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The government created most of the reservations in California to prevent any threat to the industrial east coast.
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The government created most of the reservations in the Northwest Territory under the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The government created most of the reservations in the Northwest Territory under the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance.
Detailed explanation-2: -More than 46, 000 Native Americans were forced-sometimes by the U.S. military-to abandon their homes and relocate to “Indian Territory” that eventually became the state of Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main goals of Indian reservations were to bring Native Americans under U.S. government control, minimize conflict between Indians and settlers and encourage Native Americans to take on the ways of the white man.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
Detailed explanation-5: -Native Americans were not recognized as U.S. citizens throughout the nineteenth century. A clause in the Fourteenth Amendment “excluding Indians not taxed” prevented Native American men from receiving the right to vote when African American men gained suffrage in 1868.