RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS
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Question
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Many settlers moved to safer areas.
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The federal government tried to negotiate a new peace treaty with American Indians.
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Settlers tried to retaliate by attacking Indian reservations.
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The frontier line moved slowly back eastward.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The impact of American expansionism on Native Americans between 1800 and 1850 was ethnic cleansing. Tensions began to mount with the expansion of Americans into the South and Midwest and wars were fought early on with the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The initial major confrontation, sometimes known as the First Sioux War, broke out in the Dakota Territory near Fort Laramie (in present-day Wyoming) following a dispute over a killed cow between white settlers traveling to the far west and the local Lakota (a Western Sioux group).
Detailed explanation-3: -AIM’s leaders spoke out against high unemployment, slum housing, and racist treatment, fought for treaty rights and the reclamation of tribal land, and advocated on behalf of urban Indians whose situation bred illness and poverty.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was the outcome of conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. military on the plains? General Custer and his men went to scope out where there was gold. A camp was charged, starting a battle, but the Sioux win the battle, killing all the men that came.