WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Question
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Native Americans broke their promises
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Chinese immigrants sided with the US
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gold was found on reservations
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reservations had fertile farmland
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1871, the House of Representatives ceased recognition of individual tribes within the U.S. as independent nations with whom the U.S. could contract by treaty. This ended the nearly 100-year-old practice of treaty-making between the U.S. and American Indian tribes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The full-bore assault on tribal culture and institutions fueled pressure for Congress to prohibit future treaty-making with Indian tribes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Discovery of gold flakes in the millstream sets off the California Gold Rush. The influx of miners brings diseases that kill thousands of Native peoples. Miners also commit widespread acts of violence against Native villages and Native peoples throughout California and Oregon.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the 20 years that followed the discovery of gold, 80 percent of the state’s Native American population was wiped out-victims of displacement, disease and agenocide wrought in the sake of power and gold. John Sutter had set the stage for their destruction-but his cruelty was just the beginning.