Conflict & Tension
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- Created on: 23-01-19 19:04
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- Conflict & Tension
- The Fort Laramie Treaty - 1851
- Reason for tension
- Gold Discovered - Rapid increase in migration - Pressures on food supply.
- Icreased conflicts btween tribes - white fears of Indian attacks
- Indian concerns about impact on resources.
- Demands made to US Government to provide protection.
- Icreased conflicts btween tribes - white fears of Indian attacks
- The Treaty
- Demands made to US Government to provide protection.
- Gold Discovered - Rapid increase in migration - Pressures on food supply.
- Significance of Treaty
- Territories set out for Plains Indians = Reservations
- Whites allowed into Indians territories & railroad surveyors & military posts in ITs = White Settlement.
- Tribes to receive resources from the US government = loss of Indian Dependence.
- Reason for tension
- Lawlessness
- New Crimes e.g. Claim Jumping / Isolated Communities / Social Factors e.g. alcohol / Mass Settlement / Not enough law enforcement / Mining Camps / Racism Tensions
- Prejudices against the Chinese.
- San Francisco Gangs
- Population grew rapidly
- Few actually found gold, so soon filled with disappointed, unemployed migrants.
- Murder, violence & theft were a commonplace
- Vigilantes were common, including Lynching.
- Sheriffs & Marshals
- If a territory reached a population of 60,000 then it could become a state with its own legal system.
- Pop. of 5,000 a Sheriff could be elected for a county.
- The Federal Government appointed a US Marshal, a governor & three judges for a territory.
- Geography = HUGE
- Poorly paid, not much investment, Bribes = More likely.
- Sheriffs were mainly chosen to keep the peace, no legal training, unfair - resentments.
- Settlers often disliked
- The Fort Laramie Treaty - 1851
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