Treaties and Acts
- Created by: Mollynoott
- Created on: 19-04-18 19:35
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- Treaties
- 1830 The Indian removal act. Permanent Indian Frontier created
- Fort Laramie Treaty 1851. Defined the new territories each tribe had in reservations
- The government did this so they could build roads and railways
- Promised to give Indians permanent right to the land and $50,000 for 50 years
- Fort Wise Treaty. The gov made the Cheyenne tribe reduce their land for white settlers. Was a gold rush in Colorado. Gave them poor quality farm land on Sand Creek Reservation
- Red Cloud's War and the Bozeman trail. Hunting grounds of the Sioux. Miners used to reach gold in Montana. Sioux given land in Laramie Treaty
- Missouri Compromise 1820
- Future states above the line had to be free states
- Had to be a balance
- Broke in 1854. Nebraska wanted to join the Union. Above the line.
- Kansas had to become a slave state. Even though it's above the line so it was balanced
- 13th Amendment- freed slaves
- 14th Amendment- black people given equal rights
- 15th Amendment- right to vote
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