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Native Americans building the Transcontinental Railroad

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The Transcontinental Railroad was finished in 1879. It was built from the east to west, going through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.  Buffalo herds were massacred by whites. Indian uprisings:

Dakota Uprising, 1862

38 Dakota men killed

Little Bighorn, 1876

Custer and his army are defeated

Nez Perce, 1877

"I will fight no more forever"

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This trial declared the Cherokee Nation separate from the rest of the country, politically.

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Samuel Worcester

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Assimilation

Relocation

Genocide

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On May 28, 1830, the Indian Removal Act was signed into law. It gave the President the right to "relocate" Natives living east of the Mississippi. The Trail of Tears was the name of the path the Indians took west.

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Apache Indians after arriving at Carlisle Industrial School.

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By this time period, forty-eight "day schools" were set up near reservations.

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The first U.S. census included slaves and African Americans but not Natives.

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The first Native American reservation was established by the New Jersey Colonial Assembly in order to relocate the Natives to enhance colonial expansion.

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Native Americans were scalped by European colonists in exchange for bounty.
In 1725, ten sleeping Native Americans were scalped for bounty in New Hampshire.

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In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. France gave up all of its territories in mainland North America which took their troops out thus ending military threat to British colones in the area.

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The French and British were always competing against each other for imperial gains. After the French conquered the Ohio Valley which conflicted with British settlements, Britain declared war.

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Encomienda System

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Spain's "New Laws" were put into place to regulate the enslavement of Native Americans. These laws particularly affected the western portion of South America. A large section of the laws placed prohibition on Native American slavery.

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado ordered an attack on the Pueblo tribe of today's Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.  Over 200 men, women, and children were killed.

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The Choctaw tribe got revenge for de Soto's massacre by killing 200 Spaniards and all of their livestock.

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Hernando de Soto lands in the Tampa Bay area, battles the Timucuan warriors and commits the first large-scale massacre of Native Americans, killing 100. This became known as the Napituca Massacre.

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Native Americans would rub smallpox scabs or fluid from pustules onto superficial wounds in their skin, causing a mild infection while building their immunity to the disease

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Italian explorers who landed in Cape Fear kidnapped a Native American child to bring to France.

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Europeans brought many things to the Americas including diseases. A smallpox epidemic wiped out an estimated ninety percent of the Native American population, killing around 20 million

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Assimilate: to absorb the culture and ways of a population or group

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The Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

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Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to what he thought was India, but was actually the Caribbean island  of Hispaniola. He described the indigenous people as easy to manipulate and easy to be forced into work. Due to their nakedness, Columbus believed they were and inferior race and they would be easy to assimilate.