Edexcel GCSE History 1HI0
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Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41Modern depth
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The American West, c1835–c1895Period study
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The American West, c1835–c1895
Changes in the ways of life of Indigenous peoples of the Plains
- 3 things to know
- Paper 2 booklet P
Overview
The damage done by railroads, ranching, gold prospecting and disease, dependence on rations, reservations and the policy of concentration, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the weakening of chiefs, Little Crow's War of 1862, Sand Creek in 1864 and Red Cloud's War of 1866–68.
What you need to know
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How did the growth of ranching damage Indigenous life?
Why did gold prospecting so often lead to fighting?
Questions from this subtopic
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How did the coming of the railroads harm the Plains nations?
Model answer
The tracks cut through hunting grounds and split the herds in two, and every line brought in hunters, soldiers and settlers.
- 2
How did the growth of ranching damage Indigenous life?
Model answer
Cattle took the grass and water the buffalo needed, and ranches spread over land the nations had hunted freely.
- 3
Why did gold prospecting so often lead to fighting?
Model answer
Miners poured across land that treaties had guaranteed, as at Pike's Peak in 1859, and the government protected them rather than removing them.
- 4
What did travellers and traders bring to the Plains besides trade goods?
Model answer
Cholera, measles and smallpox, which killed thousands of people with no resistance to them, and whiskey, which broke up camp life.
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Why did dependence on government rations grow through the 1860s and 1870s?
Model answer
As buffalo, grass and hunting grounds were lost, whole nations could no longer feed themselves and had to take what an agent handed out.
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What was a reservation intended to achieve?
Model answer
It confined a nation to a fixed area away from the trails and settlers, where it could be made to farm and live in white ways.
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