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A People and a Nation Chapter 17 Study Guide

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?The Clapp Rider? In 1906 Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota attached a ?rider? to an Indian appropriations bill declaring that mixed-blood adults on the ?White Earth? reservation were ?competent? (meaning educated in white ways) enough to sell their land without having to observe the 25 year waiting period stipulated in the Dawes Act. This mainly concerned the land of the Ojibwas Indians who were often ?duped? into signing away their land for counterfeit money and worthless merchandise They lost ? their original holding and economic ruin overtook them White Migration to the Great Plain-Purpose Most whites were driven to the Great Plains by desire for material success They believed that it?s ?untapped sources of wealth? could bring about a better life

America A Narrative History 8th Edition ( Chapter 1 Outline)

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Ryan Lynn 6/7/13 AP US History Chapter 1 Outline: The Collision of Cultures- Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations Possible origins of American Indians The Siberians The Siberians crossed the Bering Strait on a land bridge to Alaska. Crossed 12,000 to 15,000 years. Nomadic Hunters who drifted in pursuit of vast herds of mammals, mammoths, musk, oxen, bison and woolly rhinoceroses. In the next 500 years the Siberians migrated outwards from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America. Southwestern Europe Recent archaeological discoveries in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Chile reveal that prehistoric humans arrived by sea 18,000 to 40,000 years ago.
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