AQA GCSE History · 8145
Paper 1
An area of land set aside by the government for Indigenous peoples, restricting where they could live and use resources.
Revise: Cultural EncountersThe Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 allocated money for moving Indigenous peoples onto reservations. Restricting hunting grounds threatened nomadic life and increased pressure to adopt farming. The detailed development of concentration and the Fort Laramie Treaty belongs to the next stage of this story.
- Revise: Conflict on the Plains
An area designated by the US government for Native American settlement, increasingly used to restrict movement and bring tribes under government supervision.
- Revise: Resolution of 'The Indian Problem'
Land designated by the US government for Native American communities, where their movement and lives were increasingly subject to federal control.