emergence of US and the indigenous people

• Indigenous peoples


  • They were very diverse and had sophisticated political, social and belief systems
  • There had been many overlapping and interconnected groups of people in North American for thousands of years before Europeans arrived to form the colonies
  • They had complex systems of political power, religious belief and social organization
  • They lived different lives depending on the climate and resources of the region they lived in
  • They occasionally fought wars with each other for control of particular areas of land
• The Lakota


  • An example of an indigenous people who had lived in North America for thousands of years
  • They lived a nomadic lifestyle in tipis, as they did not believe in owning land
  • They relied on hunting buffalo for survival, which provided them with all the means for survival – food, clothing, shelter
  • They expanded rapidly onto the Plains using guns and horses to follow the buffalo herds
  • They believed in a Great Spirit, who gifted them the land on which they lived to look after, but not to own
  • Warrior culture was at the heart of Lakota life for men, while women prepared food and were skilled in craft
• America


  A group of different states that joined together to become one larger country
• Constitution


  1. It said there was to be a president who was elected every four years to look after matters that affected all the states

  2. It also set up a Congress of representatives from each state to make laws that affected all states

  3. It set up a Supreme Court to check the president and congress did no break the rules of the constitution
• State


  An area that has to have 60,000 white Americans living in it to be able to apply to join the United States
• Territories


  Areas overseen by a Governor until they were ready to become states
• Every 5 enslaved African Americans each counted as 3 white people, but they had no say and no vote