Land Changes Hands - final review

Front

The Indian agent at Fort Snelling was _____________________________.

Back

Lawrence Taliaferro

Front

Just outside the fort there was a large Dakota village called ________________________.

Back

Kaposia

Front

There was a fur trade post in the early city of Mendota near St. Paul that was run by ___________________________, who would later become Minnesota's first territorial representative in Washington D.C.

Back

Henry Sibley

Front

The ______________________________ were the tribe that signed the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux.

Back

Dakota

Front

How did the government see this land?

Back

OPPORTUNITY

Front

Why did the U.S. government want land from the American Indians?

Back

So there would be more land available for settlers as a result of westward expansion

Front

What is a reservation?

Back

land set aside, or reserved, by the U.S. government specifically for Indians

Front

A word that goes with ratify . . .

Back

approve

Front

The group forced to live on a reservation . . .

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Native Americans

Front

Westward Expansion

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American settlers moving west