Westward Expansion's Impact on American Indians

Westward Expansion's Impact on American Indians

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Multiple Select

Select all the ways westward expansion influenced the American Indians.

• Assimilation

• decrease in the American Indian population

• American Indians were given land and new homes built by the federal government

• Opposition or resistance

• Lost their traditional lands

Multiple Select

Select all the American Indian leaders that led their people in resistance to the federal government.

• King Fish

• Standing Bull

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Chief Joseph

Multiple Choice

Select the American Indian tribe that Geronimo led.

• Sioux

• Nez Perce

• Apache

• Crow

• Blackfoot

Opposition and Resistance

American Indians push back on the federal government when it forced them on reservations.

Reduction in the American Indian population

• death

• warfare- Battle of Wounded Knee

• Disease- Cholera, Tuberculosis

The intentional slaughter of a number of people who are often unarmed, or too young or too old to protect themselves.

Massacre

Disease

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