Lesson 4.3 - Hardships for Native Americans

Multiple Choice

Which of the following were jobs set aside for women in most Native American tribes on the Plains?

• Leading religious ceremonies

• Making Meals

• Training horses

Multiple Choice

What animal did many Native American tribes of the Great Plains depend upon for their survival?

• Buffalo

• Boar

• Deer

• Longhorn

Multiple Choice

How did hunters hunt and kill buffalo before the use of horses?

• Tribes long range rifles to shoot buffalo.

• Explosives were used to cause rock slides and trap herds of buffalo.

• Buffalo were slowly herded into enclosures.

Multiple Choice

The U.S. government always adhered to the treaties they signed with the Plains Indians.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What forced most Native American tribes of the Plains to accept the fate of moving onto reservations?

• U.S. government bought land in Canada and promised to give that land to the tribes.

• U.S. military held their families hostage.

• Shrinking buffalo population.

Multiple Choice

What is a reservation?

• A limit created by the U.S. government on the number of buffalo that could be killed each year.

• Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native Americans to be relocated onto.

• A time set aside to dine on buffalo meat.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was the result of the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Chief Geronimo was arrested by the U.S. government

• Native Americans defeated the U.S. troops led by George Custer.

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Ghost Dance?

• Bring on a world free of white people for Native American tribes

• To prepare Native American warriors for battle

• Encourage Native Americans to learn to speak English

Multiple Choice

What tragic event has a direct connection to the death of Chief Sitting Bull the Ghost Dance?

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Massacre at Wounded Knee

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of the Dawe’s Act?

• To provide Native Americans with payment for all the mistreatment they received.

• Encourage Native Americans to become farmers and accept white culture.

• To return all the gold that was stolen from them by the U.S. government.