1.6 Native Americans and the Plains Wars

Multiple Choice

Why did Native Americans lose their main source of food, clothing, and shelter?

• The buffalo were too dangerous to hunt.

• The buffalo population shrank.

• They chose a different lifestyle.

• Settlers took over their farms.

Multiple Choice

How did the decisions of the government impact many Native American tribes during this time? 

• They were left alone by the government.

• They were protected by the government.

• They all died fighting in battles against white settlers.

• They lost their land and were forced to move to reservations

Multiple Choice

Conflicts between Native Americans and U.S. soldiers

• cavalry conflicts

• Indian assaults

• Plains Wars

• western wars

Multiple Choice

What were the lands set aside by the government for Native Americans known as?

• Homesteads

• Reservations

• Settlements

• Territories

Multiple Choice

Leader of the Lakota Indians in the Battle of Little Bighorn

• Chief Joseph

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Wild Boar

Multiple Choice

Leader of the U.S. Cavalry in the Battle of Little Bighorn

• John Babcock

• George Armstrong Custer

• Robert E. Lee

• William T.Sherman

Multiple Choice

What was the last major victory of the Plains Wars for Native Americans?

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

• The Battle of the Black Hills

• The Battle of Nez Percé

• The Battle of Oklahoma

Multiple Choice

What did Chief Joseph decide to do after being surrounded by American soldiers?

• He continued to fight until his last breath.

• He attempted to negotiate a peace treaty.

• He surrendered and vowed to never fight again.

• He fled to Canada with his tribe.

Multiple Choice

Law that tried to replace reservations governed by tribes with land given to individual Indians

• Dawes Act

• Farm Act of 1865

• Homestead Act

• Resettlement Act

Multiple Choice

Which statement best explains what the Dawes Act did?

• a.  it took tribal lands from Native Americans, cut them into family-sized parcels, and sold leftover land to whites

• a.  it put bounties on buffalo, with the goal of starving the Native Americans

• a.  it gave free land to white settlers

• it allowed the railroads to build on private land