Unit 2: Native Americans Lecture (Honors)

Word Cloud

Brainstorm: What are words, not phrases or sentences, that you associate with Native Americans and the western frontier?

Multiple Choice

Which factor most directly caused conflict between Plains Indians and incoming settlers?

• Settlers ignored treaties and competed for resources

• Missionaries taught the Indians new farming skills

• Railroads offered land to both settlers and Indians

• Indian leaders willingly sold their tribal lands

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Multiple Choice

Why did the Indian Peace Commission of 1867 ultimately fail?

• Treaties were forced and reservation life bred poverty and corruption

• The army never enforced the treaties or built the reservations

• Native leaders rejected the idea of forming any tribal councils

• The government had no interest in protecting the buffalo herds

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes the army’s role in the decline of the buffalo?

• The army encouraged hunters to kill buffalo to force Indians onto reservations

• The army preserved buffalo herds to maintain Native hunting traditions

• The army ignored buffalo hunters and refused to get involved

• The army relocated buffalo to protected lands near reservations

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876?

• It was a temporary Native victory that led to stronger army retaliation

• It ended hostilities by forcing the Lakota Sioux onto new reservations

• It secured a permanent peace treaty between Custer and Sitting Bull

• It demonstrated that the U.S. army was unwilling to fight Native tribes

Multiple Choice

What was the Ghost Dance movement meant to achieve?

• The return of buffalo and the removal of settlers from the Plains

• The training of Native children in boarding schools for farming

• The signing of treaties that granted Indians new farming lands

• The ability to trade more freely with miners and homesteaders

Multiple Choice

What was the outcome of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890?

• Hundreds of Native men, women, and children were killed

• The Sioux won a decisive victory that ended reservation policies

• Sitting Bull negotiated peace and secured larger land allotments

• Congress ended the Dawes Act and restored tribal governments

Poll

In your opinion, was it fair of the United States government to force assimilation on the Native Americans?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

Open Ended

Based on what you answered on the previous question about the fairness of Native American assimilation, explain your reasoning below.

Multiple Choice

How did the Dawes Act of 1887 attempt to change Native American life?

• By dividing reservations into private family farms

• By forcing tribes to relocate onto larger reservations

• By banning Indians from practicing traditional religions

• By giving tribes control over natural resources and trade