Northern Lights - Ch. 6 - The Land Changes Hands

Fort Snelling was built at the place where another river flows into the Mississippi River. What is this other river?

• Blue Earth
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• St. Croix

Fort Snelling was built to keep peace between the ___________________ and the ______________________. 

• Dakota, Ojibwe
• British, French
• Dakota, Settlers
• Adults, Children

Besides keeping peace among the Indians, Fort Snelling was also built to _________________________________.

• protect the settlers from the Indians
• protect the fur trade from the British.
• protect the land rights of Americans.
• protect the Mississippi River from the French.

The Indian agent at Fort Snelling was _____________________________.

• Lawrence Taliaferro
• Zebulon Pike
• Stephan Riggs
• Josiah Snelling

The current city of St. Paul was called _______________________ when it was first settled.

• Pig's Eye Landing
• St. Peter
• Mendota
• Duluth

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

• Henry Sibley
• Alexander Ramsey
• Stephan Riggs
• Zebulon Pike

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

• Dakota
• Ojibwe
• Cheyenne
• Apache

Which of the following is NOT one way the Americans were more powerful than the American Indians?

• The Americans had more money
• The Americans had more people
• The Americans knew their way around
• The Americans had more military power

Bdote means 

• confluence between the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers
• connection between the Dakota and Ojibwe
• The original name of the 1805 treaty
• The balance of power between the American government and the Dakota Indians

One way the Dakota Indians valued resources ________________. 

• is land provides benefits
• land can be sold for profit
• is individuals owned land
• The land provides resources for survival