Plains Indians

Act that gave settlers 160 acres of land to farm for five years

• Dawes Act
• Homestead Act
• Sherman Act
• Sedition Act

Which of the following inventions was most instrumental in depleting the buffalo population?

• Steel Plow
• Mechanical Reaper
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Hydraulic Pump

Book written by Helen Hunt Jackson that criticized US treatment of Native Americans

• Century of Dishonor
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Silent Spring
• Impending Crisis of the South

A person who moves from place to place in search of food

• Nomad
• Polytheistic
• Communual
• Agrarian

The belief in many gods

• monotheistic
• polygamist
• polytheistic
• pious

Land set aside for just Native Americans

• Reservation
• Commune
• Nomadic
• Preservation

Defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn

• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse
• George Custer
• William Sherman

Leader of the Sioux Indians during the Ghost Dance movement

• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse
• Red Cloud
• Chief Joseph

Leader of the Nez Perce who said, "I will fight no more forever."

• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse
• Red Cloud
• Chief Joseph

Forcing a group of people to give up their way of life and become more like the majority

• Transformation
• Transcendentalism
• Assimilation
• Conservation