Western Expansion 1

What is the name of the region where most of the Western Expansion took place?

• Old West
• The Great Plains
• The Old South
• Wounded Knee

What were the terms of the Treaty of Fort Laramie?

• The Sioux agreed to move farther west
• The Sioux agreed to live on a reservation
• The Sioux agreed to merge with the Arapaho
• The Arapaho accepted the Sioux as equals

What happened at Custer's Last Stand in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Custer killed all of the Lakota Indians.
• Custer and Sitting Bull made an agreement that the Native Americans Could have their land.
• Custer was killed, along with his entire force.

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

The Great Plains is _________of the Mississippi River.

• East
• South
• West
• North

How would you compare Wounded Knee to the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• One was a massacre of innocent Native Americans
• The Buffalo Soldiers assisted the Native Americans in Wounded Knee
• Both were victories for the Native Americans
• None of the answers

Scored a huge victory over Federal troops

• Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph
• Geronimo

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism
• Ethnic Enclaves
• Assimilation

Who was the 7th U.S. cavalry commander who was killed at Little Bighorn?

• Geronimo
• Crazy Horse
• George Custer
• Chief Joseph

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad