Westward Expansion #2 Native Americans

Which factor contributed most to the decline of the Buffalo?

• Disease
• Lack of Water
• Lack of Food
• Over-hunting

What event led directly to the Black Hills being taken from the Lakota people.

• Gold was discovered.
• The Homestead Act was passed
• The Lakota people sold the Black Hills for money.
• The Lakota people moved out and gave the Black Hills away. 

The killing of hundreds of Cheyenne in 1864 by United States soldiers that helped "ignite an era of war."

• Battle of Wounded Knee
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Chivington (Sand Creek) Massacre
• Fetterman Massacre

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

• Chief Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph
• Chief Red Cloud
  Chief Running Horse
• Chief Crazy Horse
  Chief Long Knife

What was the first major treaty between northern plains tribes and the U.S. government, signed in 1851?

• Medicine Creek Treaty
• Treaty of Medicine Lodge
• Fort Laramie Treaty
• Treaty of Indian Affairs

What are the areas of federal land set aside for American Indians called?

• Oklahoma
• subsidies
• Azkaben
• Reservations

The battle between U.S. troops and Sioux in which at least 150 Indians died that marked the end of  the Ghost Dance religion and more than 25 years of war on the Great Plains

• Sand Creek Massacre
• Massacre at Wounded Knee
• Massacre at Fort Laramie
• Massacre at Medicine Lodge

Lakota Chief who helped defeat Colonel Custer and his troops

• Sitting Bull
• Red Cloud
• Chief Joseph
• Geronimo

Wrote A Century of Dishonor about the long history of broken treaties between the U.S. and Native Americans.

• Chief Joseph
• Sitting Bull
• Henry Dawes
• Helen Hunt Jackson

What was the purpose of the Dawes Act? 

• to encourage southern blacks to settle the Great Plains
• to make Indians become farmers and assimilate into American society. 
• to help farmers earn higher prices for their crops
• to keep miners off Indian lands