American History II Chapter 13 SECTION 1

Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?

• White settlers wanted the land on the Plains

• NativeAmericans refused to remain on the Plains

• Native American population decreased and needed less land

• The Plains failed to meet the needs of the Native American peoples

Former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains

• Nacirema

• Exodusters

• Populists

• Scalawags

The Dawes Act was designed to benefit

• Native Americans

• white settlers

• both Native Americans & white settlers

• neither

A soddy was a(n)

• home made out of prairie turf

• invention that increased farm production

• loan made to frontier farmers by the federal government

• person who bought frontier land hoping to resell it at a profit

Great Native American leader who refused to recognize any treaties of the "white man"

• Raging Bull

• Red Bull

• Sitting Bull

• Bull Duram

The Dawes Act is an example of

• accomodation

• approximation

• acclimation

• assimilation

The building material that settlers used to make houses out of was called _______________.

• Grass
• Wood
• Mud
• Sod

The Battle of Little Big Horn was a great victory for _______________________ 

• General Custer
• Native Americans
• Ms. Farmer
• Cowboys

Native Americans were forced by the US government to move to ___________________ 

• Hotels
• Homes
• Reservations
• Villas

The purpose of the _______________ _____________ was to turn Native Americans into independent farmers. They were given land to farm and in exchange they would become citizens of the United States.

• Dawes Act
• Homestead Act
• Bill of Rights
• 15th Amendment