Topic 2 Lesson 1

Why was white tourist buffalo hunting most threatening to Native American civilizations?

• It exposed white settlers to new lands they might want to move into.

• It damaged land native tribes used to mine gold and silver.

• Native Americans experienced challenges finding enough resources to meet their basic needs.

• With the Buffalo disappearing, Native Americans were forced to move to reservations on the east coast.

How did white settlers belief in Manifest Destiny affect Native populations.

• Native Americans were taught to farm crops like the white settlers did.

• The U.S. government paid the tribes fair market value for their lands.

• It created a strong sense of need to assimilate for the native people.

• Native Americans lost more territory to white settler expansion.

What is the most likely reason Chief Joseph said, "I will fight no more forever"?

• The was granted permission to return his people to their homeland

• He feared death and believed that his people would surely die.

• He lost his will and means to continue fighting.

• Fighting was against his religious beliefs.

The Dawes General Allotment Act is an example of the Americanization movement because it

• encouraged natives to own private property.

• forced Native Americans to pay high taxes for public schooling.

• it required native communities to form representative governments like the U.S. had done.

• required farmers to meet minimum farming quotas.

Who won the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Sioux
• General Custer
• Geronimo
• Ulysses S. Grant

Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek Massacre?

• It was the last event in the Indian Wars.

• A Cheyenne camp under federal protection was brutally attacked by a state militia.

• John Chivington believed it was necessary because the Cheyenne were so hostile.

• It killed most Cheyenne men, leaving women and children without support.

What was the purpose of Indian boarding schools in the late nineteenth century?

• To teach Native American children the ways of their ancient peoples

• Only to provide the children with an education in English, mathematics, and other disciplines

• To assimilate Native American children more easily into white culture

• To teach the children how to speak their native languages more fluently

Which Sioux leader led the forces that annihilated Colonel George A. Custer and his men on June 25, 1876?

• Geronimo

• Chief Joseph

• Sitting Bull

• Red Cloud