The Texas Frontier

An undeveloped area, wilderness

• desert

• valley

• frontier

• city

What was the name given to the African American soldiers who served in West Texas against the Native Americans after the Civil War?

• Cattle Soldiers

• Camel Soldiers

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Western Soldiers

Which of the following was the most effective in preventing the settlement of West Texas?

• Native American attacks

• poor, rocky soil

• distance

• hot temperatures

The site of a surprise attack by Quanah Parker on a small band of buffalo hunters.

• Wichita Falls

• Tigua

• Palo Duro Canyon

• Adobe Walls

Which is NOT a condition of the Medicine Lodge Creek treaties?

• stop fighting the building of the railroad

• give up any claim to the Plains

• stop crossing the border into Mexico

• move to reservations in the Indian Territory

Which Native American groups had reservations established within Texas in the 1900s?

• the Cheyenne

• the Kiowa and the Comanche

• the Apache

• the Tigua and the Kickapoo

The only reservation in Texas during the 1800s.

• Wichita Falls

• Alabama-Coushatta

• Tigua

• Adobe Walls

Why did William Tecumseh Sherman travel to West Texas in 1871?

• to begin a policy of rounding up Native Americans not living on reservations

• to investigate the Adobe Walls raid

• to prepare troops for the Red Rive and Panhandle campaigns against Native Americans

• to investigate reports of Native American raids on white settlements

What Native American Leader agreed with the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek and wanted peace with the U.S. government?

• Quanah Parker

• Lawrie Tatum

• Kicking Bird

• Lone Wolf

What event caused U.S. leaders to conclude that the peace policy had failed and the Native Americans needed to be forced onto reservations?

• the Warren Wagon Train raid

• the Adobe Walls raid

• the battle against Victorio

• Ranald Mackenzie's campaign in the Panhandle