Sand Creek Massacre - Assessment

What was the date of the Sand Creek Massacre

• July 4, 1732

• November 29, 1864

• April 1,1943

What groups of Indians were massacred?

• Ponca and Apache

• Cherokee and Navaho

• Southern Cheyenns and Aapahoe

• Sioux and Otoe

Who lead the group that killed the Natives?

• Jacob Huggens

• John Chivington

• James Monroe

• Chief Osaka

Who was the leader of the Cheyenne delegation?

• Chief Grey Joy

• Chief Red Feather

• Chief Mobawa

• Chief Black Kettle

Why did the massacre happen?

• Long conflict for control of the Great Plains of eastern Colorado.

• The people had a dispute over who gained crops from trade.

• Natives launched a raid killing many soldiers.

• Natives wanted freedom so they attacked.

What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 guarantee?

• That the Natives were to be killed for their crimes.

• The ownership of the area north of the Arkansas River to the Nebraska boarder to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe.

• The ownership of the Ohio river valley to the Natives

• The Cheyenne and the Arapahoe were to be compensated for their losses in land and trade.

Why did many settlers flee over the Nebraska boarder?

• They did not want to stay because of the infertile farms.

• They left in order to stop the massacre and relieve tensions.

• The were in search for Gold other resources in the mountains.

• They were looking for new land to settle in.

Where did the massacre take place?

• Sand Creek, Colorado

• Along trade routes

• Nebraska

• Mississippi river valley