Western Frontier

The U.S. government moved Native Americans to ________________while federal officials were taking the land and selling it to the white settlers.

• Time Shares

• Sanitariums

• Prison

• Reservation

Forcing Native Americans to give up their customs and traditions in order to embrace “white” mainstream American culture is called___________________.

• Extradition

• Assimilation

• Trepidation

• Collaboration

This colonel’s bad judgement in attacking Native American warriors at the Little Bighorn River resulted in his death and that of all his troops.

• Yellow Mustard

• Robert E. Lee

• George Custer

• Ulysses S. Grant

The U.S. government attempted to legalize the “Americanization” of Native Americans by passing the ____________________Act.

• Dawes

• Reservation

• Patriot

• Reid

The _________________officially ends the Indian wars due to the complete annihilation of innocent Sioux citizens.

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Homestead Act

• Battle of Wounded Knee

The _____________________is a native ritual performed by the Sioux to regain lost lands.

• Spirit world

• Holy grail

• Ghost dance

• Soul healer

Gave 160 acres of western land to anyone who promised to farm for 5 years

• Homestead Act

• Freeland Act

• Haymarket Act

• Indian Removal Act

At what battle did the Sioux Indians defeat the US Army?

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Santa Fe

• Little Big Horn

This system was used out west before the invention of barbed wire

• Railroads

• Open Grazing

• Exoduster

• Civil

Was used to link the East coast to the West coast

• Subway

• Airports

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Metro