11.3 Native Americans

Many Plains Indians were _______, following the buffalo from place to place.

• chiefs

• farmers

• nomads

• ranchers

What caused the Dakota Sioux uprising in Minnesota?

• The government missed its promised payments, forcing the Native Americans into poverty.

• Local merchants were selling Native Americans inferior and rotten products and food.

• Settlers in the area were taking land from the Dakota Sioux Reservation.

• President Lincoln broke his promise to allow the Native Americans to retain their ancestral land.

The Lakota prevented the U.S. army from constructing forts along a trail to Montana gold mines during

• Sitting Bull's Massacre.

• the Battle of Little Big Horn.

• the Lakota Uprising.

• Red Cloud's War.

In what is called the Sand Creek Massacre, the Cheyenne were waiting in the area to

• attack Fort Lyon.

• fight the U.S. Army.

• negotiate a peace treaty.

• ambush Governor Evans.

What plan did the Indian Peace Commission propose in order to deal with Native American tensions in the West?

• negotiate peace with the various tribes

• create two large reservations to separate the Plains Indians from white settlers

• wipe out the Plains Indians through a series of strategic attacks

• pay the Plains Indians certain money for the land settlers were taking

Why were early peace treaties with Native Americans doomed to failure?

• Only some obeyed and moved to reservations, then faced poverty and starvation.

• Merchants wanted to move their stores to reservations against the wishes of Native Americans.

• Settlers also wanted money from the government to not settle reservation land.

• The Indian Peace Commission did not have the power to negotiate with individual groups of Native Americans.

At _________, General Custer and his men were killed by one of the largest Native American fighting forces ever assembled.

• the Great Lakota Massacre

• the Fight for Nez Perce

• the War of Sitting Bull

• the Battle of Little Bighorn

What was the main purpose of the Dawes Act of 1887?

• to pay Native Americans for their mistreatmentto

• to negotiate new reservation laws with the different groups

• to encourage Native Americans to become farmers

• to force Native Americans to abandon the Ghost Dance

What legislation reversed the provisions of the Dawes Act and gave tribes autonomy over their reservations?

• the Indian Reorganization Act

• the Citizenship Act

• the Second Dawes Act

• the Reservation Improvement Act

Why was the Dawes Act a failure?

• The government would not allow Native Americans to become U.S. citizens.

• Many Native Americans did not want to or could not assimilate into the dominant culture.

• C.The president reneged on the promises laid out in the Dawes Act.

• D.The reservations were not large enough to allot all Native American families land.