Native American Quiz

Book written by Helen Hunt Jackson that criticized US treatment of Native Americans

• Century of Dishonor
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Silent Spring
• Impending Crisis of the South

Land set aside for just Native Americans

• Reservation
• Commune
• Nomadic
• Preservation

Defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn

• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse
• George Custer
• William Sherman

Forcing a group of people to give up their way of life and become more like the majority

• Transformation
• Transcendentalism
• Assimilation
• Conservation

Government act that divided reservations into 160-plots to be distributed to Native Americans

• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Sherman Act
• Indian Removal Act

In what year was gold discovered in California?

• 1849
• 1862
• 1876
• 1877

The 1876 battle between the Sioux and the U.S. cavalry that marked a victory for Native Americans was the

• Battle at Wounded Knee

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Nez Perce War

• Battle of the Little Bighorn

The _________________ was an 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots for Native Americans to farm was known as the

• Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears

• Dawes General Allotment Act

• Carlisle Indian School

As semi-nomadic people, the Native Americans of the Great Plains followed this big game as they hunted them for food

• Moose
• Wolf
• Bear
• Buffalo

What was the overall message of book A Century of Dishonor?

• It discusses the unfair treatment of Native Americans by the US government.
• It spotlights how the transcontinental railroad was actually beneficial for the buffalo.
• It was an in depth look at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
• It discussed how reservation helped grow Native American customs.