ALCOS 1- PreQuiz/ Register

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism

• Ethnicity

• Assimilation

• Isolationism

What act gave 160 acres to any family who would live on the land and farm it for 5 years?

• The Homeland Promise

• The Parcel Division Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Partridge Land Act

An unsettled or barely settled area in America where mostly Native Americans lived

• frontier

• homestead

• vaquero

• exoduster

The area of America from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. The land was mostly flat and grasslands.

• The Great Plains

• The Everglades

• The Bayou

• The Cumberland's

1890 - U.S. soldiers massacre over 300 unarmed Native Americans in South Dakota.

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Shiloh

An African American who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.

• vaquero

• buffalo soldier

• Exoduster

• Soddy

Sioux chief who tried to fight back against American settlers who were intruding on his tribal lands

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Squanto

• Tecumseh

1876 - Sioux and Cheyenne forces wipe out an entire force of U.S. troops

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Battle of Gettysburg

1864 - attack where U.S. troops killed more than 150 Cheyenne men, women, and children

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Great Plains Disaster