USHC 4.1 Native American Conflicts

This law created 160 acres plots of land to be sold for a small fee to encourage settlement in the west.

• Dawes Act
• Land Grant College Act
• Homestead Act
• Oklahoma Land Giveaway

This was the last battle of the Indian wars as a couple hundred Sioux were killed by the Army?

• Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

• Sand Creek

• Trail of Tears

During the mid 1800s, how did the federal government encourage the settlement of the West?

• provide forty acres of land and a mule to formerly enslaved persons

• provide free land to people who would create a home there

• provide mining claims for prospectors seeking gold and silver

• provide land to companies to build transcontinental railroads

What was the primary source of food, clothing, tools, shelter for the Plains Indians?

• Elk
• Deer
• Horses
• Buffalo

Which of the following fostered the development of a national market by linking all parts of the country

between 1840-1900?

• Highways

• Railroads

• Radio

• Electricity

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed at what place

• Promanade Point

• Promontory Point

• Palisade Point

• Pacific Point

Name of the largest Native American boarding school in the US

• Appomattox

• Christian Dome

• Carlisle

• Sand Creeke

Law that stated that Native Americans had to give up their tribal identities.

• Dawes Act

• Reconstruction Acts

• Treaty of Paris

• Hayes Act

Indigenous populations have decline because of poverty & ________

Reorder the following

• Less than 1000 buffalo left

• Dawes Act

• Custer's Last Stand

• Wounded Knee

• Transcontinental Railroad Completed