Unit 3 Summative Assessment - America's Expansion

Why did the U.S. government set up schools for the American Indians?

• The government planned on hiring American Indians to build railroads.

• wanted to assimilate the American Indians into U.S. culture

• thought the American Indians would tell them where gold was

• desired have the American Indians work as farmers.

How did the Dawes Act strike at the heart of American Indian culture?

• requiring American Indian groups to keep a census of their populations

• establishing American Indian boarding schools

• forcing American Indians to relocate from their homelands to reservations

• breaking up American Indian reservations into individual plots of land

Which of the following concepts is illustrated in this photograph?

• allotment

• assimilation

• expansionism

• nativism

Which action represents a major change in US policy toward American Indians after the Civil War?

• Relocation to distant territories

• Giving tribal property to individuals

• Peace negotiations with hostile tribes

• Grants of conditional citizenship

Why did Lt. Colonel George Custer become a national hero after the Battle of Little Big Horn?

• President Grant recognized his courage & gave him the Medal of Honor.

• Wild West Shows portrayed him as courageous fighter against a larger force.

• He wrote a novel telling how he kept Confederates from capturing a fort.

• His victory ended Indian resistance in the west to white settlement.

The Exoduster movement involved which group?

• American Indians wanting tribal lands back

• Eastern Europeans immigrating to the U.S.

• African Americans leaving the South after the Civil War

• Colonial Americans fighting in the Revolutionary War

Chief Joseph, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull shared what common experience?

• Benefitted from peace treaties with the US government.

• Resisted efforts to displace their people from their homeland.

• Popular figures in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

• Opposed tactics of the Apache and the Cheyenne.

During 1850-1900, which group was most adversely affected by the spread of mining boomtowns?

• American Indians

• Cattle ranchers

• Eastern merchants

• Immigrant laborers

Which summary of the massacre at Wounded Knee is most accurate?

• Provided a reason for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

• Led to the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act.

• Led to the end of the government's military operations against the native.

• prompted widespread public hostility toward the Sioux Indians

Which quote was associated with the forced assimilation of the Indians at the Carlisle Indian School?

• "We all wore white man's clothes and ate white man's food."

• "Our labor symbolized nothing, and left us mentally sluggish..."

• "Humility and charity are the only credentials for admission."

• "It never enters our head than we can offend anyone..."