Conflict with Native Americans Assessment Review

What was a major reason for the near extinction of the buffalo?

• Buffalo Soldiers need to feed the military

• White frontier settlers' survival

• White men hunting for sport and profit

• Native American way of life

What Comanche leader helped transition many plains Native Americans to living on reservations?

• Quanah Parker

• Red Buffalo

• Chief Sequoyah

• Chief Joseph

What did the U.S. government fail to provide the Native Americans living on the reservations?

• soldiers to protect them

• buffalo to hunt

• food and supplies

• U.S. money

Reasons for the nickname Buffalo Soldiers:

* dark, curly hair

* fiery eyes

* _____________

What belongs in the blank?

• Native Americans thought they were sent from the Great Spirit.

• They were fierce fighters.

• They built forts on the plains.

• They never spoke to the Native Americans.

What was the main purpose of forts built on the western frontier?

• To build community farms

• To provide military in case Mexico attacked

• To provide cattle to the settlers

• To protect the settlers from Native Americans

What is a treaty?

• An agreement between two nations

• An agreement between two people

• An agreement between a nation and a person

• An agreement between a nation and a state

What changed all of the locations listed below on western lands?

* homeland

* farming land

* hunting grounds

• western forts

• railroads

• buffalo hunters

• Red River War

Who wanted the western frontier plains that the Native Americans were living on?

• frontier settlers

• buffalo hunters

• buffalo soldiers

• Civil War veterans

What was the result of the Red River War?

• Forts were destroyed and Native Americans were allowed to live and hunt on land in the Texas Panhandle.

• All Native Americans died or were placed in prison.

• Native Americans were forced to give up their way of life and live on reservations.

• All soldiers were killed or retreated to southern forts.

Who built the majority of forts in Texas after the Civil War?

• Native Americans

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Civil War Veterans

• Buffalo Soldiers