Western ward Expansion Test

How did the buffalo influence Native American life on the Great Plains?

• It allowed the Native Americans to hunt more effectively.

• It allowed the Native Americans to travel farther on the plains.

• It provided Native Americans with many of their basic needs.

• It provided the Native Americans with may of their basic needs.

Why did Native Americans perform the Ghost Dance ritual?

• to scare the US military leaders

• to convince the people to free Sitting Bull

• to prepare for the fighting at Wounded Knee

• to restore Native American lands and way of life

Which of the following correctly describes an effect of the destruction of the buffalo?

• The government provided food and money to the Native Americans to make up for the loss of a food source.

• Many Native Americans gave up farming and began hunting and gathering.

• Nomadic Native Americans needed to roam greater distances to find food.

• The Government increased the size of Native Americans' reservations.

How did the US government change its policy toward Native American land during the 1850s?

• It started forbidding settlers from claiming any land on the Great Plains.

• It began to allow the Native Americans to hunt on their traditional lands.

• It created new treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe.

• It began to designate all land in the Great Plains as reservation land.

The grassland region of the United States

• Great Plains

• Dawes Act

• Longhorn

• Long drive

1868 treaty in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation

• Sitting Bull

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• Dawes Act

• Long Horn

Native Americans living on the Great Plains relied on which of the following to meet many of their basic needs?

• Cotton
• Deer
• Buffalo
• Gold

African Americans that moved west to claim land under the Homestead act of 1862 were called _____

• Freedmen
• Exodusters
• Westies
• Reconstruction

What did the settlers use to build their houses out of?

• trees

• grass

• sod

• buffalo skins

Land set aside for Native Americans to live on.

• farm cooperative
• sooner
• Chisholm Trail
• reservation