Native American Assimilation Quiz

TEKS 3A: The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to —

• promote cultural assimilation of American Indians

• turn American Indian reservations into corporate farmland

• end warfare between American Indians and the U.S. military

• promote American Indian investment in private industry

TEKS 3A, 28A: These photographs show a group of Chiricahua Apache students on their first day of school at the Carlisle Indian School and the same students four months later, 1886–1887.

These photographs provide evidence that one goal of the Carlisle Indian School was to —

• restore U.S. citizenship to American Indians

• encourage the study of American Indian religious practices

• protect American Indians from nativist policies

• assimilate American Indians into U.S. culture

TEKS 3A, 28B:

- Indian removal

- Creation of reservations

- Destruction of buffalo herds

These policies were carried out against the American Indian tribes in

order to —

• secure the boundaries of the United States

• enforce treaties with American Indian tribes

• make land available for settlers from the United States

• protect the lifestyle of members of American Indian tribes

TEKS 25B, 28A: These photographs are of the same student at Carlisle Indian School during the latenineteenth century. Which word best explains the changes shown in these photographs?

• Immigration

• Assimilation

• Nullification

• Nativism

TEKS 3A, 28A: “All non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided that the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise-affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property” -American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

The passage of the legislation referenced above resulted in-

• land being allocated to individuals as opposed to Indian tribes

• the right of Native Americans to vote outside their tribe or tribal council being granted

• the immediate passage of a Congressional joint resolution apologizing to the Native Peoples of the U.S

• allowing American women who married a foreigner could retain U.S. citizenship

TEKS 3A, 28A: Which of these factors contributed most to the image shown above?

• Decreased tribal tensions amongst Native Americans

• Westward expansion of European tenements

• Government policies put in place to claim territory

• Growth of industries along the Atlantic seaboard