Natives and the Dawes Act

What was the true purpose of the Indian Boarding Schools?

• The teach Native Americans how to farm and work in a factory
• To "civilize" Native Americans
• To  give willing Native Americans a chance to learn English
• To teach Native Americans how to preserve their cultural heritage

This sought to "Americanize" Native Americans by breaking up the reservations into separate individual family units. Native Americans were offered free land (160 acres to each household & 80 acres to each unmarried adult). The Government promised to sell the reservation land and give the $$$ to the Native Americans but they did not get any money.

• The Dawes Act
• The Amnesty Act
• The Homestead Act
• The Ft. Laramie Act

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

created sympathy for Native Americans and support for assimilation in A CENTURY OF DISHONOR

• William jennings Bryan
• Helen Hunt Jackson
• Frederick Jackson Turner
• Mary Elizabeth Lease

The law that tried to force Native Americans into white culture in 1887 was called the

• Dawes Severalty Act
• Enforcement Acts
• Indian Removal Act
• Tribal Readjustment Act

What was the true purpose of the Indian Boarding Schools?

• The teach Native Americans how to farm and work in a factory
• To "civilize" Native Americans
• To  give willing Native Americans a chance to learn English
• To teach Native Americans how to preserve their cultural heritage

What year were Native Americans "granted" citizenship?

• 1934
• 1944
• 1924
• 1917

What happened at Sand Creek in 1864?

• The Navajo started their "Long Walk."

• The US Army killed many Native Americans.

• Native Americans gave up their fight for lands.

• Native Americans killed many settlers.

Where were General George Custer and his men killed?

• Little Bighorn

• Crazy Horse

• Sand Creek

• Wounded Knee

Use the illustration of the buffalo and information from the article to select the TRUE statement.

• The buffalo provided much more than food to the Plains Native Americans.

• The Plains Native Americans struggled to use and store the buffalo before it went bad.

• The buffalo were no longer useful after the Plains Native Americans got horses.

• The Plains Native Americans had to make special tools to hunt the dangerous buffalo.