Unit 2 Bellringer #8

Sand Creek Massacre was

• when Colonel Custer was killed

• was where Sitting Bull was killed

• a large group of soldiers were slaughter by Plains Indians

• Began the Indian Wars when 150 Native American women and children were slaughtered by soldiers

Little Big Horn was a battle where

• a large force of Plains Indians killed Colonel Custer and his men

• Sitting Bull was killed

• Soldiers killed a large number of Plains Indians

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism
• Ethnic Enclaves
• Assimilation

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

How does the policy instituted in this law contrast with previous Native American policies?

• It defers to the Supreme Court to resolve matters of citizenship and rights.

• It encourages Native Americans to assimilate and adopt U.S. citizenship.

• It recognizes the Native Americans' claims as sovereign entities.

• It provides material support as long as they remain in designated locations.

What gave settlers 160 acres of land in exchange for the settlers "improving" their new land?

• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Morril Act
• Reconstruction Act

What did the Homestead Act offer?

• a new home for travelers

• a stop along the Oregon Trail

• free land after 5 years of living on it.

How long did you have to farm the land to keep it under the Homestead act?

• 1
• 5
• 10

The transcontinental railroad ______

• connected east and west
• connected north and south