Westward Expansion #2

Did Native Americans like the idea of having to live on reservations?

• Yes

• No

Which invention made walking cattle to the railroads more difficult?

• steel plows

• railroads

• barbed wire

• dry farming

What event caused Native Americans to not be able to continue their nomadic way of life anymore?

• The American government made it illegal

• Americans moved east

• The Native Americans bought farms

• Most of the buffalo were killed off

What does "assimilation" mean?

• trying to force people to become more like others

• killing buffalo

• moving west

• living a nomadic way of life

What is Geronimo famous for?

• for being a great hunter

• his violent resistance to the reservations

• for being a part of a peaceful tribe

• for assimilating to the American way of life

What was especially tragic about the Battle of Wounded Knee?

• American soldiers were killed

• Native Americans were killed

• the battle took one month

• innocent women and children were killed

What started the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• The Americans were killing buffalo

• Gold was found on the Indian Reservation

• the Native Americans were staying on their reservations

• The government tried to make the reservation smaller

Which American soldier led the Battle of Little Big Horn?

• Robert E Lee

• Ulysses S Grant

• Sitting Bull

• George Custer