Conflict on the Western Frontier

Which word means land set aside for Native Americans

• Reservaton
• Pueblo
• Travois
• Mesa

What was the Sand Creek Massacre

• Between 60 and 100 U.S. soldiers were killed

• Native Americans were chased out of the area

• 1864 incident in which Colorado militia attacked a camp of Cheyenne Arapaho Indians. Some were under U.S. army protection.

• Native Americans burned down Fort Lyon.

All of the following were effects of the government's policies on Native Americans EXCEPT:

• Native Americans were moved to reservations.

• Native Americans died from new diseases.

• Native Americans were paid well for their land.

• Native Americans were stripped of their culture due to assimilation.

1876 Sioux victory led by Crazy Horse over U.S. Army troops led by George Custer

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Boomtown
• Buffalo Bill Cody
• Buffalo Soldiers

Why did the U.S. Army attack at Little Bighorn?

• In response to the destruction of Fort Knox earlier.

• To drive the Lakota Sioux back onto the reservation.

• As a training mission for new recruits.

• To protect the Lakota Sioux from their enemies.

Colonel Custer and all his men

• escaped to the nearest Army fort.

• made a peace treaty with the Lakota Sioux.

• died at the hands of the Lakota Sioux at Little Bighorn.

• worked with the Lakotas to build the Little Bighorn Reservation.

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

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

The process where one person or group blends and becomes part of a larger group

• cultural diffusion

• amalgamation

• assimilation

• cultural absorption

The Indian Wars ended in 1890 after US soldiers massacred unarmed Native American men, women, and children at -

• Carlisle Indian Industrial boarding school
• discovery of gold in the Black Hills
• Wounded Knee