Unit 3 Test Review

As a result of initial U.S. Government policies Native American Indians were

• relocated to Mexico

• granted US Citizenship

• forcibly removed to areas west of the Mississippi River

• gradually allowed to return to their homes

The California Gold Rush, the Homestead Act (giving people land), and the completion of the Transcontinental RR all

• encouraged westward settlement.

• promised everyone, even Natives a home in the west.

• recognized Native American Indian land rights.

• promoted the conservation of natural resources.

What is a reservation?

• area of land set aside for Native Americans

• forceful removal of Native Americans from their land

• contact that sold land to US settlers

Land set aside by the U.S. Government for Native American tribes

• boomtown

• reservation

• frontier

• Great Plains

A town that has a sudden burst of population growth due to the gold rush.

• homestead

• frontier

• boomtown

• Great Plains

How did the Plains Indians’ use of the buffalo reflect their view of the resources that the land provided?

• They showed that they valued buffalo hunting as a sport by killing hundreds of buffalo at a time.

• They showed that they valued buffalo as a commodity by selling only their hides to European-Americans.

• They showed respect for natural resources by using every part of the buffalo for vital needs.

• They showed that the buffalo were not useful to them by driving them off the plains to start farms.

Chief Joseph was the leader of which tribe?

• Nez Perce

• Sioux

• Comanche

• Navajo

Sioux chief who tried to fight back against American settlers who were intruding on his tribal lands

• Vaquero

• Sitting Bull

• Buffalo Soldier

• Boomtown

U.S. General at the Battle of Little Big Horn

• Crazy Horse

• Andrew Jackson

• Chief Joseph

• George Custer

1864 - attack where U.S. troops killed more than 150 Cheyenne men, women, and children

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Great Plains Disaster