Native Americans Experience

The purpose of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to:

• restore previously taken land to Native American Indian tribes

• maintain traditional Native American Indian cultures and values

• assimilate Native American Indians into mainstream American culture

• immediately grant Native Americans full citizenship, due process and voting rights

Assimilate can be described as...

• Being absorbed and integrated into a society or culture.

• Being isolated from other cultures

• Turning empty land into farm land.

• Being permitted to vote.

What was the main purpose of the reservation system?

• to make the new transcontinental railroad safer to operate.

• to clear federal lands for settlement by railroads, ranchers, and farmers.

• to provide employment for Union troops and veterans after the Civil War.

• to make it easier for Indians to assimilate into mainstream American culture.

What was a negative aspect of the "Americanization" policy of the late 1880s for American Indians?

• Indians learned how to work on automobiles.

• Indians could own their own land anywhere.

• Indians learned English and could gain the right to vote.

• Indians saw the survival of their traditional cultures threatened such as their language and how they dressed.

How did completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 encourage settlement of the American West?

• The railroad led to new discoveries of precious minerals.

• The railroad required immense quantities of iron and coal to build.

• The railroad frightened Indian tribes, who retreated to reservations.

• The railroad made it easier for ranchers and farmers to ship goods back east.

The Homestead Act, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad are most closely associated with the

• rise of organized labor.

• building of the Erie Canal.

• northern migration of African Americans.

• decline of the Plains Indians.

Which phrase best completes the diagram?

• Lure Native Americans to migrate to the frontier

• Entice Native Americans to move to urban areas

• Give Native Americans jobs in the federal bureaucracy

• Push Native Americans to adopt an farming/agricultural lifestyle

Based on the map, which statement is true about Native Americans in the late 1800s?

• They were given more land to live on

• They were forced to give up some of their land as people moved west.

• They lived peacefully with the new settlers in the west.

• they moved into one big reservation and lived happily ever after.

The Homestead Act of 1862 and the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad proved the government was wanting to do which of the following....

• It was determined to moving/settling into the Western territories

• Wanted all the oil in the country

• did not want people to move out West.

• Wanted to split up all major businesses

The Dawes Act of 1887 created a major change in Native American policy/laws, which statement is true about the major change that happened?

• Required Native Americans to own private plots instead of sharing on a reservation system

• Allowed Native Americans to live anywhere they wanted.

• Forced Native Americans to live only in Florida

• Allowed Native Americans to live where they are currently living.