Nebraska History Ch. 6 Test Review

The government thought it was helping the Indians by:

• building their houses for them

• giving them more cows to hunt

• putting them on reservations

• sending them to an island

What two things helped cause the buggalo to disappear?

• cold weather and too much water

• railroad and hot weather

• no food and mule skinners

• railroad and mule skinners

Why were the Lakota moved from the Black Hills?

• Gold was found there, so the government bought the land.

• Settlers wanted the land for its black soil.

• They wanted to move to a different reservation.

• Railroad companies wanted to build a railroad there.

Which was NOT a cause of the Indian Wars?

• Buffalo were being killed for now reason.

• Indian lands were being claimed by strangers.

• Treaties were being broken.

• Indian trails were being destroyed.

What was important about Standing Bear's court case?

• It gave Indians their land back.

• The government recognized Indians as people under the law.

• The court said Standing Bear could go back to Nebraska.

• It gave Indians free land for homesteading.

Indians kept all of their old ways of life when they were put on reservations.

• True

• False

Buffalo soldiers were black men who served at Fort Robinson and Niobrara.

• True

• False

Joseph La Flesche wanted his people's lives to stay the same as they had always been.

• True

• False

As time passed, life on reservations improved.

• True

• False

At Genoa Indian School students learned a trade that would help them make a living.

• True

• False