Dakota War Review

Where was the largest mass execution in United States history held?

• New Ulm

• Saint Paul

• Mankato

• Bemidiji

This group had adopted many European American customs, such as attending church and raising livestock

• Settlers

• Farm Dakota

• Traditional Dakota

• Fur traders

All Dakota took part in the fighting.

• True

• False

Traditional Dakota wanted to keep their sacred beliefs and rituals, and traveled off the reservation to hunt.

• True

• False

The Dakota attack on the Lower Sioux Agency was the first organized battle of the US-Dakota War of 1862.

• True

• False

Treaty payments. Money owed to the Dakota each year to use for food and supplies.

• Annuities

• Livestock

• Agency

• Missionaries

Who is reported to have said " Let them eat grass."

• Alexander Ramsey

• Andrew Myrick

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry H. Sibley

What was the cause of the U.S. Dakota War of 1862?

• traders refused to give food on credit

• annuities were late or not paid at all

• food & supply shortages because of the Civil War

• All the above

Who was president of the United States during the Civil War/U.S.-Dakota War?

• Martin Van Buren

• Ariana Grande

• Abraham Lincoln

• Donald Trump

Choose one reason why the Dakota felt justified in attacking the White people?

• The Dakota supported the Confederacy

• The Dakota wanted to farm

• The Dakota were hungry and frustrated

• The Dakota wanted to convert to Christianity