Native American Clashes Practice Quiz

During the time of westward expansion, white settlers began to push westward. The U.S. government felt that the vast expanses of fertile land that native peoples used as communal hunting grounds would be put to better use if it were farmed and settled. Many felt that it was the American's "_______________" to spread across the entire North American continent.

• Manifest Destiny
• American Dream
• Golden Opportunity
• Great Expansion

True or False: White settlers argued that the Native Americans had forfeited their rights to the land because they hadn't settled down to "improve it." Concluding that the plains were "unsettled," migrants streamed westward along railroad and wagon trails to claim the land.

• True

• False

What had the biggest effect in allowing more settlers to move westward?

• Killing off of the buffalo

• Legislation by the government

• Treaties with the Native Americans

• The expansion of the railroad

Which Native American conflict was instigated by a telegram stating, "I want no peace till the Indians suffer more."

• The Battle of Little Bighorn
• The Sand Creek Massacre
• The Dakota War of 1862
• Red River War

Sioux Chief Red Cloud had unsuccessfully appealed to the US government about white settlers using the ______________ through Sioux hunting grounds. This resulted in Indian chief Crazy Horse leading an ambush on Captain William J. Fetterman's company. 80 soldiers were killed. Native Americans called this fight Battle of Hundred Slain. Whites called it the Fetterman Massacre.

• Bozeman Trail

• Appalachian Trail
• California Trail
• Santa Fe Trail

In this treaty, the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River. Sitting Bull did not sign it.

• Treaty of Fort Laramie
• Trail of Tears

• Treaty of Cherokee Nation

• Treaty of Great Salt Lakes

This battle is considered Custer's Last Stand.

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Battle of Waterloo
• Red River War

General Philip Sheridan, a Union army veteran, gave orders to "destroy their villages, and ponies, to kill all the warriors, and to bring back the women and children." The army crushed resistance on the southern plains and used the tactics quoted by Sheridan in what conflict?

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Battle of Waterloo
• Red River War

Red Cloud and Spotted Tail were Sioux chiefs who appealed to the US government after a gold rush of American miners to the Black Hills was initiated by _____________'s quote that the Black Hills had gold "from the grass roots down."

• George A. Custer

• Philip Sheridan

• John Chivington

• S.R. Curtis