Native Americans of the West

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• Promised protection from Native Americans

• Established ranching towns for cattle drivers

• Offered free land to those willing to farm it

• Offered land to gold prospectors

Native Americans living on the Great Plains relied on which of the following to meet many of their basic needs?

• Buffalo

• Cotton

• Deer

• Gold

Colonel George Armstrong Custer is best known for his..

• Defeat of the Sioux and Cheyenne in the Indian Wars

• Support of Native American Rights

• Unsuccessful bid for the presidency

• Disastrous loss in the Battle of Little Big Horn

One of the primary purposes of the Dawes Act was to..

• Restore tribal ownership of land

• Encourage the Native American population to increase

• Rebuild the Native American nations

• Turn Native Americans into farmers

Land set aside for Native Americans to live on.

• Chisholm Trail

• Reservation

• Farm cooperative

• sooner

What act divided up Indian reservations into plots of land to be given to the Indian families?

• Hayes Act

• Dawes Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Bland-Allison Act

Settlers were able to claim 160 acres in the Great Plains as a result of the

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Wounded Knee Treaty

Which of the following was an effect of the Dawes Act of 1887?

• Reservations grew in size.

• Ranchers started herding bison.

• Reservations were reduced in size.

• Ranchers were not allowed on reservations

A person who moved to the West to take advantage of the Homestead Act

• Homesteader

• Migrant

• Sooner

• Immigrant

Which group of people were negatively affected by the Homestead Act

• Ranchers

• Native Americans

• Sharecroppers

• Miners