Native Americans Quiz Review

Which number represents the Midwest?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Native Americans were forced to relocate to lands set aside for them by the US government. These lands were called -

• reservations

• assimilation

• Little Bighorn

• homesteads

Forcing Native Americans to adopt American culture and switch to farming is -

• reservations

• assimilation

• The Indian Wars

• broken treaties

Native American homelands were reduced because of -

• the number of growing factories

• broken treaties with the US government

• increases in the buffalo population

• continued battles within the Native American tribes

Why did Native Americans fight against the US troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• to show their opposition to westward expansion - they did not want a reservation

• to gain representation in Congress

• to force the government into selling their homelands

• to keep segregation and Jim Crow laws from spreading west

Who was the Apache legend that led raids in the Southwest to show opposition to Westward Expansion?

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Chief Joseph

What was the result of the massacre at Wounded Knee?

• Land and peace treaties were upheld

• It postponed the laying of the final tracks of the Transcontinental Railroad

• Many Sioux were killed, marking the end of the Indian (Native American) Wars

• Native Americans won the rights to remain on their traditional homelands

Native Americans were not considered citizens until -

• 1880

• 1924

• 1980

• 1865

Where were the Nez Perce caught trying to escape to Canada?

• Wounded Knee

• Little Bighorn

• Bear's Paw Mountains

• Rocky Mountains

Which American Indian leader led the Nez Perce from their traditional homelands toward Canada?

• Sitting Bull

• Geronimo

• Crazy Horse

• Chief Joseph