Assimilation & Western Battles A

The U.S. Government tried to force Native Americans to live like the settlers who took their land. This was called

• Manifest Destiny

• Sectionalism

• Assimilation

The Fort Laramie Treaty gave the Black Hills to the Plains Indians. Why did white settlers violate the treaty and move into the black hills?

• Gold was discovered in the Black Hills

• The Black Hills had rich farm land.

• The Plains Indians moved to Canada and left the Black Hills.

(a)   defeated ​ (b)   in the Battle of Little Bighorn.

• Sitting Bull
• General Custer
• President Grant
• NATE!

The Massacre at ​ (a)   resulted in the deaths of over 300 ​ (b)   including women and children in 1890.

• Wounded Knee
• Sioux
• Confederates
• the Oregon Trail

What event marks the end of Native American resistance to western expansion?

• Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

• The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869