11.3 Wars for the West

First major Treaty between Plains Indians and United States Government.

• Treaty of Medicine Ladge
• Treaty of Fort Atkinson
• Treat of Fort Laramie
• Battle of Little Big Horn

After the introduction of horses to the Great Plains by the Spanish in the 1500s, the Plains Indians came to depend on _____ for food, shelter, and clothing.

• pig
• buffalo
• horses
• elk

Which of these describes the Massacre at Wounded Knee?

• Sioux's last major victory
• the last major incident of the wars on the Great Plains
• the battle where Geronimo surrendered
• the worst defeat suffered by the U.S Army on the Great Plains

How did the Dawes General Allotment Act attempt to end traditional influences on Native American society?

• by forcing Native American children to attend special schools
• by dividing reservation lands into individually owned plots
• by requiring Native Americans to become U.S. citizens
• by turning reservation land into publicly held farms.

In 1876, General Custer suffered the worst defeat of the U.S. Army on the Great Plains at the ____________________________________ against Sioux forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.

• Battle of Rosebud
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Ghost Dance
• Wounded Knee

How did the U.S. government attempt to "Americanize" Native American children in the late 1800s?

• By sending them to boarding schools and having them give up traditional customs
• by allowing them to farm on their own reservations and speak their own language
• by breaking up their reservation lands and selling individual farm plots
• by promoting their education in traditional crafts and customs

A ________________ is a religious movement among Native Americans that spread across the plains in the 1800s. It is said that this predicts the arrival of paradise for Native Americans.

• Spirituals
• Rain Dance
• Ghost Dance
• Fire Dance

To give up Native American traditional ways and adopting Anglo-American gender and family roles is called to ____________.

• assimilate
• reservations
• ghost dance
• buffalo soldiers

the ______________ was a forced and brutal 300-mile march of the Navajo from their lands to New Mexico reservations

• trail of tears
• Long Walk
• Emperial Death March
• the great migration

Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans to live and stay on are called

• reservations
• buffalo soldiers
• assimilate
• national parks