Conflict on the Frontier

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The Kiowa leader Quanah Parker admitted that he helped lead the raid on the Warren Wagon Train.

• True

• False

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During the Civil War, settlers in East Texas were forced to move because of attacks by Native Americans.

• True

• False

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To improve the reservation system, President Ulysses S. Grant put church groups in charge of the reservations.

• True

• False

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Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie’s successful raid into Adobe Walls Canyon forced most Native Americans to move to reservations because of their loss of villages, supplies, and horses.

• True

• False

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In the 1870s, increased patrols by the Texas Rangers and the Mexican army along the Rio Grande border brought peace to the area.

• True

• False

Match each item with its description.

• Philip Sheridan

• involved in the campaign to locate and defeat the Apache leader Victorio

• Ulysses S. Grant

• encouraged proper treatment of Native Americans and ordered reform of the reservation system

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• testified against a proposed Texas law to protect the buffalo from rapid slaughter

• Ranald S. Mackenzie

• led U.S. Army troops in raids to force Native Americans from the Plains onto reservations

• Buffalo Soldiers

• ordered U.S. Army troops to pursue any Native Americans not living on reservations and to destroy their camps

According to the excerpt, why did Quanah Parker’s and Lone Wolf’s followers refuse to move onto reservations?

• They believed in the treaty.

• They disagreed with their leaders.

• They were from different bands than their leaders.

• Their leaders had not signed the treaty.

Why did William Tecumseh Sherman travel to West Texas in 1871?

• to begin a policy of rounding up Native Americans not living on reservations

• to investigate the Adobe Walls raid

• to prepare troops for the Red River and Panhandle campaigns against Native Americans

• to investigate reports of Native American raids on white settlements

What Native American leader agreed with the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek and wanted peace with the U.S. government?

• Quanah Parker

• Lawrie Tatum

• Kicking Bird

• Lone Wolf

What event caused U.S. leaders to conclude that the peace policy had failed and that Native Americans needed to be forced onto reservations?

• the Warren Wagon Train Raid

• the Adobe Walls raid

• the battle against Victorio

• Ranald Mackenzie’s campaign in the Panhandle