Ch 17-18 Key Term Quiz

Topics such as Carlisle Indian School, Pine Ridge Reservation, and the Treaty of Fort Laramie are most closely related to the study of:

• Native American Issues

• Freedman's Bureau Investigations

• African American migration

• Chinese Immigrant Quotas

What was the impact of the discovery of gold in the Black Hills on the Plains Indian tribes?

• A. It led to an economic boom for the tribes

• B. It resulted in the violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty

• C. It caused a decline in the bison population

• D. It led to the establishment of the Great Sioux Reservation

The Dawes Act of 1887 gave the president permission to divide reservations and allot land to families and individuals. Any leftover land would then be open to white settlement.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Sitting Bull lamented "a death wind for my people" was caused by what event which forced his people "to choose between starvation and the reservation".

• Massacre at Little Big Horn

• Decimation of the Bison Herd

• Massacre at Wounded Knee

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

Converse to European nations who spread through imperialism, America expanded its authority and wealth through the conquest of _ in the 1870s-1900:

• Western Frontier

• Cuba and Puerto Rico

• California

• Alaska

The US Government's goal of crushing Native American culture included all BUT which acts:

• Requiring education at Indian schools

• Forcing tribes' removal from ancestral land

• Limiting free range by instituting reservations

• Passing the national "English Language Act"

Though it was seen as a better alternative to reservations, the _ provided private allotments to a people used to collective land ownership.

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• Dawes Act

• Nez Perce Treaty

• Homeland Act

Native American tribes were successful in repelling the American military when it used collective raids of many tribes and _ :

• Guerrilla warfare

• European tactics

• germ warfare

• the land as a weapon

Californios also faced eviction and legal challenges due to racism, forcing them to the Supreme Court to defend their _ from Spain and Mexico.

• Reservations

• Land Grants

• Rancho fiestos

• Allotments

Chinese immigrants faced growing racism due to the rise of _, favoring those born in the USA over legal immigrants to the extreme.

• klan mentality

• nativism

• oligopolies

• reservations