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What did the government want Indians living on the reservations to do for food?

• Hunt wild game on the reservation land

• Grow food and raise livestock on farms

• Depend entirely on the government for food

• Wait for buffalo to migrate across the reservation, then go hunting

Which of these did NOT attract settlers to migrate out West?

• The Homestead Act, which promised cheap land to farmers

• Barbed wire fencing, which made it easier to keep livestock on the open plains

• The discovery of gold on Indian land in South Dakota

• Job opportunities in cities like Denver and San Francisco

What kind of lifestyle did the Plains Indians primarily lead?

• Nomadic hunters

• Coastal fishermen

• Mountain fur trappers

• Lumberjacks

Which TWO of these were part of the Treaty of Fort Laramie?

• Indians were allowed to claim most of the Great Plains for themselves

• The Black Hills were sold to Canada

• The U.S. government was allowed to build roads through Indian territory

• The Indian chief Sitting Bull was banished to Mexico

The (a)   was a religious ritual believed to restore the buffalo herds and get rid of the white settlers.

Areas of federal land set aside for Indians were known as

• Ghettos

• Reservations

• National parks

• Territories

What was the primary objective of the Dawes Act?

• To establish new, larger reservations for Indian tribes

• To give more power to Indian tribal governments

• To preserve traditional Indian culture and living habits

• To divide tribal land into individual plots, so Indians would have to adopt white lifestyles