Crash Course US History

Match the following

• U.S. massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• The grassland region of the United States

• Great Plains

• 1868 treaty in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation

• Dawes Act

• Name of plan to make Native Americans part of white culture

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• Law that broke up Native American reservations

• assimilation

True or False:

Most people that moved West went as part of a group (example, family or immigrant group).

• True

• Falso

What authority sponsored the development of the railroads on the Western front?

• Private companies

• The US Government

• The French Suez Canal Company

The development of the railroads was supported by states which led to the

• destruction of the Native American culture

• the improvement of the lives of Native Americans

• the protection of the buffalo

Discuss the role of Benjamin Franklin in securing French support during the American Revolution. What strategies did he use to gain their alliance?

• He promised to return all French territories lost in previous wars.

• He used diplomacy and his reputation to win French trust and support.

• He threatened military action against France if they did not support the Americans.

• He offered to make France the primary trade partner of the United States.

Sued the U.S. government for his freedom and lost.

• Stephen Douglas

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

Native Americans were moved from off their land because

• white people wanted the land they lived on

• the Mexican government was reclaiming the lands

• it's not true, nobody wanted that land

After the passage of the _____ ___, Indians lost 86 million of the 138 million acres of land in their possession.

• Dawes Act

• Treaty of Guadalupe and Hidalgo

• The Homestead Act

• Cherokee Trail of Tears

Who wrote the mystery document, which said that the US Government was making promises and not keeping them while Native Americans were dying and their land was taken?

• Chief Joseph

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Geronimo

What was the purpose of the boarding schools?

• To give Native Americans a great education

• Forced assimilation of Native American children by teaching them white American culture and breaking up Native families

• To house orphans