Homestead Act and Wounded Knee

What's the second biggest impact on Native Americans from western white settler expansion west?

• They were forced to change their traditional way of life

• They were given private land to create Ranches.

• They peacefully assimilated into American culture

• They shared their land with white settlers.

What were Native Americans promised if they decided to become Homesteaders and sell off their land to white settlers?

• U.S Citizenship

• Their ancestral homelands

• Treaties would be recognized

• The freedom to practice their religions

What does this image best exemplify?

• The Homestead Act

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Red Cloud's War

• Wounded Knee

____________ promised free land in the West to Americans who would settle and farm it for 5 years.

• Land Act of 1862

• Settlers' Promise

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Frontier Offer

Which battle was the last full scale attack that the US made on the Native Americans.

• Ghost Dance

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Sandy Creek Masaccre

• Wounded Knee

This 1862 law gave 160 acres of land to a settler who paid $10.00, and improved the land in 5 yrs.

• Long Drive

• Homestead Act

• Wounded Knee

• Transcontinental

To earn the right to own land by living on it.

• homestead

• National Grange

• reservation

• dry farming

What was the primary purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862?

• To provide free land to settlers in the West

• To relocate Native Americans to reservations

• To establish national parks

• To promote industrialization in the East

Which event marked the end of the Indian Wars in the United States?

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Tippecanoe

How many acres of land were offered to settlers under the Homestead Act?

• 80 acres

• 160 acres

• 320 acres

• 640 acres