Session 3 Quiz

Match the definition with the correct term: 1973, US cavalry slaughtered Sioux people during a forced march to a reservation; 250-300 people killed. The correct term is ________.

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Trail of Tears

Match the definition with the correct term: This tribe attacked the government (Northern New Mexico) in 1847 in response to fears that their land would be stolen. The correct term is ________.

• Taos

• Navajo

• Apache

• Comanche

Match the definition with the correct term: An attack on a village of Native Americans in Colorado in 1864 that resulted in the deaths of over 200 Native Americans. The correct term is ________.

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Trail of Tears

Match the definition with the correct term: US Cavalry led by General Custer and Native American warriors led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse; US loss. The correct term is ________.

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Battle of Antietam

Match the definition with the correct term: Spiritual revival for plains Indians; a messiah would arrive and clear away the white man and return the buffalo. The correct term is ________.

• Ghost Dance Movement

• Trail of Tears

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

Match the definition with the correct term: Apache leader who was the last to have an organized resistance to the US government and white settlers. The correct term is ________.

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Cochise

Match the definition with the correct term: Took away tribal lands and sold them to individual, Native American owners; was a way to destroy tribal culture. The correct term is ________.

• Dawes Severalty Act

• Homestead Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Reservation Act

What is the policy of placing Native Americans onto reservations called?

• Concentration Policy

• Battle of Big Littlehorn

• Major Ridge

• Frederick Jackson Turner

Who was the chief of the Nez Perce who fled from US troops in an attempt to avoid being forced onto a reservation, leading a 1,700 mile march?

• Chief Joseph

• Abraham Lincoln

• Tecumseh

• Frederick Jackson Turner

Who was the historian who came up with the “Frontier Thesis” in the 1890s, said the USA needed to expand overseas, and was from Portage, WI?

• Frederick Jackson Turner

• Chief Joseph

• Major Ridge

• Abraham Lincoln