Native American Leaders After the Civil War Quiz

Which Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux leader led the victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

• Crazy Horse

• Geronimo

• Chief Joseph

• Sitting Bull

Which Oglala Lakota warrior is honored with a mountain carving and refused to be photographed?

• Standing Bear

• Crazy Horse

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

Geronimo was a leader of which tribe?

• Ponca

• Nez Perce

• Hunkpapa Lakota

• Bedonkohe Apache

What is Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce best known for?

• Defeating General Custer at Little Bighorn.

• Leading his people on a 1,170-mile retreat toward Canada.

• Winning the right for Native Americans to be considered "persons."

• Signing the Fort Laramie Treaty.

Why did Standing Bear leave the reservation?

• He was leading a war party.

• He was going to a Ghost Dance ceremony.

• He was taking his deceased son to their ancestral homeland for burial.

• He was hunting buffalo off-reservation.

What precious metal was found in the Black Hills, causing the U.S. to break the Fort Laramie Treaty?

• Silver

• Copper

• Gold

• Iron

What did the Dawes Act of 1887 allow the U.S. government to do?

• Create larger reservations.

• Divide tribal lands into individual plots.

• Protect the buffalo.

• Give all Native Americans U.S. citizenship.

How many acres of land did Native American tribes lose due to the Dawes Act?

• 10 million

• 50 million

• Over 90 million

• 1 million

What legal precedent was set by Standing Bear v. Crook?

• Treaties could be broken if gold were found.

• An Indian was a "person" with rights under the law.

• The buffalo were protected animals.

• Native Americans could not own land.

How did Sitting Bull die?

• He was executed by the U.S. Army.

• He died of starvation in Canada.

• He was shot and killed during an arrest attempt.

• He died of old age on the reservation.