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AMERICAN HISTORY CH 5.1 & 2 REVIEW

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In what year did African Americans immigrate to Kansas during the so called "Kansas Fever"?

a)

1879

b)

1894

c)

1852

d)

1867

2.

?Who started the Sand Creek Massacre

a)

George Armstrong Custer

b)

William H. Seward

c)

Geronimo

d)

Colonel John M. Chivington

3.

The U.S. government attempted to assimilate American Indians into the white culture by establishing American Indian schools and adopting the Dawes General Allotment Act.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

4.

When American Indians went to reservations, they soon discovered that the U.S. government did not honor its treaties with them

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

5.

the Morrill Act

a)

Granted over 17 million acres of Federal land to the states

b)

To give settlers up to 160 acres if they live on the new property for 5 years

c)

To finance construction of agricultural & engineering colleges

d)

Granted over 17 million acres of Federal land to the states and financed the construction of agricultural & engineering colleges

6.

sod houses, were

a)

well-insulated

b)

windproof

c)

fireproof.

d)

well-insulated, windproof, and fireproof

7.

Homesteaders lived in sod houses

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

8.

African Americans who moved west to escape persecution in the southern U.S were called _____.

a)

Homesteaders

b)

Exodusters

c)

Apaches

9.

_____ led soldiers in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and was defeated.

a)

Joseph Glidden

b)

William H. Seward.

c)

John M. Chivington

d)

George Armstrong Custer

10.

started the religious movement known as the “Ghost Dance

a)

Sitting Bull

b)

Wovoka

c)

Geronimo

d)

Wounded Snail

11.

government act specifically intended to alter how the native American population in the western U.S. lived.

a)

Morrill Act

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Dawes General Allotment Act

d)

Pacific Railway Act

12.

Plains Indians refused to live on reservations because following the roaming buffalo herds was a part of their culture that they did not want to give up.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

13.

The government created American Indian reservations

a)

to guarantee them the right of self-government.

b)

so they would become farmers

c)

so Indians could continue their traditional culture without conflict with non-Indian settlers

d)

to protect them from diseases

14.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture was established to help Native American Indians become farmers.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

15.

_____ was the last major conflict of the Indian Wars.

a)

The Sand Creek Massacre

b)

The battle of the Little Bighorn

c)

The battle of Kansas

d)

The battle of Wounded knee

16.

_____ ended the fighting caused by the Sand Creek Massacre.

a)

The Treaty of the Little Bighorn

b)

The Treaty of Medicine Lodge

c)

The Treaty of Wounded Knee

d)

The Treaty of the Exodusters

17.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs was created by the U.S. government to manage American Indian issues.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

18.

Geronimo & his followers surrendered to authorities in 1886 and were sent to Florida as POWs.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

19.

The Ghost Dance was a religious movement among the Sioux Indian tribe on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

20.

At the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the 7th Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer was defeated by the Sioux Indians led by _____.

a)

Benjamin Singleton

b)

Geronimo

c)

Wovoka

d)

Sitting Bull