WorksheetsAMERICAN HISTORY CH 5.1 & 2 REVIEW
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
In what year did African Americans immigrate to Kansas during the so called "Kansas Fever"?
1879
1894
1852
1867
?Who started the Sand Creek Massacre
George Armstrong Custer
William H. Seward
Geronimo
Colonel John M. Chivington
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.
TRUE
FALSE
When American Indians went to reservations, they soon discovered that the U.S. government did not honor its treaties with them
TRUE
FALSE
the Morrill Act
Granted over 17 million acres of Federal land to the states
To give settlers up to 160 acres if they live on the new property for 5 years
To finance construction of agricultural & engineering colleges
Granted over 17 million acres of Federal land to the states and financed the construction of agricultural & engineering colleges
sod houses, were
well-insulated
windproof
fireproof.
well-insulated, windproof, and fireproof
Homesteaders lived in sod houses
TRUE
FALSE
African Americans who moved west to escape persecution in the southern U.S were called _____.
Homesteaders
Exodusters
Apaches
_____ led soldiers in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and was defeated.
Joseph Glidden
William H. Seward.
John M. Chivington
George Armstrong Custer
started the religious movement known as the “Ghost Dance
Sitting Bull
Wovoka
Geronimo
Wounded Snail
government act specifically intended to alter how the native American population in the western U.S. lived.
Morrill Act
Homestead Act
Dawes General Allotment Act
Pacific Railway Act
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.
TRUE
FALSE
The government created American Indian reservations
to guarantee them the right of self-government.
so they would become farmers
so Indians could continue their traditional culture without conflict with non-Indian settlers
to protect them from diseases
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was established to help Native American Indians become farmers.
TRUE
FALSE
_____ was the last major conflict of the Indian Wars.
The Sand Creek Massacre
The battle of the Little Bighorn
The battle of Kansas
The battle of Wounded knee
_____ ended the fighting caused by the Sand Creek Massacre.
The Treaty of the Little Bighorn
The Treaty of Medicine Lodge
The Treaty of Wounded Knee
The Treaty of the Exodusters
The Bureau of Indian Affairs was created by the U.S. government to manage American Indian issues.
TRUE
FALSE
Geronimo & his followers surrendered to authorities in 1886 and were sent to Florida as POWs.
TRUE
FALSE
The Ghost Dance was a religious movement among the Sioux Indian tribe on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
TRUE
FALSE
At the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the 7th Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer was defeated by the Sioux Indians led by _____.
Benjamin Singleton
Geronimo
Wovoka
Sitting Bull
