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Indian Wars

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 9hrs 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Battle of Little Bighorn known as?

a)

Custer's Last stand

b)

The last war in the American Revolution

c)

The start of Westward expansion

d)

None of the above

2.
who led the Indians in Little Bighorn?
a)
geronimo
b)
sitting bull and crazy horse
c)
pocahontas
d)
Custer
3.

Which of the following people was the leader of the Native Americans who defeated Custer and his men?

a)

Major Marcus Reno

b)

General George

c)

Crazy Horse

4.

1. Who fought against the Native Americans in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

A. 7th Calvary

B. 8th Brigade

C. 7th Squadron

D. 8th Company

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

5.

Who signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Donald Trump

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

George Washington

6.

The law ordered all Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River to move to ________

a)

Texas

b)

Oklahoma

c)

California

d)

Canada

7.

The dangerous journey the Cherokee, Muskogee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole nations were forced to take was called?

(a)  

8.

What treaty was signed in 1868?

(a)  

9.

Why were Native Americans forced out of the Black Hills?

a)

gold was discovered

b)

the president wanted to live there

c)

they wanted more land

10.
Native Americans were forced to adopt white culture, cut their hair, change their clothing, change their names and learn Christianity at -
a)
Battle of Little Bighorn
b)
Carlisle Indian Industrial boarding school
c)
Sioux
11.
When a group of people are forced to adopt the culture of another group, it's called -
a)
Wounded Knee
b)
Sioux
c)
forced assimilation
12.
US Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and his men suffered a well known defeat at the -
a)
discovery of gold in the Black Hills
b)
Wounded Knee
c)
Battle of Little Bighorn
13.
The Indian Wars ended in 1890 after US soldiers massacred unarmed Native American men, women, and children at -
a)
Carlisle Indian Industrial boarding school
b)
discovery of gold in the Black Hills
c)
Wounded Knee
14.

An act signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 that authorized the removal of American Indians from their original homes.

a)

Trail of Tears Act

b)

Indian Removal Act

c)

Louisiana Purchase

15.

The land that Native Americans were forced to settle in after marching the Trail of Tears was called_______________.

a)

Reservation

b)

Sanctuary

c)

Indian Land

16.

_____________was a disease that was introduced to many Native American by white settlers.

a)

Smallpox

b)

chickenpox

c)

dehydration

17.

Native Americans were NOT forced to relocate to reservations.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

The Native American community still feel the impacts from the Trail of Tears today.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

The Trail of Tears started in Georgia and ended here_____.

a)

Florida

b)

Alabama

c)

Mexico

d)

Oklahoma

20.

The last of many conflicts between the Lakota Sioux and the U.S. government.

a)

Battle of American Indians

b)

Battle of Wounded Knee

c)

Battle of Sioux

d)

Battle of the Trail of Tears

21.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny 
b)
 Monroe Doctrine 
c)
 Great Awakening 
22.

What were the two leading causes of the decrease in the Native American population? (Choose TWO)

a)

Warfare

b)

Buffalo stampedes

c)

Disease

d)

Assimilation

23.

All of the following were effects of the government's policies on Native Americans EXCEPT:

a)

Native Americans were moved to reservations.

b)

Native Americans died from new diseases.

c)

Native Americans were paid well for their land.

d)

Native Americans were stripped of their culture due to assimilation.

24.

The American Indians were forced to leave their homelands because the government wanted

a)

to open American Indian lands for settlement by white settlers.

b)

to punish them for not fighting in the American Revolution.

c)

to give them better access to education and job opportunities.

d)

to allow the government to sell American Indian lands to Canada.

25.

Why did General George Custer and the US Army attack the Lakota, the Cheyenne, and other American Indians during the Battle of The Little Bighorn?

a)

The US government wanted to end a war between the Lakota and the Cheyenne.

b)

The American Indians would not give up their land and move onto reservations.

c)

The US government wanted the American Indians to move from Little Bighorn to Georgia.

d)

The American Indians took over the town of Little Bighorn and forced the settlers to leave.

26.

What happened to General Custer and the United States soldiers during the Battle of The Little Bighorn?

a)

They beat the Cheyenne, Lakota and other tribes.

b)

They were sent back to Washington DC to fight against the British.

c)

They made a treaty with the Cheyenne, Lakota and other tribes.

d)

All 210 of the soldiers and Custer were killed.

27.

Westward expansion impacted American Indians

a)

by taking away their lands.

b)

because they were forced to live on reservations.

c)

by making it more difficult to keep their culture.

d)

all of the above

28.

Treaty of Fort Laramie

a)

was an expression of deepest grief about the loss of native americans ways of life. A special dance to communicate with the dead.

b)

In this treaty, signed on April 29, 1868, between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people

c)

the belief that Americans had the right, or even the duty, to expand westward across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

d)

Land-Grant College Act of 1862 that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.” 

29.

Assimilation

a)

African Americans that moved to Kansas, thought that land was set aside for slaves by the government. 1870s 

b)

land set aside to Native Americans by the U.S. government.

c)

Blending in with the established culture. Native Americans 

d)

legislation passed by congress that split up Indian reservation lands among individual Indians and promised them citizenship in 1887

30.

Reservations

a)

land set aside to Native Americans by the U.S. government.

b)

the first wire technology capable of restraining cattle. Wire fences are cheaper and easier to erect than their alternatives 

c)

Tension between plains Indians settlers and the u.s. army grew into a long period of violence known as the Indian Wars 1864-1876. ended at the massacre of Wounded Knee.

d)

soldiers referred to the black cavalry troops as "buffalo soldiers" because of their dark, curly hair, which resembled a buffalo's coat and because of their fierce nature of fighting.

31.

Treaty of Fort Laramie

a)

was an expression of deepest grief about the loss of native americans ways of life. A special dance to communicate with the dead.

b)

In this treaty, signed on April 29, 1868, between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people

c)

the belief that Americans had the right, or even the duty, to expand westward across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

d)

Land-Grant College Act of 1862 that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.” 

32.

Battle of Wounded Knee

a)

Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux.

b)

the belief that Americans had the right, or even the duty, to expand westward across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

c)

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer's Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty

d)

Land-Grant College Act of 1862 that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.”

33.

Battle of Little Bighorn

a)

Tension between plains Indians settlers and the u.s. army grew into a long period of violence known as the Indian Wars 1864-1876. ended at the massacre of Wounded Knee.

b)

legislation passed by congress that split up Indian reservation lands among individual Indians and promised them citizenship in 1887

c)

Blending in with the established culture. Native Americans

d)

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer's Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty

34.

Sioux Indians

a)

In this treaty, signed on April 29, 1868, between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people

b)

the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. It is characterized by the westward movement of European settlers from their original settlements on the Atlantic coast

c)

a confederacy of several tribes that speak three different dialects, the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota. The Lakota, also called the Teton Sioux, are comprised of seven tribal bands and are the largest and most western of the three groups, occupying lands in both North and South Dakota

d)

A town that has grown very rapidly as a result of sudden prosperity by gold and silver mining .

35.

Who was the leader of the Sioux Indian tribe?

(a)