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USHC 4.5 - 4.6 Great Plains and Indian Wars

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What event is described in this diagram?

a)

The Battle of Sioux Falls

b)

The Sand Creek Massacre

c)

The Wounded Knee Massacre

d)

The Battle of Little Bighorn

2.

What did the Morrill Land Grant Act and the Homestead Act have in common?

a)

They provided ways for settlers to acquire western lands.

b)

They discriminated against African American families.

c)

They forced Native Americans onto reservations.

d)

They enabled railroad companies to develop the land near their tracks.

3.

The Battle of Wounded Knee, the passage of the Dawes Act, and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad are most closely associated with which of the following?

a)

Creation of western cities

b)

The downfall of Native American culture

c)

The growth of agriculture development in the west

d)

The increased amount of land given to settlers

4.
1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners- breaking up tribal communities
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
c)
Ghost Dance Movement
d)
Homestead Act of 1862
5.
a Native American movement that called for a return to traditional ways of life and challenged White dominance in society
a)
Ghost Dance Movement
b)
Homestead Act of 1862
c)
Las Gorras Blancas (The White Caps)
d)
peon
6.
this allowed a settler to acquire 160 acres by living on it for five years, farming it, and paying about $30
a)
Homestead Act of 1862
b)
Las Gorras Blancas (The White Caps)
c)
peon
d)
Populist Party
7.
Sioux chief who led the attack on Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
a)
Sitting Bull
b)
Sod Houses (soddies)
c)
Transcontinental Railroad
d)
Vaqueros (Cowhands)
8.
mass killing by U.S. soldiers of as many as 300 unarmed Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890
a)
Wounded Knee Massacre
b)
Dawes Act
c)
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
d)
Ghost Dance Movement
9.

Which of the following is NOT true about the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924?

a)

It was another move by the federal government to absorb Native Americans into mainstream American life

b)

It ended the system of reservations for Native Americans and returned lands once confiscated by the United States government

c)

It meant Native Americans were the last main group to gain the right set forth in the Fourteenth Amendment

d)

It granted citizenship, but not natural rights, to Native Americans born in the United States

10.

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

11.
who led the Indians in Little Bighorn?
a)
geronimo
b)
sitting bull and crazy horse
c)
pocahontas
d)
Custer
12.
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
13.
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