Worksheets2022 NAHM QUIZ 3: US-Dakota War of 1862
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
True or False: Mni Sota Makoce, which means, "the land of cloud tinted waters," is the original placename for what is now called Minnesota.
True
False
German settlers in Chicago and in Cincinnati were told, "once you cross the Mississippi, _____."
There is free land
There is more room for more settlements
Nobody lives there
There is already people living there
After the US government broke its promises, some Dakota people went to war. The fighting lasted:
6 weeks
7 weeks
8.5 weeks
10 weeks
The Dakota Oyate (nation) is made up of Seven Council Fires called:
The Bdewakantunwan
The Ihanktunwan
Mitakuye Owasin
Oceti Sakowin
The Dakota people are separated into 3 distinct groups (select all that apply):
Eastern Dakota or Santee
Middle Dakota
Western Dakota
Lower Dakota
Mitakuye Owasin means:
All our relatives
All of creation
All living things
All around us
Which Dakota were the frist to negotiate with the federal government through treaties? They were also the first to rebel against it.
Eastern Dakota
Middle Dakota
Western Dakota
The US-Dakota War of 1862 ended in 1890 at _____.
Fort Snelling
Wounded Knee
Mankato
Battle of Little Bighorn
By 1854, the Euro-American population of Minnesota was more than 30,000. Three years later it topped:
140,000
143,000
150,000
Beginning in the 1830s, US government policy supported the removal of tribes westward to make way for European immigrants. A series of treaties, beginning with an agreement made at the future site of _____ in 1805, led to eventual removal from land that became Minnesota.
Wounded Knee
Mankato
Fort Snelling
Which of the following are factors that cause the US-Dakota War of 1862? (select all that apply)
More and more settlers were flooding into Minnesota
Game animals were scarce
Payments from the US government were late
Although there was plenty of food to store for winter, it was spoiling faster than it could be used
On _____, 4 hungry Dakota hunters killed five white settlers at Acton Township, Meeker County. Some Dakota seized this moment to declare war, and in the morning hours of August 18th, the US-Dakota War began.
August 15th, 1860
August 15th, 1862
August 16th, 1861
August 17th, 1862
On December 26, 1862, _____ Dakota men were hanged at Mankato.
38
49
37
32
Acts of Congress in 1863 revoked all treaties between the US government and Dakota and all but a few protected groups were _____?
Considered fugitives after the war
Exiled from Minnesota
Forced onto Reservations throughout Minnesota
Forced to move to Canada
_____ is the place of origin of the Dakota people. The English name originated after Zebulon Pike came to the isaldn in 1805 and began appropriating Dakota land through deceitful treaties.
Mni Sni
Mni Sota
Taku Wakan Tipi
Pike Island
