WorksheetsReview for Midterm Short Answer
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
When white colonizers take Native land and try to replace Native people, this is called _.
sharecropping
patriarchy
slavery
settler colonialism
_ is the mass murder of a racial or ethnic group using the following methods:
(1) destruction of culture and religion
(2) enslavement
(3) kidnapping children or preventing births
infanticide
patricide
genocide
homicide
The belief (of white people) that God wanted America to have all the land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
Divine Right Theory
Rugged Individualism
Laissez Faire
In the late 1800s, the US government forced Indigenous people onto small pieces of undesirable land called:
reservations
concentration camps
plantations
internment camp
The purpose of the Dawes Act in 1887 was to...
resist settler colonialism
break up land owned by Native tribes and sell it to whites
strengthen Native American tribes
educate Native American children
Which word means "to force someone to change their culture, to blend in with the majority group."
solidarity
resistance
accommodation
assimilation
What was the purpose of the Carlisle Indian School?
to teach Indigenous children how to resist settler colonialism
to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children
to teach Indigenous languages to the next generation
to improve the health of Indigenous children
Captain Richard Pratt, who founded the Carlisle Indian School, believed in the motto:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"Rugged Individualism"
"Kill the Indian, Save the Man"
"Manifest Destiny"
In Indian Boarding Schools, Indigenous children...
Were punished for speaking their own language
Had their hair cut short
Were forced to use an English name
All of the above
In Indian Boarding Schools, Indigenous children...
often died of disease and poor nutrition
were taken by force from their parents
often tried to run away
all of the above
The sport of American football was largely invented by Indigenous players at the Carlisle Indian School in the early 1900s.
True
False
Jim Thorpe, considered to be the greatest athlete of his time, was an Indigenous student at the Carlisle Indian School.
True
False
At the _ in 1890, the U.S. military shot and killed 400 people of the Lakota tribe, half of whom were women and children.
Thibodaux Massacre
Bloody Sunday
Colfax Massacre
Wounded Knee Massacre
_ means fighting back, but not necessarily with violence
accommodation
nonviolence
pacifism
resistance
How did Zitkala-Sa resist assimilation?
She led a violent rebellion
She ran for office to become a senator
She kept the Lakota culture alive through her writing and music.
All of the above
_, the first Indigenous Secretary of the Interior, has ordered an investigation into the abuses of America's Indian Boarding Schools.
Deb Haaland
Sharice Davids
Kimberly Teehee
Crystal Echo Hawk
