Which of the following best explains why the Battle of Little Bighorn is sometimes referred to as "Custer’s Last Stand"? |
The Battle of Little Bighorn resulted in the death of General Custer and all two hundred of his troops. |
As a consequence of the Dawes Act, by 1900, American Indians |
had lost half the land they held in 1881. |
Which statement best describes the impact of the discovery of gold on American Indian territory in the 1850s and 1870s? |
NOT War broke out among American Indian groups when warring chiefs signed new treaties with the government. |
What is Parker describing in this quotation? |
the ritualized movements of Sioux Indians during a Ghost Dance ceremony |
In the reservation system, American Indian tribes were confined to assigned land with |
defined borders. |
How did the policy of allotment impact American Indians? |
Many American Indian families received one hundred sixty acres of land to farm. |
Which of the following statements is true? |
The Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 meant that tribes were no longer classified as independent nations. |
To promote assimilation, American Indian children were |
forbidden to speak their native language. |
Supporters of the Dawes Act said the act would help American Indians to |
become farmers. |
In the 1870s, when gold was discovered in the Blacks Hills, the federal government first tried to |
NOT restrict all Sioux Indians to their reservation. |
Under the allotment system, many American Indian families |
NOT tried to farm communally and established their own system. |
What was true of American Indian tribes under the Indian Appropriations Act? |
Tribes were no longer considered to be independent nations. |
Which of the following best describes the reasons why the Dawes Act was passed? |
NOT The Dawes Act was passed to take land away from American Indians and to move them to reservations. |
Many more settlers began moving west with |
the completion of the transcontinental railroad. |
Many Plains Indians had trouble living on reservations because they were |
nomadic hunters. |
The Indian Appropriations Act of 1885 encouraged American Indians to |
Not Live confined on reservations. |
American Indians on a Closing Frontier
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