Indigenous People on a Closing Frontier — Quiz

Question 1

In the reservation system, Indigenous people tribes were confined to assigned land with

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defined borders.

Question 2

Which best describes the reasons why the Dawes Act was passed?

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The Dawes Act was passed to make Indigenous people property owners and to open up more land for white settlers.

Question 3

The Indian Appropriations Act of 1885 encouraged Indigenous people to

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divide their land into 160-acre plots.

Question 4

Which statement is true?

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The Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 meant that tribes were no longer classified as independent nations.

Question 5

Many Plains Indians had trouble living on reservations because they were

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nomadic hunters.

Question 6

Which of these describes an effect of the allotment system?

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Indigenous people lost their land.

Question 7

How did the policy of allotment impact Indigenous people?

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Many Indigenous people families received one hundred sixty acres of land to farm.

Question 8

Which of these events first allowed many more settlers to move west?

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the completion of the transcontinental railroad.

Question 9

As a consequence of the Dawes Act, by 1900, Indigenous people

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had lost half the land they held in 1881.

Question 10

To promote assimilation, Indigenous people children were

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forbidden to speak their native language.

Indigenous People on a Closing Frontier — Quiz Answers