Indigenous People on a Closing Frontier - Quiz Quiz

Question 1

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

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A: defined borders.

Question 2

Which statement is true?

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

Question 3

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

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B: had lost half the land they held in 1881.

Question 4

Many Plains Indians had trouble living on reservations because they were

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B: nomadic hunters.

Question 5

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

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

Question 6

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

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D: the completion of the transcontinental railroad.

Question 7

To promote assimilation, Indigenous people children were

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D: forbidden to speak their native language.

Question 8

How did the policy of allotment impact Indigenous people?

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

Question 9

Which of these describes an effect of the allotment system?

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A: Indigenous people lost their land.

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