Indigenous People on a Closing Frontier

Question 1

As white settlement increased, the government began to set aside land called _______ for American Indian groups.

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reservations

Question 2

To promote assimilation, American Indian children were

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forbidden to speak their native language.

Question 3

In the 1870s, when gold was discovered in the Blacks Hills, the federal government first tried to

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buy the territory from the American Indians.

Question 4

How did the policy of allotment impact American Indians?

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Many American Indian families received one hundred sixty acres of land to farm.

Question 5

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

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

Question 6

Under the allotment system, many American Indian families

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made an effort to succeed at farming but often failed.

Question 7

Many Plains Indians had trouble living on reservations because they were

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nomadic hunters.

Question 8

The conflict between the Sioux and the US military at Wounded Knee marked

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the final battle in the American Indian Wars.

Question 9

Read Mrs. Z. A. Parker’s observations from 1890.[T]hey raised their eyes to heaven, their hands clasped high above their heads, and stood straight and perfectly still, invoking the power of the Great Spirit to allow them to see and talk with their people who had died. . . .They would go as fast as they could, their hands moving from side to side.What is Parker describing in this quotation?

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the ritualized movements of Sioux Indians during a Ghost Dance ceremony

Question 10

Which of the following statements is true?

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

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