Indigenous People on a Closing Frontier

Question 1

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.

Question 2

What was true of American Indian tribes under the Indian Appropriations Act?

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Tribes were no longer considered to be independent nations.

Question 3

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 4

Under the allotment system, many American Indian families

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made an effort to succeed at farming but often failed.

Question 5

Supporters of the Dawes Act said the act would help American Indians to

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become farmers.

Question 6

To promote assimilation, American Indian children were

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forbidden to speak their native language.

Question 7

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

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reservations

Question 8

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 9

Which statement best describes the impact of the discovery of gold on American Indian territory in the 1850s and 1870s?

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War broke out when white settlers pressured the government to take the land from American Indians.

Question 10

The Indian Appropriations Act of 1885 encouraged American Indians to

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live confined on reservations.

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