Indigenous People on a Closing Frontier

Question 1

In the reservation system, American Indian tribes were confined to assigned land with

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defined borders.

Question 2

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 3

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 4

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

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reservations

Question 5

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 6

Which of the following describes an effect of the allotment system?

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American Indians lost their land.

Question 7

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 8

To promote assimilation, American Indian children were

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forbidden to speak their native language.

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

Many Plains Indians had trouble living on reservations because they were

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nomadic hunters.

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