Urban and Social Reforms

Question 1

Why did the Dakota Sioux start an uprising in 1862?

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The US government had not followed through with promises of help.

Question 2

In the 1870s, the US government took a new approach to how it treated Indigenous people by

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encouraging assimilation.

Question 3

What is one way US reservation policy was harmful to Indigenous peoples?

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Reservations deprived them of resources.

Question 4

What was one of the aims of the Dawes Act of 1887?

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to divide and distribute land to Indigenous peoples

Question 5

In the late 1800s, many more settlers moved to the West after the completion of

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the transcontinental railroad.

Question 6

What was the government’s overall goal in passing the Indian Appropriations Acts?

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to open land for White settlers

Question 7

The Plains tribes embraced the Ghost Dance movement as a reaction to

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living on reservations.

Question 8

The Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 changed how the US government treated Indigenous peoples. Under this policy,

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Indigenous peoples were treated as individuals.

Question 9

Read the quotation.I will fight no more forever.Who uttered this quotation when the Nez Perce surrendered in 1877?

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Chief Joseph

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