Wars Between Indigenous Peoples and US Government

Question 1

Which of the following is the correct order of key events in the Sioux conflicts?

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(1) Red Cloud’s War(2) Treaty of Fort Laramie(3) Black Hills Gold Rush(4) Battle of Little Bighorn

Question 2

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 3

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…”In this quotation, Parker is describing

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the ritualized movements of Sioux Indians during a Ghost Dance ceremony.

Question 4

The massacre at Sand Creek was an attack by

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a Colorado militia on peaceful American Indians.

Question 5

What was one cause of the First Dakota War, which occurred in 1862?

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The government withheld food and cash supplies from the Dakota.

Question 6

In the 1860s, tensions in Colorado between American Indians and white settlers led to a massacre at

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Sand Creek.

Question 7

The final battle in the American Indian wars occurred at

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Wounded Knee.

Question 8

Conflicts between the Sioux Indians of the Plains and the US Army spanned from

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the 1860s to the 1890s.

Question 9

In the 1870s, a gold rush attracted waves of settlers to Sioux territory in

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the Black Hills.

Question 10

Who led the attack that became known as the Sand Creek Massacre?

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Colonel John Chivington

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