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Question 1

treatment of Native Americans on great plains

Answer 1

Horrible. tried to have them farm shity land and kept relocating them as america moved west

Question 2

Government plan for native Americans

Answer 2

Dawes act, Carlisle Indian School.

Question 3

Dawes act

Answer 3

the government tries to force assimilation through farming, also Native American tribes are dissolved. Land ownership changes from tribal to individual.

Question 4

Government boarding school

Answer 4

Tried to force assimilation of Indian into white culture.

Question 5

colonel Chivington Massacre

Answer 5

Chivington kills 400 native Americans for not particular reason.

Question 6

Sioux Ambush

Answer 6

Gold is discovered in California, so Native Americans in that area are going to be forced to move. Sioux prevent the flow of whites to gold, and Fettermans men are killed.

Question 7

Colonel Custer

Answer 7

Gold rediscovered in south Dakota, so Custer protects white miners. The Sioux kill all men and their chief is chief sitting bull.

Question 8

Nez Pierce

Answer 8

Led by chief Joseph in Idaho, the Nez Pierce travel over 1700 miles to get to Canada. The US claims that it will give the tribe its ancient homeland back if they come back to america, but it was a trick and they are lead to a reservation.

Question 9

Apaches

Answer 9

They keep attacking america and then slipping into mexico so that the us cant catch them ,but the us takes Apache women so that the men will turn themselves in.

Question 10

Helen hunt jackson

Answer 10

wrote a century of dishonor that lead some Americans to believe that The tratment of Native American is wrong

Question 11

Two philosophies regarding native americans

Answer 11

1. Punish them on reserves

2. try to assimilate them into white culture

Question 12

Sun Dance

Answer 12

Rejection of native Americans to become christian by expressing NA beliefs. This is outlawed by the us government and ends in force

Question 13

Ghost dance

Answer 13

further seperation by reviving NA culture, Larger ceremony than sun dance. glorified NA culture. they wore ghost shirts that they believed would protect them from bullets. US wipes em out at battle of wounded knee

Question 14

Election of 1896( main issue)

Answer 14

Gold vs Silver

Question 15

Republican platform of 1896

Answer 15

William McKinley went for gold standard and helping business with “trickle-down economics”

Question 16

Democrat platform

Answer 16

William Jennings Brian “cross of gold speech” silver standard for inflation. ratio silver to gold 16 to 1.

Question 17

Gold Bugs

Answer 17

Democrats that temporarily left party because of gold issue

Question 18

Gold Boys plus Populist

Answer 18

Demo-pop party

Question 19

Real winners of election

Answer 19

big business and rich

Question 20

Losers

Answer 20

poor

Question 21

progressive era coming

Answer 21

government regulates big business after McKinley.