Native Americans - Gilded Age

Question 1

How much land was lost to Westward Expansion?

Answer 1

90 million acres

Question 2

What was the 1887 Dawes Act?

Answer 2

A law that authorised the president to break up reservations and give out the land to families as homesteads

Question 3

When was Westward Expansion complete?

Answer 3

1890

Question 4

How did the Government attempt to assimilate Natives?

Answer 4

-Offer them citizenship
-Set up boarding schools

Question 5

What violent conflicts affected Natives during the Gilded Age?

Answer 5

The Indian Wars consisted of many military conflicts between Native tribes and the US Government such as:
-Battle of Bighorn (1876)
-Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
-The Wounded Knee Massacre specifically symbolised the brutal end to Native American resistance

Question 6

When did Boarding Schools begin to open for Native children?

Answer 6

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened 1879 and marked a period of boarding schools being used to strip away the identities of Native children and assimilate them

Question 7

How did the US Government disrupt the Native nomad lifestyle?

Answer 7

-Built train tracks across the USA
-Massacred the Bison population which the Natives lived off on