things to study

Question 1

The belief that God wanted the US to expand its territory westward onto Indian land

Answer 1

Manifest Destiny

Question 2

African Americans who left the South to escape discrimination and violence and moved west for new freedoms and opportunity

Answer 2

Exodusters

Question 3

The government act that gave free land in the west to citizens if they farmed on it for 5 years

Answer 3

Homestead Act

Question 4

The government act that gave land to states to establish colleges to educate local son agriculture and engineering

Answer 4

Morrill Land Grant Act

Question 5

The government act that gave land to railroad companies to lay rail, and established routes

Answer 5

Pacific Railway Act

Question 6

The US General who disobeyed orders and was killed, along with 200 US Cavalry during the Battle of Little Big Horn

Answer 6

General George Armstrong Custer

Question 7

The locations of the battle between the US 7th Calvary and the Sioux Indians, who were fighting to preserve their land and way of life

Answer 7

Little Big Horn

Question 8

Sioux/Lakota Chiefs who led their people to resist attempts from the US government to take their land through treaties and force them onto reservations

Answer 8

Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

Question 9

The official plans of the US government to deal with the “Indian Problem”, where the US government wanted to expand and the Indians were making it difficult

Answer 9

Federal Indian Policy

Question 10

The Federal Policy supported by President Jackson that removed all eastern tribes from their land and placed them on “Indian Territory” west of the Mississippi River.

Answer 10

Removal

Question 11

The Federal Policy that involved written agreements between the US Government and Indian Tribes establishing land use and hunting grounds.

Answer 11

Treaties

Question 12

The Federal Policy that forced separation of whites and Indians by forcing Native Tribes to live on isolated areas of land.

Answer 12

Reservation System

Question 13

The Federal Policy that attempted to force Indian assimilation to white culture by dividing up reservation land and allotting 160 acre plots to each Indian family, requiring them to farm, own land, and live in individual families, not communally. The remaining land was sold off to whites.

Answer 13

Dawes Act

Question 14

A process where a person or group’s language or culture changes to resemble those of another.

Answer 14

Assimilation

Question 15

The massacre of the Lakota Sioux by the US Army in South Dakota that marked the end of the Indian Wars.

Answer 15

Wounded Knee

Question 16

The laying of railroad track connecting the East Coast to the West Coast of the US.

Answer 16

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 17

The authority of indigenous tribes to govern themselves.

Answer 17

Tribal Sovereignty

Question 18

Nickname for African-American soldiers who fought in the wars against Native Americans living on the Great Plains during the 1870s

Answer 18

Buffalo Soldiers

Question 19

A process that resulted in many Native Americans losing parts of the culture and adopting “white” ways of living. An example of this would be Native Americans changing their style of dress

Answer 19

Assimilation

Question 20

The removal or abandonment of one’s own culture and
replacement with another. The forced enrollment of Native American children into boarding schools is an example of deculturalization

Answer 20

Deculturalization

Question 21

In the 1851 treaty, Plains Indians ceded (gave up) land to allow passage trains; the U.S promised to preserve remaining Indian land. The 1868 treaty ended fighting between the U.S and the Cheyenne and Sioux and guaranteed Indian control of the Black Hills; it also called for the Indians to move onto reservations. Many Sioux chiefs rejected the treaty.

In the 1851 treaty, Plains Indians ceded (gave up) land to allow passage trains; the U.S promised to preserve remaining Indian land. The 1868 treaty ended fighting between the U.S and the Cheyenne and Sioux and guaranteed Indian control of the Black Hills; it also called for the Indians to move onto reservations. Many Sioux chiefs rejected the treaty.

Answer 21

Treaties of Fort Laramie (1851 & 1868)

Question 22

An attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a regiment of Colorado militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members

Answer 22

Sand Creek Massacre

Question 23

Being your own nation.The right to govern yourself.
The authority of indigenous tribes to govern themselves. Members of federally recognized tribes are dual citizens - citizens of their tribes AND citizens of the United States

Answer 23

Sovereignty

Question 24

A Supreme Court ruling that declared a state did not have the power to enforce laws on tribal lands-only the Federal Government can negotiate treaties and laws with Federally recognized tribes

Answer 24

Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

Question 25

Removal, Treaties, Reservations, Assimilation & Deculturalization

Answer 25

Major Federal Indian Policies of the 19th Century

Question 26

Who coined the term, “Manifest Destiny”?

Answer 26

John O’Sullivan

Question 27

How many federally recognized tribes are in Wisconsin?

Answer 27

11

Question 28

How many federally recognized tribes are in the United States?

Answer 28

574

Question 29

What Act banned the Chinese from entering the United States?

Answer 29

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 30

What is the most statically poorest place in the United States?

Answer 30

Pine Ridge Reservation

Question 31

What state has the most federally recognized tribes EAST of the Mississippi?

Answer 31

Wisconsin

Question 32

How much land was lost as a result of the Homestead Act?

Answer 32

90 million acres