US History II

Question 1

What are nomads?

Answer 1

Roamed the land following their main source of food.

Question 2

What was a main source of food of the Plains Indians?

Answer 2

Buffalo

Question 3

Why did the Sioux agree to live on reservations?

Answer 3

Exchange for annuities

Question 4

Who were the Lakota?

Answer 4

Nomads who had won control of their hunting grounds from other Native Americans

Question 5

When was the U.S Army defeated in Red Cloud’s War?

Answer 5

1864

Question 6

Where was Sand Creek and what occurred there?

Answer 6

Ft. Lyon Colorado.

John Chivington attacked Black Kettle’s Camp

Question 7

Why was the Indian Peace Commission a failure?

Answer 7

They could not ensure that those leaders or their followers would abide by them.

Question 8

What was the purpose of reservations?

Answer 8

To keep Native Americans away

Question 9

When did the Battle of Little Bighorn occur and what was the result?

Answer 9

• June 25, 1876

- Lakota were forced to return to the reservation and give up Black Hills

Question 10

Who was George A. Colonel?

Answer 10

Lieutenant Colonel

Question 11

Where did the Lakota Ghost Dancers and their families lose their lives in a final battle with the U.S government?

Answer 11

Wounded Knee Creak in South Dakota

Question 12

What law have Native Americans lots of land on the reservations and citizenship if they lived on them for 25 years?

Answer 12

The Dawes Act

Question 13

A person who resides in a new colony or country

Answer 13

Settler

Question 14

Membership in a state with rights and duties

Answer 14

Citizenship

Question 15

Moving from one place to another

Answer 15

Relocation

Question 16

dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land

Answer 16

Homestead

Question 17

run away quickly

Answer 17

Flee

Question 18

Someone with no permanent home (follow their main resources)

Answer 18

Nomad

Question 19

Someone who explores an area for mineral deposits

Answer 19

prospector

Question 20

the action of reserving something

Answer 20

Reservation

Question 21

the process of absorbing one cultural group into another

Answer 21

Assimilation

Question 22

People who risk their capital to organize and run business

Answer 22

Entrepreneurs

Question 23

Enjoy high tariffs (protect American jobs)

Answer 23

Northern Entrepreneurs

Question 24

Favored low tariffs (promote trade and keep import costs low)

Answer 24

Southern Leaders

Question 25

Who were the five people in the leading pioneer in new technology?

Answer 25

Thomas Edison 
Alexander Graham Bell
George Westinghouse 
Traddeus Lowe 
Cyrus Field

Question 26

A policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy

Answer 26

Laissez-Faire

Question 27

The total value of all goods and services that a country produces during a year

Answer 27

Gross national product (GNP)