1. Chapter 14 “Looking to the West”
Section 2 “Conflict with Native Americans” Questions

2. Vocabulary Great Plains nomad reservation Battle of Little Bighorn
Ghost Dance
Massacre at Wounded Knee
assimilation
Dawes Act
boomers
sooners

3. The Life of the Plains Indians
American Buffalo
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What caused changes in the life of the Plains Indians?
-the arrival of the horse
-Raise of warrior societies (nomadic life)

4. Indians Wars and Government Policy
2) Why were Indian treaties often unsuccessful?
-restricted Native Americans to reservations
-produced misunderstandings and fraud
-Native American signers often did not represent majority of people
Bribes or violence toward tribes

5. Battlefield Challenges
3) How did government policies and battlefield challenges affect the Indian wars?
-1871, govt. declared that it would make no more treaties or recognize chiefs
Indian warriors used traditional enemies.
Reconstruction left little for West (military)

6. Key Battles Sand Creek Massacre, 1864
The Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876
The Battle at Wounded Knee
Last of the Sioux
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7. New Policies Toward Native Americans
4) What changes occurred in federal Indian policies by 1900?
-Growing peace movement (people horrified by govt.’s policies)
-Assimilation and dismantled Native American concept of shared land

8. 5) Describe two major federal assimilation policies.
-Children sent to Carlisle Indian School, PA (integrated into white society)
-Dawes Act (Native American man received 160 acres & granted U.S. Citizenship

9. 6) What assumptions about Native Americans did sympathetic easterners make when proposing improvements on the reservations?  

10. Review: Prepare your Response Cards

11. What does the word assimilation have to do with Native Americans?
A) It refers to the process of losing land to the white settlers.
B) It describes the war strategy of the Plains Native Americans.
C) It refers to the process of adopting the white settlers' culture.
D) It is a linguistic technique that enabled whites to communicate with Native Americans.

12. C) It refers to the process of adopting the white settlers' culture.

13. Who lost the Battle of Little Big Horn?
A) Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
B) Custer and his cavalry
C) the Cheyenne of Colorado
D) Colonel John Chivington

14. B) Custer and his cavalry

15. Many settlers felt they had a right to western lands because
A) they were welcomed by most Native Americans.
B) Native Americans preferred to move to the East.
C) there were no Native Americans living there.
D) they produced more food and wealth than Native Americans.

16. D) they produced more food and wealth than Native Americans.

17. Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor in the violence between white settlers and Native Americans?
a. Forcing Native Americans onto reservations
b. The discovery gold in the Western territories
c. Lack of understanding of each other’s way of life and culture
d. White settlers refusing to trade with Native Americans

18. d. White settlers refusing to trade with Native Americans

19. Which of the following was NOT a factor in the decline of the Plains Native Americans?
a. shift in the military balance of power in favor of the soldiers
b. the army also introduced a military tactic--winter campaigning.
c. the destruction of the Indian food supply, especially the buffalo.
d. Native Americans unable to form tribal alliances

20. True/False
White settlers and soldiers welcomed the Ghost Dance because it allowed the Native Americans to exercise their right to practice their religion.

21. False

22. True/False
The surrender of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce ended a decade of warfare between Indians and the U.S. government in the Far West.

23. True

24. True/False
The Battle of the Little Big Horn marked the beginning of Native Americans fighting a successful campaign to regain their lands in the west.

25. False

26. True/False
Treaties between the government and Native Americans produced misunderstandings and outright fraud

27. True

28. True/false
The Dawes Act divided reservation land into individual plots. Each Native American family headed by a man received a plot, usually 160 acres.

29. True