USHC 4.1 Native American Conflicts

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This law created 160 acres plots of land to be sold for a small fee to encourage settlement in the west.

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Homestead Act

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This was the last battle of the Indian wars as a couple hundred Sioux were killed by the Army?

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Wounded Knee

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During the mid 1800s, how did the federal government encourage the settlement of the West? Options: provide forty acres of land and a mule to formerly enslaved persons, provide free land to people who would create a home there, provide mining claims for prospectors seeking gold and silver, provide land to companies to build transcontinental railroads

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provide free land to people who would create a home there

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What was the primary source of food, clothing, tools, shelter for the Plains Indians? Options: Elk, Deer, Horses, Buffalo

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Buffalo

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Which of the following fostered the development of a national market by linking all parts of the country between 1840-1900? Highways, Railroads, Radio, Electricity

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Railroads

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The Transcontinental Railroad was completed at what place? Options: Promanade Point, Promontory Point, Palisade Point, Pacific Point

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Promontory Point

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Name of the largest Native American boarding school in the US

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Carlisle

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Law that stated that Native Americans had to give up their tribal identities.

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Dawes Act

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Indigenous populations have declined because of poverty & ________

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disease, alcoholism