Dawes Act

Dawes Act

6th - 8th Grade

5 Qs

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Dawes Act

Dawes Act

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History

6th - 8th Grade

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Christopher Friedel

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5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happened at Custer's Last Stand in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Custer killed all of the Lakota Indians.
Custer and Sitting Bull made an agreement that the Native Americans Could have their land.
Custer was killed, along with his entire force.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 
Homestead Act 
Morrill Act 
Dawes Act 
Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.
Nativism
Ethnic Enclaves
Assimilation

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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The Dawes Act...
Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What act gave 160 acres to any family who would live on the land and farm it for 5 years?
The Homestead Promise
The Homestead Neighborhood
The Homestead Act of 1862
The Homestead farmland