American Pageant Chapter 26

In post-Civil War America, Plains Indians surrendered their lands only when they

• chose to migrate farther west.

• received solemn promises from the government that they would be left alone and provided with supplies on the remaining land.

• lost their mobility as the whites killed their horses.

• were allowed to control the supply of food and other staples ot he reservations.

For white American treaty makers, Indian tribes were

• revered as having the authority to organize and lead scattered Native Americans.

• considered as an apporpriate and efficient way to organize Native American scattered over thousands of miles.

• a fiction of the white imagination.

• a better alternative tot he scattered bands that they had in the past.

In the warfare that raged between the Indians and the AMerican military after the Civil WAr

• the Indians were never as well armed as the soldiers.

• the US army was able to dominate with its superior technology.

• there was often great cruelty and massacres on both sides.

• Indians proved to be no match for the soldiers.

A new round of warfare between the Sioux and US Army began in 1874 when

• the US Army decided to retaliate for the Fetterman massacre.

• Sioux Chief Crzy Horse began an effort to drive all whites from Montana and the Dakotas.

• Colonel George Custer led an expedition to Little Big Horn, Montana.

• Colonel George Custer discovered gold on Sioux land in the Black Hills.

The pLains Indians were finally forced ot surrender and end their resistance to losing their lands

• because they were decimated by their constant intertribal warfare.

• after such famous leaders as Geronimo and Sitting Bull were killed.

• when the government extended a better offer to relocate the Plains Indians to unoccupied large Western lands.

• by the coming of the railroads and the virtual extermination of the buffalo.

All of the following are true statements about Indians who ended up on reservations in the 1870s and 1880s EXCEPT

• They were fed meagerly by the US government and not annihilated by the US Army.

• they were forced to eke out an existence.

• they became wards of the US government.

• they felt protected and well-provided for by the US government.

The buffalo were nearly exterminated

• as a result of being overhunted by the Indians.

• when their grasslands were turned into wheat and corn fields.

• by disease.

• through wholesale butchery by whites.

The nineteenth-centruy humanitarians who advoated kind treatment of the Indians

• had no more respect for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them.

• advocated improving the reservation system.

• opposed passage of the Dawes Act.

• understood the value of the Indians' religious and culture practices.

To assimilate Indians into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following EXCEPT

• dissolve many tribes as legal entities.

• expand recognized tribes' collective land ownerhsip holdings.

• try to make rugged individualists of the Indians.

• promise Indians US citizenship in 25 years.

The United State's government outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in the

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Sand Creek massacre

• Battle fo Little Big Horn

• Indian Reorganization Act