Unit 9 Concept Check

Which statement best describes Quanah Parker?

• He was a major figure in Comanche adjustment (changing) to reservation life

• He was a major figure in Comanche resistance (refusal) to white settlement

• Both A & B

• Neither A nor B

What were some of the duties of the Buffalo Soldiers?

• fighting American Indian tribes on the Western Frontier

• fighting during the American Civil War

• escorting settlers, cattle herds and railroad crews

• All of the above

Why were the Texas Rangers sent to the area along the Rio Grande in the 1870s?

• To establish order and protect settlers

• To protect the Native Americans from Mexican raids

• To secure the border from illegal Mexican immigrants

• To protect the Confederates from the Union

After the Civil War, where did most Indian raids in Texas take place?

• North Texas

• East Texas

• Coastal Texas

• West Texas

Why did the Native Americans name the African American troops that came to fight them Buffalo Soldiers?

• They killed all of the buffalo

• They were brave like the buffalo and had dark eyes

• They made camp at Buffalo Bluff

• They only ate buffalo meat

In the early 1870s, as U.S. troops began operations against Native Americans who had left the reservations, Anglo American hunters were slaughtering the _____ that Native Americans depended upon for survival.

• deer

• horses

• cattle

• buffalo

Aside from Native Americans, Texas settlers in the 1870s were threatened by Civil War army _____

• outlaws

• renegades

• deserters

• recruits

Many reservations were located in the Indian Territory, which is present-day _____.

• West Texas

• Oklahoma

• New Mexico

• Colorado

What is a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

• sharecropping

• slavery

• subsistence farming

• agricultural cooperative

What is the production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer's family

• sharecropping

• subsistence agriculture

• reparations

• commercial agriculture