Native Americans and Settlers

The American Indian Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and Native Americans that lasted until about?

• 1890

• 1875

• 1910

• 1880

The conflicts arose because?

• Difference in religious beliefs

• • Gold was discovered in California

• European settlers continued to expand westward

• European diseases brought by colonists decimated Native populations.

In later years, conflicts were spurred by ideologies such as?

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• Re-educating the Indians

• Manifest Destiny

• Both of the above

• Neither of the above

Some Indian tribes fought along with the United States against the British during the?

• American Revolution

• American Civil War

• Mexican American War

• French and Indian War

The Battle of Little Bighorn is commonly referred to as?

• Custer's Last Stand

• The Great Plains War

• • The Great Cheyenne War

• The Sioux War

Who was the Hunkpapa Lakota holy man and tribal chief that had a vision about the Battle of Little Big Horn?

• Crazy Horse

• Sitting Bull

• Spotted Tail

• Little Feather

The Great Sioux War took place under the Presidencies of?

• Andrew Johnson and James Polk

• Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford Hayes

• William Henry Harrison and John Tyler

The Nez Perce War started because?

• Several Nez Perce bands did not want to give up their ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest and move to an Indian reservation in Idaho

• White settlers continued to enter the Nez Perce lands and the U.S. government did not do anything about it

• Conflict among the Nez Perce on whether or not to give their land to the U.S. government

• White settlers found gold on Nez Perce land

Which Indian tribe in the Great Basin was severely impacted by the Oregon and California Trails and by Mormon emigration to Utah?

• Shoshone

• Sioux

• Pueblo

• Ute

In what year did the last conflicts with the Indians occur?

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• 1870

• 1910

• 1924

• 1915