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WESTERN EXPANSION AND
NATIVE AMERICANS STUDY
GUIDE
Which has higher value in Native American culture, the individual or the community?
Community
What was the mission of Manifest Destiny?
To spread American Values across the Continent
Was one of the goals to of Western Expansion to create communities of Native Americans and non-Native Americans together?
No
What was the main purpose of the Dawes Act?
To give individual plots of land to Native American Families
Which piece of legislation allowed Native Americans to open Casinos?
Indian Gaming Act of 1988
What are the federal lands set aside for Native Americans?
• Reservations
What conflict united the Native Americans on the plains to resist the reservation system?
Sand Creek Massacre
Treaty rights protect what specific rights of Native Americans?
(List from Treaty Packet)
What policy was created in the mid-1900s to encourage Native Americans to move into cities?
• Termination Policy
What famous American military leader died at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
George Armstrong Custer
Who was the head of the Ghost Dance Religion? What did the Ghost Dance religion preach?
• Prophet Wavoka, religion preached return of buffalo and banishment of White Settlers
What treaty caused the Red River War?
Treaty of Medicine Lodge 1867
What did the Self-Determination Act of 1975 give Native Americans control over?
Education on Reservations
What happened at the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
Sitting Bull died Over 200 unarmed Native Americans
were killed.
What ways were used to destroy Native American cultures in the 1800s?
• Destroying buffalo, taking land, and granting land that was infertile.
Why did the Native American Indian Movement exist?
• Keep Native American Land and exercise self-government
What did the Morrill Land Grant Act accomplish?
• Provided funding to build universities in the West.
What agency filled a role of negotiating between the government and Native American tribes?
• Bureau of Indian Affairs
What was the purpose of the Homestead Act?
• To encourage Native Americans to move West.
Why does the Reservation system exist?
Assimilation of Native Americans into American Society
Who was Crazy Horse?
Rode with Sitting Bull at Little Bighorn
Who was Sitting Bull?
Chief that was killed during Massacre at Wounded Knee.
Led the Native Americans to victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn
Who was George Armstrong Custer?
Military Colonel that was killed and defeated at Little Bighorn
Who was Senator Dawes?
Worked at the Federal government level to try to save Indian Culture.
Who was John Chivington?
• Military Colonel who ordered his troops to kill the Cheyenne at Sand Creek.
