Exam question - Revision

Question 1

Date: Treaty of Echota?

Answer 1

1835

Question 2

What were the terms of the Treaty of Echota?

Answer 2

Gave up 8 million acres and received $5 million

Question 3

How does Andrew describe Indian dependency on US Gov in money terms?

Answer 3

“proposes to pay the whole expense”

Question 4

How many Choctaws died in the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 4

1,600 (1/10)

Question 5

How many Cherokee died?

Answer 5

4000 (1/4)

Question 6

Jackson –>

Answer 6

“cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilised, and Christian community.”

Question 7

When did Cherokee adopt constitution based on US?

Answer 7

1827

Question 8

What did the Cherokee replace homes with?

Answer 8

Small stick-and-wattle homes replaced with log, lumber, and brick homes

Question 9

How long was seminole war?

Answer 9

7 years

Question 10

How many US soliders marched onto Seminole land?

Answer 10

7000

Question 11

Land provided in Dawes Act?

Answer 11

160 acres for farming
320 for grazing

Question 12

Nez Perce reservation by 1910?

Answer 12

15000 Nez Perce
300,000 White settlers

Question 13

Land decrease of Native Americans?

Answer 13

150 million acres - 90 million acres

Question 14

John Collier’s view of Dawes Act?

Answer 14

‘principle tool’

Question 15

How did President Arthur describe the Dawes Act?

Answer 15

“allotment system will have a direct and powerful influence in dissolving the tribal band”

Question 16

How long did it take Alice Fletcher to divide Nez Perce reservation?

Answer 16

4 years

Question 17

When was the Dawes Act amended?

Answer 17

Curtis Act 1898

Question 18

After how long did Native Americans gain citizenship?

Answer 18

25 years

Question 19

Examples of tribes that did not follow the Dawes Act?

Answer 19

Big Foot - led Hunkpapa Lakota to join Red Cloud’s men Resulted in the Massacre of Wounded Knee

Question 20

Results of Wounded Knee?

Answer 20

250 Indians killed
1/2 women and children

Question 21

What caused the Dawes Act?

Answer 21

The Battle of Little Big Horn

Question 22

When was the Battle of little big horn?

Answer 22

1876

Question 23

Dawes Act date?

Answer 23

1878