Foreign Affairs: The Consolidation of Territory

Question 1

What was the dream of Thomas Jefferson with Native Americans?

Answer 1

He hoped that they would just accept USA culture and Christianity and there would not need to be any conflicts to make them in to American Citizens

Question 2

What did Thomas Jefferson’s idea demonstrate the concept of?

Answer 2

Assimilation

Question 3

What would be the reality with Native Americans contrasting Jefferson’s dream?

Answer 3

There would be many wars against the Native Americans which would not even help them to become American Citizens

Question 4

What schools were created for Native Americans and what was their purpose?

Answer 4

Assimilation Schools. These would teach Native American children to speak in English, adopt Christianity and also cut their hair short

Question 5

What has happened to many Native American tribes? Name 2 reasons why this has occured

Answer 5

Many of their cultures have been forgotten forever. Firstly due to many Native Americans being killed. Secondly due to the Assimilation of their children, there was no one to carry on the culture

Question 6

What did the Dawes Act of 1887 do?

Answer 6

It allowed Native Americans to be given 160 acres of farmland and after 25 years they would be accepted as American Citizens

Question 7

Where did the lands given to Native Americans under the Dawes Act come from?

Answer 7

Indian Reservations

Question 8

What did the USA Federal Government do to the excess Indian Reservation land that would not be given to people who accepted the Dawes Act?

Answer 8

Sell it off to White settlers

Question 9

What was the long term impact of the Dawes Act for Native American Tribes? Why was this significant?

Answer 9

They lost 90 million acres of land, which was 2/3 of the total land they owned before the 1887 Dawes Act

Question 10

Did the Native Americans ever recover from the 1887 Dawes Act?

Answer 10

No

Question 11

What happened at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890?

Answer 11

The Union Army surrounded a camp of Native Americans in South Dakota and were meant to negotiate with the Native Americans but massacred them instead

Question 12

What were the American Military fearful of at the Battle of Wounded Knee?

Answer 12

That a new idea in the Native American tribes would result in a large uprising

Question 13

What was the new idea created by the Native Americans which the USA feared would cause an uprising?

Answer 13

Ghost Dance

Question 14

How many people were killed at the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 14

300 people

Question 15

What was the situation for most Native American tribes and their children by 1890?

Answer 15

They had been put in to Reservation lands and their children had been sent to Assimilation Schools

Question 16

What was the situation for USA expansion by 1890?

Answer 16

They had expanded to the whole of North America

Question 17

What idea was brought to an end when the Frontier was closed and why?

Answer 17

Manifest Destiny, because the USA had now settled from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast fully

Question 18

What was a long term negative event with the Dawes Act?

Answer 18

In 1891 it was renewed to only give Native Americans 80 acres of land

Question 19

What was the problem with Native Americans now owning private land under the Dawes Act? (Emphasis on Private)

Answer 19

They did not understand the concept of private land in their culture so many of them sold their land off

Question 20

What was the problem with the class of land that Native Americans were given at the time?

Answer 20

It was farmland, but the farming industry at this time was doing poorly so they would not be able to make much money

Question 21

What was the scale of Assimilation schools by 1899?

Answer 21

There were 373 Assimilation Schools with over 20,000 students in them in total.

Question 22

Who originally experimented with Assimilation?

Answer 22

Colonel Pratt

Question 23

What was the short term impact for Native Americans of their children being sent to Assimilation schools?

Answer 23

They lost connections with their children

Question 24

What was the long term impact for Native Americans of their children being sent to Assimilation schools?

Answer 24

Their culture was not carried on and died with their parents.

Question 25

When did the first Assimilation school get made? What was it called?

Answer 25

1879, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Question 26

What was the consequences of not sending your child to an Assimilation school if you were a Native American?

Answer 26

You would be incarcerated