Indians In the Great Plains

Question 1

What were the Great plains like pre Mexican American War

Answer 1

Lived in isolation until Lewis and Clark in 1804 encountered these tribes

Question 2

what impact did the Mexican American war have on Indian Culture

Answer 2

many poor things including US troops disturbing Indians on the Santa Fe trail to Mexico

Question 3

What happened after the US win of the Mexican American war

Answer 3

Claimed Southwest and opens it to settlers

Question 4

Why were the Inidans not distrubred before the manifest destiny

Answer 4

Why would they be?

Question 5

What happened to the northern border of america

Answer 5

1846 U.S. - Britain 49th parallel treaty opens up Washington ore, trail

Question 6

when did the rush to the coast start

Answer 6

From 1840 to 1860 250k settlers took Oregon and California trails out west

Question 7

What was the Threat for people coming over to california

Answer 7

Inidans were not a threat and less then 400 were killed

Question 8

What where the main 7 tribes in 1860

Answer 8

Combanche, Apache, Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow, Pawnee and kinda Arapaho

Question 9

What were the real indian threats in early america

Answer 9

Jamestown, we tried killing them and then they killed us

Question 10

Threats to Inidans in early america

Answer 10

gave them all smallpox and killed there buffalo skulls

Question 11

Who proposed to concentrate Indians and what was his job

Answer 11

William Medill, Polk’s Commissioner of Indians Affairs and he proposed ideas for Indian colonies to concentrate them

Question 12

Why was reservation a bad idea

Answer 12

No good land, like to spread out, not able to move around, Religion wanted to keep the land with the people.

Question 13

What was the first Tribal Boundary

Answer 13

Ft. Laramie Treaty 1868 Sioux (Lakota) Cheyenne, Shoshoni both agreed to accept tribal boundaries, in order to keep whites out

Question 14

Sand Creek Massacre prerequisite

Answer 14

Small bands of Cheyenne and Arapaho attacked mining camps because they were on their land

Question 15

Sand creek Massacre peace

Answer 15

Black kettle sought peace yet coloradians wanted revenge even though Black Kettle is not apart of the attacks

Question 16

Sand Creek Massacre Main attack

Answer 16

John Chivington lead a volunteer army in Colorado to Black Kettles camp at Sand Creek and with no warning ordered and killed 150

Question 17

Where was the main gold fever

Answer 17

the black hills

Question 18

What expediton in the black hills was succesful

Answer 18

custers for gold

Question 19

What kept miners out of the black hills

Answer 19

A treaty tried but failed

Question 20

Who was the main person for Sioux

Answer 20

Sitting Bull

Question 21

What is the biggest win for the planes tribe

Answer 21

Little Big Horn

Question 22

Little Big Horn Prerequisite

Answer 22

The chief sitting bull and Crazy Horse gathered 2,000 warriors from the Sioux and Cheyenne

Question 23

Little Big Horn battle

Answer 23

custer attacks with 200 people and they all ide

Question 24

What came out of the Little Big Horn

Answer 24

Lead to more encampments

Question 25

Who tried to lead the Native american's to peace in canada

Answer 25

Chief Joseph

Question 26

What tribe was lead into canada

Answer 26

Nez Pierce (pierced nose)

Question 27

Where was the tribe that tried to escape sent to

Answer 27

Kansas

Question 28

who was a main source of resistance in the south west tribes

Answer 28

Giranimo with the Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico

Question 29

Picture of who by a cactus

Answer 29

giranimo

Question 30

Where was each tribe located

Answer 30

Apaches in the south west, everyone else in the plains

Question 31

What was the final armed encounter on the western front

Answer 31

Massacre at wounded knee

Question 32

final battle prerequisite

Answer 32

- South Dakota and by 1890 all of them are on reservations - a Paiute fell ill and had a vision of a messiah coming to save the Indians and drive out the whites - Started the ghost dance and was a ceremony to hurry the coming of the deliverer - Sioux is the main Ghost dance people and then officials got worried - got worried because they are a threat, the others were not a big threat

Question 33

Massacre at wounded knee

Answer 33

- Indian officials called army for protection - when army try to disarm both sides fire

Question 34

What battle was the picture of the frozen soilder

Answer 34

massacre of wounded knee

Question 35

What are buffalo soldiers

Answer 35

called them that because of their hair was curly and black black solderers

Question 36

What president agreed that we are doing the wrong things with indians

Answer 36

hayes

Question 37

Who wrote on Inidan mistreatment

Answer 37

Helen Hunt Jackson wrote a century of dishonor

Question 38

What happened when congress got involved with the mistreatment of Indians

Answer 38

It got messed up pretty well

Question 39

Act from congress on Inidans

Answer 39

The dawes act

Question 40

What was the act from congress supposed to do

Answer 40

guide NA into our culture and divided tribal land into family plots and make them into american culture and that destroyed tribal cultures

Question 41

What did the act from congress end up doing

Answer 41

destroyed tribal cultures, - Led to them having wayyy less land, worst thing they could have done - did not understand the concept of land ownership

Question 42

What was the Sioux tribe like

Answer 42

many different divisions with the 3 main and 1 is Lakota and Lakota has 7 tribes and one of them is Hunkpapa and that is what sitting bull is apart of

Question 43

What led to the ghost dances

Answer 43

a Paiute fell ill and had a vision of a messiah coming to save the Indians and drive out the whites