Native America Late 1800

Question 1

Black hills are originally controlled by the

Answer 1

Sioux

Question 2

Gov. Offers 6,000,000 dollars to buy black hills from Sioux. Sioux reject offer and hold a meeting at …..

Answer 2

Little big horn

Question 3

Who comes to confront the Sioux at Little bug horn ?

Answer 3

General Custer

Question 4

On ……….. Custer and his men are outnumbered 2 to 1 and slaughtered at Little bug horn.

Answer 4

June 25 1876

Question 5

Three reasons the Native American resistance failed

Answer 5

1) better technology for the whites
2) whites were better armed
3) whites divided and conquered

Question 6

Dawes act of 1887

Answer 6

Ends reservation system, and divides reservations into individual plots to try and force assimilation into white society.

NOT A SUCCESS

Question 7

Schools established for native Americans

Answer 7

Force native children to cut hair etc. speak, dress, act like a white person or be beaten

Question 8

1888 who has a vision that begins the ghost dance movement

Answer 8

Wovoka

Question 9

1890 army comes to arrest sitting bull assuming his involvement in ghost dance movement. Try’s to give himself up peacefully and is killed in scuffle

Answer 9

Dec 15

Question 10

Dec 29th 1890

Answer 10

Wounded Knee
Army asks native Americans to hand over weapons, some men begin doing ghost dance, fight breaks out and 250 of the 300 are slaughtered

Question 11

Gold is discovered in the ……. In 1875

Answer 11

Black hills