Native Americans

Question 1

How many Native Americans served in the army in WW2?

Answer 1

25,000

Question 2

In the 1950’s Eisenhower tried to return to what policy and encourage what?

Answer 2

Assimilation to encourage Native Americans to leave their reservations for cities

Question 3

By 1960, how many Native Americans left their reservations?

Answer 3

13,000 out of 400,000 and their land only reduced by 3%

Question 4

What did the failure of the policy of assimilation lead to?

Answer 4

Bad feeling and the militant AIM movement

Question 5

What protests did AIM lead in 1973?

Answer 5

Wounded Knee protest

Question 6

How long was the Wounded Knee protest?

Answer 6

71 days

Question 7

What did the Wounded Knee protest achieve?

Answer 7

Little as the government went back in their agreement

Question 8

When was the National Congress of American Indians founded?

Answer 8

1944

Question 9

When was the American Indian Movement founded?

Answer 9

1969

Question 10

1974 Indian Self Determination Act

Answer 10

Grants tribes control over federal aid programmes

Question 11

What did the National Congress of Americans Indians do?

Answer 11

Like the NAACP, they used courts to protect the civil rights of Native Americans