Social Studies Chapter 6

Question 0

What is a written agreement between two or more nations

Answer 0

A treaty

Question 1

What does Westward expansion mean?

Answer 1

During the 1800s the movement of settlers and immigrants from the eastern United States to the Midwest and West

Question 2

What does ratify mean

Answer 2

To approve formally

Question 3

What is a territory

Answer 3

A part of the United States that is not within a state but is organized with its own governing leaders

Question 4

What is in an annuity

Answer 4

Annual payment of food and money that the US government paid to the American Indians in return for their land.

Question 5

What is a reservation

Answer 5

Land se aside, or reserved, by the US government for use by an American Indian group.

Question 6

What is something that is owed such as money, good, for services

Answer 6

Debt

Question 7

What is in an assimilation

Answer 7

Adopting the values, and habits of a larger group.

Question 8

The U. S. looked to expand west, but what did they have to do to be able to

Answer 8

They had to get land from the Indians

Question 9

In what year did thousands of European Americans move west onto Indian land

Answer 9

The early 1800s

Question 10

Was the westward expansion supported by the Government

Answer 10

Yes

Question 11

What did the US have more of then the Indians did??

Answer 11

Money, people, and military power

Question 12

What did they do to the treaties so then it favored the government more??

Answer 12

They made the treaties really complicated

Question 13

Zebulon pike was sent by the ____________to acquire land for a fort in the year of_____.

Answer 13

He was sent by the government in the year of 1805

————- —–

Question 14

Where did Zebulon Pike find a place for a fort

Answer 14

Where is the Mississippi in Minnesota rivers meet

Question 15

What did they call the fort Zebulon Pike found?

Answer 15

B’dote

Question 16

What does B’dote mean??

Answer 16

Place where rivers meet

Question 17

How many Dakota leaders met with Zebulon Pike

Answer 17

7

Question 18

How many leaders decided to sell part of their land

Answer 18

Two

Question 19

Where the pieces of land the leaders agreed to sell first small, big, or medium sized?

Answer 19

Small

Question 20

The two small pieces the leaders agreed to sell were in what 2 places

Answer 20

1: where The St. Croix and Mississippi come together
2: both sides of the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Minnesota River North to falls of Anthony

Question 21

They could not approve the land treaty yet because who needed to do that

Answer 21

The US Senate

Question 22

In what year did they agree to pay the Dakota for the land, and how much did they pay them

Answer 22

In 1808 and they agreed to pay the Dakota $2000

Question 23

In what year did The soldiers arrive to start building a fort and what did they name it

Answer 23

In 1819 and they named it Fort Snelling

Question 24

What was The purpose of Fort Snelling

Answer 24

To enforce US laws related to the fur trade- protect US trade from the British And to keep peace between the Dakota and Ojibway

Question 25

What were Lawrence Taliaferro's jobs

Answer 25

He was an Indian agent-worked to keep the fur trade running smoothly, managing the relations between the government and Indians, and resolved disputes between the fur traders and the Indians

Question 26

What was the headquarters acrosst the river from the fort( Mendota) called

Answer 26

American fur company

Question 27

Who was the head of the American fur company

Answer 27

Henry Hastings Sibley

Question 28

True or false, Henry Hastings Sibley was a terrible businessman

Answer 28

False

Question 29

Henry Hastings Sibley understood what

Answer 29

The importance of building kinship with the Dakota

Question 30

Who did Henry Hastings Sibley marry and did they have a daughter or son

Answer 30

Red blanket woman and they had a daughter

Question 31

What was the resource value of the land for the Dakota and Ojibway

Answer 31

1. It belonged to the people who lived there 2. Land held their ancestors graves and places of sacred tradition 3. Provided food and resources for survival and transportation.

Question 32

What was the resource value of the land for the Americans

Answer 32

1. Land had resources from which to benefit | 2. Lumber, land for farming, rivers for powering mills, land divided for homes and businesses( income)

Question 33

In what year did the demand for first drop

Answer 33

In the 1830s which means the fur trade was less profitable

Question 34

The westward expansion increased in the 1830s what did the government want

Answer 34

Land

Question 35

What year did Minnesota become Territory

Answer 35

1849

Question 36

At the time that Minnesota became a territory how many Americans lived there

Answer 36

About 5,000

Question 37

Who was the territorial governor

Answer 37

Alexander Ramsey

Question 38

True or false, | the government plan was to offer a cash payment in one month

Answer 38

False they wanted to offer a cash payment right away

Question 39

What was the government plan?

Answer 39

1. Offer a cash payment right away 2. Annuities for the next 50 years 3. Dakota could keep part of their land forever – called reservation

Question 40

What was the treaty motivations for land for the Dakota

Answer 40

They felt they had no choice and could at least keep some land

Question 41

What was the treaty motivations for land for the Americans

Answer 41

Wanted to populate and control ALLof north America

Question 42

What was the treaty motivations for money for the Dakota

Answer 42

Money to buy needed for survival and pay off their debts

Question 43

What was the treaty motivations for money for the Americans

Answer 43

Traders pay off their debt and make money buying and selling the land

Question 44

What was the treaty motivations for lifestyle for the Dakota

Answer 44

Reservation land to keep their traditional life

Question 45

What was the treaty motivations for lifestyle for the Americans

Answer 45

Americans wanted to change Indians to be more like them specifically farmers and Christians

Question 46

What is Pigs Eye Landing called today

Answer 46

St. Paul

Question 47

What year was Pigs Eye Landing in

Answer 47

1838

Question 48

Pig's Eye Landing was downriver from what

Answer 48

Fort Snelling

Question 49

What was Pigs Eye Landing named after

Answer 49

A one eyed man who opened a tavern

Question 50

What was Pigs Eye Landing renamed and why was it renamed that

Answer 50

Saint Paul and it was named that because a priest build the church

Question 51

What parties were involved in the 1851 first meeting for the treaty

Answer 51

The US government, and TWO Dakota tribes.

Question 52

The second meeting, in Mendota, was how many weeks later from the first meeting

Answer 52

Two

Question 53

When did they begin working on the Treaty

Answer 53

July 18, 1851

Question 54

True or false, Ramsey offered money and the Dakota I wanted annuities also but Ramsey said no Make false statements true

Answer 54

False , Ramsey offered money and annuities to help The Dakota's poor situation

Question 55

True or false when not all Indian leaders are at the meeting yet they refused to talk Make false statements true

Answer 55

True

Question 56

True or false, The Dakota elders wanted the government offer in writing and Ramsey did not agree Make false statements true

Answer 56

False Ramsey did agree to give The Dakota elders the government offer in writing

Question 57

On what day was the treaty signed by Ramsey a another official

Answer 57

July 23, 1851

Question 58

The Dakotas still had some concerns about the treaty and still wanted a copy of the document what did they hoped would happen

Answer 58

They hoped the government would not change or renege it

Question 59

They Dakota signed two copies of the treaty and document that said what

Answer 59

That they would use treating money to pay traders

Question 60

How much land of the Dakota lose

Answer 60

Most of their land, about 24 million acres

Question 61

What did the government pay in return for the land

Answer 61

$500,000 +50 years of food, goods, and cash

Question 62

What was the government cheating

Answer 62

They tried to change permanent reservations to temporary, and most of the cash payment went to the traders.

Question 63

What were the reservation goals for the Indians

Answer 63

It was a place to live traditionally- hunting, fishing, ricing etc.

Question 64

What were the reservation goals for the government

Answer 64

A place where Indians could learn to live as Americans

Question 65

Is it still hard to interpret treaty rights and they still have disagreements

Answer 65

Yes

Question 66

What year was the Minnesota versus Mille lacs lake band of Chippewa in

Answer 66

1999

Question 67

The Ojibwe won the Minnesota versus Mille Lacs band of Chippewah, so what did they get

Answer 67

They were allowed to hunt and fish in traditional ways on or off of the reservation

Question 68

The state of Minnesota tried to change the treaty of the Minnesota vs. Mille Lacs band of Chippewa what did the Supreme Court say

Answer 68

NO

Question 69

Part of annuities was set aside to teach what

Answer 69

The Indians how to live like Americans

Question 70

Did the assimilation of the annuities being set aside to teach the Indians how to live like Americans cause great conflict

Answer 70

YES

Question 71

How many people moved in to Minnesota after the settlement of the treaties

Answer 71

Tens of thousands

Question 72

Dakota fought against assimilation for how many years

Answer 72

The next 10 years

Question 73

In the next how many years did the Ojibway also signed treaties and

Answer 73

30

Question 74

Explain why government officials, fur traders, and missionaries wanted to make treaties with the Dakota

Answer 74

Government officials wanted to make treaties with the Dekota because they wanted their land.The fur traders wanted to make treaties with the Dakota because the Dakota would have to use money from the treaty to pay them back. Missionaries wanted to convert them to Christianity.

Question 75

What were three results of the treaty of Mendota and Traverse de Souix?

Answer 75

The Dakota lost a lot of land because of the Mendota treaty. The Dakota fought against assimilations for next 10 years there were a lot of disagreements about the treaty. The Dakota got reservations by the Minnesota River also.

Question 76

How did the language differences make the treaty nogotiationd a problem

Answer 76

sometimes the other people did not understand what they were trying to say. Also they had to go through the trouble of finding a translator.

Question 77

Why did some of the Dakota not want to make a treaty

Answer 77

Some of the Dakota did not trust the government and thought that they would really cheat on them They did not want to lose their land They had traditional ways of doing things and did not want to lose those ways