The American West (up to page 5)

Question 1

Give 2 examples of famous Native American war chiefs

Answer 1

Red Cloud and Sitting Bull

Question 2

What did Plains Indians believe everything contained?

Answer 2

Wakan Tanka - The Great Spirit

Question 3

When would raids take place?

Answer 3

If a tribe needed supplies

Question 4

Who could go on raids?

Answer 4

Selected Brothers - a group of men who shared a special bind and always fought together

Question 5

What was ‘Counting Coup’

Answer 5

Where a warrior tapped his enemy with a stick and escaped without killing him. This gained the warrior a lot of respect

Question 6

What did Plains Indians do if forced to kill someone?

Answer 6

They scalped their enemy to stop him going to the Happy Hunting Ground (afterlife)

Question 7

Who was the medicine man?

Answer 7

Second only to the chief
In charge of weddings, funerals, love spells, protection spells, predicting the future etc.
Told ancient legends
Believed to have strong, magical powers

Question 8

What were the bones of the buffalo used for?

Answer 8

Knives, arrowheads, shovels, game dice

Question 9

What was the rawhide of the buffalo used for?

Answer 9

Containers, shields, medicine bags, drums, bullet pouches

Question 10

What was the tanned hide of the buffalo used for?

Answer 10

Shirts, dresses, quivers, tipi covers, dolls

Question 11

Where did the Plains Indians feel closest to Wakan Tanka?

Answer 11

The Black Hills of Dakota

Question 12

What shape did the Plains Indians believe life worked in?

Answer 12

A circle

Question 13

What were the Plains Indians beliefs on barriers?

Answer 13

All land was a gift from Wakan Tanka
People and animals should be free to roam as they please
They didn’t believe in barriers, fences, or limitations on travel

Question 14

Why did white Americans think it was wrong that the Plains Indians had so much land?

Answer 14

Plains Indians did ‘nothing to improve the land’, they didn’t farm, harvest the wood etc.

Question 15

When was the Indian Removal Act signed, and who by?

Answer 15

1830
President Jackson

Question 16

How many Plains Indians were pressured to move because of the Indian Removal Act, and where did they have to move?

Answer 16

46,000
West of the Mississippi River

Question 17

What was the Permanent Indian Frontier?

Answer 17

The border of the Mississippi River was under constant guard by the US army to keep Plains Indians and white settlers apart

Question 18

When were white people prohibited from settling on American Indian land?

Answer 18

1834

Question 19

When was the Indian Appropriations Act signed?

Answer 19

1851

Question 20

How did the Indian Appropriations Act affect the Plains Indians?

Answer 20

The government paid to move Plains Indians onto reservations
Some reservations were allocated small hunting grounds

Question 21

What did the Indian Appropriations Act mean for white people moving west?

Answer 21

They could move more easily across the plains

Question 22

What is a migrant?

Answer 22

Someone who moves from one place to another

Question 23

What is a push factor?

Answer 23

Something pushing someone out of where they currently live

Question 24

What is a pull factor?

Answer 24

Something attracting someone to want to move there

Question 25

What were some push factors from the East?

Answer 25

poverty
disease
religious or social persuasion
taxation
eastern overpopulation

Question 26

What were some pull factors to the West?

Answer 26

fresh start
newspaper reports/stories
cheap, fertile land
government encouragement
gold and silver

Question 27

What were unemployment rates like in the East in 1937?

Answer 27

About 25%

Question 28

How much did it cost to travel to Oregon by sea?

Answer 28

$300