The Battle For The Great Plains

Question 1

Where was gold discovered in 1870 and what treaty did this break?

Answer 1

The Black Hills, broke the Fort Laramie treaty

Question 2

How many buffalo roamed the Plains in 1840?

Answer 2

13 million

Question 3

By 1885 how many buffalo were left on the Plains?

Answer 3

200

Question 4

What is the name of the trail that leads to the Rocky Mountains, where gold was discovered in 1862?

Answer 4

The Bozeman Trail

Question 5

What year was the treaty of Fort Laramie created?

Answer 5

1851

Question 6

What two different methods could be used to control the Native Americans?

Answer 6

Negotiation or extermination

Question 7

What method of control did most settlers believe in?

Answer 7

Extermination

Question 8

Why did the government create treaties?

Answer 8

So the Indians would agree to live on smaller pieces of land and accept supplies of food and clothing

Question 9

When was the second Fort Laramie treaty made?

Answer 9

1868

Question 10

Why did the Indians not trust the whites?

Answer 10

Because they broke treaties and attacked them etc

Question 11

When did President Andrew Jackson pass the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 11

1830

Question 12

How many Indians were forced to move and to where because of the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 12

70,000 to Oklahoma

Question 13

Where were the Indians who were forced to move because the Indian Removal Act previously living?

Answer 13

The Eastern states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida and Virginia

Question 14

What was Oklahoma seen as?

Answer 14

The ‘Indian Territory’

Question 15

Why did many Indians die during the journey to Oklahoma?

Answer 15

Famine and disease

Question 16

How many ‘wars’ were there between 1855 and 1868?

Answer 16

Four

Question 17

What year was the Winter Campaign?

Answer 17

1868

Question 18

What year was the Great Sioux War that led to the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Answer 18

1876

Question 19

What did the government promise the Indians in the treaty of Fort Laramie?

Answer 19

Lands along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the land was promised to them forever, as well as no white settlers ever entering the land

$50,000 a year for 10 years, and provide them with food, clothing, cattle and equipment as compensation for their loss of land

Question 20

Where was gold found in 1859?

Answer 20

Pikes peak in Colorado

Question 21

What happened after gold was found in 1859?

Answer 21

Settlers crossed though lands promised to the Indians in the treaty of Fort Laramie

Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians began attacking railroad surveyors and settlers

Question 22

What happened in 1861 after gold was found in Colorado?

Answer 22

The government called the chiefs to Fort Lyon where they were forced to abandon their claims and were given a much smaller area of land in eastern Colorado

Many warriors refused to follow the Chief’s agreements

Question 23

When was the Sank Creek Massacre?

Answer 23

1864

Question 24

When was the General Allotment act or Dawes act?

Answer 24

1887

Question 25

When was the Fetterman massacre?

Answer 25

1866