The Indian Wars

Question 1

when was little crows war?

Answer 1

1861-62

Question 2

who was little crow?

Answer 2

chief of dakota sioux

Question 3

what did little crow sign and agree to do?

Answer 3

a treaty by the government to move onto 2 smaller reservations

Question 4

what did the government promise to give in return?

Answer 4

$1.4 million

Question 5

why did the government refuse to give the money?

Answer 5

they had a lot of debt to traders which they had to pay off before receiving the money

Question 6

why did the tribe face food shortages?

Answer 6

new reservation was too small to grow enough food

the agency that was supposed to provide food sold it at very high prices

Question 7

what did the tribe have to survive on?

Answer 7

grass

Question 8

what did the government offer to do?

Answer 8

send money if they signed away 1/2 of their land - money never arrived

Question 9

what did little crow do?

Answer 9

attacked the reservation agency and stole food

Question 10

what did warrior brotherhoods do?

Answer 10

attacked 600 white settlers

Question 11

what did the US army do to the warrior brotherhoods?

Answer 11

arrested them and executed 38

Question 12

where were the tribe moved?

Answer 12

crow creek reservation

Question 13

what happened to the tribe after moving?

Answer 13

many died due to terrible land quality

Question 14

when was the sand creek massacre?

Answer 14

1864

Question 15

what was discovered in 1858 in colorado territory?

Answer 15

gold

Question 16

what did prospectors begin doing?

Answer 16

crossing Cheyenne and Arapaho territory

Question 17

what did the tribes agree in the 1861 treaty of fort wise?

Answer 17

to move to reservations

Question 18

what did young warrior brotherhoods do?

Answer 18

refused to move to reservations

Question 19

what did black kettle do?

Answer 19

set up camp at sand creek

Question 20

what was colonel chivington hired to do?

Answer 20

kill and destroy hostile indians

Question 21

how many indians did chivington massacre?

Answer 21

over 130

Question 22

what was agreed in 1865?

Answer 22

a new treaty moving the surviving indians to a better reservation and promising compensation to survivors

Question 23

why did the government back out of the 1865 deal?

Answer 23

they won the civil war

Question 24

what did the new 1867 treaty do?

Answer 24

moved the Cheyenne and Arapaho onto reservation 1/2 size they were promised in 1865 and no compensation was given to survivors

Question 25

when was red clouds war?

Answer 25

1866-68

Question 26

what did prospectors start doing in 1862 due to the discovery of gold in montana?

Answer 26

travelling across bozeman trail which was illegal due to first treaty of fort laramie

Question 27

what did the bozeman trail cross?

Answer 27

lakota sioux territory

Question 28

how may people had crossed by 1865?

Answer 28

2000

Question 29

what would the sioux do to those who crossed?

Answer 29

attack them

Question 30

what did the US government do about this?

Answer 30

called a council in 1866 to arrange a treaty to encourage safe use of the bozeman trail

Question 31

what did the government promise in return?

Answer 31

gifts and that hunting land wouldn’t be disturbed

Question 32

what did red cloud then discover?

Answer 32

the US army had already bought materials to build forts along the bozeman trail

Question 33

what did red cloud decide to do?

Answer 33

attack soldiers and prospectors accompanied by crazy horse and sitting bull

Question 34

what led to red cloud’s victory?

Answer 34

a successful ambush technique

Question 35

what were the US government forced to accept?

Answer 35

the closure of the bozeman trail in 1868

Question 36

what was a direct consequence of red clouds victory?

Answer 36

the second treaty of fort laramie