Treaty

Question 0

What is a written agreement between two or more countries

Answer 0

A treaty

Question 1

How many countries once claimed the land that is now Minnesota. List them

Answer 1

4,France,Spain,United States,England.

Question 2

What means nations have power to control their own affairs

Answer 2

Sovereign

Question 3

Who was sent to buy land in Minnesota for a fort

Answer 3

Zebulon Pike

Question 4

Why did the U.S. Government build Fort Snelling

Name two

Answer 4

To help protect the fur trade from the British

To keep peace among Indians

Question 5

What was life like at Fort Snelling

Answer 5

Lonely,boring,worked hard,cold

Question 6

Mendota was a trading post near Fort Snelling who owned it

Answer 6

American Fur Company

Question 7

Mendoza means?

Answer 7

Where two rivers meet

Question 8

Who was the U.S. Government Indian agent at Fort Snelling

Answer 8

Lawrence Taliafero

Question 9

Describe how an American Indian and a settler may have viewed the land in Minnesota

Answer 9

Indians saw it as their home,will not sell land,graves of ancestors

Settlers saw it as good soil for crops,forests for timber,rivers for transportation

Question 10

What year was the first treaty between the Dakota Ojibwe and US Government signed

Answer 10

1837

Question 11

St.Paul used to be called

Answer 11

Pigs eye landing

Question 12

It was renamed St.Paul after

Answer 12

A chapel called St.Paul

Question 13

Who was was a famous interpreter during the period of the fur trade

Answer 13

George Bonga

Question 14

His father was an

Answer 14

African American Fur Trader

Question 15

His mother was an

Answer 15

Ojibwe woman

Question 16

Name three languages he spoke

Answer 16

English,Ojibwe,French

Question 17

What year did Minnesota become a territory

Answer 17

1849

Question 18

Who was Minnesotas first territorial Governor

Answer 18

Alexander Ramsey

Question 19

When Minnesota becomes a state, does Alexander Ramsey ever become a governor

Answer 19

Yes, 2nd Minnesota governor

Question 20

Although the Indians believed that it was impossible to sell land, what were reasons some of them felt the treaty should,be signed

Name three reasons

Answer 20

1. keep some of their land
2. to get food and money
3. had no choice but to sign the treaty

Question 21

What reason we’re governments officials reasons for wanting treaties

Answer 21

Expand the U.S.

Question 22

Why did traders want the treaties

Two reasons

Answer 22

They could make more money selling land and timber

The Indians would pay them back

Question 23

Why did missionaries want the treaties

Answer 23

Indians give up religions and become farmers

Question 24

Who was Minnesotas most powerful fur trader

Answer 24

Henry Hasting Sibley

Question 25

Name a missionary who wanted the Indians to give up their customs and become farmers

Answer 25

Stephen Riggs

Question 26

What is the third piece of paper the Dakota sign? What did the Dakota think it was

Two anwsers

Answer 26

1. document payback to the fur traders

2. A third copy of the treaty

Question 27

What were the two locations of the places where the treaty of 1851 was signed

Answer 27

Travers des Sioux

Mendota

Question 28

List four results of the treaty of 1851

Answer 28

1. White Settlers pour into Minnesota
2. Dakota give up almost all their land in Minnesota
3. Money went to fur traders and missionaries
4. Dakota lived on reservation

Question 29

What year did the Ojibwe sign a treaty giving up their land in Northern Minnesota

Answer 29

1865