Chapter 6 - The Land Changes Hands

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What is a treaty?
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a way you treat someone
Written agreement between 2 or more nations
Written agreement between 1 nation
a delicious snack

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Q1
What is a treaty?
a way you treat someone
Written agreement between 2 or more nations
Written agreement between 1 nation
a delicious snack
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Q2
The U.S. Government went to the Dakota to discuss the sale of what?
Land
Furs
Goods
Food
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Q3
Why did the U.S. Government build Fort Snelling?
So the Indians have a place to live
To keep peace between the British and French
To protect the fur trade from the British
So they could trade more
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Q4
The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux had to be ratified by . . . ?
The Ojibwe
The United States Senate
The Dakota
The President of the United States
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Q5
Why did the U.S. Government want land from American Indians?
To build more military bases on it
To build more fur trading posts
To expand westward
To hunt
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Q6
In 1851, the U.S. Government offered cash, annuities, and reservations in exchange for what?
None of these
24 million acres of land
All the beaver pelts they had
To build a new capitol building
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Q7
Why did some Dakota support the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux?
Provides money to buy supplies
Thought government might take land anyway
Given a piece of land to live
All of these
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Q8
How did the European Americans view the land?
A resource from which to benefit from
It belonged to the Dakota
It belonged to the Ojibwe
No one owned the land
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Q9
Do the treaties made during the 1800's apply today?
No
Yes
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Q10
How did the Dakota view the land?
It owned by the Dakota
It was owned by the Ojibwe
It was owned by the European Americans
It was controlled by the people who lived on it
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Q11
Why did some Dakota NOT want to make treaties?
All of these answers
They didn't want to give up their land or lifestyle
They were worried the government wouldn't keep its promises
They didn't believe the land was something to be sold
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Q12
How did language differences make negotiations complicated?
Interpreters were hard of hearing
Many Dakota didn't speak English
All of these answers
Dakota didn't use proper sentence structure
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Q13
Why did the government officials want to make treaties?
For hunting
Eastward Expansion
Westward Expansion
To build the White House
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Q14
Which U.S. Government official led the negotiations at the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux?
Stephen Riggs
Alexander Ramsey
George Bonga
Henry Sibley
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Q15
Who acted as a missionary, interpreter, and witness at the treaty negotiations in 1851?
Stephen Riggs
Lawrence Taliaferro
George Bonga
Henry Sibley
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