Question 1

Select a influence on the American Indains from Westward ecpansion.

Accepted Answer

Assimilation

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provided food, and homes to the American Indians

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Because of eating American food they became healthier

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brought families together

Question 2

Select the results of western expansion on the American Indian.

Accepted Answer

Decrease in the American Indian population

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family support

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healthier diet

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new hunting tools -like the gun

Question 3

Select the terms that are associated with assimilation.

Accepted Answer

Dawes Act and Boarding Schools

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reservations

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resistance

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opposition

Question 4

What is an influence on the American Indians due to westward expansion?

Accepted Answer

Loss of land

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loss of resources

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loss of buffalo

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increase in land

Question 5

Identify all the reasons for a decrease in population due to westward expansion.

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warefare, disease, decreace in the buffalo populations

Question 6

Why were American Indian children forced to attend boarding schools?

Accepted Answer

To be removed from the influence of American Indian culture and adopt American culture

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Because they need more students in their schools

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so they would already be placed on reservations where they would live forever

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To punish their parents

Question 7

What are the two most common diseases that weakened and kill American Indians on reservations?

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Cholera, Tuberculosis

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American flu

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Small pox

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Typhoid fever

Question 8

Why did Americans kill massive numbers of buffalo?

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For sport, to make money off of hides

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to build boarding schools

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To clear land for homes

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to take pictures to send back East

Question 9

What does the Battle of Wounded Knee relate to?

Accepted Answer

how warfare reduced the American Indian population

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Increased the population of the American Indian

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American Indian resistance

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reduction of buffalo

Question 10

Why was the Battle of Wounded Knee considered a massacre?

Accepted Answer

federal troops killed defenseless American Indian women, children, and elderly

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because it resulted in victory for the American Indians

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it resulted into the elimination of all American Indians

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federal troops used intimidation to get American Indians to go to reservations

Question 11

Why did the federal government break its treaties with the American Indians?

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because gold and silver were discovered on their reservations and the federal government wanted the land

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to punish the American Indians

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because the weather changed

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They did not have a  honor

Question 12

Why was the buffalo so important to the American Indians?

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it provided them with food, clothing, shelter, and tools

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They thought is was a scared animal

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the believed that animals should not be killed

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The buffalo was used to replace horses

Question 13

Select all the terms that relate to opposition by the American Indians.

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Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Chief Joseph

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Sitting Bull, Sitting Dog, and Crazy Horse

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Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Crazy Horse

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Geronimo, Chief Joseph, and Counting Crows

Question 14

Select the best example of assimilation.

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American Indians were forced to speak English

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American Indians practice their traditional ways

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American Indians were encouraged to use horses for transportation

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American Indians buying guns

Question 15

How did the Dawes Act support assimilation?

Accepted Answer

It gave land to American Indians, but they had to abandon their culture and practice American culture

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it allow the American Indian choose how they wanted to live

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it required the federal government to protect the traditions of the the American Indian

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it placed all American Indians on reservations where they were forces to practice American culture

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