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HistB Ch 5-1
Cultures Clash on the Prairie
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the Great Plains? | The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States |
| Who was Zitkala-Sa? | An Sioux Indian who was sent to a Quaker School in Indiana. |
| Who produced beautifully crafted tools and clothing? | People of the Plains |
| How did the introduction of Horses and guns change the Indian the Indian way of life? | They were able to travel further to hunt Buffalo. |
| What provided the Indians many of their basic needs? | The buffalo |
| What were the basic needs that the buffalo provided? | Tepees, clothing, shoes, blankets and meat |
| How did Native Americans live on the plains? | In small extended family groups |
| What did Native American men do? | They trained to become hunters and warriors |
| What did Native American women do? | They helped butcher the game and prepare the buffalo hides for use. |
| How was Indian land used? | Land was held in common for the whole tribe to use. |
| Who believed that the land could not be owned? | Native American Indians |
| Why did white settlers believe that land can be owned? | They believed it would give them a stake in the country. |
| Why did the white settlers believe that the Indians forfeited their rights to the land? | Because the Indians did not "improve" the land thus they had no claim to it and it was thus "unsettled". |
| What attracted people to the West? | The discovery of Gold and the prospect of striking it rich. |
| What was the policy toward Native American land? | The government formed treaties with each tribe that defined specific boundaries for each. |
| What was the document that the Sioux Indians were forced to sign in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River? | Treaty of Fort Laramie |
| Who was Tatanka Iyotanka? | Sitting Bull |
| Who did not sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie? | Sitting Bull |
| What led to the Red River War? | Six years of raiding by the Kiowa and Comanche Tribes |
| Who said that the Black Hill had gold "from the grass roots down"? | Colonel George A. Custer |
| What were the results of Custer's Last Stand? | He and his troops were outflanked and all were killed at Little Bighorn River. |
| Who appeared in "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show? | Sitting Bull |
| Who wrote ""A Century of Dishonor"? | Helen Hunt Jackson, ( |
| What does Assimilation mean? | a plan in which the Native Americans were to give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture. |
| Congress passed ___________________ that aimed to "Americanize" the Native American. | Dawes Act |
| The ___________________________ broke up the reservations and divided the land based on marital status. | Dawes Act |
| What was the most significant blow to the tribal life on the plains? | The destruction of the buffalo. |
| What battle brought the Indian wars and entire era to a bitter end? | The Battle of Wounded Knee |
| The American cowboys way of life stemmed directly form who? | The Spanish rancher in Mexico. |
| What developments led to the rapid growth of the cattle industry? | The demand for beef due to the rapidly growing cities after the Civil War. |
| Who came up with a plan to create a shipping yard where the cattle trails cam together? | Joseph McCoy |
| What was the name of the major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas called? | Chisholm Trail |
| James Butler Hickok was known as ? | "Wild Bill" |
| Hickok (Wild Bill) was killed while holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights in a poker game. What is this hand known as? | "dead man's hand" |
| Who was Calamity Jane | Martha Jane Burke |
| What was responsible to the end of the cattle herding days? | Over grazing of the land, extended bad weather and the invention of barbed wire. |
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