Federal Indian Policy and Plain Wars
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| What was the goal of the Dawes Act? | To remove the two weaknesses of the Native Americans that the white Americans saw.
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| What were the two weaknesses of the Native Americans that the white Americans saw? | Their nomadic life and identity by groups (tribes).
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| What were the effects on the buffalo when people started settling in the Great Plains and moving westward? | The population of millions of buffalo quickly dwindled down to barely a thousand left.
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| Why were buffalo hunted? | To feed the people working on the railroads, sport, and for their hide.
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| What was the first major treaty made between the Native Americans and the U.S. government? | The Treaty of Fort Laramie
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| Why was the Treaty of Fort Laramie issued? | To avoid disputes over land between the Native Americans and the incoming settlers and miners.
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| Who won the Battle of the Little Bighorn? | The Sioux indians led by Sioux leaders Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. They defeated Colonel George Custer.
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| Colonel John Chivington led his troops to open fire on a peaceful Cheyenne village along which place? | Sand Creek. The Sand Creek Massacre consisted of Chivington's troops killing more than 150 Cheyenne men, women, and children after opening fire on a peaceful Cheyenne village.
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| Why did the U.S. government issue the reservation policy for Native Americans? | They didn't want dispute over land with the miners traveling West for gold and the Native Americans.
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| In the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie, what did the U.S. government agree to? | To close the Bozeman Trail, abandon the forts, and provide reservation lands to the Sioux indians.
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| What was the Bozeman Trail? | The trail many pioneers and miners used to travel across the Great Plains. To protect these travelers, the U.S. government set up forts along the trail.
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