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What was the name of the land that the U.S. government put NA on to separate them from western settlers?
Reservations
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What did the NA hope for when they signed the treaty of Fort Laramie?
To preserve their land and culture
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Did native families want to send their children to Indian Schools?
No
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Why did the Battle of the Little Big Horn happen?
American (Geroge Armstrong Custer) attacked a camp of Indians who refused to remove to a reservation.
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What herd nearly went extinct due to industrial expansion?
The American bison (buffalo)
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What was the belief that the US had the right to spread the values of white civilization across the land called?
Manifest Destiny
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The ______ treaty was when the Native Americans were hoping to preserve limited land and hunting by moving the tribe onto a reservation?
The treaty of medicine lodge
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What state was the Carlisle Indian School located?
Pennsylvania
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Who wins the Battle of Little Big Horn, and what did they get?
The government, they took the Black Hills and confined the Lakota to the reservation.
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What did the white people bring when they invaded native American territory?
Name one: alcohol, guns, and disease
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What was the process of expanding further west by conquest, displacement, and rule over the native people called?
Imperialism or colonialism
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What did Native Americans get in the Dawes Allotment Act?
160 acres of land from the reservation
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Authorities preferred Indian Schools be boarding facilities for what reason?
The students would be farther away from the “contamination” of tribal values
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What happened in the Sand Creek Massacre?
Colonel John M. Chivington butchered 270 Indians even though they surrendered.
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What was the process the U.S. government used to "civilize" Indians, by making them adopt their culture, language, values, etc?
Forced Assimilation
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Did Americans keep their promise in the Treaty of Fort Laramie? Why?
No, since they discovered gold in the Black Hills.
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What was punishment for speaking your native tongue in an Indian School like Carlisle?
A whipping with a leather belt
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What was the name of the NA empire where ethnic cleansing wiped out many of the remaining people?
Indian Empire of Comanchería
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Who are the only people that Native Americans can sell their allotments to? And what is the effect after that?
White settlers, United States controlled most of the territory that was formerly occupied by Native Americans
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The original goal of Indian Schools was to assimilate Native Americans into American society so that they could be self-reliant. Did the US succeed in their goal? Why, why not?
(the group with the best explanation gets the points)
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