History Unit 3: Imperialism

What was the official goal of the Carlisle Indian School and other Indian boarding schools?

Assimilation

Which 2 Indigenous leaders encouraged warriors at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

Is this statement True or False?  Years after he surrendered, Geronimo thought that because of the hardships he endured he should have surrendered much earlier than he did.

False

Which occurred at Wounded Knee in 1890?

A Massacre of 300 Dakota People

Another name for the Dakota Uprising of 1862 is ... 

Little Crow's War

A treaty between the US Government and Native Americans is an example of which of the following phases?

Negotiation

Which of these broke up Indian Reservations into individual plots of land for Native Americans?

Dawes Act

What was the Trail of Tears?

The removal of Cherokee People from their land and 4,000 people died along the way

Where did the largest mass hanging in the US history take place?

Mankato, MN

Who stated "I will fight no more forever"?

Chief Joseph

Which of these men was NOT a famous Native American leader during the 1800s?

Yellow Eagle

Where was the event which involved US soldiers killing over 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, who were mostly women and children?

Sand Creek

The killing off of 60 million buffalo to near extinction is similar to the strategy of _______________________ that General Sherman used against the South during the Civil War.

total war

Who was the famous United States Military Leader killed at Little Bighorn?

George Custer

Which treaty was broken by the US Government after gold was discovered in the Black Hills?

The Laramie Treaty

As of 1890, all of the following were challenges when living on the prairie, EXCEPT

Buffalo

The first transcontinental railroad had 2 companies working to complete the project.  They were:

the Union Pacific working from east to west and the Central Pacific Railway working from west to east

Each of these was a boomtown of the Old West, EXCEPT

San Luis Obispo

All of the following are part of the transcontinental railroad, EXCEPT

Billy Kidd

The impact of the transcontinental railroad was:

all of the above are correct

All of the following people were part of the building of the transcontinental railroad, EXCEPT:  

Russians

What brought an end to the cattle drives of the Old West?

barbed wire fences

All of the following had to do with the Cattle Ranching Boom of the late 1800s, EXCEPT:

cowboys

Homesteaders usually failed for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT:

Dust storms were so terrible it was difficult to breathe, work or even live

Which of the following was NOT a lawman of the old West?

William Bonney