Author Question: What event effectively ended Native American resistance to Euro-American settlement in the Great ... (Read 40 times)

saliriagwu · **on:** Aug 7, 2018

What event effectively ended Native American resistance to Euro-American settlement in the Great Plains?

A) The defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn forced the US government to negotiate.
B) The US Homestead Act was passed to allow for settlement only on previously unclaimed lands.
C) The massacre of more than 200 Dakota men, women, and children near Wounded Knee
D) Prospectors in the area brought diseases that largely wiped out the Native American presence in the area.

Question 2

Which part of the Great Plains was settled first, the Canadian portion or the U.S. portion?

A) The Canadian Great Plains
B) The U.S. Great Plains
C) They were both settled around the same time
D) Actually the pattern of settlement did not relate to the political boundaries