Author Question: At the close of the Civil War, the majority of Indians in the trans-Mississippi West lived in: A) ... (Read 47 times)

tnt_battle · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Treaties with the Sioux and Nez Perces were broken when whites:

A) wanted to build railroads through their lands.
B) found gold on their lands.
C) were massacred by Indian war bands.
D) began the Oklahoma Land Rush.

Question 2

The reformers' intention in the reservation policy and the Dawes Act was to:

A) protect Indian culture.
B) curtail white settlement.
C) restore Indian-governed tribal lands.
D) assimilate individual Indians into white culture.

Question 3

The transformation of Oklahoma after the Land Rush fulfilled the vision of:

A) John L. Sullivan's manifest destiny.
B) Thomas Jefferson's agrarian republic.
C) Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis.
D) Joseph McCoy's open range.

Question 4

At the close of the Civil War, the majority of Indians in the trans-Mississippi West lived in:

A) the Southwest.
B) Texas.
C) Indian Territory.
D) the Great Plains.