Settling the West: Guided Reading: Lesson 3 Native Americans

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Settling the West: Guided Reading: Lesson 3 Native Americans

Guided Reading Activity Settling the West, 1865–1890 Lesson 3: Native Americans    Review Questions: Using Headings and Subheadings DIRECTIONS: Locate each heading below in your textbook. Then use the information under the correct heading and subheading to help you write each answer. I. Struggles of the Plains Indians

1. What are nomads?    _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________

2. What was a main source of food of the Plains Indians?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

3. Why did the Sioux agree to live on reservations?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

4. Who were the Lakota?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

5. When was the U.S. Army defeated in Red Cloud’s War?   _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

6. Where was Sand Creek and what occurred there?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

7. Why was the Indian Peace Commission a failure?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

8. What was the purpose of reservations?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

II. The Last Native American Wars

9. When did the Battle of the Little Bighorn occur and what was the result?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

10. Who was George A. Custer?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

11. What Nez Perce chief spoke these fateful words, “From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever”?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

12. Where did the Lakota Ghost Dancers and their families lose their lives in a final battle with  the U.S. government?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

13. What law gave Native Americans lots of land on the reservations and citizenship if they  lived on them for 25 years?    _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

Summary and Reflection DIRECTIONS: Summarize the main ideas of this lesson by answering the question below.

14. What caused many of the uprisings between the Native Americans and the settlers?   _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________________________

Answer Key

1. Nomads are people who roam great distances rather than living in permanent communities.

2. The main source of food of the Plains Indians was buffalo.

3. The Sioux agreed to live on reservations in exchange for annuities, annual payments from the government.

4. The Lakota were a nomadic Sioux tribe that fought hard to protect their hunting grounds from both other tribes and settlers from the East.

5. The U.S. Army was defeated in Fetterman’s Massacre in 1866 and abandoned its posts along the Bozeman trail in 1868.

6. Sand Creek was in Colorado, near Fort Lyon, and it was the location of the Sand Creek Massacre, in which a group of Cheyenne who had come to negotiate were attacked and slaughtered by the Colorado volunteers.

7. The Indian Peace Commission failed because their plans relied on pressuring Native Americans into agreements and because the reservation system resulted in poverty and corruption.

8. Reservations were intended to separate Native American tribes from one another and encourage them to assimilate into the dominant culture.

9. The Battle of the Little Bighorn occurred in 1876 and resulted in the overwhelming defeat of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry by Native Americans.

10. George A. Custer was the commander of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

11. Chief Joseph spoke those words.

12. The Lakota Ghost Dancers and their families died in battle with the U.S. government at Wounded Knee Creek.

13. The Dawes Act gave Native Americans a lot of land and citizenship if they lived on them for 25 years.

14. The Dakota Sioux rebelled out of frustration from being starved and impoverished, while the Lakota Sioux were overrun by settlers looking for gold. The Sand Creek Massacre involved failed negotiations. Most of the uprisings boiled down to Native Americans and settlers competing for the same land and resources.

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