Apush Chapter 18 Example Questions – Flashcards

1898- This act ended Indian communal land ownership and dissolved Indian Territory.

1867- Assigned reservations to the Comanches, Kiowa Apaches, Kiowas, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes.

An attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a regiment of Colorado militiamen on November 29, 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members.

Largest military event since Civil War and one of the largest against Indians in US history, spanning 15 months with 15 battles. Started when Custer brought an expedition of miners searching for gold onto Sioux land. Demonstrates fierce Native American resistance, but also Native American helplessness in the face of superior American numbers and resources.

This treaty said the Sioux had a right to occupy the Black Hills. Later found gold, and caused a large part of the Sioux war.

American historian who said that humanity would continue to progress as long as there was new land to move into. The frontier provided a place for homeless and solved social problems.

American Indian medicine man, chief, and political leader of his tribe at the time of the Custer massacre during the Sioux War

A chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877)

United States general who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at the battle of Little Bighorn.

In 1876, Colonel George A. Custer and 260 of his men were killed by Sioux Indians led by Sitting Bull at this battle in southern Montana.

Leader of Nez Perce. Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops came and fought and brought them back down to reservations

An author who wrote "A Century of Dishonor" which chronicled the government's actions against the Indians. She also wrote Romona, which was a love story about Indians. Her writing helped inspire sympathy towards the Indians.

Bill that promised Indians tracts of land to farm in order to assimilate them into white culture. The bill was resisted, uneffective, and disastrous to Indian tribes

Spiritual revival in 1890 by Indians that would lead to the massacre at Wounded Knee

In 1890, after killing Sitting Bull, the 7th Cavalry rounded up Sioux at this place in South Dakota and 300 Natives were murdered and only a baby survived.

1934 - Restored tribal ownership of lands, recognized tribal constitutions and government, and provided loans for economic development.

Term that identified southern promoters' belief in the technologically advanced industrial South

Similar to sharecropping — merchants loan food and supplies to farmers so they can farm; farmers have to pay them back with some of their crops. When harvests were bad, farmers got deeper and deeper in debt to merchants.