American Pageant 15th Edition By Kennedy – Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
61. In post-Civil War America, Indians surrendered their lands only when they
a. chose to migrate farther west.
b. received solemn promises from the government that they would be left alone and provided with supplies on the remaining land.
c. lost their mobility as the whites killed their horses.
d. were allowed to control the supply of food and other staples to the reservations.
e. traded land for rifles and blankets.
ANS: B REF: p. 577
62. For Native Americans in the West, tribes were
a. the way they perceived their differences with other Indian groups.
b. a system of socially organizing themselves.
c. a fiction of the white imagination.
d. a better alternative to the scattered bands that they had had in the past.
e. None of these
ANS: C REF: p. 577
63. In the warfare that raged between the Indians and the American military after the Civil War,
a. the Indians were never as well armed as the soldiers.
b. the U.S. army was able to dominate with its superior technology.
c. there was often great cruelty and massacres on both sides.
d. Indians proved to be no match for the soldiers.
e. Indians and soldiers seldom came into face-to-face combat.
ANS: C REF: p. 578
64. The Buffalo Soldiers were
a. U. S. Army units who survived on the plains by killing buffalo.
b. African American cavalry and soldiers who served in the frontier wars.
c. Soldiers who sought to defeat the Indians by depriving them of their primary food supply.
d. Soldiers who were killed in the Fetterman massacre.
e. Military officials who criticized George M. Custer’s tactics.
ANS: B REF: p. 577
65. The Indians battled whites for all the following reasons except to
a. rescue their families who had been exiled to Oklahoma.
b. avenge savage massacres of Indians by whites.
c. punish whites for breaking treaties.
d. defend their lands against white invaders.
e. preserve their nomadic way of life against forced settlement.
ANS: A REF: p. 577-579
66. Match each Indian chief below with his tribe.
A. Chief Joseph 1. Apache
B. Sitting Bull 2. Cheyenne
C. Geronimo 3. Nez Percé
4. Sioux
a. A-1, B-2, C-3
b. A-3, B-4, C-1
c. A-2, B-4, C-3
d. A-4, B-3, C-2
e. A-1, B-3, C-4
ANS: B REF: p. 579
67. As a result of the complete defeat of Captain William Fetterman’s command in 1866
a. the government sent extensive military reinforcements to the Dakotas and Montana.
b. the government abandoned the Bozeman Trail and guaranteed the Sioux their lands.
c. the government adopted a policy of civilizing the Indians rather than trying to conquer them.
d. white settlers agreed to halt their expansion beyond the 100th meridian.
e. the conflict between the U.S. army and the Sioux came to a peaceful end.
ANS: B REF: p. 578
68. A new round of warfare between the Sioux and U.S. Army began in 1874 when
a. the U.S. Army decided to retaliate for the Fetterman massacre.
b. Sioux Chief Crazy Horse began an effort to drive all whites from Montana and the Dakotas.
c. Colonel George Custer led an expedition to Little Big Horn, Montana.
d. Colonel George Custer discovered gold on Sioux land in the Black Hills.
e. the federal government announced that it was opening all Sioux lands to settlement.
ANS: D REF: p. 578
69. The Plains Indians were finally forced to surrender
a. because they were decimated by their constant intertribal warfare.
b. when they realized that agriculture was more profitable than hunting.
c. after such famous leaders as Geronimo and Sitting Bull were killed.
d. when the army began using artillery against them.
e. by the coming of the railroads and the virtual extermination of the buffalo.
ANS: E REF: p. 579-580
70. The Nez Percé Indians of Idaho were goaded into war when
a. the Sioux began to migrate onto their land.
b. gold was discovered on their reservation.
c. the federal government attempted to force them onto a reservation.
d. the Canadian government attempted to force their return to the United States.
e. their alliance with the Shoshones required it.
ANS: C REF: p. 579
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