4 Written Questions

1. After war, the federal gov. wants to put Indians of reservations, but some Indians fight against this (called the Indian Wars). Big part of the Indian wars was the Sand Creek Massacre (killed over 100 Indians). Policy of Concentration: no longer were Indians to be pushed westward, but put on reservations. Treaty of Traverse de Sioux in 1851: Sioux herded on to reservations after loosing the Indian Wars. In 1883, when Buffalo become nearly extinct, Indians realize their way of life is destroyed, and submit to reservations. Ghost Dance: 1890, religious movement that spread to the Sioux by Sitting Bull (see wounded knee)
2. After the war People wanted to go west for economic opportunities. Movement was possible because of the completion of the transcontinental railroad in the 1870s (1862- Pacific Railroad Bill enabled building of transcontinental, free land policy- the gov. sells the best land to the railroads). The Homestead Act of 1862: men and unmarried women over 21 file for 160 acres of land, and must improve the land. This hurt the Indians and New Mexico sheep herders.
3. June 5th, 1876. George Custer wants to capture Sioux Indian chief. Indians win and kill many Americans. Sioux warriors were led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
4. Sharecropping: rents land to ex-slaves and the owners are paid off with crops (share croppers were almost always in debt because they had to supply the tools- not much better than slavery). Jim Crowe's laws of segregation where tested in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. Increase lynchings of blacks. Ida B. Wells launches an anti-lynching campaign and wrote in her newspaper Free Speech (she was popular in Britain). Late 1870s Exodus became popular among Blacks.

4 Multiple Choice Questions

1. It says that Indians are no longer a legal entity, and dissolved the tribes (no longer Indians, Americans). Got rid of Indian culture. Whites eager to seize reservation land. Revoked in the 1930s
   1. Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883
   2. Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
   3. The Gilded Age: Wounded Knee
   4. The Gilded Age: The New South
2. Caused by the Ghost Dance, it offered a different type of resistance to whites. White army fired on a Sioux encampment at wounded knee killing many Indian civilians. This event symbolized the end of 19th century Indian Plains culture. Last armed conflict between Indians and Americans
   1. The Gilded Age: Wounded Knee
   2. The Gilded Age: Settling the Indian Question
   3. The Gilded Age: Plessy vs. Ferguson
   4. The Gilded Age: The New South
3. (1890s) Plessy was 1/8th black and wanted to test Jim Crowe's laws. Supreme Court says "separate but equal"- was law until 1954
   1. The Gilded Age: The New South
   2. The Gilded Age: Wounded Knee
   3. The Gilded Age: Settling the Indian Question
   4. The Gilded Age: Plessy vs. Ferguson
4. Law designed to supervise railroad activities and regulate unfair practices
   1. The Gilded Age: The New South
   2. The Gilded Age: Race Relations in the South
   3. The Gilded Age: Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
   4. The Gilded Age: Atlanta Exposition Speech of 1895

3 True/False Questions

1. The Gilded Age: Atlanta Exposition Speech of 1895 → Booker T. Washington emerges as an accommodationist

   True        False

2. The Gilded Age: The New South → Caused by the Ghost Dance, it offered a different type of resistance to whites. White army fired on a Sioux encampment at wounded knee killing many Indian civilians. This event symbolized the end of 19th century Indian Plains culture. Last armed conflict between Indians and Americans

   True        False

3. Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 → It says that Indians are no longer a legal entity, and dissolved the tribes (no longer Indians, Americans). Got rid of Indian culture. Whites eager to seize reservation land. Revoked in the 1930s

   True        False