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This former Civil War General made the infamous statement: "The only good Indian is a dead Indian."
Who was General Philip Sheridan
The land that our school currently sits on belonged to what Native American nation.
Who are the Seneca
At this final meeting of the armies, General Lee said: "I am glad to see one real American here." Parker replied: "We are all Americans now."
What is the Surrender at Appomattox
Relative to the East Coast, the new states of the Great Plains were more this.
What is politically progressive
Who are the Haudenosaunee
"I will fight no more forever" said this chief after leading his people from Idaho to Montana in search of land.
Who was Chief Joseph
This state was originally organized as the "Indian Territory", and was the destination for the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears.
What is Oklahoma
The battle that included Custer's Last Stand, which was a significant victory for the Sioux Nation.
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn
During the Indian Wars this group represented a new population of men to join the US Army.
Who are African Americans or former slaves
This institute, which still exists today, is where Ely Parker attended college to become one of the first Native American civil engineers.
What is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
This mediocre Civil War officer met his end during the Indian Wars while pursuing the Sioux.
A former military post, this educational institution aimed to "Kill the Indian, and save the man" through a policy of assimilation.
What is the Carlisle School
The US government was actually lagging at times in military technology, but at this battle the new breech-loading rifle helped 27 soldiers fight off thousands.
What is the Wagon Box fight
This is the goal of cutting children's hair, forbidding children speak their native language, and splitting up families in the Indian Boarding Schools.
What is Assimilation
The years which the Sioux Wars lasted.
This famous Seneca Chief became the first Native American to be commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Who was Ely Parker
Gold found in this place was a significant cause for the Sioux Wars.
What is the Black Hills of South Dakota
This massacre brought public attention to the atrocities carried out against the Sioux Nation.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre
This was the system of putting Native American nations on parcels of land, often the least desirable, managed by the Federal government.
What is the Reservation System
This idea, promoted by President Jame K. Polk, helped promoted westward migration.
What is Manifest Destiny
This US President is credited with starting the idea of Continentalism, or the idea that the United States should control the entire North American continent.
Who was John Q. Adams
On the map of a single state that we looked at in class, there were 6 army forts. What is the name of that state?
What is Wyoming
The "unorganized" territory of the Great Plains was mostly part of this land acquisition from Napoleon Bonaparte.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
What is reduce the power of the Chiefs/Native American governments
This one-armed Civil War general, hero of Gettysburg, champion of Abolition, namesake of one of the first African American colleges in the US was not similarly concerned with the rights of Native Americans.
Who is Oliver O. Howard