People & Perspectives
Vocabulary
Causes of the US/Dakota War
Effects of the US/Dakota War
grab bag
100

This group of Native Americans didn't want to change their beliefs and/or customs.

The Traditional Dakota

100

Annual payment of food and/or money

annuity

100

The government failed to do this which made the Dakota very angry and frustrated.

make their promised annuity payments

100

What many settlers did when the war started.

They left (fled) the area.

100

Name 2 ways the farm Dakota changed their lifestyle.

Cut their hair

Wore different clothes

Farmed for profit

Sent children to school

Lived in brick or wooden houses

Attended church

200

This group of people changed their ways to become more like the white man.

The Farm Dakota

200

Forced to leave your homeland

Exiled

200

The government did this for the Farm Dakota which made the Traditional Dakota very angry and frustrated.

give the Farm Dakota annuities and extra food, tools, and livestock.

200

What happened to all Dakota land after the war?

It was all taken away.

200

He said, "So far as I'm concerned, if they are hungry, let them eat grass" 

Andrew Myrick (trader)

300

20,000 fled for safety then returned to rebuild.

The settlers

300

A place where civilians or Prisoners of War are held

Internment Camp

300

Name 2 things traders did that increased tension before the US-Dakota War of 1862.

Shut down the credit system, closed stores, stopped showing kinship.

300
This is what happened to many southern MN towns.
What is they were ravaged by war and had to rebuild almost everything?
300

The number of settlers killed in the first day of the war.

About 300

400

This group tried to persuade the Dakota to assimilate so they could survive.

The US Government.

400

the name for a government field office

agency

400

2 reasons why the Dakota were hungry.

Late payments-could not buy food.

Credit system was shut down.

Could not leave reservation to hunt.

400

Where were 1,700 Dakota forced to march and live during the winter of 1862/1863?

An internment camp near Fort Snelling.

400

This person approved the hanging of 39 Dakota men in Mankato, MN.

Abraham Lincoln

500

These people shut down the credit system so the Native Americans weren't able to get things they needed.

The traders

500

Persuaded or forced to give up lifestyle and adopt another culture's lifestyle.

assimilate

500

This is how the US Dakota War actually started.

An argument over eggs where 4 young Dakota men killed 5 settlers.

500

Where were the Dakota moved to after being exiled from Minnesota?

They were taken by steamboats & trains to Crow Creek reservation in South Dakota.

500

He led 1,400 US soldiers against the Dakota.

Henry Sibley

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