Vocabulary
This word describes Native American life before European arrival.
What is Pre-Contact?
The "Three Sisters" crops, were _____, ______, and ______.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
How did the Columbian Exchange affect Native Americans?
It introduced new foods/animals but also deadly diseases
This 1830 law forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Religious movement that promised the return of buffalo and end of white expansion?
What is Ghost Dance?
Exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This culture build large eartne mounds at Cahokia
Who were the Mississippians?
What role did epidemics play in Indigenous population decline?
They killed large numbers, weakening societies and cultures.
Law that divided Native land into private plot.
What is the Dawes Act?
Why did the U.S. see the Ghost Dance as threatening?
It was viewed as a sign of rebellion and resistance
The law that divided tribal lands into individual plots to assimilate Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
Housing used the Iroquois in the Northeast.
What is a longhouse?
Purpose of the mission system in California.
To convert Native Americans to Christianity and control labor.
Report that exposed problems with the Dawes Act.
What is the Meriam Report?
Survivors of removal and reservation policies adapted by preserving ________.
What is culture and traditions?
This 1934 act ended allotment and restored tribal self-government.
What is the Reorganization Act?
The Pueblo adapted to desert environments bu building homes out of this material.
What is adobe?
Why was the Trail of Tears an example of forced migration?
Native Americans were removed from their homelands by U.S. government order.
This act restored tribal self-government in 1934
Group of Native men who used their language to create an unbreakable code in WWII
Who were the Navajor Code Talkers?
The 1928 report that criticized the Dawes Act and revealed poor conditions in Native Communities.
What is the Meriam Report?
This natural resource was most important to tribes in the Pacific Northwest.
What is salmon?
Name the massacre in 1890 where hundred of Lakota Sioux were killed.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre
Why did the U.S. government want Native Americans to assimilate?
To reduce Native sovereignty and gain access to their lands/resources.
How did Native Americans resist colonization in everyday life?
By keeping languages, spiritual practices, and cultureal traditions alive.