Vocabulary
People
Places
Pressure to Change
Tensions leading to War
100

A U.S. government field office

What is agency?

100

Trader who said "If they are hungry, let them eat grass."

Who is Andrew Myrick?

100
The city near the incident that started the Conflict--where eggs were a factor of the killing of white settlers.
What is Acton?
100
Dakota men were told they should cut this to be more like white men.
What is hair?
100
This payment was late so the Dakota could not buy the food they needed to survive.
What is an annuity?
200

destroy completely; put an end to

What is eradicate?

200

U.S. Agent in charge of distributing annuities to the Dakota.

Who is Thomas Galbraith?

200
The location of the first Dakota attack where agents and traders were murdered.
What is the Lower Sioux Agency?
200
Dakota were told to live in these instead of their traditional tipis.
What is a house?
200

Traders would not give the Dakota this so that they could get food and pay when their money arrived.

What is credit?

300

break up or cause to break up and stop functioning 

What is disband?

300
Reduced the number of death sentences of Dakota from 303 to 39.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
After the trials, 1,600 Dakota men, women, and children were imprisoned here.
What is Fort Snelling?
300
Missionaries wanted the Dakota to leave behind their beliefs and become what?
What are Christians?
300

This group of people were unwilling or unable to help. 

Who are missionaries?

400

a feeling of doubt or apprehension about the outcome or consequences of something

What is misgivings?

400
Sentenced 303 Dakota to die--using trials that were sometimes only 5 minutes long.
Who is Henry Sibley?
400
The city where 38 Dakota were hanged for the Dakota Conflict.
What is Mankato?
400
Instead of hunting for most of their food, the Dakota were told they should do this instead like the white man.
What is farming?
400

Some Dakota thought it was a good time to fight because many white men were gone fighting this other war.

What is the Civil War?

500

steal goods, typically using force and in a time of disorder 

What is plunder?

500
Two missionaries who spoke out after the war against the unfair trials of the Dakota.
Who are Stephen Riggs and Henry Whipple?
500

The place where Dakota were sent (banished) from Minnesota to live on a reservation after the Conflict.

What is Crow Creek Reservation? 

500
These people were given extra food and help from the U.S. government because they began to change their lives to be more like the white settlers.
What are the Farm Dakota?
500
After the braves killed the white woman, the Dakota felt the government would do this if they turned the braves in.
What is punish all Dakota?
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