General Trivia
What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
1776
Did Native American increase or decrease after the Age of Discovery?
Decreased by 2/3
What happened to families who refused to send their children to the boarding schools?
-Put in jail (Alcatraz)
- Food rations were taken
Define the term Settler Colonialism
Someone moving in and taking both economic and political control of a land.
What did many Native American tribes/nation believe about their connection to nature?
Many believed they were born of the soil
Who was the first President of the United States?
George Washington
What is the small piece of land that Native's were forced onto in exchange for governmental protection called?
A reservation
What were ways that Native American children had their cultural identities changed?
English Names, dressed different, shorter hair, only allowed to speak English
Someone who is against racism.
What is Manifest Destiny
The belief that American expansion was inevitable and justified
What river did many US settlers have to cross to get into the Great Plains region
the Mississippi
Why did Native Americans living in the Great Plains need the buffalo?
The buffalo was their life source
What was the goal of Native American boarding schools?
"Kill the Indian, save the man"
Define the word Segregationist
Someone who is for division based on race
True or False: All Native Americans have the same beliefs.
False
What did Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce think of Lewis and Clark.
What region did did many nomadic Natives live? (They hunted buffalo)
The Great Plains
Name one other country that also had boarding school for Indigenous people.
Define the word Assimilationist
Someone who changes another to be like them
Why did the Dawes Act go against the beliefs of Native Americans
Native Americans did not believe in owning individual plots of land.
In what year did Columbus sail the ocean blue?
1492
What tribe did Chief Joseph lead?
The Nez Perce
What was the name of the first boarding school for Native American children
The Carlisle Indian Industrial school
Define the word Genocide
The mass murder of a specific group of people.
What is the Myth of Pristine Wilderness?