Historical Events
This 1890 event marked the violent end of large-scale armed Native resistance on the Plains.
Wounded Knee Massacre
This 1887 law attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
This ideology justified U.S. expansion across the continent and framed Native resistance as an obstacle to progress.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This movement among Plain tribes in the late 1800s promised the return of Native lands and the disappearance of white settlers.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This U.S. policy aimed to force Native Americans to abandon their cultures and adopt Euro-American lifestyles. Hint: Think "civilizing."
What is cultural assimilation?
Massacres like Sand Creek and Wounded Knee helped enforce this broader system of control over Native communities.
What is colonial domination/settler colonialism?
This altercation in 1862 between ______ and white settlers lead to the largest U.S. mass hanging carried out by Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Santee Sioux/Minnesota Sioux?
The destruction of buffalo herds in the late 19th century weakened Plains tribes primarily by undermining this key aspect within their societies.
What is their economic and cultural system?