SD Government
U.S. Government
Great West
Native American
SD History
100

The number of Senators South Dakota has

What is 2?

100

Made it legal for the government to make Native Americans assimilate

What is the Dawes Act?

100

A location that experienced a rapid growth in population and were often lawless places

What is a boomtown?

100

To pray for the disappearance of the white settlers and reappearance of bison.

What is the purpose of the Ghost Dance?

100

The reason why white settlers flocked to the Black Hills.

What is the discovery of gold?

200

How many Representatives does South Dakota have?

What is 1?

200

Gold was discovered in the Black Hills of the Dakotas

What is the reason the treaty of Fort Laramie was broken by the U.S. Government?

200

The people who competed with the region’s Native Americans for land and resources

What is the miners, ranchers, and farmers who settled on the Great Plains and the American West

200

Central to the Lakota way of life, providing food, clothing, and tools, and were integral to their cultural and spiritual practices

What is the bison?

200

The reason Wounded Knee Massacre occurred.

What is the U.S. Government fear of the Ghost Dance?

300

Dustin Johnson and Mike Rounds

Who are the Senators of South Dakota?

300

To trade, help them become "American" and create treaties with Native Americans

What is the purpose of the Office of Indian Affairs?

300

The person who discovered gold in the Black Hills

Who is Custer?

300

A massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people and caused by the U.S. Government's fear of rebellion and the Ghost Dance 

What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?

300

The year South Dakota became a state.

What is 1889?

400

Dustin Johnson

Who is the Representative of South Dakota?

400

Promised that the U.S. Government would leave the Great Sioux Reservation to only the Native Americans to own.

What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie? 

400

Helped successful transport goods and resources from the west to the east

What is the transcontinental railroad? 

400

Was a Native American leader who resisted white settlement in Arizona through the Apache wars

Who is Geronimo? 

400

The images on the South Dakota state seal.

What is cattle, river, steamboat, farming, mining, and Black Hills?

500
Kristi Noem

Who is the governor of South Dakota? 

500

Divided the Great Sioux Reservation into 6 smaller reservations 

What is the Sioux Agreement of 1889?

500

The year that Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Purchase

What is the year 1803?

500

Led the Nez Perce people toward Canada but was forced to surrender to the U.S. Army.

Who is Chief Joseph? 

500

The location of where the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred at.

Where is Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota?