IRON HORSE VS THE BUFFALO --

Sections 091 & 111: -- Quiz on Wednesday, February 9
Section 141: -- Quiz on Thursday, February 10

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On Wednesday, February 18^th, there will be a timed quiz on ten of the following questions.  Make sure you can answer all the questions. 

1. In 1883, General William T. Sherman argued that the “the railroad which used to follow the rear now goes forward with the picket line [an advanced-guard military contingent] in the great battle of civilization with barbarism and has become the greater cause.”  By “cause” he meant:

A) U.S. civilization.  B) U.S. barbarism.  C) Native American civilization.  D) Native American barbarism. 

2. Who, among the following, saw the buffalo as a commodity?

A) Old Lady Horse.  B) Frank Morgan.  C) Black Elk.  D) Wovoka. 

3. Government distribution of free land to the railroads during and after the Civil War was:

A) Less than that received by pioneer families under the Homestead Act. 
B) Approximately equal to the combined size of Texas and Oklahoma.  C) Equal to the size of Manhattan.  D) None of the above because railroads paid for all of the land they owned. 

4. Who was least likely to believe in the concept of property rights in the post Civil War West?

A) The U.S. government.  B) Railroad corporations.  C) Mining corporations.  D) U.S. pioneer farmers.  E) Native American hunters. 

5.  Indian population in North America reached its lowest point in written history in:

A) 1500.  B) 1865.  C) 1890.  D) 2001. 

6. The U.S. government pushed the policy of Indian “concentration” (segregating Indians on reservations) mainly:

A) Before 1887.  B) After 1887.  C) During 1887 (under provisions of the Dawes Act). 

7. The group “Friends of the Indian” advocated:

A) Preservation of Native American culture.  B) The assimilation of Native American culture into white society.  C) Tribal ownership of Indian land.  D) Herding Native Americans onto segregated reservations. 

8.  By “kill the Indian, save the man,” Richard Pratt meant:

A) Kill Indian culture/ assimilate into white culture.  B) “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”  C) Forced removal of all Indians from all U.S. territory.  D) Preserve Indian culture. 

9. Under the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, the U.S.:

A) Distributed no land to Indians.  B)  Distributed land only to individual families willing to farm it.  B)  Distributed land only to tribes willing to farm it.  B)  Distributed land only to tribes willing to hunt on it. 

10.  Which of the following values did the Dawes Act NOT seek to promote among Indians?

A) Property rights.  B) Individualism.  C) Farming.  D) “We” instead of “I.” 

11.  After passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, Indian land holdings:

A) Increased dramatically.  B) Decreased dramatically.  C) Stayed about the same.  D) Totally disappeared. 

12 – 14.  Black Elk, a Sioux holy man, commented:  “"Once we were happy in our own country and were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.  But then the Wasichus came, and they made little islands for us and other islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for all around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichus; and it is dirty with lies and greed." 

12.  Who are the “Wasichus?”

A) Sioux.  B) Commanches.   C) Pueblos.  D) Whites.  E) Ghost Dancers 

13.  What are the “islands for us?”

A) Mining camps.  B) U.S. military camps.  C) Indian reservations.  D) Indian schools.   E) Ghost Dancers.  

14.  Who are the “four-leggeds?”

A) Crawling Indian babies.  B) Buffalo.   C) Horses.  D) Indians on horses.  E) White settlers on horses.