Native Americans in Modern America
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Native Americans in Modern AmericaQuestions
- What occurred at Wounded Knee? Where and when did it take place, and how was this event significant In the lives of Native Americans?
- How did the power of the Plains Indians end by 1890?
- What act offered American citizenship to American Indians, and 160 acres of land to each family, and 80 acres to unmarried Indian adults who were willing to leave their tribal reservations?
- What was the significance of the capture of Geronimo?
- Why did Native Americans wave the American flag when the militia attacked at the Sand Creek Massacre?
- What was the last major battle between white Americans and the Indians?
- Who came up with the slogan "Kill the Indian, but save the man."?
- What was the purpose of the Trail of Broken Treaties?
- Which event was the last armed American Indian resistance to U.S. rule?
- What current US mid-Western state were the Native Americans forcibly relocated to?
- What event in 1890 marked the end of organized Indian resistance to white control?
- What were the defining characteristics of the Gilded Age?