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Grades 6, 7 and 8 - U.S. History - Middle School - USA: 1840-1895 - Conflict Between White Americans And Plains Indians
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White Americans had settled both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts, but the Great Plains in between had been hardly incorporated into the USA. Native Americans (Red Indians) occupied them, and the potential for conflict loomed seriously, as White Americans were more and more tempted to encroach on Indian lands.

Grades 6, 7 and 8 - U.S. History - Middle School - USA: 1840-1895 - Conflict Between White Americans And Plains Indians
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1. Pike's Peak, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Montana all witnessed influxes of Whites after 1859. They were all intent on acquiring a particular commodity in these areas. Which commodity?
2. Native Americans were now herded into designated areas. What was the name of such places?
3. In 1876 General Custer was defeated in battle and killed during the course of a Sioux rebellion. At which battle did this occur?
4. In 1876 General Custer was defeated in battle and killed during the course of a Sioux rebellion. At which battle did this occur?
5. White Americans got their revenge for Custer's death in 1890, when US government forces killed large numbers of Native Americans near the site of the 1876 battle. Where did this incident take place?
6. In which year was the first continental railroad completed?
7. Indiscriminate hunting in the 1880s slaughtered to extinction the kind of plains animal on which Native Americans had traditionally relied for food. Which creature was this?
8. Which Native American leader inflicted the above defeat in 1876?
9. What phrase means that White Americans were bound to expand the USA until it extended from coast to coast?
10. A religious group trekked across the Great Plains looking for a haven, where they could practice their faith from 1846 onwards. They established themselves in Utah, and received regular fresh influxes of co-religionists thereafter. They have a share in creating the hostility that marked relations between Indian tribes and Whites in the second half of the Nineteenth Century. What was the name of the sect?