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Chapter 17: Cultures in Conflict
      
  1.Why were Native Americans able to continue their raids on settlers in West Texas after the Civil War?  
  a.   because many soldiers who were trained in Native American warfare arrived in West Texas  
  b.   because Native Americans used arrows and had the advantage in warfare  
  c.   because too many forts were built close together  
  d.   because supplies for soldiers and horses were plentiful  
      
  2.What was a result of the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek?  
  a.   All Native Americans moved to reservations in Indian Territory.  
  b.   The U.S. Army handled all Native American affairs on the reservations.  
  c.   Several Native American nations agreed to live on reservations in exchange for food and supplies.  
  d.   Many Kiowas and Comanches became Quakers.  
      
  3.What Kiowa chief was known for his eloquent speeches, which earned him the name Orator of the Plains?  
  a.   Satanta  
  b.   Ten Bears  
  c.   Quanah Parker  
  d.   Victorio  
      
  4.Who was sent to West Texas to investigate the Native American raids?  
  a.   Lawrie Tatum  
  b.   Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie  
  c.   General George A. Custer  
  d.   General William Tecumseh Sherman  
      
  5.Why did General Philip Sheridan help to defeat a law that would have protected the buffalo?  
  a.   He wanted to make money by selling buffalo hides.  
  b.   He realized that the slaughter of the buffalo would defeat the Plains culture.  
  c.   He wanted the Plains Native Americans to depend on moose and elk for their needs.  
  d.   He realized that ground-up buffalo bones could be used as fertilizer.  
      
  6.What happened after 28 buffalo hunters and 1 woman withstood the Native American attack at Adobe Walls?  
  a.   Comanches, Kiowas, Cheyenne, and others stopped their attacks on West Texas settlements.  
  b.   Many Native Americans moved to the reservations in Indian Territory.  
  c.   Plains people spread across five states and territories, killing 190 settlers.  
  d.   President Grant put government agents instead of the army in charge of Native American affairs.  
      
  7.Which of the following did NOT occur during the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon?  
  a.   Colonel Mackenzie's troops descended down sheer canyon walls to find Native American villages.  
  b.   Mackenzie's Fourth Cavalry set fire to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne villages in the canyon.  
  c.   Mackenzie had more than 1,000 horses slaughtered to prevent Native Americans from retrieving them.  
  d.   Hundreds of Native Americans and soldiers lost their lives in the battle.  
      
  8.Who were the "buffalo soldiers"?  
  a.   African American soldiers of the American West  
  b.   Charles Rath and brothers John and J. Wright Mooar  
  c.   the Apaches commanded by Chief Victorio  
  d.   forces commanded by Captain L.H. McNelly  
      
  9.Many poor Mexican American Texans along the Rio Grande experienced mistreatment from all of the following EXCEPT ________.  
  a.   deserters from the Civil War  
  b.   Juan N. Cortina  
  c.   the Texas Rangers  
  d.   ambitious ranchers  
      
  10.Which of the following statements about Texas in the 1880s is false?  
  a.   Anglo American settlers poured into West Texas immediately after the removal of Native Americans.  
  b.   Many young Native Americans were taken from their homes and placed in boarding schools.  
  c.   Railroads brought farmers to lands that had once been home to the Comanches.  
  d.   Most Anglo American settlers were saddened by the near extermination of the buffalo.  

 





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