Texas History - Unit 6 - Review Game 4 Question Preview (ID: 58422)


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Cynthia Parker always wanted to return to the Comanche.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

The Dawes General Allotment Act improved American Indians' lives.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

The U.S. army killed horses and buffalo in order to force Indians to move.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

The growing market for buffalo hides nearly made them extinct.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Reservation life was difficult and food was often scarce.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Henry O. Flipper was an Indian agent who tried to make sure supplies reached the reservations.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

By the 1880s most American Indians were gone from Texas.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Apache scouts who worked for the army were called buffalo soldiers.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

The buffalo gun allowed hunters to kill from a long distance away.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Indians were given good farmland on reservations, but refused to work as farmers.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Colonel Mackenzie's campaign in Texas was meant to ...
a) encourage Plains Indians to stop raiding white settlements.
b) protect the workers laying railroad track across the Panhandle.
c) force all of the Indians onto reservations.
d) prevent buffalo hunters from entering reservations.

The Salt Creek Raid convinced the War Department that ...
a) Indians must be forced onto reservations.
b) white settlers had moved too far into the frontier.
c) only better weapons could defeat the Comanche.
d) quakers were encouraging Indians to attack soldiers.

Mackenzie defeated the Comanche at Palo Duro Canyon by ...
a) taking their women hostage.
b) killing more than 200 Indians.
c) destroying their villages, horses, and supplies.
d) arresting Quanah Parker while the others slept.

During the 1860s the frontier in Texas ...
a) advanced quickly.
b) was fairly quiet as most soldiers were off fighting in the East.
c) was still under attack by Mexico.
d) sometimes fell back under pressure from American Indian raids.

Additional pressure on the buffalo came from ...
a) the development of new tanning technology and a market for hides in the East.
b) disease introduced by settlers and their cattle.
c) Indians who had learned white methods of hunting.
d) zoos in Europe, which bought thousands to exhibit.

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