Payments Annuity

How would the Native Americans in the area be affected if the following scenario occurred? Paul Lyon was a trader in Minnesota in 1862 near the Dakota Sioux reservation. Like other traders in the area, he did not provide food or other goods on credit.
A. They would potentially starve because government payments they were supposed to receive did not come.
B. They would have to trade their horses in exchange for food needed for the tribe to survive.
C. They would need to sell what few possessions they had to settlers to buy food.
D. They would send tribal leaders to Washington D.C. to collect their annuities in person.

22. How did the arrival of American troops in the land where the Nez Perce lived affect the tribe?
A. It forced them to defend their land in the Battle at Wounded Knee.
B. They were relocated to a smaller reservation in Wyoming.
C. It caused them to leave their homes, traveling 1,300-miles before being forced to settle in Oklahoma.
D. The Nez Perce were protected by the troops from people who tried to settle on their lands.

23. How did gold mining and the arrival of prospectors in the Black Hills area affect the lives of the Lakota Sioux tribe?
A. Members of the tribe were paid to assist prospectors in locating mining sites.
B. Many in the tribe decided to leave the reservation to hunt in Montana.
C. The boomtowns brought prosperity to the tribe’s reservation.
D. Crime increased in the area, which included reservation lands.

24. What was one effect of western settlement on the lives of Native American tribes?
A. The tribes were welcomed in mining communities as a source of labor.
B. Buffalo began to disappear from the plains, depriving many tribes of their main source of food, shelter, and clothing.
C. Many tribe members were able to get jobs with the railroad companies to support their families.
D. Settlers were able to share modern farming practices with the tribes, helping them become self-sufficient.

25. The Dawes Act attempted to help Native Americans by
A. giving them land for farming.
B. returning them to their native lands.
C. reintroducing the buffalo to native lands.
D. sustaining their previous way of life.