One subject looked at in GCSE History is the history of the USA between 1840 and 1975. The first era studied is the late 19th Century and the spread of Europeans into the heart of North America. This is the second of two quizzes looking at that topic and it focusses in particular on the conflict between white Americans and the Indians who lived on the Great Plains.
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.
Test your knowledge of the conflict that came to the Plains Indians in the late 19th Century in this quiz.
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Many White Americans, especially those who were pressing westwards towards the Rockies, believed that America would eventually include the whole continent. This feeling influenced their attitude to Native Americans who seemed to be "in the way"
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There was plenty of potential for conflict over such accords, such as difficulties of interpretation or misunderstandings over language
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Those who took part in such crazes cared little for established agreements, and thus they provoked conflict with Native Americans
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Like the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620, they were determined to find space where they could be free to practise their faith away from interference and persecution. Unfortunately, in their search for such space they were likely to encroach on the rights of Native Americans
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Competing railway companies were determined to cross the Great Plains, and to cut through the Rockies to reach the Pacific Coast. Inevitably they came into conflict with Native Americans, and so they played their part in the battles that were a feature of this period
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This was a major setback for the US government in its quest for stability on the Great Plains
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The Sioux and their allies were able warriors - especially as they felt that they were defending their traditional lands and way of life
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Modern firearms made short work of this population of animals, which had sustained Native Americans for countless generations
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The massacre is important in US mythology. Indian tribes' resistance was now effectively over
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Such areas exist to this day, but they represent a fraction of the land area that Native Americans regarded as their own before 1890
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