1. how did the discovery of gold affect the settlement of the west?
2. what happened at sand creek?
3. what were the terms of the treaty of fort laramie? why did it fail?
4. what happened at the battle of little bighorn?
5. what was the purpose of the dawes act?
6. what happened at wounded knee creek?
7. identify sitting bull and describe how he tried to deal with the problems his people faced.

1. The gold found brought many miners into the west.

2. Massacre happened at Sand Creek where the US army's killing of about 150 cheyenne elderly, women and children at the Sand Creek Reservation in Colorado territory.

3. The sioux agreed to live along a reservation on the Mississippi River and it failed because the Hunkpapa Sioux never signed it and restriction.

4. The Cheyenne and Sioux were in the middle of a sun dance and then sitting bull had a vision of Colonel Cluster coming to battle with them so they waited for the Colonel Cluster's troops and then when they arrived they killed the troops.

5. To give more of the lang set aside for Native americans (reservations) to the whites. "Americanized" Native Americans.

6. 7th calvary rounded up 340 starving freezing Sioux and demanded their weapons. After one Sioux Indian fired his riffle the soldiers slaughtered 300 American Indians.

7. Sitting Bull was a Native American that had a vision of U.S soldiers attacking and killing his people while he was sun dancing. His people prepared for the battle and won. However in the late 1876, he then took his people into refuge in Canada, and they stayed there until 1881. He eventually did surrender though in order to save his people from starvation. His people started doing a dance called the Ghost Dance, Sitting Bull was then arrested, and killed.

Explanation:

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2. piankhi       nubia

3. ezana       aksum

4.     nebuchadnezzar     babylonia

5. shalmaneser iii     assyria

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