Activity Ingles 5/20

_Activity 13/20. Skimming, USA history.

Revisión del intento 1

Comenzado el

Sunday, 29 de June de 2014, 00:11

Completado el

Sunday, 29 de June de 2014, 00:19

Tiempo empleado

8 minutos 23 segundos

Puntos

3/3

Calificación

10 de un máximo de 10 (100%)

Question 1

Puntos: 1

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Expansion of the Nation

The West

Indian Wars. Although their cultures varied from nomadic to village-dwelling, The Native Americans on the Plains maintained a largely subsistence economy in which the buffalo was central. When whites began setting the Plains, they killed millions of buffalo so that by the 1880s only a few hundred were left. The destruction disrupted life on the Plains, increasing conflict among the Native Americans. From the Sand Creek Massacre in 1862 to the so-called Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890, sporadic fighting took place between the United States Army and the Plains Indians.

Adapted from: Marlowe, L. (2006). History of the United States II. United States of America: REA, p. 17.

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a. Consequences of the extinction of the buffalo. Correcto

b. Wars of native Americans against white men.

c. Lifestyles in the Plains.

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Correcto

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Question 2

Puntos: 1

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Expansion of the Nation

Reservations and Reform. Meanwhile in the 1860s and 1870s the government sought to push the Native Americans onto reservations, specific territories that supposedly were protected from white settlement and where the indigenous peoples could be “civilized”. Reformers in the East, such as the Indian Rights Association, protested this policy, arguing instead for a policy of assimilation. Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor (1881) dramatically recounted the history of white mistreatment of Indians. The Dawes Act (1887) embodied many of the reformers’ ideas and replaced tribal with individual ownership of property. Unfortunately, the new policy was disastrous to the Native Americans, as much of the reservation land ended up in the hands of white and tribal authority disintegrated.

Adapted from:

Marlowe, L. (2006). History of the United States II. United States of America: REA, p. 17.

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a. Creation of groups supporting the rights of native Americans.

b. Assimilation of native Americans into the culture of white men.

c. Creation of reserves and the desintegration of the lifestyles of native Americans Correcto

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Correcto

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Question 3

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Expansion of the Nation

Agriculture. Between 1865 and 1890 hundreds of thousands of people poured into the prairies of Eastern Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas and then spilled into the Great Plains, placing more acreage under cultivation than in all previous American history. Congress passed several laws that encouraged this migration. The Homestead Act (1862) provided 160 acres of free land in exchange for five years of settlement and cultivation. The Timber Culture Act (1877) provided potential irrigators with 640 acres for the low down payment of 25 cents an acre.

Adapted from:

Marlowe, L. (2006). History of the United States II. United States of America:

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