Match the Term with the Definition

question 18

Multiple Choice

Match the term with the definition.
-1887 law that divvied up reservations and allotted parcels of land to individual Indians as private property. In the end, the American government sold almost two-thirds of "surplus" Indian land to white settlers. The law dealt a crippling blow to traditional tribal culture.

• A)Battle of the Little Big Horn
• B)Black Hills
• C)Carlisle Indian School
• D)Chinese Exclusion Act
• E)Comanchería
• F)Comstock Lode
• G)Dawes Allotment Act
• H)first transcontinental railroad
• I)Ghost Dance
• J)Homestead Act of 1862
• K)reservations
• L)Wounded Knee

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Definitions:

Global Warming

The long-term rise in Earth's average surface temperature, primarily due to human activities such as burning fossil fuels.

Overpopulation

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Territoriality

The tendency to stake out an area and a willingness to defend that area from intruders.

Individual Good-Collective

The concept that individual welfare or happiness contributes to the overall good or welfare of the community or society.