Match the Term with the Definition

question 56

Multiple Choice

Match the term with the definition.
-Land given by the federal government to American Indians beginning in the 1860s in an attempt to reduce tensions between Indians and western settlers. On these lands, Indians subsisted on meager government rations and faced a life of poverty and starvation.

• 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:

Oligodendrocyte

A type of glial cell that forms myelin sheaths around neurons in the CNS.

Myelin Sheath

A fatty layer surrounding nerve fibers, which increases the speed at which electrical impulses propagate along the nerve cell.

Axon

A long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that typically conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body.

Dendrite

A branched projection of a neuron that receives electrical signals from other neurons.