By the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851

question 13

Multiple Choice

By the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851,

• A) Indian tribes in the Northwest Territory agreed to allow American migrants moving West free passage across their tribal lands.
• B) all of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains agreed to cede their ancestral lands to the United States but were allowed to live on that land in perpetuity.
• C) southwestern Indian tribes agreed to forgo any further allotments from the federal government in return for an expansion of their tribal boundaries.
• D) eight northern Plains tribes agreed to respect tribal boundaries established by the United States government and to allow the government to build roads and forts within those boundaries.