USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the aim of the U.S. Army in the Red River War?
A
To convince the Plains Indians to return to reservations.
B
To capture those responsible for attack on Adobe Walls.
C
To clear American Indians from the villages along the upper parts of the Red River.
D
To kill or remove all remaining American Indians in the Panhandle.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the U.S. Army in 1874, the objective was to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indian tribes from the Southern Plains and force their relocation to reservations in Indian Territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874 to displace the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native American tribes from the Southern Plains, and forcibly relocate the tribes to reservations in Indian Territory.

Detailed explanation-3: -The campaign called the Red River War was the last major conflict between the U.S. Army and the southern Plains Indians. The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 had settled the Southern Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Kiowa on reservations in Indian Territory.

Detailed explanation-4: -Red River Indian War, (1874–75), uprising of warriors from several Indian tribes thought to be peacefully settled on Oklahoma and Texas reservations, ending in the crushing of the Indian dissidents by the United States.

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