P: Notes on O: Document B Comprehension Questions: What was the buffalo population in 1800? What was the buffalo population in 1889? What was the cause of this decline? What effect did this have on the Plains Indians? H: I: P: P: Notes on O: Document C Excerpt from the Second Annual Address to the Public of the Lake Mohonk Conference in Philadelphia, 1884, 3–7, 13–22. Comprehension Questions and Answers What does the word “assimilation” mean? (Answer: blending into a new environment.) What does the Mohonk Conference want to do to the tribes in their area? (Answer: Break them apart to help them become Americanized.) Why was it important that the Indians be “in the same position before the law”? (Answer: So that they are treated the same as all other Americans, which means they are Americanized or assimilated.) H: I: P: P:
P: Notes on O: Document B Comprehension Questions: What was the buffalo population in 1800? What was the buffalo population in 1889? What was the cause of this decline? What effect did this have on the Plains Indians? H: I: P: P: Notes on O: Document C Excerpt from the Second Annual Address to the Public of the Lake Mohonk Conference in Philadelphia, 1884, 3–7, 13–22. Comprehension Questions and Answers What does the word “assimilation” mean? (Answer: blending into a new environment.) What does the Mohonk Conference want to do to the tribes in their area? (Answer: Break them apart to help them become Americanized.) Why was it important that the Indians be “in the same position before the law”? (Answer: So that they are treated the same as all other Americans, which means they are Americanized or assimilated.) H: I: P: P:
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