Skip to content
LessonPrint

Native Nations and the Growing Nation is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how Native nations experienced US expansion, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.His.4.3-5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

Set 2 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

Next set

One paper per student

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425

Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Native Nations and the Growing Nation

D2.His.4.3-5

NameDate

Circle the best answer.

1.What is a reservation?
  • A.Land set aside for a Native nation by treaty or law
  • B.A ticket for a seat on a train
  • C.A fort for the US Army
2.What was the Trail of Tears?
  • A.A road the Cherokee built to sell crops
  • B.The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Indian Territory in 1838 and 1839
  • C.A trail for wagons going to Oregon
3.How do many Native nations govern themselves today?
  • A.As nations with their own governments, laws and courts
  • B.They do not govern themselves at all
  • C.As colonies ruled by Britain
4.What did the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 do?
  • A.Ended every treaty with Native nations
  • B.Moved all Native nations to Oklahoma
  • C.Made Native Americans born in the United States citizens
5.Sitting Bull was a Lakota leader. What did he resist?
  • A.Trading horses with other nations
  • B.Being forced onto reservations and losing the Black Hills
  • C.Building schools for Lakota children
6.How did many Seminole people respond to removal from Florida?
  • A.They fought the US Army for years in the Seminole Wars
  • B.They joined the Confederacy
  • C.They moved to Canada
7.What did government boarding schools of the late 1800s try to make Native children do?
  • A.Speak only their own languages
  • B.Learn their nation's history from their elders
  • C.Give up their own languages and ways of life
8.In 1877 Chief Joseph led the Nez Perce on a long retreat. Where were they trying to go?
  • A.To Mexico, to look for gold
  • B.To Canada, to avoid being forced onto a reservation
  • C.To Washington, D.C., to join the army

LessonPrint · D2.His.4.3-5 · Set 2 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Native Nations and the Growing Nation

Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Land set aside for a Native nation by treaty or law
  2. 2.The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Indian Territory in 1838 and 1839
  3. 3.As nations with their own governments, laws and courts
  4. 4.Made Native Americans born in the United States citizens
  5. 5.Being forced onto reservations and losing the Black Hills
  6. 6.They fought the US Army for years in the Seminole Wars
  7. 7.Give up their own languages and ways of life
  8. 8.To Canada, to avoid being forced onto a reservation

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.