Daily Quiz for October 22, 2009

Sioux uprising. In 1862, Sioux on Minnesota’s Santee Reservation awaiting promised shipments of food and money were starving while U.S. government officials debated paying them with gold or Civil War greenbacks. The agent at the reservation refused to release food from a warehouse until the money arrived, sparking an uprising that led to hundreds of deaths and the largest mass hanging in U.S. history.