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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Secretary of War advocated for the absolute extinction of Native communities?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Henry Knox.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) James Madison.

2. To which country did the Muskogee nation ally itself in an attempt to stop the flow of squatters?
(a) Spain.
(b) Mexico.
(c) England.
(d) France.

3. Which historian described U.S. history as constantly alternating between a "peace" policy and a "war" policy?
(a) Mathew King.
(b) Roger Buffalohead.
(c) John Grenier.
(d) Robert D. Kaplan.

4. What decade was the New Deal implemented?
(a) The 1910s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1940s.

5. Who allegedly claimed that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" (139)?
(a) Philip Sheridan.
(b) John Mason.
(c) James Mooney.
(d) John Perishing.

6. What animal served as the economic base of the Plains Nations?
(a) The cow.
(b) The horse.
(c) The buffalo.
(d) The pig.

7. How did a small group of "elite" Native people accumulate personal wealth during the 1800s?
(a) By attending an Anglo university.
(b) By paying a membership fee.
(c) By marrying Anglos settlers.
(d) By joining a Christian club.

8. What was the Spanish name for interrelated city-states in the Southwest?
(a) Granjas.
(b) Ranchos.
(c) Villas.
(d) Pueblos.

9. What was the name of the Lakota Sioux's sacred land, where Mount Rushmore is now located?
(a) The Great Plains.
(b) The Blue Lake.
(c) The Black Hills.
(d) The Green Mountains.

10. What was the primary revenue source for the newly formed U.S. government?
(a) Tobacco sales.
(b) Land sales.
(c) Mining operations.
(d) Logging operations.

11. What was the effect of Public Law 91-550?
(a) Congress assigned U.S. citizenship to Native populations.
(b) Congress agreed to return the land stolen from the Taos Pueblo.
(c) Congress changed the borders of U.S. Indian reservations.
(d) Congress set aside reparation money for the Lakota Sioux.

12. What was the nickname of the U.S. naval fleet in the early 1900s?
(a) The Great White Fleet.
(b) The Great Imperial Fleet.
(c) The Great Gray Fleet.
(d) The Great American Fleet.

13. What statement did General Sherman issue to President Grant following the Fetterman Massacre?
(a) U.S. troops should kill all Natives, including women and children.
(b) The U.S. army should receive additional training on Native customs.
(c) U.S. forces should withdraw from the West and cease hostilities.
(d) The U.S. government should break treaties with Native nations.

14. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, which poet was an outspoken supporter of the war against Mexico in 1846?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Emily Dickenson.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

15. What was the name of the Sauk leader in 1832?
(a) Little Turtle.
(b) Black Hawk.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Tecumseh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was the Treaty of Fort Jackson signed?

2. Following the 1969 seizure of Alcatraz, Indigenous people (Indians of All Tribes) occupied it for some time. How long?

3. How many indigenous people and their allies were killed when Jackson's forces attacked the Tohopeka stronghold at Horseshoe Bend?

4. What name was given to the Guardians of the Oglala Nation?

5. What was the name for land-poor settlers who wanted Lincoln to "open" Indigenous territories west of the Mississippi?

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