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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the U.S. army destroy the Prophet's Town?
(a) To take over fertile farmland.
(b) To establish a cattle-ranching operation.
(c) To crush the Native resistance.
(d) To build a U.S. national monument.

2. What idea suggested that late nineteenth-century social problems were the result of the closing of the Western frontier?
(a) The Turner Argument.
(b) The Turner Thesis.
(c) The Turner Hypothesis.
(d) The Turner Proposal.

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

4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, the U.S. military often abbreviates the term "Indian Country." What is the shortened version of this term?
(a) In country.
(b) Indian co.
(c) In. Co.
(d) I.C.

5. What year did Andrew Jackson become president?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1832.

6. What year was Tecumseh killed?
(a) 1808.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1817.
(d) 1813.

7. Which person was considered an icon of U.S. settler colonialism?
(a) Elijah Clarke.
(b) Robert E. Lee.
(c) John Collier.
(d) Daniel Boone.

8. Following the 1969 seizure of Alcatraz, Indigenous people (Indians of All Tribes) occupied it for some time. How long?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 14 months.

9. The siege of Wounded Knee coincided with the fifth anniversary of which historical event?
(a) The moon landing.
(b) The end of the Vietnam War.
(c) The My Lai massacre.
(d) The Kennedy inauguration.

10. In the 1930s, the U.S. government decided that soil erosion was caused by Natives' goats and sheep. What action did the government take to address this "problem"?
(a) The U.S. government forcibly moved Native communities elsewhere.
(b) The U.S. government passed legislation restricting grazing animals.
(c) U.S. forces rounded up and killed all the Natives' grazing animals.
(d) U.S. forces required Natives to reseed and replant the land.

11. Which actor provided support for the 1960s Indigenous fishing movement in Washington State?
(a) Marlon Brando.
(b) Paul Newman.
(c) Humphrey Bogart.
(d) Clint Eastwood.

12. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what motivated the U.S. to extend its military power in the Caribbean and Pacific?
(a) The desire to protect and extend corporate wealth.
(b) The desire to fight against communities governments.
(c) The desire to spread democracy across the globe.
(d) The desire to convert other racials to Christianity.

13. Which white settler was captured by the Miamis and later married Little Turtle's daughter?
(a) John Redhouse.
(b) William Wells.
(c) Oliver Stone.
(d) George Percy.

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

15. What was the name for traditionist fighters among the Upper Creeks indigenous groups?
(a) Red Sticks.
(b) Green Hills.
(c) Black Trees.
(d) Brown Rocks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term did historian H. Craig Miner use to describe a society that "justified exploitation and destruction of whole societies" (168)?

2. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, which poet was an outspoken supporter of the war against Mexico in 1846?

3. What year did Gran-Columbia splinter into five separate states?

4. What was did the British withdrawal from the Americas have on Native people?

5. Which of the following Native nations was a member of the Five Civilized Tribes?

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