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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What military euphemism is used to describe bombs?
(a) Incursion.
(b) Liberation.
(c) Ordnance.
(d) Detention.

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

3. What was the name for people in escapee communities in the Caribbean and Brazil?
(a) Deserters.
(b) Castaways.
(c) Forsaken.
(d) Maroons.

4. What annual amount was promised to the Cherokees under the Treaty of Holston?
(a) $100,000.
(b) $150,000.
(c) $75,000.
(d) $125,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the U.S. army destroy the Prophet's Town?

2. What was the Spanish name for the Indigenous client class?

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

4. Which permanent settlement eventually developed into the commonwealth of Virginia?

5. What was the name of the Lakota Sioux's sacred land, where Mount Rushmore is now located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

2. In 1871, Congress created a rider to the Indian Appropriation Act. What did this rider state?

3. Dunbar-Ortiz describes an exodus of landless poor from the East toward the seized Indigenous territories. She characterizes this exodus as an "escape valve." What does she mean by that?

4. In Chapter 8, Dunbar-Ortiz responds to the popular argument that the Civil War was fought over "state's rights." What is her opinion on this issue?

5. After the Revolutionary War, what was the purpose of militias?

6. What did rural white citizens hope would result from President Jackson's administration?

7. What was the environmental impact of the white settlers' destruction of the buffalo?

8. Who was Josiah Strong?

9. What strategies did the U.S. military use against both Native populations and the Filipinos?

10. What was the outcome of the Indian Citizenship Act?

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