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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 year was Tecumseh killed?
(a) 1817.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1813.
2. What was the primary revenue source for the newly formed U.S. government?
(a) Land sales.
(b) Mining operations.
(c) Logging operations.
(d) Tobacco sales.
3. What was the name of the priest who was an instrumental part of the Mexican independence movement?
(a) Miguel Hidalgo.
(b) Mari Sandoz.
(c) Junipero Serra.
(d) Juan Ponce de Leon.
4. What was the name of the 1785 treaty, in which the U.S. government agreed to restrict settlement east of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
(a) The Treaty of Holston.
(b) The Treaty of Tordesillas.
(c) The Treaty of Greenville.
(d) The Treaty of Hopewell.
5. What percentage of the 16,000 Cherokees who were forced onto the Trail of Tears perished on the journey?
(a) 30%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 50%.
Short Answer Questions
1. What year did the U.S. purchase Alaska?
2. What was Andrew Jackson's background before his presidential run?
3. What year was the Treaty of Fort Jackson signed?
4. What belief structure promoted the idea that human societies were subject to "natural selection"?
5. What year did the U.S. annex Hawaii?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the outcome of the Indian Citizenship Act?
2. What happened to Native people who fought for the Confederacy?
3. What was the Trail of Broken Treaties?
4. What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
5. How did Franciscan missionaries in the U.S. treat Native inhabitants?
6. Who were the Colorado Volunteers?
7. Following the Civil War, why did the U.S. government frequently assign Black troops to the West?
8. How did poor farmers in the U.S. view World War I?
9. Why did some Native people hope for a Confederate victory during the Civil War?
10. The Virginia Tech shooting was often described as the "worst massacre in U.S. history" (195). Why does Dunbar-Ortiz object to this statement?
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