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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Carrington's Achilles' heel?
2. Who blocked Custer's path on the north side of the river with approximately 1,500 Hunkpapas?
3. When do Custer and Crazy Horse first fight in the same battle?
4. Who is the Miniconjou medicine man who has a strong vision in Chapter 18?
5. What did Sitting Bull do with much of the money earned at Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the government mean about "civilization" in the Treaty of 1868?
2. Sitting Bull is referred to as the most famous Native American ever. Why?
3. What is the "Panic of 1873"?
4. What route did Custer's party take to Texas?
5. What was the real purpose of inviting Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and other Indian leaders to Washington in 1870?
6. How does E.B. Taylor induce Indian leaders to sign treaties?
7. By the spring of 1866, what progress has been made on the railroads, and what are the future plans?
8. Describe Little Bighorn.
9. Crazy Horse becomes a leader of a band of Sioux in Chapter 20. Explain what this means.
10. What did General Sherman hope to have happen when he pushed for the 1868 peace treaty with the Sioux?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think that the author chose to write about two very different men instead of a biography of a single man? In your opinion, does he do this successfully? Explain your answer.
Essay Topic 2
At the beginning of Chapter 13, the author quotes Captain William Fetterman as saying, "With eighty men, I can ride through the entire Sioux nation." Discuss what Fetterman means by this statement and what such a statement says about him.
Essay Topic 3
Ambrose says that Sherman put "a joker in the deck" of the 1869 Treaty. He calls that joker civilization. Write an essay about what the treaty required of the Sioux relating to civilization. Why does the author refer to this as a "joker"?
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