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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?
(a) The Spanish-American War.
(b) The Korean Conflict.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) WWII.

2. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?
(a) The Alaskan Inuits and the Pueblos of New Mexico.
(b) Pueblos of New Mexico and the Apache of the Southwest.
(c) The Nez Perce and the Sioux.
(d) The Apaches of the Southwest and the Northwest Coast Indians.

3. What important work has the American Indian Historical Society of San Francisco done?
(a) Published the finest contemporary material on Indians.
(b) Lectured across the country in colleges and universities about American Indians.
(c) Gathered a full history of the American Indian in California.
(d) Fought to establish the San Francisco Indian Reservation System.

4. What act was passed by the American government in 1934?
(a) The Indian Reorganization Act.
(b) The Reservation School Act.
(c) The Indian Settlement Act.
(d) The American Indian Poverty Act.

5. What did treaties initially do?
(a) They divided the church territories.
(b) They promised ownership of land that still belonged to the French.
(c) They marked the boundaries between the lands of the Indian nations and the U.S.
(d) They helped establish state lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?

2. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?

3. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?

4. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

5. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?

(see the answer key)

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