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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 was the estimated population of Cahokia around 1050-1250 CE?
(a) 19,000.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 30,000.

2. When did the state of Georgia agree to give up claims to land if the federal government would remove or reduce the Indians in Georgia?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1802.

3. When were the Nez Perce forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oregon to Idaho?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1879.

4. When did the Ottoman Turks conquer Constantinople?
(a) 1494.
(b) 1453.
(c) 1438.
(d) 1411.

5. During the first five years of the California gold rush, how many tons of gold were mined by placer mining?
(a) 355.
(b) More than 370.
(c) About 290.
(d) 410.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was a large homeland secured for the Lakota in the second Treaty of Fort Laramie?

2. How many years of Indian history does Treuer tell in the book?

3. When were 173 Blackfeet Indians killed by U.S. troops when they were directed to the wrong camp?

4. When did Sam Cleveland join the Army?

5. Where did the Ghost Dance religion start?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Meriam Report, and what were its findings?

2. How did the Cherokee and other tribes take advantage of the Homestead Act?

3. What disease did Treuer believe his cousin Sam battled when he fought?

4. What is Leech Lake Reservation?

5. How did Treuer describe the Ojibwe and their beginnings?

6. Why were Indians often found at the front when they fought for the U.S.?

7. By the end of 1890, how did everything seem to be over for Indians?

8. Why did Indians resist the draft during World War I?

9. Who survived the massacre at Wounded Knee, and what did they go on to do?

10. What is the earliest verified record of settlement in North America?

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