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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Powder River Invasion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What white man tries to help the Cheyennes end their conflict with the soldiers?
(a) George Custer
(b) John Bent
(c) William Sherman
(d) Kit Carson

2. The Wdewkantons, the Wahpetons, the Wahpekutes, and the Sissetons make up what Indian nation?
(a) The Santee Sioux
(b) the Apache
(c) The Navajo
(d) The Comanche

3. Most of the remaining Cheyennes Indians are removed to an area along what river?
(a) Rio Grande river
(b) Colorado river
(c) Arkansas river
(d) Washita river

4. At what location are most of the Cheyennes Indians massacred?
(a) Little Big Horn
(b) Red Rock
(c) Sand Creek
(d) Washita

5. What name did the Arapaho give to the attack of Connor's men on the Arapaho village that resulted in the slaughter of 50 Indians?
(a) The Battle of the Washita
(b) Battle of Tongue River that happened in the Moon when Geese shed their Feathers
(c) The Battle of the Powder River and the Little Big Horn Mountain
(d) The Massacre at Sand Creek

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the Sioux's most famous warriors during the Powder River encounters goes by what name?

2. Why did more federal troops come to the Colorado area in the mid to late 1860s?

3. What large group of Indians lived about a thousand miles north of the Navajo?

4. What did the relocation of the Cherokee to Oklahoma become known as?

5. What is the name of the reservation where the Navajo are forced to live?

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