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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Manifest Destiny?
(a) The idea that the white man was destined to control from sea to shining sea
(b) The idea that Native Americans would conquer the white man
(c) The idea that Mexico would one day be part of the US
(d) The idea that Native Americans are the

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

3. What did the relocation of the Cherokee to Oklahoma become known as?
(a) Sorrowful Trail
(b) Buncombe Turnpike
(c) Trail of Tears
(d) Chisholm Trail

4. Cochise finally reaches an agreement with what US General?
(a) General Howard
(b) General Hood
(c) General Taylor
(d) General Wise

5. What Navajo chief finally surrendered in 1866?
(a) Cochise
(b) Manuelito
(c) Geronimo
(d) Red Cloud

6. Along what river does Red Cloud want his people to reside?
(a) Colorado river
(b) Raccoon river
(c) Missouri river
(d) Platte river

7. Where does Red Cloud deliver an address on Indian rights?
(a) St. Louis
(b) Washington
(c) New York City
(d) Chicago

8. Who was chief of the Wdewkantons?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Red Cloud
(c) Crazy Horse
(d) Little Crow

9. What was the name by which many Indian tribes called Andrew Jackson?
(a) Gray Ghost
(b) Long Hair
(c) Sharp Knife
(d) Old Hickory

10. What causes the Santee Sioux to want to leave the reservation?
(a) They want to go to their sacred grounds
(b) They leave to attack settlers
(c) They leave to attack other Indians
(d) they don't have enough food

11. At what fort did several Indian tribes sign a treaty reducing their lands?
(a) Fort Defiance
(b) Fort Wise
(c) Fort Ridgely
(d) Fort Snelling

12. What fort is involved in Little Crow's War?
(a) Fort Ridgely
(b) Fort Pierce
(c) The Alamo
(d) Fort Apache

13. During what war was Tecumseh killed?
(a) Revolutionary War
(b) War of 1812
(c) 100 Years War
(d) French and Indian War

14. What white man tries to get these Indians to sign a peace treaty?
(a) William Sheridan
(b) Edward Wynkoop
(c) Kit Carson
(d) John Bent

15. What famous scout gains the trust of the Navajo?
(a) Meriweather Lewis
(b) Cochise
(c) Bat Masterson
(d) Kit Carson

Short Answer Questions

1. Name the chief who said the following statement: "The Cheyennes do not break their word."

2. After a treaty meeting between US soldiers and Cheyennes chief's this man said, " I felt myself in the presence of superior beings:"

3. Red Cloud and Dull Knife do what with James Sawyers?

4. What 2 chiefs does Donehogawa invite to Washington?

5. Who are Red Cloud, Man Afraid of his Horses, and Dull Knife?

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