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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Cochise's father in law?
(a) Manuelito
(b) Mangas Colorado
(c) Baja California
(d) Geronimo

3. How many Indian nations comprised the Iroquios?
(a) 2
(b) 7
(c) 4
(d) 5

4. In 1868 what does Red Cloud do?
(a) Moves into Canada
(b) Attacks Fort Laramie
(c) Agrees to a peace treaty
(d) Leaves the Powder River territory

5. What is the result of Hancock's actions?
(a) He is courtmartialed
(b) He is removed from his command
(c) He is promoted
(d) He is killed

6. Who was the great Shawnee chief?
(a) Tecumseh
(b) Sequoyah
(c) Tsali
(d) Crazy Horse

7. The Arapahos scatter and join in with some Sioux Indians, their total number is about how many warriors?
(a) 50
(b) 100
(c) 1000
(d) 400

8. Cochise is a chief for what tribe?
(a) Nez Perce
(b) Arapaho
(c) Santee Sioux
(d) Chiracahua Apache

9. What Indian chief always carried a flag and medals from President Lincoln because he thought that these would protect him?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Lean Bear
(c) Red Cloud
(d) Running Bear

10. In 1865 what US General was preparing a new military initiative against the Indians near the Black Hills?
(a) General Sheridan
(b) General Custer
(c) General Connor
(d) General Sherman

11. What does the term "Iron Horse" refer to?
(a) Nez Perce ponies
(b) President Grant
(c) The tenacity of the indians
(d) The train

12. Who led a private expedition into the Powder River region in 1865?
(a) John Bent
(b) John Clark
(c) Patrick Connor
(d) James Sawyers

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

14. Who declared that all land west of the Mississippi was Indian land?
(a) Andrew Jackson
(b) John Adams
(c) John Quincy Adams
(d) Andrew Johnson

15. Who are Red Cloud, Man Afraid of his Horses, and Dull Knife?
(a) Three prominant Sioux warrior chiefs
(b) Three chiefs who betray the Sioux nation
(c) Three surviving Arapaho chiefs
(d) Sitting Bull's most famous followers

Short Answer Questions

1. The Wdewkantons, the Wahpetons, the Wahpekutes, and the Sissetons make up what Indian nation?

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

3. What important document did Donehogawa write?

4. What do the white men call these 5 Sioux chiefs?

5. Most of the Apache have moved to reservations or have left Arizona by what year?

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