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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 ultimately happens after the Navajo discover they have been cheated?
(a) Chief Manuelito is hanged
(b) The soldiers kill all of the Navajo
(c) The soldiers run the Navajo out of the fort
(d) Chief Manuelito's prize horse is butchered

2. Why do the Sioux move into the Black Hills?
(a) They are trying to get to Canada
(b) The antelope and buffalo are more numerous
(c) They follow the soldiers into the Black Hills
(d) There are more white settlers to kill

3. Who absolves many of the Santee Sioux of their war crimes?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) Andrew Johnson
(d) William Sherman

4. Who turns their backs on John Bent?
(a) His Indian wife
(b) His own sons
(c) The US soldiers
(d) The Cheyenne nation

5. The Sioux warriors force the soldiers to retreat to what fort?
(a) Fort Connor
(b) Fort Defiance
(c) Fort Snelling
(d) Fort Wise

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What famous scout gains the trust of the Navajo?

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

4. What event does Manuelito challenge a US officer to compete in?

5. Where is Little Crow finally defeated?

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