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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the leaders of the Sioux warriors is a Hunkpapa chief named what?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Dull Knife
(c) Little Horse
(d) Red Cloud

2. News of what event angers Roman Nose?
(a) The establishment of a new fort
(b) The establishment of a cattle drive
(c) The establishment of a new stagecoach line
(d) The assasination of Abraham Lincoln

3. The Sioux chiefs are invited to a peace conference at what fort?
(a) Fort Laramie
(b) Fort Connor
(c) Fort Snelling
(d) Fort Wise

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

5. What is the name of the Fort where the Santee Sioux are kept until they are finally put on a reservation?
(a) Fort Defiance
(b) Fort Snelling
(c) Fort Ridgely
(d) Fort Sherman

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

7. What event brought in an unexpected influx of white men to Colorado in 1858?
(a) Buffalo hunting
(b) California gold rush
(c) Opening the Denver mint
(d) Pike's Peak gold rush

8. Cochise's tribe is allowed to go live in what area?
(a) The Chiracahua Mountains
(b) The Grand Canyon
(c) Death Valley
(d) The Rio Grande basin

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

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

11. Where are most of the warring Sioux at this time?
(a) Along the Colorado river
(b) Along the Powder river
(c) Along the Mississippi river
(d) Along the Arkansas river

12. The chiefs are asked to come and meet with yet another white general to talk about peace, who is this person?
(a) William Tecumseh Sherman
(b) Winfield Scott Hancock
(c) George Armstrong Custer
(d) William Henry Harrison

13. Cochise dies in what year?
(a) 1854
(b) 1866
(c) 1874
(d) 1896

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Manifest Destiny?

2. Along what river does Red Cloud want his people to reside?

3. Where does Roman Nose die?

4. Most of the remaining Cheyennes Indians are removed to an area along what river?

5. How many Indian nations comprised the Iroquios?

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