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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Secretary of War advocated for the absolute extinction of Native communities?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) Henry Knox.
(d) James Madison.

2. What was the name for the two all-African-American cavalry regiments stationed in the West?
(a) Cowboy soldiers.
(b) Bison soldiers.
(c) Buffalo soldiers.
(d) Prairie soldiers.

3. What was Andrew Jackson's background before his presidential run?
(a) He was a shipbuilder in New England.
(b) He was a southern plantation owner.
(c) He was a rancher in the Midwest.
(d) He was a farmer in the western territories.

4. How many Dakota Sioux were killed during the largest mass hanging in U.S. history?
(a) 38.
(b) 62.
(c) 47.
(d) 74.

5. What did the Wheeler-Howard bill eventually become?
(a) The Indian Appropriation Act.
(b) The Indian Reorganization Act.
(c) The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
(d) The Indian Removal Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was did the British withdrawal from the Americas have on Native people?

2. What percentage of the population of the Thirteen Colonies was made up of Ulster-Scots?

3. What year did Andrew Jackson become president?

4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, where was "the pseudoscience of eugenics and racial purity" (170) particularly robust in the 1920s?

5. What was the name of the dance which was supposed to restore the Indigenous world to its pre-colonial state?

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