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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11-Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the annual ceremony that brought the Sioux together and reinforced their national unity?
(a) The Ghost Dance.
(b) The Heavenly Dance.
(c) The Moon Dance.
(d) The Sun Dance.

2. Which presidential administration was responsible for the Louisiana purchase?
(a) The Johnson administration.
(b) The Buchanan administration.
(c) The Jefferson administration.
(d) The Jackson administration.

3. What was the primary crop in Native American agriculture?
(a) Corn.
(b) Millet.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Wheat.

4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, who were the "foot soldiers of the British Empire building" (52)?
(a) The German peasantry.
(b) The Irish Catholics.
(c) The Scots-Irish.
(d) The English peasantry.

5. Which term, coined by Gerald Vizenor, describes stories that "are renunciations of dominancy, the unbearable sentiments of tragedy, and the legacy of victmry?" (217).
(a) Survivance.
(b) Terminal narratives.
(c) Terminance.
(d) Survival stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea suggested that late nineteenth-century social problems were the result of the closing of the Western frontier?

2. Which Native nation holds the largest land base in the U.S.?

3. Which actor provided support for the 1960s Indigenous fishing movement in Washington State?

4. Which Secretary of War advocated for the absolute extinction of Native communities?

5. In U.S. settler colonialism, what was the primary commodity?

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