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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to the Civil War, how many departments was the U.S. army divided into?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

2. What was the surname of the U.S. senator who used the press to entice settlers to the Oregon Territory and the Mexican province of California?
(a) Benton.
(b) Fremont.
(c) Houston.
(d) Johnson.

3. The siege of Wounded Knee coincided with the fifth anniversary of which historical event?
(a) The moon landing.
(b) The Kennedy inauguration.
(c) The end of the Vietnam War.
(d) The My Lai massacre.

4. What year did Minnesota become a non-slavery state?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1858.
(d) 1859.

5. What year was Tecumseh killed?
(a) 1817.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1813.

6. What was the Spanish name for the Indigenous client class?
(a) Conversos.
(b) Caciques.
(c) Luchadores.
(d) Propietarios.

7. What was the effect of Public Law 91-550?
(a) Congress set aside reparation money for the Lakota Sioux.
(b) Congress assigned U.S. citizenship to Native populations.
(c) Congress changed the borders of U.S. Indian reservations.
(d) Congress agreed to return the land stolen from the Taos Pueblo.

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

9. What year did Andrew Jackson become president?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1834.

10. What periodical published The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone?
(a) Harper's Weekly.
(b) The Illustrated London News.
(c) American Magazine.
(d) Godey's Lady's Book.

11. What name was given to the Guardians of the Oglala Nation?
(a) The GOON squad.
(b) The Pine Ridge police.
(c) The Native army.
(d) The Indian resistence.

12. What year did the U.S. purchase Alaska?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1867.

13. What year did Gran-Columbia splinter into five separate states?
(a) 1826.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1764.

14. What year was the Treaty of Fort Jackson signed?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1808.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the U.S. annex Hawaii?

2. In the 1930s, the U.S. government decided that soil erosion was caused by Natives' goats and sheep. What action did the government take to address this "problem"?

3. Who allegedly claimed that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" (139)?

4. Which of the following Native nations was a member of the Five Civilized Tribes?

5. Who wrote the novel The Last of the Mohicans?

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