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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What belief structure promoted the idea that human societies were subject to "natural selection"?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Social Darwinism.
(c) Human selectionism.
(d) Communism.

2. Which term for robbers was often used by white settlers to describe Natives?
(a) Maurauders.
(b) Bandetti.
(c) Raiders.
(d) Corsairs.

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

4. Which white settler was captured by the Miamis and later married Little Turtle's daughter?
(a) John Redhouse.
(b) George Percy.
(c) William Wells.
(d) Oliver Stone.

5. What year was President Lincoln inaugurated?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1865.

6. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, the U.S. military often abbreviates the term "Indian Country." What is the shortened version of this term?
(a) In. Co.
(b) Indian co.
(c) In country.
(d) I.C.

7. What year did the Trail of Tears take place?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1838.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1836.

8. Which permanent settlement eventually developed into the commonwealth of Virginia?
(a) Salem.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Jamestown.
(d) Chelsea.

9. What was did the British withdrawal from the Americas have on Native people?
(a) It sparked an alliance between the French and the Natives.
(b) It sparked an alliance between the British and the French.
(c) It was the prelude to complete Native genocide.
(d) It was the birth of a pan-Indian resistance movement.

10. Which U.S. president ordered the Pike expedition?
(a) William Henry Harrison.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

11. Which historian described U.S. history as constantly alternating between a "peace" policy and a "war" policy?
(a) Mathew King.
(b) John Grenier.
(c) Roger Buffalohead.
(d) Robert D. Kaplan.

12. How many indigenous people and their allies were killed when Jackson's forces attacked the Tohopeka stronghold at Horseshoe Bend?
(a) 800.
(b) 900.
(c) 600.
(d) 700.

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

14. What was the name of the Sauk leader in 1832?
(a) Black Hawk.
(b) Tecumseh.
(c) Crazy Horse.
(d) Little Turtle.

15. Which ideology stated that the U.S. had a God-given right to spread across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) American indvidualism.
(c) Neocolonialism.
(d) Manifest Destiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the U.S. purchase Alaska?

2. Why did the U.S. army destroy the Prophet's Town?

3. What was the first U.S. university to offer a doctorate in Native American studies?

4. Which U.S. president publicly defended Lieutenant William "Rusty" Calley, an active participant in the My Lai massacre?

5. What was the name of the 1785 treaty, in which the U.S. government agreed to restrict settlement east of the Blue Ridge Mountains?

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