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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the average interval between filing a claim under the Indian Claims Court and receiving an award?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 15 years.

2. What was the name of the 1785 treaty, in which the U.S. government agreed to restrict settlement east of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
(a) The Treaty of Hopewell.
(b) The Treaty of Greenville.
(c) The Treaty of Holston.
(d) The Treaty of Tordesillas.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Which individual spearheaded the 1968 Poor People's Campaign?
(a) Malcom X.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Muhammad Ali.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

9. What decade was the New Deal implemented?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1910s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1940s.

10. Following the 1969 seizure of Alcatraz, Indigenous people (Indians of All Tribes) occupied it for some time. How long?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 14 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 2 years.

11. What term did historian H. Craig Miner use to describe a society that "justified exploitation and destruction of whole societies" (168)?
(a) Imperialist civilization.
(b) Modernized civilization.
(c) Sophisticated civilization.
(d) Industrial civilization.

12. What was the primary revenue source for the newly formed U.S. government?
(a) Logging operations.
(b) Tobacco sales.
(c) Mining operations.
(d) Land sales.

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

14. What animal served as the economic base of the Plains Nations?
(a) The cow.
(b) The pig.
(c) The horse.
(d) The buffalo.

15. During the War for Independence, what portion of the U.S. population lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic ocean?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) One quarter.
(c) One half.
(d) One third.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the U.S. population in 1860?

2. How did a small group of "elite" Native people accumulate personal wealth during the 1800s?

3. What annual amount was promised to the Cherokees under the Treaty of Holston?

4. Prior to the Civil War, how many departments was the U.S. army divided into?

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

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