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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Following the 1969 seizure of Alcatraz, Indigenous people (Indians of All Tribes) occupied it for some time. How long?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 14 months.
(d) 2 years.
2. What was the name of the settler-ranger who became president of the independent country of Franklin?
(a) Daniel Boone.
(b) William Sherman.
(c) William H. Seward.
(d) John Sevier.
3. Which presidential administration was responsible for the Louisiana purchase?
(a) The Buchanan administration.
(b) The Jackson administration.
(c) The Johnson administration.
(d) The Jefferson administration.
4. What periodical published The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone?
(a) Godey's Lady's Book.
(b) Harper's Weekly.
(c) American Magazine.
(d) The Illustrated London News.
5. Who wrote the novel The Last of the Mohicans?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) Stephen Crane.
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(d) D.H. Lawrence.
6. What year did Minnesota become a non-slavery state?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1858.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1857.
7. What animal served as the economic base of the Plains Nations?
(a) The buffalo.
(b) The pig.
(c) The horse.
(d) The cow.
8. Which term for robbers was often used by white settlers to describe Natives?
(a) Maurauders.
(b) Raiders.
(c) Corsairs.
(d) Bandetti.
9. What annual amount was promised to the Cherokees under the Treaty of Holston?
(a) $75,000.
(b) $150,000.
(c) $100,000.
(d) $125,000.
10. What was the name for people in escapee communities in the Caribbean and Brazil?
(a) Castaways.
(b) Forsaken.
(c) Maroons.
(d) Deserters.
11. Fear of Chinese communist revolution was called what?
(a) Yellow peril.
(b) Red peril.
(c) Black peril.
(d) White peril.
12. How does the Dunbar-Ortiz describe the Iraq War?
(a) As a "democratic war."
(b) As a "settler's war."
(c) As an "Indian war."
(d) As a "colonialist war."
13. Which Secretary of War advocated for the absolute extinction of Native communities?
(a) Henry Knox.
(b) Andrew Johnson.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) James Madison.
14. What year was Tecumseh killed?
(a) 1808.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1817.
(d) 1810.
15. What was the name of the U.S. military reservation located near Fort Lyon in Colorado?
(a) Grand Junction.
(b) Wounded Knee.
(c) Sand Creek.
(d) Pueblo.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many Dakota Sioux were killed during the largest mass hanging in U.S. history?
2. What year did the Great Railroad Strike take place?
3. What was the name for land-poor settlers who wanted Lincoln to "open" Indigenous territories west of the Mississippi?
4. What was the name for the forced march of 8,000 Navajos to a military concentration camp in New Mexico?
5. What year did Texas become a U.S. state?
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