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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statement did General Sherman issue to President Grant following the Fetterman Massacre?
(a) U.S. troops should kill all Natives, including women and children.
(b) The U.S. army should receive additional training on Native customs.
(c) U.S. forces should withdraw from the West and cease hostilities.
(d) The U.S. government should break treaties with Native nations.

2. What year was gold discovered in Georgia?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1827.

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

4. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, what event kickstarted the U.S. government's attempts to annex former Spanish territories in the Americas?
(a) The Louisiana Purchase.
(b) The Lewis and Clark Expedition.
(c) The Pike Expeditions.
(d) The Gold Rush.

5. 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) Johnson.
(b) Fremont.
(c) Benton.
(d) Houston.

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

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

8. What year did the Great Railroad Strike take place?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1877.

9. 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) In country.
(c) In. Co.
(d) I.C.

10. Dunbar-Ortiz states that President Kennedy used settler-based terminology during his presidential campaign. What term does she point out?
(a) Kennedy's "Indian country."
(b) Kennedy's "modern colony."
(c) Kennedy's "native exploration."
(d) Kennedy's "new frontier."

11. 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"?
(a) The U.S. government forcibly moved Native communities elsewhere.
(b) The U.S. government passed legislation restricting grazing animals.
(c) U.S. forces required Natives to reseed and replant the land.
(d) U.S. forces rounded up and killed all the Natives' grazing animals.

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

13. What was the name for traditionist fighters among the Upper Creeks indigenous groups?
(a) Black Trees.
(b) Red Sticks.
(c) Brown Rocks.
(d) Green Hills.

14. What annual amount was promised to the Cherokees under the Treaty of Holston?
(a) $150,000.
(b) $125,000.
(c) $75,000.
(d) $100,000.

15. How many future states developed in the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 6.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. Following the 1969 seizure of Alcatraz, Indigenous people (Indians of All Tribes) occupied it for some time. How long?

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

3. What was the name of the Lakota Sioux's sacred land, where Mount Rushmore is now located?

4. What was the name for people in escapee communities in the Caribbean and Brazil?

5. Which nationality did Admiral George Dewey refer to as "Indians"?

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