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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the multiethnic resistance movement supported by the Working Class Union?
(a) The Crazy Snake Rebellion.
(b) The Green Corn Rebellion.
(c) The Red River Rebellion.
(d) The Four Corners Rebellion.

2. Why did the U.S. army destroy the Prophet's Town?
(a) To build a U.S. national monument.
(b) To establish a cattle-ranching operation.
(c) To crush the Native resistance.
(d) To take over fertile farmland.

3. 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 Greenville.
(b) The Treaty of Holston.
(c) The Treaty of Tordesillas.
(d) The Treaty of Hopewell.

4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, who was an outspoken supporter of American overseas imperialism in the mid-to-late 1800s?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) John Collier.
(c) George Custer.
(d) William H. Seward.

5. What was the name of the Lakota Sioux's sacred land, where Mount Rushmore is now located?
(a) The Black Hills.
(b) The Green Mountains.
(c) The Blue Lake.
(d) The Great Plains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea suggested that late nineteenth-century social problems were the result of the closing of the Western frontier?

2. What year was Tecumseh killed?

3. How many future states developed in the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase?

4. What was the name of the settler-ranger who became president of the independent country of Franklin?

5. Which U.S. president ordered the Pike expedition?

Short Essay Questions

1. During the early 1800s, young Natives often opposed their elders' attitude toward settler-colonists. What did these young people believe?

2. In 1871, Congress created a rider to the Indian Appropriation Act. What did this rider state?

3. What was the environmental impact of the white settlers' destruction of the buffalo?

4. What strategies did the U.S. military use against both Native populations and the Filipinos?

5. Why did some Native people hope for a Confederate victory during the Civil War?

6. What tactics did President Washington use in his campaigns against Native people?

7. During the Confederation period, what was the relationship between British forces and Native communities?

8. Dunbar-Ortiz describes an exodus of landless poor from the East toward the seized Indigenous territories. She characterizes this exodus as an "escape valve." What does she mean by that?

9. What was the purpose of the Buffalo Soldiers and other Western armies?

10. In Chapter 8, Dunbar-Ortiz responds to the popular argument that the Civil War was fought over "state's rights." What is her opinion on this issue?

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