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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to most of the treaties in the far west of the country?
(a) The written documents never made it back to Washington.
(b) They were never ratified by Congress.
(c) The field offices lost the written documents years ago.
(d) They were never broken and followed carefully.

2. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?
(a) Hunting and water rights.
(b) Fishing and Gaming rights.
(c) Herding rights.
(d) National Park rights.

3. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?
(a) To move them to Missouri.
(b) To combine them with tribes in Oklahoma.
(c) Better to have them expire as private citizens than let anyone know how badly they had been treated.
(d) To get them better hospitals and roads.

4. What was the survey of 1086 called?
(a) The Domesday Survey.
(b) The Middle Ages Survey.
(c) The Peasant Survey.
(d) The Century Survey.

5. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?
(a) As neighbors and friends.
(b) As a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations.
(c) America has always honored other nations, but not the Indians.
(d) America tries to help other countries, but sometimes oversteps their boundaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lake Superior hold that the government wanted?

2. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?

3. What did treaties initially do?

4. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?

5. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?

(see the answer key)

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