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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?
(a) George Bush.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Isaac Stevens.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

3. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?
(a) They offered them money in return for termination.
(b) They tripled their land mass.
(c) They told the Indians that the state would be running their services and it would be more efficient.
(d) Utah promised them recognition by the federal government of their tribal marriages.

4. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?
(a) Paternalism.
(b) Greed.
(c) Racism.
(d) Fairness.

5. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?
(a) Their aunt's.
(b) Their uncle's.
(c) Their grandfathers.
(d) Their grandmother's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

2. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?

3. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?

4. What was one emphasis outlined in the Termination Act?

5. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?

(see the answer key)

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