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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?
(a) Indians should be compensated for land loss.
(b) All land should be taken from Indians.
(c) Indians should be abolished.
(d) The Indian Bureau should be abolished.

2. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?
(a) As Civil Wars.
(b) Not as wars.
(c) As conflicts, not wars.
(d) As the first foreign wars of American history.

3. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?
(a) United States v. Zimmerman.
(b) United States v. Menominees.
(c) United States v. Winans.
(d) United States v. Chippewa.

4. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?
(a) The Indians would have to give up hunting rights.
(b) Once a reservation voted against the acceptance of the provisions of the act, they were forbidden from considering it again.
(c) The Indians would have to move again and give up more land.
(d) There was a one year delay on all services while the tribe voted.

5. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?
(a) The Allotment Act.
(b) The Indian Ownership Act.
(c) The Indian Referral Act.
(d) The Peace Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Watkins visited the Menominee, what did he compare the living conditions to?

2. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?

3. What was Stewart Udall's explanation about why the Indians had not made progress like his friends in Arizona?

4. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?

5. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?

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