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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Purgatory: 1891-1934.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many acres of land may have been irrigated by the Hohokam?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 18,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 55,000.

2. When were the Nez Perce forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oregon to Idaho?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1871.

3. When did the Spanish attempt to settle in what is present-day South Carolina?
(a) 1511 and 1521.
(b) 1498 and 1502.
(c) 1526 and 1566.
(d) 1530 and 1570.

4. Where did thousands of Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Choctaw, and Chicasaw families move to from Oklahoma and became homesteaders?
(a) Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado.
(b) Wyoming and Montana.
(c) Missouri and Texas.
(d) Nebraska, Colorado, and Utah.

5. After the Civil War, how much did the Seminoles have to sell their reservation for?
(a) 20 cents an acre.
(b) 5 cents an acre.
(c) 10 cents an acre.
(d) 15 cents an acre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Indians fought during the Revolutionary War and brought supplies and support to Washington and his troops when they were starving at Valley Forge?

2. Between 1616 and 1619, what percent of the population of the New England tribes was wiped out by disease?

3. How many days did it take to find Zintkala Nuni or Lost Bird after her mother was gunned down at Wounded Knee Creek?

4. Where were at least 150 Lakota Sioux killed in South Dakota?

5. Within a couple of decades after allotment, what percent of Indian land passed into white ownership?

(see the answer key)

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