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

2. When was the second Treaty of Fort Laramie signed?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1862.

3. When Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida in 1513, how long had Indians been living there?
(a) 11,000 years.
(b) About 10,000 years.
(c) 15,000 years.
(d) At least 12,000 years.

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) Nebraska, Colorado, and Utah.
(c) Missouri and Texas.
(d) Wyoming and Montana.

5. How many Lakota survived Wounded Knee?
(a) More than 200.
(b) About 300.
(c) 230.
(d) 175.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Columbus land in 1492?

2. What did Treuer study in college?

3. During what century did Leif Eriksson explore the northern Atlantic littoral?

4. How far back may humans have lived at the site found at Meadowcroft Rockshelter?

5. During the first five years of the California gold rush, how many tons of gold were mined by placer mining?

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