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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 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) At least 12,000 years.
(d) 15,000 years.

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

3. Until what date were most American Indians not considered American citizens?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1911.

4. When did Samuel de Champlain land at the site that would become Quebec?
(a) 1602.
(b) 1617.
(c) 1611.
(d) 1608.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many square miles do the Great Plains cover?

2. When were the last compulsory boarding school programs suspended?

3. How old was Treuer's grandmother when she was sent to Tomah Indian Industrial School in Tomah, Wisconsin?

4. When did Richard Henry Pratt open the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania?

5. When was the first Homestead Act passed?

(see the answer key)

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