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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1495, how many Indians did Columbus ship back to Spain for sale?
(a) 550.
(b) 620.
(c) 390.
(d) 480.

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

3. How old was Treuer's cousin Sam Cleveland in 2012?
(a) 33.
(b) 29.
(c) 27.
(d) 38.

4. Where was a large homeland secured for the Lakota in the second Treaty of Fort Laramie?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) Northwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Southwestern South Dakota and northern Nebraska.

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

6. When was an order for Sitting Bull's arrest issued?
(a) November 9, 1890.
(b) September 30, 1890.
(c) December 15, 1890.
(d) October 11, 1890.

7. When did Blackfeet warrior and orator Crowfoot die?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1888.

8. How many square miles do the Great Plains cover?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 1.3 milliion.
(d) 2 million.

9. When did Richard Henry Pratt open the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1879.

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

11. By 1932, what was Joseph Oklahombi's monthly veteran's pension?
(a) $9.
(b) $12.
(c) $15.
(d) $10.

12. How long did Canada have a boarding school system for Indians?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

13. When were at least 150 Lakota Sioux killed in South Dakota?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1887.
(d) 1882.

14. When did a representative of the Iroquois Confederacy declare war on Germany, Italy, Japan, and their allies?
(a) April 18, 1942.
(b) July 28, 1942.
(c) May 9, 1942.
(d) June 13, 1942.

15. When did Indian tribes begin to organize themselves formally in spite of the Office of Indian Affairs and the federal government?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1911.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did a group of Meskwaki get permission from the Iowa state legislature to buy land in Tama County?

3. When was the battle of the Little Bighorn?

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

5. When was the first Homestead Act passed?

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