View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Arizona and New Mexico allow Indians to vote?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1943.

2. When did Sam Cleveland's mother commit suicide?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2003.

3. Since what time were spices traded from east to west via coastal routes?
(a) 3500 BCE.
(b) 1980 BCE.
(c) At least 3000 BCE.
(d) Around 2000 BCE.

4. During the first five years of the California gold rush, how many tons of gold were mined by placer mining?
(a) 410.
(b) About 290.
(c) More than 370.
(d) 355.

5. 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) Southwestern South Dakota and northern Nebraska.
(d) Nebraska.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until what date were most American Indians not considered American citizens?

2. When was the battle of the Little Bighorn?

3. When was the first Homestead Act passed?

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

5. From what Indian tribe is Kevin Washburn from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the First Seminole War, and what happened after the war?

2. What was allotment?

3. Why was Kevin Washburn a believer in tribal self-determination and self-governance from early in his life?

4. In 1883, what became Indian offenses, and what was the purpose of a bill passed to establish law and order among the Indians?

5. By the end of 1890, how did everything seem to be over for Indians?

6. What were the Hopewell cutlures and how did they bury their dead?

7. What is the book about?

8. What was the purpose of the Indian boarding schools?

9. Why are there not many archaeological findings in the Southeast on the Atlantic coast?

10. Who survived the massacre at Wounded Knee, and what did they go on to do?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,130 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample