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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Jack Wilson have a vision of the Ghost Dance?
(a) February 17, 1889.
(b) March 11, 1889.
(c) January 1, 1889.
(d) April 7, 1889.

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

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

4. In 1890, how many Indians did the U.S. Census Bureau tabulate?
(a) 220,000.
(b) 180,000.
(c) Around 300,000.
(d) Less than 200,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was a large homeland secured for the Lakota in the second Treaty of Fort Laramie?

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

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

4. How many Indian men were drafted during World War I?

5. When did Ely Parker become the first Indian to be placed in charge of the Office of Indian Affairs?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?

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

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

5. What is Leech Lake Reservation?

6. How did President Ulysses S. Grant change the ways the federal government worked with Indian tribes?

7. What was allotment?

8. What type of structures did the Nasaazi construct?

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

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

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