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

2. When were the last compulsory boarding school programs suspended?
(a) Late 1920s.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1924.
(d) Late 1930s.

3. How many students died at the Carlisle school?
(a) 150.
(b) 135.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Hundreds.

4. When did Sam Cleveland join the Army?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1991.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How early were two and then three agencies created to treat and trade with Indian tribes?

2. From what Indian tribe is Kevin Washburn from?

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

4. About how large is Leech Lake Reservation?

5. How old was Treuer's cousin Sam Cleveland in 2012?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Cherokee and other tribes take advantage of the Homestead Act?

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

3. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, how was the North American continent divided?

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

5. How did Treuer describe the Ojibwe and their beginnings?

6. Who was Sam Cleveland, and how did Treuer describe him?

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

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

9. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?

10. What did Indian Rights groups in the 1880s say about the reservation system?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,080 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample