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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 were 173 Blackfeet Indians killed by U.S. troops when they were directed to the wrong camp?
(a) January 1870.
(b) October 1869.
(c) March 1870.
(d) December 1869.

2. When was the battle of the Little Bighorn?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1874.

3. When did the state of Georgia agree to give up claims to land if the federal government would remove or reduce the Indians in Georgia?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1807.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1800.

4. When were peaceful Blackfeet massacred on the Marais River?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1878.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Canada have a boarding school system for Indians?

2. After the Civil War, how much did the Seminoles have to sell their reservation for?

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

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

5. When did Jack Wilson have a vision of the Ghost Dance?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened when Chief Standing Bear and his followers took the chief's eldest son's body to be buried in Nebraska on their ancestral homelands?

4. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?

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

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

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

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

9. What were the motivations behind Christopher Columbus's journey when the landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492?

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

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