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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many years of Indian history does Treuer tell in the book?
2. Where was the author raised?
3. Where did Columbus land in 1492?
4. What Indians fought during the Revolutionary War and brought supplies and support to Washington and his troops when they were starving at Valley Forge?
5. When did Columbus make a fourth voyage to the Caribbean?
Short Essay Questions
1. What disease did Treuer believe his cousin Sam battled when he fought?
2. Why was Kevin Washburn a believer in tribal self-determination and self-governance from early in his life?
3. How did the Cherokee and other tribes take advantage of the Homestead Act?
4. Who was Sam Cleveland, and how did Treuer describe him?
5. What was the Meriam Report, and what were its findings?
6. What was allotment?
7. What were the motivations behind Christopher Columbus's journey when the landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492?
8. How did President Ulysses S. Grant change the ways the federal government worked with Indian tribes?
9. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?
10. Why were Indians often found at the front when they fought for the U.S.?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After the treaty period ended, the goal was to assimilate Indians into American society. Why were policies created to integrate Indians into American culture, rather than allow them to retain tribal structures and Indian culture? What were the motives and results of assimilation?
Essay Topic 2
Activism changed from the 1960s to 1990. How did activism change from the 1960s to 1990? What is the new activism? How does it bring the past into the present and what does it promote?
Essay Topic 3
Indians resisted the policies and goals of the whites. How did Indians resist the policies and goals of the whites? What role did adaptation play in their resistance?
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