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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. When did Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) land on the mainland of North America?

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

3. When did a party of Dakota attack a Ojibwe sugar camp near the Saint Croix River?

4. What weight was Sam Cleveland down to in 2012 so he could wrestle in March?

5. When were 173 Blackfeet Indians killed by U.S. troops when they were directed to the wrong camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why were Indians often found at the front when they fought for the U.S.?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What disease did Treuer believe his cousin Sam battled when he fought?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Indian boarding schools were created to teach Indian children English and American ways of life. What were Indian boarding schools like? Were the children indoctrinated and brainwashed in the schools?

Essay Topic 3

Indians ruled the North American continent before the Europeans came. How did Indians lose control of the North American continent? What role did colonialism play in their loss of the continent?

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