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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 Columbus make a fourth voyage to the Caribbean?

2. During what century did Leif Eriksson explore the northern Atlantic littoral?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the book about?

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

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

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

5. What is the earliest verified record of settlement in North America?

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

7. 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?

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

9. Why did Indians resist the draft during World War I?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many Indians struggled with life when they returned home after the war. How did Indians struggle with life when they returned home after the war? How did their war experiences and struggles symbolize the struggles of modern Indians in society?

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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