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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. In what year did the Delaware Indians give a speech stating their belief that the English caused the French and Indian War, as described in Chapter 4?
(a) 1754.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1763.
(d) 1758.

2. In Chapter 4, a speech from 1752 was made by an Abenaki Indian named what to a Massachusetts emissary?
(a) Cheda.
(b) Atiwaneto.
(c) Gachadow.
(d) Garangula.

3. The first text in Chapter 4 is from what year, when a governor of New France traveled to Iroquois country to try to bluff his way to making the Iroquois stop trading with the English?
(a) 1658.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1684.
(d) 1754.

4. Dragging Canoe led Cherokee Indians inclined to fight whom during the American Revolutionary War?
(a) The British.
(b) Canadians.
(c) The French.
(d) Americans.

5. In 2004, the Delaware Nation filed suit against Pennsylvania in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, seeking how many acres included in the Walking Purchase?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 314.
(d) 452.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were 96 Delaware Indians murdered by American militia because the militia believed the Indians were plotting against them?

2. Joseph Mittark was accused of illegitimately selling the lands of his people to whom?

3. The Indian Nonintercourse Act was passed by the United States Congress beginning in what year?

4. The Walking Purchase gave Pennsylvania as much land as a person could walk in how much time?

5. When did the American Revolutionary War end?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Walking Purchase of 1737. Who was affected by this deal?

2. How is the American strategy for dealing with the Indians during the American Revolution described in Chapter 5? What founding fathers are discussed?

3. How is the "guardian system" described in Chapter 3? When and where was it enacted?

4. What did the Native Americans feel about the French and Indian War? What is revealed in a 1758 speech about the war in Chapter 4?

5. Who did the Chickasaw Indians make a speech to in Chapter 4? Why?

6. What disputes led to the Indian Nonintercourse Act? When was it signed into law?

7. What became of White Eyes and the Delaware Indians in 1782?

8. Why did Minavavana scold the British in his speech in Chapter 4?

9. What text included in Chapter 3 relates the account of Penobscot? What does it concern?

10. When did Pontiac's War take place? What results arose from the war?

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