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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 did Congress issue the United States Declaration of Independence?
(a) June 14, 1777.
(b) October 1, 1774.
(c) July 4, 1776.
(d) July 14, 1776.

2. Delaware Indians strenuously denied the accuracy of the treaty called the Treaty of Fort Pitt in a letter to what American Indian agent in Chapter 5?
(a) Joseph Brant.
(b) George Morgan.
(c) William Johnson.
(d) Alexander McGillivray.

3. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1783.
(d) 1789.

4. Joseph Mittark was accused of illegitimately selling the lands of his people to whom?
(a) John Eliot.
(b) Thomas Dongan.
(c) Joseph Brant.
(d) John Heckewelder.

5. Chief Pontiac was a leader of what Native American tribe?
(a) The Ottawa people.
(b) The Cherokee people.
(c) The Ouachita people.
(d) The Apache people.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, Penobscot recounted his part in the negotiations, in which he never stated anything about handing over land but only that he wished for what?

2. Deliberations on the Treaty of Lancaster ended on what date?

3. When was Dragging Canoe born?

4. What refers to the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected?

5. The Walking Purchase was a purported agreement between the Penn family and what native tribe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What text in Chapter 4 describes the motivations of the French to the Iroquois? What is the response to this text?

3. What was the subject of the speech by the Oneida Indians in Chapter 5? What was the outcome for these people in the war?

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

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

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

7. What was the intention behind "Act of Submission"? Who wrote this text from Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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