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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. In what year were 96 Delaware Indians murdered by American militia because the militia believed the Indians were plotting against them?
(a) 1777.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1776.

3. A speech in what year by a Chippewa chief rejected the presumption that the English were simply going to inherit Indian lands gained by the French?
(a) 1777.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1761.
(d) 1658.

4. The French and Indian War ended in what year?
(a) 1758.
(b) 1754.
(c) 1756.
(d) 1763.

5. An Onondaga Indian named what delivered several powerful speeches at the Treaty of Lancaster conference?
(a) Canasatego.
(b) Atiwaneto.
(c) Penobscot.
(d) Joseph Brant.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Indian Nonintercourse Act declared that all Indian land deals were invalid unless they occurred with what?

2. 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?

3. In what year was the Treaty of Fort Stanwix concluded between the Iroquois and English delegate Sir William Johnson?

4. By what year was it clear the French were defeated by the English, and that Indians allied with the French were soon going to have to deal with the English, according to the author in Chapter 4?

5. The older generation of Cherokee who were resigned to making peace were represented by whom during the American Revolutionary War?

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom did the majority of Native Americans side with in the American Revolution? What were their feelings of the war?

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

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

4. When was the Treaty of Fort Stanwix signed? Who opposed it?

5. 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?

6. How does the author describe the many land deeds in colonial America in Chapter 3?

7. How were the Cherokee Indians impacted by the American Revolution? What rift took place amongst the tribe?

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

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

10. Who is berated in a speech by Atiwaneto in Chapter 4? Why?

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