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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. 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?

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

3. Joseph Mittark was accused of illegitimately selling the lands of his people to the governor of what state?

4. What was the name of the governor of New France who traveled to Iroquois country to try to bluff his way to making the Iroquois stop trading with the English?

5. In what year did George Washington order the destruction of around forty Iroquois towns during the Revolutionary War?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the impact of European political systems on Native American culture. How did the political structure of Native American civilization change as a result of European influence?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the housing structures and villages established amongst the Native American tribes. How much variance was there in housing structure?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the text of Mary Jemison in Chapter 2. How did Jemison feel about her captors? How did this relationship change?

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