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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. Thomas Jefferson was governor of what state when he urged extermination of Shawnees in Ohio?

2. The Indian Nonintercourse Act is the collective name given to how many statutes passed by the United States Congress?

3. What act among Indian tribes was a crucial part of any diplomatic efforts, as it symbolized friendship and sincerity?

4. When did the American Revolutionary War end?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. What was the Native American response to the Peace of Paris? Why?

8. In what text is the Treaty of Fort Pitt discussed in Chapter 5? What did this treaty entail?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the symbolism, themes and meaning of the Iroquois creation myth related by John Norton in Chapter 1. How does this story's structure relate to narrative structures in European folklore?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Chekilli and the Creek people. How did this tribe relate to others? What interaction did the Creek people have with European colonists?

Essay Topic 3

Describe John Norton and his relationship to the Iroquois people. When did Norton's creation story from Chapter 1 originate?

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