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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose comment became the famous phrase, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?
(a) General Custer
(b) General Sherman
(c) General Sheridan
(d) General Hancock

2. In 1865 the US government sends what group to the Missouri river basin?
(a) General Sherman's army
(b) A congressional task force
(c) A peace commission
(d) New soldiers fresh from the Civil War

3. At what location are most of the Cheyennes Indians massacred?
(a) Washita
(b) Little Big Horn
(c) Sand Creek
(d) Red Rock

4. What is Manifest Destiny?
(a) The idea that the white man was destined to control from sea to shining sea
(b) The idea that Native Americans are the
(c) The idea that Mexico would one day be part of the US
(d) The idea that Native Americans would conquer the white man

5. What fort do the Navajos attack in retaliation for troops destroying crops?
(a) Fort Sumpter
(b) Fort Defiance
(c) Fort Apache
(d) The Alamo

Short Answer Questions

1. Which tribe listed below was not living in the Southeast region of the US when their land was taken?

2. Where are most of the warring Sioux at this time?

3. Why is a treaty not signed at Fort Laramie?

4. Despite the warning, Connor's men are able to kill about how many indians?

5. What is the most infamous battle of Red Cloud's war?

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