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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cochise and the Apache Guerrillas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who led a private expedition into the Powder River region in 1865?
(a) John Bent
(b) James Sawyers
(c) John Clark
(d) Patrick Connor

2. What Cheyennes warrior warns an Arapaho village of an impending attack by Connor's men?
(a) Dull Knife
(b) Little Horse
(c) Standing Deer
(d) Little Tree

3. One character is chapter has a name which means "Keeper of the Western Door of the Long House of the Iroquois." Who is this?
(a) US Grant
(b) William Sherman
(c) Ely Parker
(d) Winfield Scott

4. Which tribe listed below was not living in the Southeast region of the US when their land was taken?
(a) Seminole
(b) Iroquois
(c) Chickasaw
(d) Creek

5. Who declared that all land west of the Mississippi was Indian land?
(a) John Quincy Adams
(b) John Adams
(c) Andrew Jackson
(d) Andrew Johnson

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did more federal troops come to the Colorado area in the mid to late 1860s?

2. What Cheyennes chief tries to negotiate a truce in the increasing conflict?

3. At what fort did several Indian tribes sign a treaty reducing their lands?

4. Whose comment became the famous phrase, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"?

5. Who was chief of the Wdewkantons?

(see the answer key)

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