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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Indian chief always carried a flag and medals from President Lincoln because he thought that these would protect him?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Running Bear
(c) Lean Bear
(d) Red Cloud

3. What General led the Cherokee relocation?
(a) William Sheridan
(b) George Custer
(c) William Sherman
(d) Winfield Scott

4. After a treaty meeting between US soldiers and Cheyennes chief's this man said, " I felt myself in the presence of superior beings:"
(a) General Sheridan
(b) Chief One Eye
(c) Major Wynkoop
(d) Chief Lean Bear

5. Roman Nose gets upset with a woman preparing his food because she does what?
(a) Fails to use wild buffalo
(b) Uses white man's food
(c) Uses a metal spoon
(d) Makes the food too hot

6. Who was chief for the Ottawa tribe?
(a) Pontiac
(b) Crazy Horse
(c) Tecumseh
(d) Caddilac

7. Who went to visit Abraham Lincoln in Washington?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Little Crow
(c) Crazy Horse
(d) Red Cloud

8. What was located between the Pecos mountains and the Rio Grande?
(a) Bosque Redondo
(b) Wounded Knee
(c) Washita
(d) The Little Big Horn

9. When the white men first appeared what was Cochise's attitude?
(a) He tried to live at peace
(b) He ran into the hill country
(c) He immediately tried to drive them away
(d) He moved south to Mexico

10. The chiefs are asked to come and meet with yet another white general to talk about peace, who is this person?
(a) William Tecumseh Sherman
(b) William Henry Harrison
(c) Winfield Scott Hancock
(d) George Armstrong Custer

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

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

13. In 1865 what US General was preparing a new military initiative against the Indians near the Black Hills?
(a) General Sherman
(b) General Sheridan
(c) General Custer
(d) General Connor

14. The Sioux warriors force the soldiers to retreat to what fort?
(a) Fort Snelling
(b) Fort Wise
(c) Fort Connor
(d) Fort Defiance

15. What famous chief was leading the Navaho nation in 1860?
(a) Crazy Horse
(b) Cochise
(c) Manuelito
(d) Geronimo

Short Answer Questions

1. Donehogawa's "Christian name"?

2. Cochise finally reaches an agreement with what US General?

3. What government position does Donehogawa hold?

4. What event brought in an unexpected influx of white men to Colorado in 1858?

5. In 1865 the US government sends what group to the Missouri river basin?

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