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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Cochise's father in law?
(a) Manuelito
(b) Mangas Colorado
(c) Geronimo
(d) Baja California

2. What name did the Arapaho give to the attack of Connor's men on the Arapaho village that resulted in the slaughter of 50 Indians?
(a) The Battle of the Powder River and the Little Big Horn Mountain
(b) The Massacre at Sand Creek
(c) Battle of Tongue River that happened in the Moon when Geese shed their Feathers
(d) The Battle of the Washita

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

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

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

6. What event in January of 1863 causes Cochise to go back on the war path?
(a) He is lied to at a treaty conference
(b) He is recaptured and imprisoned
(c) The murder of his wife
(d) The capture and death of Mangus Colorado

7. Who said, "When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood."?
(a) Roman Nose
(b) Sitting Bull
(c) Red Cloud
(d) Crazy Horse

8. When Roman Nose refuses to return to talk to Hancock what does Hancock do?
(a) Atttacks unsuspecting villages
(b) Declares war on all indians
(c) Goes back to Washington
(d) Hangs several chiefs

9. What ultimately happens after the Navajo discover they have been cheated?
(a) Chief Manuelito is hanged
(b) Chief Manuelito's prize horse is butchered
(c) The soldiers kill all of the Navajo
(d) The soldiers run the Navajo out of the fort

10. What event does Manuelito challenge a US officer to compete in?
(a) A foot race
(b) A shooting match
(c) A horse race
(d) A duel

11. Cochise's tribe is offered protection at what fort?
(a) Fort Defiance
(b) Fort Apache
(c) Fort Tularosa
(d) Fort Wise

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

13. News of what event angers Roman Nose?
(a) The establishment of a cattle drive
(b) The establishment of a new stagecoach line
(c) The assasination of Abraham Lincoln
(d) The establishment of a new fort

14. Where is Little Crow finally defeated?
(a) The Rio Grande River
(b) The Washita River
(c) The Yellow Medicine River
(d) The Little Big Horn River

15. Who was the great Shawnee chief?
(a) Tsali
(b) Sequoyah
(c) Crazy Horse
(d) Tecumseh

Short Answer Questions

1. Cochise dies in what year?

2. After a treaty meeting between US soldiers and Cheyennes chief's this man said, " I felt myself in the presence of superior beings:"

3. Where does Red Cloud insist his people should be allowed to trade?

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

5. What was located between the Pecos mountains and the Rio Grande?

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