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American Indians and Alaska Natives MCQ

The most serious resource shortage for many western tribes is __________.

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Correct Answer: Water.

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King Philip describes how One of Massasoit’s sons, King Philip gathered other tribes together and attacked the Separatists. After a bloody war, the tribes lost, and the Separatists put King Philip’s head on a pike for 20 years.

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Correct Answer: True

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The scene of the _______massacre of BigFoot and most of his followers by U.S. troops is called Wounded Knee.

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Correct Answer: 1890

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Worcester v. Georgia describes that in an ______ Supreme Court decision that ruled that the state of Georgia had no power over the Cherokee because the Cherokee were a sovereign nation, and only the federal government had authority over them. President Jackson ignored the ruling.

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Correct Answer: 1832

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The Trail of Tears explains that poorly planned and executed forced march of Cherokees from Georgia to “Indian land” in Oklahoma in the _______. Between one-quarter and one-half died along the way from hunger, disease, cold, exhaustion, and heartache.

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Correct Answer: 1830s

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Termination Act of 1953 and Relocation Act of ______ acts signed by President Dwight Eisenhower. The Termination Act stopped payments promised to American Indian nations. The Relocation Act provided moving expenses to American Indians willing to move off a reservation to an urban area.

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Correct Answer: 1956

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Takeover of Alcatraz describes that for 19 months, from 1969 to 1970, people from at least ______ tribes participated in the occupation of the island and former prison off the coast of San Francisco. They called themselves “Indians of all tribes.”

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Correct Answer: 12

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Separatists landed in Massachusetts in 1620. They were seeking a place where they could start a new life guided by strict religious rules and beliefs. Separatists gained their name because they had separated themselves from the Church of England, which they viewed as corrupt.

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Correct Answer: True

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_______ Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) explains a treaty by which the U.S. government established the Great Sioux Reservation, which included the Black Hills—a sacred place for the Sioux in what are now South Dakota and Wyoming.

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Correct Answer: 2nd

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A fund based on contributions of one-quarter of profits from oil and mineral earnings that the state of Alaska invests and uses to provide every Alaskan a guaranteed dividend each year is called

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Correct Answer: Permanent Fund

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The Mexican–American War describes the ________ war between Mexico and the United States instigated by the United States to fulfill its “manifest destiny.” It resulted in Mexico ceding 55% of its land (and the people on it) to the United States.

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Correct Answer: 1846–1848

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The leader of the Wampanoag when the Separatists arrived. Having just lost almost all his people to disease, _______ made an alliance with the Separatists.

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Correct Answer: Massasoit

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The belief that the United States has a God-given obligation and inevitable destiny to expand and take over territories occupied by _____peoples (e.g., Mexicans and American Indians) is called Manifest destiny.

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Correct Answer: Inferior

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The Iroquois League describes a federation created in what is now New York state sometime between 1100 and 1400 of Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas (the Tuscaro joined in 1722); also known as the Great League of Peace. The Iroquois were the dominant _________ Indians in the region.

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Correct Answer: American

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The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of ______ describes this act as allowing tribes to control their own education and teach through their cultural lens. It also lets them run programs formerly led by federal agencies.

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Correct Answer: 1975

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Indian Reorganization Act signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in _________ that stopped the allotment process, gave reservations for some additional land, and encouraged nations to create their own governments with limited autonomy.

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Correct Answer: 1934

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Indian Removal Policy of _______ explains that President Andrew Jackson gave permission to exchange land west of the Mississippi for the land of Indian nations east of the Mississippi. It also stated that the United States would never take the “Indian land” in the West away from Indian nations.

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Correct Answer: 1830

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Trauma experienced by our mothers and earlier generations of mothers can change the structure of our genes and make us react in negative ways to stresses we face today is called _________ Trauma

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Correct Answer: Historical

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______ dance was created by a Paiute holy person who claimed that the dance would bring back loved ones and the buffalo from the dead and return the dancers to a time before Europeans arrived. It spread from reservation to reservation because it gave defeated Indians hope that they could go back to a better time.

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Correct Answer: Ghost

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The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group;imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”(ICC 2019) is called

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Correct Answer: Genocide

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An attempt to turn Indians into individual farmers—like White people—by breaking up reservation land, assigning a plot to each Indian household, and giving the remaining land to White people is called General Allotment Act of _______.

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Correct Answer: 1887

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A _________ school is an institution where children live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now extend across many countries, their function and ethos varies greatly.

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Correct Answer: Boarding

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Prompted by the U.S. government’s takeover of the Black Hills after Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer discovered gold in the Black Hills and allowed White people to occupy the area. This was the last of the big wars on the Great Plains is called

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Correct Answer: Black Hills War of 1876

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Battle of Little Bighorn in _______ describes the Black Hills War where George Armstrong Custer and almost all his men died.

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Correct Answer: 1876

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Alaska’s Anti-Discrimination Act of ______ describes an act that prohibited open discrimination of Alaska Natives, such as signs in stores that said “No Dogs or Natives Allowed.”

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Correct Answer: 1945

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Through ANSCA, Alaskan Natives agreed to give up their claims on most of the land in Alaska in exchange for $962.5 million and one-ninth of the state’s land. They also agreed to create ______ Alaska Native village corporations and 12 Alaska Native land-owning, for-profit, regional corporations.

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Correct Answer: 200

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