Deck 10: Native Americans: the First Americans

Question 1

The U.S.government recognizes a total of ________ tribes including those in Alaska.

A) 1,200
B) 900
C) 767
D) 554

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Florida Seminoles:

A) were defeated by the federal troops.
B) were removed by the federal troops after a 15 year stand off.
C) were successful in destroying the entire federal army.
D) State of Georgia, ignored

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The tribes on the Plains were:

A) formidable warriors.
B) easily removed.
C) cooperative at every level.
D) suicidal fanatics.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

During the French and Indian War of 1754 and 1761,the Iroquois eventually backed:

A) the English.
B) the French.
C) the Iroquois.
D) the Dutch.

Question 5

Through the Indian Reorganization Act,programs were established to help Indians:

A) file grievance for violent acts.
B) recover some of their lost lands.
C) recover their adopted children.
D) sue the federal government as a sovereign nation.

Question 6

As the 20th century approached,the population of Indians was only:

A) 2 million.
B) 240,000.
C) 500,000.
D) 100,000.

Question 7

The terminated tribe,Klamaths,ultimately:

A) never received promised payments for all.
B) learned to trust the BIA.
C) learned to trust the federal government.
D) learned to sell land for money.

Question 8

Overall,the Proclamation of 1763 gave lip service to the rights of:

A) all Europeans to take whatever land they wanted.
B) all Indians' land rights.
C) all Indian land taken by force or treaty.
D) all squatters' rights.

Question 9

The Main effect of the 1887 Dawes Act was to:

A) make Whites into tribal members.
B) make Indians into farmers.
C) transfer White lands to Indians.
D) transfer Indian lands to Whites.

Question 10

A small group of American Indian university students formed:

A) AIM.
B) NYIC.
C) NCAI.
D) SRI.

Question 11

Which Indian leader graduated in medicine and practiced on the Pine Ridge Reservation?

A) Dr. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)
B) Dr. Carlos Montezuma (Wassaja)
C) Dr. Arthur Parker (Gawasowannah)
D) Dr. Allen Pontiac (Iroquois)

Question 12

One of the unfortunate White intervention strategies in response to the Ghost Dances was:

A) the death of Geronimo.
B) boarding schools.
C) the death of Chief Joseph.
D) off-reservation clubs.

Question 13

In the beginning,the BIA established two types of schools,day schools and:

A) night schools.
B) boarding schools.
C) reservation clubs.
D) off-reservation clubs.

Question 14

Custer's Last Stand was preceded by:

A) White massacres.
B) Native massacres.
C) miners violating Black Hills lands.
D) natives violating Black Hills lands.

Question 15

The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1793 empowered the president to promote ________ ? among friendly Indians.

A) gambling
B) trade
C) civilization
D) deportation

Question 16

The friends of Indians were mostly comprised of:

A) Jews.
B) Christians.
C) Indians.
D) Muslims.

Question 17

The Appropriations Act of 1871 brought an end to:

A) dominant group violence on Indians.
B) trade
C) education of friendly Indians.
D) deportation

Question 18

The U.S.government forced the Cherokee to give up ________ acres of its land.

A) 100,000
B) 1 million
C) 60 million
D) 1 billion

Question 19

A group of World War II veterans formed:

A) AIM.
B) NYIC.
C) NCAI.
D) SIR

Question 20

In the Worcester case,the U.S.Supreme Court ruled in favor of ________,but President ? Jackson ________ the ruling.

A) Indians, complied to
B) Indians, ignored
C) State of Georgia, complied
D) State of Georgia, ignored

Question 21

The BIA became the commissioner of Indian affairs as the government's administrative agency ? in the matter of Indians.

Question 22

White miners mined gold on sacred Indian lands in the Black Hills.

Question 23

A large number of tribes use blood quantum of ________ for tribal membership status.

A) one-seventh
B) one-half
C) one-fourth
D) one-sixteenth

Question 24

Each of the following tribes reported 100,000 members or more except:

A) Cherokee.
B) Iroquois.
C) Choctaw.
D) Sioux.

Question 25

President George Washington attempted to establish a firm peace with the Indians.

Question 26

The U.S.Army massacred women and children at Wounded Knee.

Question 27

In terms of ethnic resurgence among Indians,research evidence indicates:

A) There is none.
B) A resurgence came and went without effect.
C) A resurgence is here.
D) No natives show signs of resurgent interests.

Question 28

Andrew Jackson completely ignored the U.S.Supreme Court's ruling and removed the ? Cherokee.

Question 29

Other than native tribal religions,the most common religion among Indians is:

A) Christianity.
B) Buddhism.
C) Animism.
D) Taoism.

Question 30

Most of the indigenous Indians survived the diseases brought by the Europeans.

Question 31

Reservations suffer from ________ unemployment.

A) very high
B) very low
C) moderate
D) comparable (to Whites)

Question 32

The United States kept all the treaties made to those Indians who walked the Trail of Tears.

Question 33

After the Supreme Court of Washington State nullified 11 treaties,Indians called for a:

A) sit-in.
B) building take-over.
C) picket line.
D) fish-in.

Question 34

The largest reservation tribe in the United States is the:

A) Iroquois.
B) Choctaw.
C) Sioux.
D) Navajo.

Question 35

By 1980 more than half of all Indians lived:

A) on reservations.
B) in cities.
C) in near-reservation cities.
D) on welfare.

Question 36

The Dawes Act was designed to preserve Native Tribal cultures against assimilation.

Question 37

The Indians won the French and Indian War.

Question 38

The English lost the War of 1812 and the Indians gained ongoing European support for their ? resistance.

Question 39

Pine Ridge Reservation is:

A) one of the richest places in the United States.
B) one of the most densely populated places in the United States.
C) one of the most rural places in the United States.
D) one of the poorest places in the United States.

Question 40

The text reports that Indian gaming revenues are an estimated ________ per year.

A) $200 million
B) $6 billion
C) $200 billion
D) $6 trillion

Question 41

Describe how the migration of Native Americans off the reservations and into the cities and ? towns has influenced assimilation.

Question 42

The Courts have heard many Indian rights issues,but not fishing rights.

Question 43

The text reports that 160 tribes have gaming.

Question 44

The takeover of Alcatraz Island failed at every level.

Question 45

Explain "blood quantum" and why such a doctrine is so important to determining membership ? in any given tribe.

Question 46

SAI was founded on Columbus day in 1911.

Question 47

In 1990 fewer than 3 percent of Indians spoke no English.

Question 48

Alaska has no native tribes of Indians.

Question 49

Describe the process of treaty-making and the track record of the Anglo governments in ? keeping their end of the treaties.Has the end of treaty-making helped or hurt Native ? Americans?

Question 50

The termination policy was designed to get government out of Indian business.

Question 51

Briefly describe the formal programs implemented by Congress to assimilate or "civilize"
Indians and how successful they were.Contrast them with the doctrine of self-determination.
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Question 52

Indians are on the road to higher levels of assimilation.

Question 53

Native American worldly success almost guarantees the preservation of tribal cultures.

Question 54

Briefly list and describe each of the Indian Civil Rights organizations and those organizations ? which have either helped or hindered them.

Question 55

Describe five major negative consequences to Indians of the Termination Act.Were these ? negative consequences ever reversed?

Question 56

Describe the legal process by which Indians came to be governed under the "Sovereign Nation" ? doctrine.

Question 57

President Richard Nixon argued for Indian self-determination.

Question 58

Many Indians lived in urban areas before World War II.

Question 59

The Indian Reorganization Act coincided directly with the realities of Indian life.

Question 60

Describe the similarities and differences in Mexican American and Native American formal ? relations with the U.S.government.

Question 61

Define some of the pros and cons of gaming and financial success to the collective Native ? American Experience.List five things that might help natives to preserve their traditional ? ways of life.

Question 62

Pick one historical event of Anglo treatment of Indians that you feel symbolizes the overall ? experience of natives with the dominant group.Explain your position.