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Native American History

Questions from Corey, Melinda and Ochoa, George. "American History, The New York Public Library Book of Answers", Simon & Schuster, New York. (c)1993.

1. When did human beings first settle in North America?

(ESTIMATE)

• 500 years ago
  
• 5,000 years ago
  
• 12,000 years ago
  
• 75,000 years ago
  
• Explanation
  

2. What is the oldest confirmed site of human habitation in the continental United States?

• 500 years ago
  
• 5,000 years ago
  
• 11,000 years ago
  
• 14,987 years, 4 months, 9 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes and 5 seconds before the present
  
• Explanation
  

3. What was Squanto's tribe?

• Squanto was an English speaking American Indian
  
• Squanto was, and still is, folklore
  
• There is (or was) no such tribe.
  
• This tribe gave George Washington assistance in battle.
  
• Explanation
  

4. What is the difference between a tepee and a wigwam?

• same thing, just different names
  
• there is no such thing as a wigwam
  
• there is no such thing as a tepee
  
• location and design
  
• Explanation
  

5. When did the Great Plains Indians start riding horses?

• a long, long time ago...
  
• 16th Century
  
• 17th Century
  
• 18th Century
  
• 19th Century
  
• Explanation
  

6. What was the first major war against Indians in New England?

• Pequot War
  
• War of 1812
  
• Spanish American War
  
• Indian-American War
  
• Explanation
  

7. What did chinook mean to an Indian of the Pacific Northwest?

• a sign of war
  
• a food
  
• a dance
  
• hostile intentions
  
• Explanation
  

8. How are the Apache and Navajo trives related?

• Athapascan language family
  
• same tribe, just different ways to call them
  
• they intermaried
  
• Apache are children of the Navajo
  
• Explanation
  

9. Which tribe was known to U.S. settlers as the "Cossacks of the Plains"?

• Cherikee
  
• Navajo
  
• Seminole
  
• Comanche
  
• Explanation
  

10. What tribes are related to the Sioux
Note: there are several, one of the several is listed

• Seminole
  
• Orange
  
• Biloxi
  
• Navajo
  
• Explanation
  

11. How do you say "Crow" in the Crow language?

• Absaroke
  
• gens des corbeaux
  
• sparrowhawk
  
• Crow
  
• Explanation
  

12. What is a sweat lodge?

• a waffle house
  
• a house made out of candy
  
• a chocolate factory
  
• a religious sanctuary
  
• Explanation
  

13. Who led the Great Pueblo Revolt of 1680?

• Abagail Smith
  
• Pope'
  
• Henry VIII
  
• J. J. Thompson
  
• Explanation
  

14. What were the nations of the Iroquois Confederacy? (in the 1500s)

(Not all are listed; choose the best answer)

• Cayuga, Mohawks, Oneida
  
• Santa Fe, Cayuga, present day Florida
  
• Mohawks, present day Florida, San Antonio
  
• Oneida, Navajo's peak, Cayuga
  
• Explanation
  

15. What was the Iroquois warpath?

• there is no such thing
  
• the trail the Iroquois used to escape from war
  
• the path of destruction left by the warlike Iroquois
  
• a small trail from Hudson River to Lake Erie
  
• Explanation
  

16. Who were the Indians of the French and Indian war?
Name one

• Iroquois
  
• Seminole
  
• Shawnee
  
• Navajo
  
• Explanation
  

17. Who wre the rebels of "Pontiac's Rebellion"?

• American Indian tribes
  
• English settlers
  
• French settlers
  
• German settlers
  
• Explanation
  

18. What was the name of the American Indian woman who guided Lewis and Clark?

• Hillary Rodham Clinton
  
• Chelsy
  
• Sacajawea
  
• Pontiac
  
• Explanation
  

19. What rank did Tecumseh reach in the British army?

• General
  
• Sergant
  
• Major
  
• Corporal
  
• Explanation
  

20. Who developed the first system of writing in Cherokee?

• Sequoyah
  
• Pontiac
  
• Sacajawea
  
• Osceola
  
• Explanation
  

21. Who were the "Five Civilized Tribes"?

• Seminole, Cherokee, Iroquois, Shawnee, Ottawa
  
• Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole
  
• Iroquois, Potawatomi, Ottawa, Abnaki, Shawnee
  
• Abnaki, Tuscarora, Chickasaw, Shawnee, Creek
  
• Explanation
  

22. What was the "Trail of Tears"?

• removal of indians from land
  
• when the indian daughter is not allowed to buy clothing at the indian mall
  
• the time when the indian mother has to spank the indian child
  
• the path the Indians ran from the massacre
  
• Explanation
  

23. What Indian war was fought in the Florida Everglades?

• Seminole War
  
• War of 1812
  
• French-Indian war
  
• Civil War
  
• Explanation
  

24. Who captured Geronimo?

• General Martock
  
• George Washington
  
• President Tyler
  
• General Nelson Miles
  
• Explanation
  

25. What is a Ghost Dance?

• people dance and get shot
  
• spiritual dance
  
• when indians dance in an indian burial ground
  
• when spokey things make people run
  
• Explanation
  

26. What was the last major battle between U.S. troops and Native Americans?

• Battle of Bull Run
  
• Battle at Bunker Hill
  
• Battle of Wounded Knee
  
• Battle of the Everglades
  
• Explanation
  

27. Who was Carlos Montezuma?

• a physician
  
• a historian
  
• a chief
  
• a warior
  
• Explanation
  

28. What organization led the 1973 takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota?

• NAACP
  
• NFL
  
• AIM
  
• NLCS
  
• Explanation
  

29. What state does Ben Nighthorse Campbell represent?

• Alabama
  
• Colorado
  
• South Dakota
  
• Wyoming
  
• Explanation
  

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