READING CHECK || "Long Walk of the Navajo"

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10 Qs

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READING CHECK || "Long Walk of the Navajo"

READING CHECK || "Long Walk of the Navajo"

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which option BEST explains how the federal peace commission interacted with the Navajo people?

They imposed an unfamiliar pattern of communal living on the Navajo people and left them to die of starvation and exposure.
They investigated Navajo complaints against European settlers and removed the settlers from Navajo ancestral lands.
They offered protection for the Navajo people as they made the long walk to the reservation, but then allowed them to return home.
They listened to the Navajo concerns and established a treaty to return them to their homeland.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

TRUE? or FALSE? The United States and Euro-Americans perceived the Navajo as a violent, warlike people.

TRUE: Military posts were established within Navajo country to deal with the tribe.
FALSE: The Navajo was seen as a civilized tribe that favored trade with the United States.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How many people from the Navajo tribe were forced to march from their sacred land in Arizona to a reservation in east-central New Mexico?

2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the name of the land within the Four Sacred Mountains created by Navajos' Holy people?

Dinétah
Ahéhee'
Dooda
Donadagvhoi

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How is General James H. Carleton different from General William Sherman?

Carleton proposed a “scorched earth” policy against the Navajo; Sherman believed such a tactic was inhumane.
Carleton had no regard for the suffering of the Navajo people; Sherman listened to Navajo concerns.
Carleton was strict about protecting the interests of the Navajo people; Sherman wanted to find the gold on Navajo land.
Carleton believed that the reservation experiment was a failure; Sherman believed it was the best solution for the Navajo people.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Kit Carson's troops burned the Navajo's crops, killed their livestock, and massacred the men, women and children. What is the name for this type of military policy?

"Scorched earth"
"Smoke screening"
"Blitzkrieg"
"Marching Fire"

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The 300 mile march of the Navajo to the Bosque Redondo reservation became known by which name?

"The Trail of Tears"
"The Long Walk"
"The Death March"
"The Bosque March"

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