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Review for Midterm Short Answer

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When white colonizers take Native land and try to replace Native people, this is called _.

a)

sharecropping

b)

patriarchy

c)

slavery

d)

settler colonialism

2.

_ is the mass murder of a racial or ethnic group using the following methods:

(1) destruction of culture and religion

(2) enslavement

(3) kidnapping children or preventing births

a)

infanticide

b)

patricide

c)

genocide

d)

homicide

3.

The belief (of white people) that God wanted America to have all the land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Divine Right Theory

c)

Rugged Individualism

d)

Laissez Faire

4.

In the late 1800s, the US government forced Indigenous people onto small pieces of undesirable land called:

a)

reservations

b)

concentration camps

c)

plantations

d)

internment camp

5.

The purpose of the Dawes Act in 1887 was to...

a)

resist settler colonialism

b)

break up land owned by Native tribes and sell it to whites

c)

strengthen Native American tribes

d)

educate Native American children

6.

Which word means "to force someone to change their culture, to blend in with the majority group."

a)

solidarity

b)

resistance

c)

accommodation

d)

assimilation

7.

What was the purpose of the Carlisle Indian School?

a)

to teach Indigenous children how to resist settler colonialism

b)

to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children

c)

to teach Indigenous languages to the next generation

d)

to improve the health of Indigenous children

8.

Captain Richard Pratt, who founded the Carlisle Indian School, believed in the motto:

a)

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

b)

"Rugged Individualism"

c)

"Kill the Indian, Save the Man"

d)

"Manifest Destiny"

9.

In Indian Boarding Schools, Indigenous children...

a)

Were punished for speaking their own language

b)

Had their hair cut short

c)

Were forced to use an English name

d)

All of the above

10.

In Indian Boarding Schools, Indigenous children...

a)

often died of disease and poor nutrition

b)

were taken by force from their parents

c)

often tried to run away

d)

all of the above

11.

The sport of American football was largely invented by Indigenous players at the Carlisle Indian School in the early 1900s.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Jim Thorpe, considered to be the greatest athlete of his time, was an Indigenous student at the Carlisle Indian School.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

At the _ in 1890, the U.S. military shot and killed 400 people of the Lakota tribe, half of whom were women and children.

a)

Thibodaux Massacre

b)

Bloody Sunday

c)

Colfax Massacre

d)

Wounded Knee Massacre

14.

_ means fighting back, but not necessarily with violence

a)

accommodation

b)

nonviolence

c)

pacifism

d)

resistance

15.

How did Zitkala-Sa resist assimilation?

a)

She led a violent rebellion

b)

She ran for office to become a senator

c)

She kept the Lakota culture alive through her writing and music.

d)

All of the above

16.

_, the first Indigenous Secretary of the Interior, has ordered an investigation into the abuses of America's Indian Boarding Schools.

a)

Deb Haaland

b)

Sharice Davids

c)

Kimberly Teehee

d)

Crystal Echo Hawk