History of Michigan Test
1.The term "Three Fires" refers to the dominant tribes in Michigan during the early 1600s. The three tribes were:
A) Sauk, Fox, and Algonquin
B) Cherokee, Shawnee, and Sioux
C) Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi
D) Iroquois, Delaware, and Miami
2.How long had Native Americans lived on the North American continent before the first Europeans arrived?
A) 8,000 years
B) 14,000 years
C) 10,000 years
D) 5,000 years
3.In Carl Sandburg's poem, "Four Preludes on Playthings on the Wind," words left behind in the ruins of an ancient civilization proclaim, "We are the greatest city, they greatest nation: nothing like us ever was." Sandburg includes a definite statement about the past--what is it?
A) The past is gone.
B) The past is nothing but the hieroglyphs of the rat footprints.
C) The past is a bucket of ashes.
D) The past keeps repeating itself.
4.Native tribes, even those that had formerly engaged in agriculture, turned to the forests to provide them with a currency to purchase products from white traders. What was the "currency" used in these transactions?
A) gold dust and silver nuggets
B) human scalps taken from rival tribes and then used to trade for other goods
C) furs (especially beaver, otter, fox and sable)
D) feathers from birds like eagles, hawks and herons
5.According to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (a lifetime observer of Michigan's Indians), what was MOST responsible for causing the gradual decline of the Native American population in the Great Lakes region?
A) their addiction to tobacco
B) their growing addiction to alcohol
C) armed conflicts with white men
D) the devastating effects of diseases like smallpox and measles
6.In the final twenty-five years of the twentieth century, the economic outlook for Michigan's Indian tribes began to improve significantly. On July 4, 1984, a number of Michigan's tribes began to benefit financially from what?
A) free college scholarships offered by the federal government to all Native American children who had graduated from
A) Sauk, Fox, and Algonquin
B) Cherokee, Shawnee, and Sioux
C) Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi
D) Iroquois, Delaware, and Miami
2.How long had Native Americans lived on the North American continent before the first Europeans arrived?
A) 8,000 years
B) 14,000 years
C) 10,000 years
D) 5,000 years
3.In Carl Sandburg's poem, "Four Preludes on Playthings on the Wind," words left behind in the ruins of an ancient civilization proclaim, "We are the greatest city, they greatest nation: nothing like us ever was." Sandburg includes a definite statement about the past--what is it?
A) The past is gone.
B) The past is nothing but the hieroglyphs of the rat footprints.
C) The past is a bucket of ashes.
D) The past keeps repeating itself.
4.Native tribes, even those that had formerly engaged in agriculture, turned to the forests to provide them with a currency to purchase products from white traders. What was the "currency" used in these transactions?
A) gold dust and silver nuggets
B) human scalps taken from rival tribes and then used to trade for other goods
C) furs (especially beaver, otter, fox and sable)
D) feathers from birds like eagles, hawks and herons
5.According to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (a lifetime observer of Michigan's Indians), what was MOST responsible for causing the gradual decline of the Native American population in the Great Lakes region?
A) their addiction to tobacco
B) their growing addiction to alcohol
C) armed conflicts with white men
D) the devastating effects of diseases like smallpox and measles
6.In the final twenty-five years of the twentieth century, the economic outlook for Michigan's Indian tribes began to improve significantly. On July 4, 1984, a number of Michigan's tribes began to benefit financially from what?
A) free college scholarships offered by the federal government to all Native American children who had graduated from