M7L1 Practice Quiz

Those in favor of Americanizing Natives channeled their efforts through which of the following?

• The use of ethnic political bosses to manage the masses of immigrants arriving on U.S. shores.

• An educational process designed to promote the English language and American values.

• The implementation of better wages and working conditions to soften immigrant unrest.

• Organized intimidation of immigrant groups designed to purge them of "Old World" ideologies.

He had to ____ for firewood throughout the hillside to setup camp.

• Petrified

• Remnant

• Nomad

• Forage

This show was an invitation to ____ back in time to a land of make-believe.

• Forage

• Petrified

• Nomad

• Traverse

Lund Forest in Washoe County contains the remains of over 200 ____ wood stumps and logs.

• Remnant

• Petrified

• Forage

• Nomad

After college she became quite the ____, backpacking through Europe with no particular destination. 

• Nomad

• Traverse

• Remnant

• Forage

What is most true about the Western Shoshone?

• They lived in the Southern Nevada region.

• They moved frequently.

• They had rich hunting and fishing lands.

• They were at war with all other Native American groups.

Which of the following best summarizes the government's approach to managing Native Americans in the late 19th century?

• Relocating major tribes onto large reservations while selling off traditional Native lands.

• Protecting traditional Native American cultures while recruiting the best and brightest for university education.

• Using military intimidation to restrict civic participation while forcing Natives into the role of sharecropper.

• Dismantling reservations and requiring children to speak only English.

A group from the Mayflower sailed home with just a ____ of the colony's original population aboard.

• Forage

• Petrified

• Nomad

• Remnant

Which of the following Native American tribes did not reside in modern-day Nevada?

• Paiute

• Panamint

• Ute

• Paviotso

Which of the following was a common belief among the Washoe, Paiute, and Shoshone peoples?

• Human sacrifice to appease their gods.

• They needed to stay in one place for resources

• Their shaman's could cure the ill.

• They all had strong centralized leadership