AmerF2 Indians

Question 1

What is NOT true about the California gold rush?

Accepted Answer

Started in 1861

Question 2

Which countries did America settle conflicts with?

Accepted Answer

Britain, France

Question 3

The brutality of 'cruel Indians' does not spread to others

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

What is true about the Indian Removal Policies?

Accepted Answer

Determine westward emigration of Tribes, Signed between 1817-1830, Treaties of Tribes and government

Question 5

What do you know about the perception of Natives in regard to time?

Accepted Answer

Seen as 'Ur-Americans' fighting the British, Natives as 'vanishing', King Philip as hero

Question 6

What were Frederick Turner's theses in "The Significance of the Frontier in American history" 1893

Accepted Answer

Start of new phase for America, Fear of impeding weakening of American Nation, West has been settled, America needs new Frontier

Question 7

What did Andrew Jackson do?

Accepted Answer

Force civilized tribes on Trail of Tears 1838, Support ideas of Indians as noble savages

Question 8

What important event took place in 1890?

Accepted Answer

Massacre of wounded knee

Question 9

What is particular about Cooper's writing?

Accepted Answer

Leatherstocking as link between wilderness and civilization, Presents frontiersmen as vanishing characters as well

Question 10

What were effects of the Removal policies?

Accepted Answer

Musealization and interest in Native culture, Indian population reduced by 3/4

Question 11

Which concept describes Natives as 'brutal, uncivilized savages'?

Accepted Answer

The cruel indian

Question 12

Who alluded to Natives as ancestors?

Accepted Answer

Washington Irving: Philip of Pokanoket 1820, James F. Cooper: Leatherstocking cycle 1821-41, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Hawatha 1855

Question 13

What was Custer's last stand?

Accepted Answer

Basis for tactic of depriving Natives of resources instead of fight, An armed conflict between the Sioux and G. A. Custer

Question 14

The Dawes Severality act from 1887 makes everyone own land individually

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What is NOT true about the Virginian?

Accepted Answer

Sentimentalism

Question 16

When were the Indian wars?

Accepted Answer

1864-1890

Question 17

What is NOT true about James Fenimore Cooper?

Accepted Answer

Was a writer of classic western novels

Question 18

What is the other concept of perception of Natives?

Accepted Answer

Natives as uncivilized with uncorrupted faith, The noble Savage, Rediscovered by J.J. Rousseau (antique concept)

Question 19

Who really made cheap romanticised Western popular?

Accepted Answer

Ned Buntline, Buffalo Bill, William Cody

Question 20

Who was Owen Wister?

Accepted Answer

Friend of Roosevelt and Remington, Inventor of true Western, Writer of The Virginian 1902

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