6. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775

Quiz for Document 6.4 Mary Jemison, The War’s Impact on the Seneca Nation, 1823

Quiz for Document 6.4: Mary Jemison, The War’s Impact on the Seneca Nation, 1823

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What was the ultimate goal of General John Sullivan’s army in its actions at the Seneca Village?

Assimilation of the Seneca to Western culture

Death to the Seneca men on the battlefield

Elimination of all means of survival for the Seneca

Conversion of the Seneca to British ideologies

2. To whom did Mary Jemison feel the most loyalty?

Her Seneca husband

Her children

The Seneca Nation

Irish immigrants

3. What does Mary’s use of “our Indians” and “our houses” indicate about her situation among the Seneca Nation?

She supported American independence.

She retained strong ties to her Irish heritage.

She was more loyal to the British more than to the Seneca.

She affiliated herself with the Seneca people.

4. How did the Indians respond to the violence of General Sullivan’s army?

They sought violent revenge against the Americans.

They ended their alliance with the British.

They retreated from the war entirely to regroup.

They sided with the Americans the next year.

5. What did the experience of the Seneca Nation reveal about Native American relations in the late 1700s?

Indians had come to terms with European settlers and made peace on all sides.

Europeans and Indian relations were no less complex than they had ever been.

American settlement had wiped out so many Indians that there were no more alliances.

British, American, and Indian relations were better than they had ever been.

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