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About This Drill
AP U.S. History — Period 6 (1865–1898) — Drill 21 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 6: 1865–1898. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This AP U.S. History Period 6 drill is based on the surrender speech attributed to Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1877). Questions analyze Chief Joseph's rhetorical choices, the circumstances of the Nez Perce flight and surrender, and the broader context of U.S. government policy toward Native peoples in the late 19th century.
Passage
The following is adapted from the surrender speech attributed to Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce nation, delivered to U.S. Army General Nelson Miles in the Bear Paw Mountains of Montana Territory, October 5, 1877.
Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Too-hul-hul-sote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are — perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.
Questions in This Drill
- Chief Joseph's repeated references to cold, freezing children, and the deaths of leaders most directly serve to
- The Nez Perce flight of 1877, which ended with Chief Joseph's surrender, was most directly a response to
- A historian studying Chief Joseph's surrender speech as a historical source would most likely note that
- Chief Joseph's surrender speech is most significant as a historical document because it
- The federal policy that most directly followed the Nez Perce War and other conflicts of the 1870s–1880s was