1.) Compare and contrast the Jesuit efforts to Christianize Natives with the efforts of the English. Which was the more successful? Why? Why did many Natives convert to Christianity? Discuss the impact of these conversions.
2.)  Assess the impact of the fur trade on Native Americans. What were the results of the growing dependence on European goods? Describe how this trade altered inter- and intra-tribal rivalries.
3.) Discuss the importance of gift-giving and the calumet ceremonies in diplomacy.
4.). Assess the impact of the alcohol and gun trade on Natives.
5.) Describe the impact of the colonial wars on Native America
6.) Discuss the taking of captives by both Indians and Europeans during the colonial wars. How did each side treat their captives? Results?
7.). Assess the impact of the American Revolution on Natives. Who sided with whom? Why? What were the results for the main Indian participants?
8.) How did Europeans (and later Americans) justify taking Native land? Discuss the differences between the "right of conquest" and the "right of preemption."  describe what is meant by the right to "occupy" the land and the right of "ownership."
9.) . Discuss the results of the American Revolution for Native Americans. Describe how the war disrupted Indian tribal organizations and reduced their military power. What was the attitude of most Americans to Indians?
10.) How did the government try to regulate US/Indian relations?
11.) Describe the beginnings of American treaty making policy with Indians. How were these treaties imposed on Indians? How did the annuity system operate. Describe the results.
12.) Discuss the importance of gift giving in negotiations.
13.). What was the stated goal of American Indian policy? What were the real goals?
14.) Describe revitalization movements. What conditions promoted revitalization movements?
15.) Compare and contrast the messages of Neolin, Handsome Lake, and Tenskwatawa. How were these messages presented?
16.) Discuss the relationships between these revitalization movements and the military movements they are associated with.
17.) Evaluate the results of these movements. Were these reasonable reactions?
18.) Discuss the difficulties Tecumseh had in building a pan-Indian movement. Results?
19.). Discuss the differences between acculturation and assimilation. What motivated Natives to do one rather than the other?
20). Discuss the origins of the Indian Removal Policy
21.) Describe the Cherokee efforts to accommodate US expansionism. What were the results?
22.) Describe why and how the Five Civilized Tribes were removed to the West.
23.) Discuss Native resistance to these removal policies. Who wanted to move and who wanted to remain on traditional lands? Why? What were the results for each?
24.) Describe the purposes and findings of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
25). How did artists like Carl Bodmer and George Catlin depict Native Americans?

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