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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what drove colonialization projects in the 1600s?
(a) Housing prices.
(b) Gold fever.
(c) European wars.
(d) Missionary projects.

2. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for the specific type of colonialism used to form the United States?
(a) Settler colonialism.
(b) Surrogate colonialism.
(c) Imperialist colonialism.
(d) Exploitation colonialism.

3. What term, coined in the 1940s, describes the systemic annihilation of a group of people?
(a) Extinction.
(b) Termination.
(c) Erasure.
(d) Genocide.

4. What was the name of the 1785 treaty, in which the U.S. government agreed to restrict settlement east of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
(a) The Treaty of Tordesillas.
(b) The Treaty of Hopewell.
(c) The Treaty of Greenville.
(d) The Treaty of Holston.

5. Which ideology stated that the U.S. had a God-given right to spread across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean?
(a) American indvidualism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Manifest Destiny.
(d) Neocolonialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the population of the Thirteen Colonies was made up of Ulster-Scots?

2. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, how many U.S. presidents were of Ulster-Scots lineage?

3. What is the term for a narrative describing how a nation came to exist?

4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what weakened Mexico in the 1800s, leaving the nation vulnerable to U.S. aggression?

5. Which of the following Native nations was a member of the Five Civilized Tribes?

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