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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to the Colonial era, how many Native people inhabited the region that is now part of the U.S.?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 15 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 20 million.

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

3. What was the name of the settler who first received a bounty in exchange for Native scalps?
(a) Lewis Downing.
(b) William Henry Drayton.
(c) Hannah Dustin.
(d) Henry Dobyns.

4. What is the Latin term for "land without people" (2)?
(a) Terra occupatum.
(b) Terra nullius.
(c) Terra incognita.
(d) Terra frequens.

5. In U.S. settler colonialism, what was the primary commodity?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Gold.
(c) Land.
(d) Horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dunbar Ortiz, white supremacy became an integral part of which religion's ideology?

2. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, which population was the first to be forcibly organized and exploited by European aristocracy?

3. Who were the Conversos?

4. Where did Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries learn techniques used for long-distance sea travel?

5. What term refers to the the use of economic and political pressures to control foreign countries?

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