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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the first governing document of Plymouth Colony?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) The Mayflower Compact.
(c) The Bill of Rights.
(d) The Federalist Papers.

2. What Native term was used as a code name during the assassination of Osama Bin Laden?
(a) Thunderbird.
(b) Geronimo.
(c) Teepee.
(d) Tomahawk.

3. How did the European aristocracy treat women in their society?
(a) Women were often sent abroad and served as soldiers.
(b) Women were often accused of witchcraft and executed.
(c) Women were allowed to attend universities and gain degrees.
(d) Women were allowed to vote and hold political office.

4. Dunbar-Ortiz argues that Europeans colonists conquered what, rather than land?
(a) Animals.
(b) Oceans.
(c) Dreams.
(d) People.

5. What year was gold discovered in Georgia?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1828.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to the Colonial era, how many Native people inhabited the region that is now part of the U.S.?

2. What term, designed to "diffuse the locus of guilt" (4), does Bernard Sheehan use to describe Native-Euro-American relations?

3. Dunbar-Ortiz describes settler colonialism as a certain type of political policy. What adjective does she use to describe this policy?

4. Which ideology stated that the U.S. had a God-given right to spread across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean?

5. The American bison was indigenous to what region?

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