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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, which poet was an outspoken supporter of the war against Mexico in 1846?
(a) Emily Dickenson.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe
(d) Walt Whitman.

2. What is the term for a narrative describing how a nation came to exist?
(a) A creation myth.
(b) A genesis legend.
(c) A source legend.
(d) An origin myth.

3. To which country did the Muskogee nation ally itself in an attempt to stop the flow of squatters?
(a) Spain.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Mexico.

4. What was the name of the settler-ranger who became president of the independent country of Franklin?
(a) John Sevier.
(b) William Sherman.
(c) William H. Seward.
(d) Daniel Boone.

5. What year did the Haitian Revolution take place?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1798.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Trail of Tears take place?

2. What was the U.S. population in 1860?

3. What was the name of the U.S. military reservation located near Fort Lyon in Colorado?

4. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?

5. Which philosopher and theologian influenced the Puritans as they formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

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