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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fear of Chinese communist revolution was called what?
(a) Yellow peril.
(b) Black peril.
(c) Red peril.
(d) White peril.

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

3. What year did Andrew Jackson become president?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1828.

4. What percentage of the 16,000 Cherokees who were forced onto the Trail of Tears perished on the journey?
(a) 50%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 20%.

5. What term did historian H. Craig Miner use to describe a society that "justified exploitation and destruction of whole societies" (168)?
(a) Sophisticated civilization.
(b) Imperialist civilization.
(c) Modernized civilization.
(d) Industrial civilization.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?

2. What was the name of the settler who first received a bounty in exchange for Native scalps?

3. Which individual spearheaded the 1968 Poor People's Campaign?

4. How does corn differ from most grains?

5. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for the specific type of colonialism used to form the United States?

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