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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the primary revenue source for the newly formed U.S. government?
(a) Tobacco sales.
(b) Land sales.
(c) Logging operations.
(d) Mining operations.

2. Which actor provided support for the 1960s Indigenous fishing movement in Washington State?
(a) Marlon Brando.
(b) Clint Eastwood.
(c) Paul Newman.
(d) Humphrey Bogart.

3. What Native nation was predominant in the territory of Georgia during the early 1700s?
(a) The Seminole.
(b) The Cherokee.
(c) The Miami.
(d) The Muskogee.

4. John Smith convinced Powhatan leaders to feed and clothe English settlers. How did he achieve this?
(a) He promised that the English government would repay Natives.
(b) He traded gold and silver in exchange for Native help.
(c) He claimed that the Native people had a spiritual duty of offer help.
(d) He threatened to kill all Native women and children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War?

2. How did the European aristocracy characterize the peasants who resisted the privatization of land?

3. Dunbar-Ortiz states that President Kennedy used settler-based terminology during his presidential campaign. What term does she point out?

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

5. Which historian described U.S. history as constantly alternating between a "peace" policy and a "war" policy?

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