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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term refers to the the use of economic and political pressures to control foreign countries?
(a) Development.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Neocolonialism.
(d) Expansionism.

3. What form of warfare did Major General Jeffery Amherst infamously support using against Native people?
(a) Chemical warfare.
(b) Psychological warfare.
(c) Blockade warfare.
(d) Germ warfare.

4. The American bison was indigenous to what region?
(a) The southeastern swampland.
(b) The southwestern deserts.
(c) The northern and southern plains.
(d) The eastern seaboard.

5. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for the specific type of colonialism used to form the United States?
(a) Exploitation colonialism.
(b) Surrogate colonialism.
(c) Imperialist colonialism.
(d) Settler colonialism.

6. Who were the Conversos?
(a) Christians who had converted to Judaism.
(b) Muslims who had converted to Judaism.
(c) Muslims who had converted to Christianity.
(d) Jewish people who had converted to Christianity.

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

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

9. What Christian denomination did most Calvinists belong to?
(a) Methodism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Presbyterianism.
(d) Lutherenism.

10. During the onset of colonialism, the native population in the Americas rapidly shrank. By what percentage were native populations reduced?
(a) 90%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 80%.

11. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?
(a) Terminal narratives.
(b) Final narratives.
(c) Ultimate narratives.
(d) Closing narratives.

12. When was Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?
(a) 1630.
(b) 1628.
(c) 1626.
(d) 1632.

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

14. What other name was used for the Seven Years' War?
(a) The Boer War.
(b) The War of Roses.
(c) The War of Spanish Succession.
(d) The French and Indian War.

15. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, who were the "foot soldiers of the British Empire building" (52)?
(a) The Irish Catholics.
(b) The German peasantry.
(c) The English peasantry.
(d) The Scots-Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which stone did the Aztecs consider especially precious?

2. How did Native communities make important decisions?

3. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, where did the concept of white supremacy originate?

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

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

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