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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Native populations developed an extensive system of roadways. What did most of these early roadways eventually become?
(a) Airport runways.
(b) Historical monuments.
(c) Railroad tracks.
(d) Modern highways.

4. Prior to the Colonial era, how many Native people inhabited the region that is now part of the U.S.?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 15 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 20 million.

5. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, when did human societies migrate out of Africa?
(a) 200,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) 300,000 years ago.
(d) 100,000 years ago.

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

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

8. How did Europeans view the newly "discovered" Americas?
(a) As a barren wasteland.
(b) As a virgin land or wilderness.
(c) As a confining spare or prison.
(d) As a complex civilization.

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

10. What was the name of the settler who first received a bounty in exchange for Native scalps?
(a) Henry Dobyns.
(b) Lewis Downing.
(c) Hannah Dustin.
(d) William Henry Drayton.

11. Where nations did the Ulster-Scots originate from?
(a) Scotland and Ireland.
(b) Scotland and Wales.
(c) Scotland and Germany.
(d) Scotland and England.

12. What term was used for Muslims who converted to Christianity?
(a) The Transmuted.
(b) The Moriscos.
(c) The Conversos.
(d) The Redeemed.

13. How many Ulster-Scots emigrated to North America during 1717-1775?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 200,000.

14. Which of the following tribes was a member of the Six Nations of the Iroquois confederacy?
(a) The Cahuilla.
(b) The Seneca.
(c) The Sioux.
(d) The Navajo.

15. What term was used for the "systemic destruction of all the indigenous agricultural resources" (61)?
(a) Scorched ground.
(b) Wipeout.
(c) Feedfight.
(d) Dry cinders.

Short Answer Questions

1. The American bison was indigenous to what region?

2. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, how many U.S. presidents were of Ulster-Scots lineage?

3. How does corn differ from most grains?

4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what drove colonialization projects in the 1600s?

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

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