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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Dunbar Ortiz, white supremacy became an integral part of which religion's ideology?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Islam.

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

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

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

6. What job or task did most Scots-Irish settlers perform?
(a) Cattle-ranching.
(b) Book-keeping.
(c) Mining.
(d) Farming.

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

8. Where did Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries learn techniques used for long-distance sea travel?
(a) From African nations.
(b) From West Asian nations.
(c) From Arab nations.
(d) From East Asian nations.

9. How does corn differ from most grains?
(a) It germinates beneath the soil.
(b) It cannot grow in the wild.
(c) It cannot be eaten raw.
(d) It's harvested by flooding the land.

10. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, how many U.S. presidents were of Ulster-Scots lineage?
(a) 12.
(b) 21.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

11. What did the Doctrine of Discovery state?
(a) The Philippines were open to American expansion.
(b) Africa was open to the Spanish conquest.
(c) The Americas were open to the Spanish conquest.
(d) Canada was open to American expansion.

12. Who was the governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War?
(a) Ulysses Grant.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Murray.
(d) Benjamin Hawkins.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe the historical and cultural region encompassing North America?

2. What is the Latin term for "land without people" (2)?

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

4. What country did John Locke and John Knox hail from?

5. How did Europeans view the newly "discovered" Americas?

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