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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What term, coined in the 1940s, describes the systemic annihilation of a group of people?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Erasure.
(c) Extinction.
(d) Termination.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used for the Acadian diaspora that took place in the mid-1700s?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Dunbar-Ortiz speaks of "domestic crusades" that took place in Europe during the Crusades in the Arab world. What was the purpose of these domestic crusades?

2. Under settler-colonialism, colonizers disrupted trade routes and triggered widespread food shortages. How did food shortages affect Native communities?

3. How does Dunbar-Ortiz describe documents like the U.S. Constitution, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address?

4. Why did settlers try to recruit Native people as rangers?

5. By the 1700s, many farmers had turned to slavery. What economic explanation does Dunbar-Ortiz offer for the rise of slavery?

6. Native communities who tried to ally themselves with settlers often broke off alliance after a while. Why did these ruptures occur?

7. Native populations were often shocked by the European form of warfare. What aspects of the European style of warfare horrified Native communities?

8. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, white supremacy helped the landed class win greater support from white peasants. What was the relationship between white supremacy and class status?

9. Chapter 3 is titled "The Cult of the Covenant." What "covenant" does Dunbar-Ortiz refer to?

10. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what was the economic impact of the Crusades?

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