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

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

3. What term is used for the Acadian diaspora that took place in the mid-1700s?
(a) The Great Trouble.
(b) The Great Disruption.
(c) The Great Exodus.
(d) The Great Upheaval.

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

5. What is the Latin term for "land without people" (2)?
(a) Terra nullius.
(b) Terra occupatum.
(c) Terra frequens.
(d) Terra incognita.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. During the onset of colonialism, the native population in the Americas rapidly shrank. By what percentage were native populations reduced?

5. Where did Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries learn techniques used for long-distance sea travel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. The Mayans practiced forced labor, often making servants of war prisoners and criminals. How did this practice differ from chattel slavery within the U.S.?

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

4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, the English popularized a theory that only they were made in God's image. What origins did they ascribe to other races?

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

6. What were three branches of government practiced within the Seminole and Muskogee nations?

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

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

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

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