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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of the first governing document of Plymouth Colony?
2. What form of warfare did Major General Jeffery Amherst infamously support using against Native people?
3. What term refers to the the use of economic and political pressures to control foreign countries?
4. Where did Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries learn techniques used for long-distance sea travel?
5. What year did the Mayflower land in the Americas?
Short Essay Questions
1. Under settler-colonialism, colonizers disrupted trade routes and triggered widespread food shortages. How did food shortages affect Native communities?
2. Native communities who tried to ally themselves with settlers often broke off alliance after a while. Why did these ruptures occur?
3. Native populations were often shocked by the European form of warfare. What aspects of the European style of warfare horrified Native communities?
4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what was the economic impact of the Crusades?
5. 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?
6. What was the result of the "privatization of the commons" (34) during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
7. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what was the impact of the Northwest Ordinance?
8. 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.?
9. What was the Latin term for the papal law describing the "cleanliness of blood," or racial purity?
10. By the 1700s, many farmers had turned to slavery. What economic explanation does Dunbar-Ortiz offer for the rise of slavery?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 6, Dunbar-Ortiz criticizes Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address. Why does she object to his speech? What difficult elements of U.S. history does she feel Obama overlooked? Write an essay examining her response to Obama's statements.
Essay Topic 2
James Fenimore Cooper's works of fiction often center around a particular theme: The decline of Indigenous peoples was inevitable, as white settlers were the "chosen race" destined to inherit the Americas. Write an essay exploring how Coopers' work helped support and promote a settler-colonialist narrative.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 5, Dunbar-Ortiz states that "Ruthless leaders like [John] Sevier were not the exception, but the rule" (90). In your opinion, is this an accurate assessment of pioneers and frontiersmen? Write an argumentative essay supporting or refuting Dunbar-Ortiz's assertion.
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