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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, which population was the first to be forcibly organized and exploited by European aristocracy?
(a) Native Caribbean.
(b) Southeast Asians.
(c) European peasantry.
(d) Western Africans.

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

3. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, who were the "foot soldiers of the British Empire building" (52)?
(a) The Irish Catholics.
(b) The English peasantry.
(c) The Scots-Irish.
(d) The German peasantry.

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

5. What country did John Locke and John Knox hail from?
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Wales.
(d) Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became of the descendants of European peasants who were exploited and thrown off their land?

2. What was the name of the first governing document of Plymouth Colony?

3. What form of warfare did Major General Jeffery Amherst infamously support using against Native people?

4. What percentage of the population of the Thirteen Colonies was made up of Ulster-Scots?

5. What term refers to the the use of economic and political pressures to control foreign countries?

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