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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which philosopher and theologian influenced the Puritans as they formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) John Knox.
(b) John Smith.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) John Locke.

4. What term is used to describe the historical and cultural region encompassing North America?
(a) Mesoamerica.
(b) Primitive America.
(c) Ancient America.
(d) Pseudoamerica.

5. In U.S. settler colonialism, what was the primary commodity?
(a) Land.
(b) Horses.
(c) Gold.
(d) Tobacco.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for land as a commodity?

2. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?

3. The American bison was indigenous to what region?

4. What term was used for the "systemic destruction of all the indigenous agricultural resources" (61)?

5. What was the name of the settler who first received a bounty in exchange for Native scalps?

(see the answer key)

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