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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 Native nation was predominant in the territory of Georgia during the early 1700s?
(a) The Muskogee.
(b) The Seminole.
(c) The Miami.
(d) The Cherokee.

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

3. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, where did the concept of white supremacy originate?
(a) During the Renaissance.
(b) During the Confederacy.
(c) During the Crusades.
(d) During the Industrial Revolution.

4. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?
(a) Ultimate narratives.
(b) Terminal narratives.
(c) Closing narratives.
(d) Final narratives.

5. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, how many U.S. presidents were of Ulster-Scots lineage?
(a) 21.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, who were the "foot soldiers of the British Empire building" (52)?

3. How did the European aristocracy characterize the peasants who resisted the privatization of land?

4. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for the specific type of colonialism used to form the United States?

5. What was the primary crop in Native American agriculture?

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