AMIND Midterm

Pigs likely caused death among Indigenous Peoples in the early colonies because they ate large amounts of the Indigenous food supply.

True

The African slave trade caused a loss of power among African Nations because these nations lost young prosperous citizens whose labor was needed to maintain the state.

True

Mainstream history books often label the century following Christopher Columbus and European contact as ________________?

The Age of Discovery

All of these are tactics of colonization that were deployed first in Ireland, except _________________?

The Banning of Harvest Festivals

The founders of Jamestown belonged to what faith?

The Church of England

Dunbar-Ortiz argues which historical event is the beginning of European colonialism?

The Crusades

The legal policy that would justify European expansion into the Western Hemisphere is called _________________?

The Doctrine of Discovery

Bacon's rebellion was put down by the government of Jamestown because _________________?

The government was made uncomfortable by a multicultural populist movement

What is the best definition of the "Doctrine of Discovery?"

The method by which European explorers that once having found no Christians in a place allowed them to legally claimed the land

Although it is unlikely that mass infection before the founding of the colonies depopulated the continental United States, viral diseases did likely in fact lead to some areas along the eastern seaboard being open and available for European settlement.

True

By the 15th century Hohokam people in the American Southwest had constructed 800 miles worth of irrigation canals.

True

Corn is a cultivated plant and required the intervention of human beings to be created.

True

Dunbar-Ortiz argues that many of the colonial methods of the British Empire (Including genocide and the outlawing of traditional songs and religions) were first deployed in Ireland in the 16th century.

True

Dunbar-Ortiz argues that one of the most significant problems current historians of US history have is their inability to accept the colonial framework of the US nation state.

True

Dunbar-Ortiz asks us to consider U.S. history as single ongoing conflict.

True

Early 17th century England had been wracked for many years by religious wars.

True

In a covenant state the people feel that it is a duty of their faith to claim and seize the land.

True

In discussing the technological advancement of early societies Dunbar-Ortiz compares the game management practiced by early Indigenous societies to animal domestication in the Mediterranean.

True

Indigenous Peoples have been inhabiting the Western Hemisphere for longer than our ability to memorialize our presence on the land.

True

Indigenous Peoples throughout the Mississippi river valley created large scale protected farming communities such as Cahokia, a city of roughly 10,000-20,000 people in modern day Illinois.

True

King George II's restriction of settlement in the Ohio River valley angered American colonists.

True

Modern corn was bred and developed by Indigenous Peoples.

True

Nearly a quarter million Scots-Irish immigrated from Ireland to British North America between 1717 and 1775.

True

The Columbian Exchange caused a great loss of bio-diversity.

True

The Iroquois Confederacy was a matrilineal society in which women had significantly more political power than their European counterparts.

True

The Pocahontas myth is a construction intended to explain the new colonies to the people back in England.

True

The civilization created by the Maya began in approximately the year 2600 Before the Common Era making it one of the oldest human cultures on earth.

True

The media representation of Indigenous Peoples in United States culture inaccurately presents Indigenous Peoples as being primarily hunter-gatherers.

True

Throughout U.S. history, private citizen settlers often invade foreign lands and then demand the United States government defend them by reprisals by the nation that they have invaded.

True

Toltecs location

Central Mexico

Cherokee location

Southeastern U.S.

How old would the real "Pocahontas" have been when John Smith was Governor of Jamestown?

10 years of age

If the story spun by Captain John Smith is true, what would Pocahontas' age most likely have been upon their meeting?

12 years old

How many significant sites of agriculture existed in and around 12,000 years ago?

7

According to Charles Mann, by how much did colonization reduce the population of the Western Hemisphere?

90%

All of the following are members of the "three sisters," except ________________?

Carrots

The early Indigenous societies of the Western Hemisphere were built on a diet which primary featured which three plants?

Corn, Beans, Squash

Identify the early "cash crops" that were produced by the British colonies in North America and the Caribbean? (Select all that apply)

Corn,Hemp

What is the best definition of "Terra Nullius" in plain English?

Empty Land

What was the effect of the importation of food crops (such as corn, potatoes, and tomatoes) from the Western Hemisphere, due to the Columbian Exchange, on Europe?

Europe saw a population boom due to a plentiful, higher calorie diet

According to Dunbar-Ortiz disease was the primary reason for the reduction of the Indigenous Population of the Western Hemisphere from 100 Million to 10 million during the 16th and 17th centuries.

False

As a legal policy the "Doctrine of Discovery" is no longer in use.

False

Both the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Jamestown were founded by Puritans.

False

Calvinist believed that wealth is a sin and many of them took vows of poverty.

False

Christopher Columbus eventually landed in North America.

False

Indigenous Peoples did little or nothing to control their environment instead allowing it to grow "wild."

False

The Columbian Exchange refers only to the exchange of species from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere.

False

The Mayan ball game was the inspiration for European style Bocce Ball.

False

Dunbar-Ortiz argues that Indigenous Peoples have been erased from the US historical record by a method Jean O'Brien calls ________________, which celebrates the notable accomplishments of the white cultural majority while permanently banishing Indigenous Peoples to the past.

Firsting and Lasting

As identified by Dunbar-Ortiz, all of the following are periods of genocide in US History except ____________?

King Philip's War

For Dunbar-Ortiz US history can best be traced as a series of __________________?

Land Dispossessions

According to Dunbar-Ortiz, which tribal nation has the largest contiguous land base?

Navajo

Iroquois Confederacy located

Northeastern Seaboard

A "Euro-centric" view point is best described as?

One which views historical outcomes from a European viewpoint

Dunbar-Ortiz identifies the U.S. as being formed as a covenant style republic, she considers a covenant style republic as __________________?

Ordained by God

Dunbar-Ortiz argues that the first large scale forced settlement by the English occurred when they transplanted _______________ citizens to north Ireland in the 16th century?

Scottish

Up until the 16th century upwards of half of all slaves in Europe were of what descent?

Slavic

Dunbar-Ortiz labels the United States a "covenant" state along with countries such as, Israel and _______________?

South Africa

Pueblo location

Southwest U.S.

All of the following are specific aspects of "total war," except _____________?

The targeting of solders

Maya is located...

yucatan peninsula