Chapter 4 Quiz

A  American exceptionalism

B  cognitive dissonance

C  increased tolerance

D  critical self-knowledge

A  that without European allies, Indians were easy to defeat.

B  we again showed the Brits that you don’t mess with America

C  that Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star Spangled Banner”

D  it was just our 2nd war that didn’t involve Indians

A  ignored them

B  dispossessed them

C  enslaved them

D  honored them by making them sports-team mascots

A  The Dutch were able to buy Manhattan so cheaply because Natives typically didn’t believe in land ownership

B  The Dutch got the bargain of the century in buying Manhattan, because the Natives could not negotiate intelligently

C  When purchasing Manhattan, the Dutch paid the wrong tribe

D  The Dutch bought Manhattan for a few beads and assorted trinkets

A  to frame Natives and thus escape punishment

B  to represent the Natives, whom the colonists felt were synonymous with liberty

C  to honor Natives, who had first introduced tea to the colonists

D  just to make a bold fashion statement

A  1

B  2

C  0

D  5

A  seek gold and capture Native American slaves

B  pinpoint the location of the Well of the Souls–the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant

C  find the fountain of youth

D  recover the Cross of Cortez

A  “featuring a city with a population of 150,000 or more”

B  “having a complex division of labor”

C  “refined or enlightened”

D  “culturally advanced”

A  Europeans didn’t develop plows and other farming machinery until about 2,000 BCE, so the comparison is misleading

B  Native Americans would have needed the kinds of “animal power” unavailable in the (pre-Columbian) Americas

C  Archaeological evidence shows natives used, for example, horse- and ox-drawn plows, very similar in sophistication compared to European machinery

D  Natives developed sophisticated mechanical irrigation systems far more sophisticated than anything contemporary Europeans had devised

A  Other theories (such as crossing by boat) are plausible and therefore deserving of consideration

B  Archaeological evidence clearly shows that Beringia was never in a state making it possible for humans to walk across

C  Archaeologists have recently found evidence (in the form of 40,000-year-old sailboat remnants) proving that early humans crossed by ship

D  These early inhabitants likely didn’t walk upright, so “walking” is a problematic term

A  All individuals portrayed by the artist are of equal height; however, natives were on average much taller than these European “settlers”

B  it presents hardly clothed natives alongside a fully dressed European, which is unrealistic and serves to imply natives were “primitive” and Europeans, “civilized”

C  Penn’s clothing in the piece is closer to what Europeans wore roughly 50 years earlier, thus making the portrayal historically inaccurate

D  Penn never offered a treaty to Native Americans. Instead, he waged war, unilaterally.