What is the name of the unifying process that brought together the five Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) groups? correct answers The Great Law of Peace
According to Dunbar-Ortiz, why was the "myth" of the US being a nation of immigrants invented? correct answers A &B
- It was created to hide the fact t...
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What is the name of the unifying process that brought together the five Haudenosaunee
(Iroquois) groups? correct answers The Great Law of Peace
According to Dunbar-Ortiz, why was the "myth" of the US being a nation of immigrants
invented? correct answers A &B
- It was created to hide the fact that the pre-US independence settlers were in fact "colonial
settlers."
- It was developed as a response to movements during the 1960s against colonialism,
neocolonialism, and white supremacy.
According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what is the name of the racist U.S. government law signed by
President Andrew Jackson that forced Native people to leave the Southeast and move to
Oklahoma territory? correct answers The Indian Removal Act
Decentralized or stateless society correct answers Often made up of a group of neighboring
towns or villages that had no political connection with a larger kingdom or nation.
Small kingdoms and city-states correct answers Economic specialization increased wealth and
revenues that were used to support ruling elites and standing armies.
Centralized kingdoms and empires correct answers This system had no independent judicial
systems. Instead, the king was the chief executive, chief law-maker, and chief judge.
Democracy correct answers A system of government in which political power is exercised by the
people.
Direct democracy correct answers A political system in which the people are able to participate
in decision making.
Constitutional democracy correct answers A government that derives its authority from a
constitution.
Statutory Law correct answers A type of law pertaining to rules made by legislatures, especially
Congress.
Feudalism correct answers A system of landholding involving a network of allegiances and
obligations.
Social construction of race correct answers The creation of a group of people of various
phenotypes, skin colors, and physical characteristics for political and social purposes such as
enslavement and exclusion.
What critical factors were present in the rise of all African kingdoms? correct answers A & B
- The expansion of agricultural production.
, - The expansion of trade.
Based on the Module Context, Indigenous women were excluded from participating in political
matters similar to how white women were excluded in what would become the United States.
correct answers False
According to the chapter "American Government Politics in a Racially Divided World," why
was the concept of race socially constructed? correct answers A & B
- To define and expand notions of Blackness
- For purposes of enslavement
Racial capitalism correct answers : evolved from the old feudal order to create a world system "
dependent on slavery, violence, imperialism, and genocide."
Settler Colonialism correct answers What is the term for when an imperial power seeks not only
to extract resources from an area outside of its boundaries, but also encourages its citizens to
move to that area and reside?
What were the positive influences of Native governments? correct answers The need to have
separation of powers, popular vote, presidential veto, recall, and freedom of religion.
What were the Negative influences of Native governments? correct answers The need to build a
strong central government, possess a standing army, garrison forts on the frontier, and raise
needed taxes.
Originalists correct answers : believe the Constitution must be interpreted today as it would have
been by those who drafted and ratified it in 1789.
Living Constitution correct answers Civil Rights scholars and lawyers approach the U.S.
Constitution as a ___________ and believe it should remain open to reinterpretation and change
with the times.
Article from the U.S Constitution covers the roles and functions of which branch of government?
correct answers Legislative
Why did the Framers of the Constitution fear the Articles of Confederation? correct answers All
of the above
- It gave an "excess of democracy" to the states and the founding fathers preferred to limit
popular democracy.
- It threatened property rights at the state level.
- Shay's Rebellion led to the take over of courthouses in MA to prevent judges from seizing
farms and putting people debtor's prisons.
Article I correct answers This Article empowers the legislative branch of the government - both
House & Senate.
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