After the Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued, white-Indian relations on the frontier would best be described as:
A) peaceful and cooperative.
B) violent and contentious.
C) peaceful except when Indians attacked whites without provocation.
D) controlled by the British with no colonial interference.
Answer: B
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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a) It would be "cruel and unjust" to compel the Indians to abandon their native homes. b) Indians should not be allowed to retain vast amounts of tribal land "merely because they had seen them from a mountain or passed them in the chase." c) Indians who stayed on their own lands would "ere long become merged in the mass of our population." d) Whites should be allowed to possess Indian lands because "they were superior in civilization and therefore superior in rights." e) Contact with whites inevitably doomed them to "weakness and decay."
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a. similar to parents and children. b. that is intimate, such as that of lovers. c. that is highly unpredictable. d. that is distant and mysterious.
Which of the following best summarizes Australian history before the arrival of outside forces in the late eighteenth century?
A. Virtually no change can be discerned among native Australians from the time they settled the continent until the modern era. B. Though more slowly than in Afroeurasia or the Americas, native Australians were constantly innovating and exchanging ideas among one another. C. Despite their isolation from the rest of the world, native Australians adopted many of the same practices as other early human civilizations in Afroeurasia and the Americas. D. Because of their isolation from the rest of the world, native Australians developed completely differently from the rest of the world.