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Questions

1. Richard Walker's account of the historical California economy largely ignores which of the following?

A. "unproletarianied" labor

B. The significance of minerals in the early period of the state

C. Small-scale enterpreneurs

D. The California bourgeosie

E. Low wage immigrant labor

2. According to Richard Walker, the Prospector State involved which of the following?

A. All of these

B. A recognition of strong Lockean rights to land and other natural resoruces

C. A business-friendly tax regime

D. FInancial support for research and development in a range of fields

E. Protection of resource values when they were threatened by large-scale extraction

3. Which of the following is a key part of Ronald Takaki's argument regarding America's Errand Into the Wilderness?

A. Immigrants from East Asia

B. Racially discriminatory policies regarding access to land and other resources

C. All of these

D. Low-wage labor

E. Divide and control strategies to pit ethnic groups against one another

4. In lecture, America's Errand into the Wilderness was compared to Manifest Destiny. Which of the following best characterizes this comparison?

A. Manifest Destiny was most clearly symbolized by the yeoman farmer; America's Errand into the Wilderness was most clearly symbolized by the railroad.

B. All of these characterize the comparison equally well

C. Manifest Destiny was an ideology of conquest that called for racial integration through the agrarian myth; America's Errand into the Wilderness was an ideology calling for the establishment of Reservations for Indigenous nations and extraction of natural resources on the land from which they were removed.

D. Manifest Destiny was first and foremost a Protestant ideology; America's Errand into the Wilderness was heavily influenced by Catholicism.

E. Manifest Destiny was an ideology of conquest that called for racial separation; America's Errand into the Wilderness was an ideology of development after conquest that called for the integration of racially diverse peoples as low wage labor.

5. Ronanld Takaki's concept of America's Errand into the Wilderness is derived from which of the following?

A. Fredrick Jackson Turner's vision of "frontier process" adapted to the "wilderness frontier" of the American West

B. Andrew Jackson's vision of developing the American West in the 19th century, starting with the Indian Removal Act of 1830

C. Historian Perry Miller's description of Protestant settler colonists who sought to build "a city on a hill" in New England in the 17th century

D. Karl Marx's vision of industrial capitalism as it played out in the American West

E. Thomas Jefferson's notion of the yeoman farmer as the hero of settler colonialism in a new context in the arid American West.