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Quiz for Document P1-3: Thomas Morton, Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England) (1637)

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Question 1

Thomas Morton describes Algonquin economic exchange as based onA. bartered goods.
B. common currency.
C. communitarian sharing.
D. violent appropriation.

Question 2

According to Morton, his motivation for giving, rather than selling, salt to the Algonquins was toA. barter for land.
B. get rid of the useless commodity.
C. promote peaceful relations.
D. persuade them of salt’s value.

Question 3

Morton attributes the widespread death of a large portion of the native population that followed the arrival of the English toA. European diseases.
B. French soldiers.
C. God’s punishment.
D. tribal warfare.