Q 1 – Who had displaced the native peoples in North America and Australia?
Ans. Those were Europeans i.e. people from France, Portugal, England, Germany, Holland, etc. migrated there.
Q 2 – What were the reasons behind the large-scale migration of people from England, France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, and Italy?
Ans. Migrants from France and England were younger sons not inherited property there and people from other countries migrated to North America because their small landholdings were merged forcibly or bought in less payment by the manors to their estates in the wave of the Industrial revolution. People from Poland like Prairie grasslands purposeful as that of the Steppes in their homes.
Q 3 – Can we get historical data about the native people of North America and Australia at present?
Ans. Yes, there are presently established galleries of native art and museums which show the aborigine’s way of living.
Q 4 – When did France, Holland, and England begin to extend their trading activities and colony establishment in America, Africa, and Asia?
Ans. It was the period after the seventeenth century.
Q 5 – What is called European Imperialism?
Ans. To occupy and maintain under indirect control on the kinds outside one’s own country was imperialism. Actually, it was an instrument of sovereignty interfering with the Administrative machinery of the host country thereby getting and training them on slavery at physical, mental, and emotional levels Eg. “Sirji” in modem tone symbolizes the British period in India.
Q 6 – Mention the uses of the term “settler”?
Ans. Dutch were the sellers in South Africa, the British in Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, and the Europeans in America.
Q 7 – What was the official language in North America?
Ans. It was English but both French and English in Canada.
Q 8 – What is meant by the term “Native” at present and it was still the early twentieth century?
Ans. Till the early twentieth century, it was meant by the people of colonies established by Europeans. Presently, it is understood as a person born in the place he/she is living life long.
Q 9 – What were the basic occupations of native people in North America?
Ans. It was hunting, fishing, and agriculture.
Q 10 – Will you say native people in America sloth and snort?
Ans. Actually, as the historians state, they were complacent people. They had made a good cohesion or liaison with the natives and were happy with their existing simple means. However, we justify the above comment if we consider the dictum-“Satisfaction’s the end of life”. Once satisfied is never rectified.
Q 11 – What do you mean by aborigine?
Ans. It is a Latin word meaning-from the beginning. It was used for the native people of Australia.
Q 12 – What is the term used for native peoples of North and South Americas and the Caribbean?
Ans. t is American-Indian, Amerind, or Amerindian.
Q 13 – What was an important feature of the natives of North America?
Ans. Friendship and relations were formed on a formal basis and things were never sold but given as gift.
Q 14 – Who were First Nations Peoples?
Ans. It is a technical name given to natives of North America in the Canadian constitution. They were so scheduled in the constitution of that country.
Q 15 – Who were native Americans?
Ans. It is a commonly used word now for indigenous people of Americans but earlier, it was confined only to the names of North America.
Q 16 – Who were Red Indians?
Ans. The people living on the island of Guanhani in the Bahamas or Bajamar as the name was given by Colofnbus to it in Spanish because of being it an island surrounded by shallow seas. Red Indians i.e. brown complexion people.
Q 17 – Why were the native people in North America not interested in writing records of their time?
Ans. They relied on the basic doctrine that every skill, expertise, and general behavioral pattern transfers from one generation to another hence, why should they think of writing them.
Q 18 – Which skills were the natives of North America known to?
Ans. Craftmanship, textiles weaving, measuring land, understand climate, and know in-depth, the characteristics, composition, and effect of different landscapes.
Q 19 – When did the Hopis propagate that hard time had come?
Ans. In a stone tablet, it was written that Hopis (i.e. a tribe in California) took Spaniards as brothers but appearing with turtle movement. They extended their hands hoping for the handshake but those brothers (Spaniards) had arrested them. This treacherous event, they called hard-time.
Q 20 – What were the things attracted the European traders in North America?
Ans. The civilized behavior of native people and potentials for development of trade in furs and fish.
Q 21 – According to the Europeans, who were the civilized people?
Ans. Europeans were materialistic and consumerism bend of mind, hence/literacy, organized religion and urbanization were the three parameters of civilized individual and people.
Q 22 – Which will you say civilized: an individual or tribe extending hard to strangers treating as brothers to give a handshake or the strangers who shackle that hand in iron?
Ans. Definitely, the former who extends hand hoping for the handshake i.e native people of North America.
Q 23 – What cardinal difference in nature of a European and the native people have been marked by Washington Irving, a writer?
Ans. Non-whites (native people) keep aloof from the Europeans whose language they could not understand or another who is proved, a betrayer. However, Europeans kept them aloof in all matters.
Q 24 – What would an Indian (natives) say on Britishers when he was in his society?
Ans. He would laugh and joke at European and says that he had supposed European (white) impressed with profound respect for his grandeur and dignity.
Q 25 – Why did the natives feel Europeans were giving sometimes, more things in exchange while less at other times?
Ans. They were simple and complacent people. They had nothing to. bear with market functions, upheavals, and effects of demand and supply on the market for the things.
Q 26 – Why did Jefferson, the third President of the USA take native people as uncivilized?
Ans. He wanted to see a country populated by Europeans with small farms but the native people were satisfied with the subsistence agriculture and mere gave thought to area expansion in agriculture and gave thought to area-expansion in agriculture.
Q 27 – How did the landscapes of America receive changes?
Ans. A number of people migrated to America from the countries like Germany, Sweden, and Italy as also that of Poland, and people from Britain and France also occupied land in North America in an unauthorized and unfair way. It had changed the landscape into a number of colonies by those immigrants.
Q 28 – What was the problem with the Canadian Government unsolved for a long time?
Ans. Autonomous political status was demanded by the French settlers in Canada and raised their dissatisfaction through movements and processions. In 1867, Canada was made a confederation of autonomous states and only then the problem could be solved.
Q 29 – What heinous crime had the Europeans committed upon the native people of North America?
Ans. They snatched lands from native people by hooks and by crooks and displaced them to lands deserted and unknown till then called “Reservations”.
Q 30 – What does the reply from a native leader Chief Seattle to a letter of USA President in 1854 exhibit?
Ans. He shows great respect for the land as a mother for which the formation of parties like buyer and seller only would derogate the honor.
Q 31 – What was the mandatory condition in that replication?
Ans. Europeans can be given a piece of land as a gift but they and their forthcoming generations will deal with the land as serene as divine.
Q 32 – Why did the anthropologist in 1840 argue that as primitive people are not found in North America, the same way; native here would be forgotten shortly?
Ans. It was because the anthropologists found no records, reminiscence Literary-works in course of the surveys they made. These people were not interested at all in keeping contemporary events in records
Q 33 – Why did a visitor Frenchman state that Primitive man will disappear with the primitive animal?
Ans. The primitive animal was bison abundantly found in the dense forests of North America. The nationals of Britain immigrated there and turned the Prairie grasslands into agricultural farms. They killed bison and exported its meat to countries in Europe. This species was finally got extinct and therefore, doubt about the extinction of primitive men in the hands of Europeans was raised.
Q 34 – Why did Andrew Carnegie, an immigrant from Scotland state that the old natives creep on a snail’s pace, the repeal thunders on the speed of an express?
Ans. Perhaps so stated because the people in North America were the simplest people, contented with the primitive manners of survival, treated the earth as a mother goddess, and maintained them in peaceful co-existence with nature. They did not want the expansion of their lands.
Q 35 – What type of revolution vis-a-vis the Industrial Revolution of England took place in North America?
Ans. It came in the form of infrastructural development i.e. construction of Railways, railway equipment, manufacture of agricultural tools so that field of farming could be expanded for exploitation on a commercial basis.
Q 36 – When had the USA’s continental expansion completed?
Ans. It was in 1892 with a division of the complete area between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Q 37 – Why did Karl Marx say American frontiers as the last positive capitalist utopia?
Ans. He took it as a balanced form of living manner between human beings and that of the environment. It was vulnerable to capitalism, so excess modesty and sincerity of the native people; hence, he had stated it Positr capitalist taking capitalism as an ailment or malaise and the polite and humble behavior of native people as positive to that malaise.
Q 38 – What was the USA? Whether it was favoring Monarchy?
Ans. The United States of America was a confederacy of states. No, 1 it was against the monarchy.
Q 39 – What was the discrimination made in the constitution of America?
Ans. Only white men were given the right to vote for a representative, to Congress, and for President and right to. property but non-whites or the people who migrated from South And Southeast Asia were denied those rights.
Q 40 – What has been pointed out by Daniel Paul, a Canadian native in 2000?
Ans. Daniel Paul has referred to Thomas Paire who had; remembered that it was the American war of Independence and the French Revolution which inspired Indians to run long freedom of s struggle and similar was the starting point of the American natives. Actually, he wants to say that do well even for those who pelt on one’s interests i.e. truth and non-violence in India, and gift land and goods to shrewd Europeans.