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CASE #1: You are seeing a 34 year old patient who recently moved to the United States and has never had a dental hygiene visit before. As you are completing your assessments, you determine that the patient is periodontally involved with probe depths over 3-6mm with calculus on 50% of the surfaces of their teeth. You take a full series of radiographs and determine that they have radiographic ledges and spicules of calculus and slight bone loss. Use this information to answer the following questions: QUESTION: When exploring, what will the radiographic ledges of calculus feel like to your tactile sensitivity?

True or false: When Columbus sailed west in 1492 his goal was to find America.

You are a Cherokee living in North Alabama in 1838. You are packing your things to take with you out west. A few years ago, there was a law that was passed that said all of your people had to leave Alabama and go to a place called “Indian Territory”. Which president signed this law?

The leading theory says that the first people to reach America got here by…

You are a citizen of the United States during its infancy. You believe that we should be a nation of small farmers, have a weaker central government, and a small military. Which political party are you probably going to side with? 

Which of the following did NOT attempt to establish colonies in the New World?

Which of the following best explains why the Plymouth colonists left England for the New World?

The following quote from Thomas Jefferson referred to which event? “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.” “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.””

35. The first true city to arise in Mesopotamia, in the fourth millennium B.C.E. was

You are a single woman in the Americas in the late 1600s. And…oh no! You’ve been accused of being a witch. Which of the following colonial regions are you most likely living in?