Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?
(a) 20 million
(b) 3 million
(c) 50 million
(d) 6 million
2. The First Seminole War began in 1814 and lasted until what year?
(a) 1825
(b) 1819
(c) 1901
(d) 1830
3. When was Catharine Beecher born?
(a) 1800
(b) 1752
(c) 1698
(d) 1815
4. What name refers to a 19th century secret society composed mainly of Irish and Irish-American coal miners?
(a) The Lowell Mill Girls
(b) The Black Underground
(c) The Molly Maguires
(d) The Cupie Dolls
5. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?
(a) 1803
(b) 1819
(c) 1698
(d) 1799
Short Answer Questions
1. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?
2. In what year was Mary Dyer executed?
3. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?
4. When did the Haymarket affair take place in Chicago?
5. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?
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