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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?
(a) 523,000
(b) 828,000
(c) 234,000
(d) 645,000

2. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?
(a) Henry David Thoreau
(b) Percy Shelley
(c) Walt Whitman
(d) James Joyce

3. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?
(a) The coal trade
(b) The cotton trade
(c) The hemp trade
(d) The gold trade

4. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?
(a) 1912
(b) 1837
(c) 1811
(d) 1788

5. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?
(a) £1,000,000
(b) £800,000
(c) £1,500,000
(d) £2,800,000

Short Answer Questions

1. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?

2. When was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?

3. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?

4. According to the author in Chapter 7, “In 1820, 120,000 Indians lived east of the Mississippi. By 1844, fewer than” how many were left?

5. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?

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