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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?
(a) Haiti
(b) Brazil
(c) Peru
(d) Trinidad

2. The Third Seminole War began in what year?
(a) 1862
(b) 1869
(c) 1855
(d) 1901

3. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Portland, Maine
(c) Concord, Massachusetts
(d) Great Barrington, Massachusetts

4. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?
(a) Elk
(b) Coconut oil
(c) Cassava flour
(d) Banana leaf

5. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?
(a) 1745
(b) 1779
(c) 1765
(d) 1750

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?

2. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

3. Who founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary?

4. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in what year?

5. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

(see the answer key)

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