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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christopher Columbus first encountered the Lucayan-Arawak Indians in a location known now as what?
(a) New England
(b) The Bahamas
(c) Peru
(d) Australia

2. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?
(a) 25
(b) 5
(c) 18
(d) 32

3. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) Robber Barons and Rebels
(b) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(c) The Socialist Challenge
(d) As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs

4. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by what U.S. President?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) Martin Van Buren
(d) James Polk

5. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?
(a) King George III
(b) King Charles I
(c) Queen Victoria
(d) King Edward IV

6. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?
(a) Harriot Hunt
(b) Jimmy Carter
(c) Betty Friedan
(d) Emma Willard

7. Martin Van Buren served as U.S. President during what years?
(a) 1911-1915
(b) 1837-1841
(c) 1845-1849
(d) 1861-1865

8. What percentage of profits was Christopher Columbus contracted to receive for the goods he brought back to the King and Queen of Spain during his voyage when he accidentally encountered the Americas?
(a) 25%
(b) 5%
(c) 10%
(d) 40%

9. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?
(a) 1698
(b) 1799
(c) 1803
(d) 1819

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

11. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?
(a) The Intimately Oppressed
(b) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(c) The Unreported Resistance
(d) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

12. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?
(a) The Indians
(b) Women’s rights
(c) African slavery
(d) Loyalty to the crown

13. The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and lasted until when?
(a) 1844
(b) 1850
(c) 1842
(d) 1846

14. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?
(a) 1845-1849
(b) 1837-1841
(c) 1861-1865
(d) 1911-1915

15. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?
(a) 30
(b) 100
(c) 50
(d) 20

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

2. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?

3. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?

4. When did the Antinomian Controversy take place?

5. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?

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