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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
(a) The Unreported Resistance
(b) The Speech of Polly Baker
(c) The Empire and the People
(d) The Scarlet Letter

2. What is the title of Chapter 17?
(a) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(b) Robber Barons and Rebels
(c) Or Does It Explode
(d) Self-Help in Hard Times

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

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?
(a) 80,000
(b) 30,000
(c) 20,000
(d) 100,000

5. In Chapter 9, the author asserts that in 1790, there were 500,000 slaves in the U.S. How many slaves were there in 1860?
(a) 3 million
(b) 1 million
(c) 4 million
(d) 2 million

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Antinomian Controversy take place?

2. The Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about how many people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States?

3. Where was the Anti-Rent War centralized?

4. What is the title of Chapter 15?

5. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?

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