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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) 3 million
(b) 6 million
(c) 20 million
(d) 50 million

2. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?
(a) 1 to 3 million
(b) 15 to 20 million
(c) 5 to 10 million
(d) 10 to 15 million

3. The First Seminole War began in 1814 and lasted until what year?
(a) 1901
(b) 1819
(c) 1825
(d) 1830

4. What is defined as an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means and production and cooperative management of the economy?
(a) Socialism
(b) Fascism
(c) Communism
(d) Anarchism

5. Who founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary?
(a) Edna Calley
(b) Betty Friedan
(c) Harriot Hunt
(d) Emma Willard

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Mexican-American War take place?

2. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by what U.S. President?

3. Where was Mary Harris born?

4. When was the American Federation of Labor founded?

5. What name refers to a 19th century secret society composed mainly of Irish and Irish-American coal miners?

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