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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 5%
(b) 40%
(c) 25%
(d) 10%

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

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

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

5. When was Catharine Beecher born?
(a) 1815
(b) 1800
(c) 1698
(d) 1752

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What name refers to female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

3. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?

4. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?

5. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?

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