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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?
(a) 1625
(b) 1619
(c) 1600
(d) 1711

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

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

4. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?
(a) His sailors were killed
(b) A fire was engulfing the ship
(c) The village had disappeared
(d) His sailors had married the village women

5. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) 1865
(b) 1800
(c) 1868
(d) 1798

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?

2. Sam Davis was hung by a mob in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in what year?

3. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?

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

5. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?

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