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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Amelia Bloomer born?
(a) Concord, Massachusetts
(b) Homer, New York
(c) Jamestown, Virginia
(d) Lexington, Kentucky

2. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?
(a) Mississippi
(b) Virginia
(c) Louisiana
(d) Kentucky

3. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?
(a) 1502
(b) 1479
(c) 1492
(d) 1499

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

5. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?
(a) 1923
(b) 1846
(c) 1862
(d) 1859

Short Answer 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?

2. Where was the Anti-Rent War centralized?

3. The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and lasted until when?

4. Where was James Polk born?

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

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