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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?
(a) 50
(b) 200
(c) 150
(d) 500

2. 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) 100,000
(c) 20,000
(d) 30,000

3. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?
(a) 20
(b) 30
(c) 100
(d) 50

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?
(a) £2,800,000
(b) £1,000,000
(c) £800,000
(d) £1,500,000

5. Christopher Columbus first encountered the Lucayan-Arawak Indians in a location known now as what?
(a) Peru
(b) Australia
(c) New England
(d) The Bahamas

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was James Polk born?

2. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in what year?

3. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?

4. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?

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

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