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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1619, how many blacks had already been transported from Africa to the Caribbean and South America to work as slaves, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) 590
(b) 200,000
(c) 100,000
(d) 1 million

2. In what year was Mary Dyer executed?
(a) 1703
(b) 1690
(c) 1660
(d) 1599

3. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in what year?
(a) 1860
(b) 1830
(c) 1890
(d) 1900

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

5. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
(a) The Speech of Polly Baker
(b) The Empire and the People
(c) The Unreported Resistance
(d) The Scarlet Letter

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

3. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?

4. 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?

5. Where was Amelia Bloomer born?

(see the answer key)

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