1. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?
(a) Betty Friedan
(b) Emma Willard
(c) Jimmy Carter
(d) Harriot Hunt

2. 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) 100,000
(b) 590
(c) 200,000
(d) 1 million

3. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?
(a) 59
(b) 39
(c) 20
(d) 19

4. Where was James Polk born?
(a) New Hampshire
(b) North Carolina
(c) Massachusetts
(d) Connecticut

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?

2. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?

3. The Third Seminole War began in what year?

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

5. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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