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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?
(a) Percy Shelley
(b) James Joyce
(c) Henry David Thoreau
(d) Walt Whitman

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

4. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) Kentucky
(b) Maine
(c) South Carolina
(d) Virginia

5. 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) 30,000
(b) 100,000
(c) 20,000
(d) 80,000

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?

2. The First Seminole War began in 1814 and lasted until what year?

3. When was Catharine Beecher born?

4. When did the Mexican-American War take place?

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

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