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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 did the Antinomian Controversy take place?
(a) The Jamestown Colony
(b) The Plymouth Colony
(c) The Massachusetts Bay Colony
(d) The Province of Maine

2. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?
(a) Diamonds and gold
(b) Gold and spices
(c) Spices and silver
(d) Slaves and wheat

3. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?
(a) King Charles I
(b) King George III
(c) King Edward IV
(d) Queen Victoria

4. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?
(a) His sailors had married the village women
(b) The village had disappeared
(c) His sailors were killed
(d) A fire was engulfing the ship

5. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?
(a) 1711
(b) 1619
(c) 1698
(d) 1625

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?

2. What name refers to female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

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

4. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

5. The Anti-Rent War was also known by what name?

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