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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?
(a) Andrew Jackson
(b) Augusto César Sandino
(c) William Berkeley
(d) Jonathan Schell

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

4. The First Seminole War began in 1814 and lasted until what year?
(a) 1901
(b) 1819
(c) 1825
(d) 1830

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) 1625
(c) 1619
(d) 1698

Short Answer Questions

1. Who among Christopher Columbus’s shipmates took the Pinta on an unauthorized expedition in search of an island called "Babeque" to search for gold while in Cuba?

2. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

3. The Seminole people are originally from what current U.S. state?

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?

5. 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?

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