1. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?
(a) 20 million
(b) 50 million
(c) 6 million
(d) 3 million

2. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?
(a) 1788
(b) 1811
(c) 1837
(d) 1912

3. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?
(a) 1801
(b) 1730
(c) 1779
(d) 1756

4. When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after inadvertently landing in the Americas, he told the Queen and King of Spain that he had reached Asia and an island off of China. In reality, Columbus had traveled to what currently-known locations?
(a) To Cuba and Hispaniola
(b) To Maine and Massachusetts
(c) To Virginia and Louisiana
(d) To California and Oregon

5. 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

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. What is the title of Chapter 9?

3. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?

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

5. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?

(see the answer key)

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