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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) 5
(b) 18
(c) 32
(d) 25

3. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?
(a) 1779
(b) 1745
(c) 1750
(d) 1765

4. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?
(a) 1861-1865
(b) 1911-1915
(c) 1837-1841
(d) 1845-1849

5. 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) 3 million
(d) 6 million

Short Answer Questions

1. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?

2. Where did the first victory of the American Revolution take place?

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

4. Christopher Columbus first encountered the Lucayan-Arawak Indians in a location known now as what?

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?

(see the answer key)

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