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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?
(a) September 18, 1634
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) February 10, 1763
(d) December 15, 1791

2. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) 1739
(b) 1776
(c) 1773
(d) 1659

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) 1750
(b) 1765
(c) 1745
(d) 1779

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 Virginia and Louisiana
(b) To Maine and Massachusetts
(c) To California and Oregon
(d) To Cuba and Hispaniola

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?
(a) 590
(b) 200,000
(c) 100,000
(d) 1 million

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author states in Chapter 1 that it is said the source of information of Columbus’s conquests on the islands was written down by a young priest named what?

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

4. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

5. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?

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