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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?
(a) 1499
(b) 1492
(c) 1502
(d) 1479

3. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) Concord, Massachusetts
(b) Great Barrington, Massachusetts
(c) Portland, Maine
(d) New York, New York

4. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?
(a) 50
(b) 30
(c) 100
(d) 20

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?

2. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?

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

4. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

5. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?

(see the answer key)

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