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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) 1865
(b) 1868
(c) 1800
(d) 1798

3. When was the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament?
(a) 1773
(b) 1659
(c) 1776
(d) 1801

4. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?
(a) King Charles I
(b) King Edward IV
(c) Queen Victoria
(d) King George III

5. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?
(a) 1625
(b) 1619
(c) 1711
(d) 1600

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?

3. 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?

4. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?

5. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?

(see the answer key)

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