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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?
(a) 1 to 3 million
(b) 5 to 10 million
(c) 15 to 20 million
(d) 10 to 15 million

2. 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) 6 million
(b) 20 million
(c) 3 million
(d) 50 million

3. What percentage of profits was Christopher Columbus contracted to receive for the goods he brought back to the King and Queen of Spain during his voyage when he accidentally encountered the Americas?
(a) 40%
(b) 5%
(c) 10%
(d) 25%

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

2. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?

3. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?

4. When was the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament?

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?

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