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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 is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) The Socialist Challenge
(b) As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs
(c) Robber Barons and Rebels
(d) The Coming Revolt of the Guards

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

3. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?
(a) 1912
(b) 1788
(c) 1811
(d) 1837

4. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?
(a) Coconut oil
(b) Cassava flour
(c) Elk
(d) Banana leaf

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?

2. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?

3. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?

4. 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?

5. The First Seminole War began in 1814 and lasted until what year?

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