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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?
(a) 1698
(b) 1619
(c) 1711
(d) 1625

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

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

5. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?
(a) 1837-1841
(b) 1845-1849
(c) 1911-1915
(d) 1861-1865

Short Answer Questions

1. What name refers to a 19th century secret society composed mainly of Irish and Irish-American coal miners?

2. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?

3. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?

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?

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

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