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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the Dorr Rebellion take place?
(a) Connecticut
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Maine
(d) Rhode Island

2. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?
(a) 59
(b) 20
(c) 39
(d) 19

3. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) South Carolina
(b) Maine
(c) Kentucky
(d) Virginia

4. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by whom?
(a) William Bacon
(b) James Bacon
(c) Johnathan Bacon
(d) Nathan Bacon

5. The author states in Chapter 1 that it is said the source of information of Columbus’s conquests on the islands was written down by a young priest named what?
(a) Jonathan Schell
(b) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(c) William Berkeley
(d) Bartolome de las Casas

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?

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. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?

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

5. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

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