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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 name refers to a 19th century secret society composed mainly of Irish and Irish-American coal miners?
(a) The Cupie Dolls
(b) The Black Underground
(c) The Lowell Mill Girls
(d) The Molly Maguires

2. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?
(a) The Nina
(b) The Pinta
(c) The Santa Maria
(d) The Gallega

3. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?
(a) 1801
(b) 1756
(c) 1730
(d) 1779

4. In Chapter 9, the author asserts that in 1790, there were 500,000 slaves in the U.S. How many slaves were there in 1860?
(a) 4 million
(b) 2 million
(c) 1 million
(d) 3 million

5. Where was James Polk born?
(a) North Carolina
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Connecticut
(d) New Hampshire

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Mexican-American War take place?

2. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?

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

4. What name refers to female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

5. What is the title of Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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