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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did the first victory of the American Revolution take place?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts
(b) Yorktown, Virginia
(c) Lexington, Kentucky
(d) Jamestown, Virginia

3. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by what U.S. President?
(a) Martin Van Buren
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) Abraham Lincoln
(d) James Polk

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

5. Where did the Antinomian Controversy take place?
(a) The Province of Maine
(b) The Plymouth Colony
(c) The Jamestown Colony
(d) The Massachusetts Bay Colony

Short Answer Questions

1. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?

2. In what year was Mary Dyer executed?

3. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?

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. 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?

(see the answer key)

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