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

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

3. When did the Mexican-American War take place?
(a) 1815-1823
(b) 1798-1805
(c) 1823-1829
(d) 1846-1848

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

2. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?

3. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?

5. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?

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