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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 was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?
(a) December 15, 1791
(b) September 18, 1634
(c) February 10, 1763
(d) February 2, 1626

2. Sam Davis was hung by a mob in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in what year?
(a) 1902
(b) 1811
(c) 1852
(d) 1868

3. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) 1773
(b) 1776
(c) 1659
(d) 1739

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

5. Who among Christopher Columbus’s shipmates took the Pinta on an unauthorized expedition in search of an island called "Babeque" to search for gold while in Cuba?
(a) William Berkeley
(b) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(c) Nathan Bacon
(d) Bartolome de las Casas

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?

2. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?

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

4. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

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

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