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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1619, how many blacks had already been transported from Africa to the Caribbean and South America to work as slaves, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) 200,000
(b) 1 million
(c) 590
(d) 100,000

2. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?
(a) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(b) The Intimately Oppressed
(c) The Unreported Resistance
(d) The Coming Revolt of the Guards

3. The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and lasted until when?
(a) 1850
(b) 1846
(c) 1842
(d) 1844

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

5. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?
(a) Haiti
(b) Trinidad
(c) Peru
(d) Brazil

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by whom?

2. 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?

3. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in what year?

4. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?

5. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?

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