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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?
(a) Percy Shelley
(b) James Joyce
(c) Walt Whitman
(d) Henry David Thoreau

2. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?
(a) 1698
(b) 1819
(c) 1799
(d) 1803

3. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?
(a) The hemp trade
(b) The coal trade
(c) The cotton trade
(d) The gold trade

4. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?
(a) 1859
(b) 1846
(c) 1923
(d) 1862

5. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?
(a) King Charles I
(b) King Edward IV
(c) King George III
(d) Queen Victoria

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 7?

2. Who founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary?

3. The Industrial Workers of the World is an international union that was formed in what year?

4. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?

5. When did Herbert Hoover serve as President of the United States?

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