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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of profits was Christopher Columbus contracted to receive for the goods he brought back to the King and Queen of Spain during his voyage when he accidentally encountered the Americas?
(a) 25%
(b) 5%
(c) 10%
(d) 40%

2. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?
(a) February 10, 1763
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) May 15, 1729
(d) September 18, 1734

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

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

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) Nathan Bacon
(c) Bartolome de las Casas
(d) Martín Alonso Pinzón

6. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?
(a) His sailors had married the village women
(b) A fire was engulfing the ship
(c) His sailors were killed
(d) The village had disappeared

7. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?
(a) 1779
(b) 1765
(c) 1745
(d) 1750

8. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) 1800
(b) 1865
(c) 1798
(d) 1868

9. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?
(a) Banana leaf
(b) Coconut oil
(c) Elk
(d) Cassava flour

10. What was the name of the agreement struck in 1895 between African-American leaders and Southern white leaders that stipulated Southern blacks would work meekly and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law?
(a) The Atlanta compromise
(b) The Jim Crow compromise
(c) The Jackson compromise
(d) The Kentucky compromise

11. Where did the Dorr Rebellion take place?
(a) Maine
(b) Rhode Island
(c) Massachusetts
(d) Connecticut

12. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?
(a) 1619
(b) 1711
(c) 1600
(d) 1625

13. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?
(a) 3 million
(b) 20 million
(c) 50 million
(d) 6 million

14. When was Catharine Beecher born?
(a) 1698
(b) 1815
(c) 1800
(d) 1752

15. In Chapter 9, the author asserts that in 1790, there were 500,000 slaves in the U.S. How many slaves were there in 1860?
(a) 2 million
(b) 3 million
(c) 4 million
(d) 1 million

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?

2. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?

3. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?

4. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by what U.S. President?

5. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?

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