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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter 9?
(a) The Empire and the People
(b) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(c) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(d) The Socialist Challenge

3. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in what year?
(a) 1830
(b) 1890
(c) 1900
(d) 1860

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

5. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?
(a) Virginia
(b) Louisiana
(c) Mississippi
(d) Kentucky

6. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?
(a) 20
(b) 59
(c) 39
(d) 19

7. When did the Antinomian Controversy take place?
(a) 1598-1610
(b) 1636-1638
(c) 1711-1713
(d) 1669-1672

8. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by what U.S. President?
(a) Martin Van Buren
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) Abraham Lincoln
(d) James Polk

9. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by whom?
(a) James Bacon
(b) William Bacon
(c) Johnathan Bacon
(d) Nathan Bacon

10. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?
(a) 1801
(b) 1756
(c) 1730
(d) 1779

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

12. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?
(a) 1502
(b) 1499
(c) 1492
(d) 1479

13. 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?
(a) 25
(b) 32
(c) 5
(d) 18

14. The Third Seminole War began in what year?
(a) 1869
(b) 1862
(c) 1901
(d) 1855

15. According to the author in Chapter 7, “In 1820, 120,000 Indians lived east of the Mississippi. By 1844, fewer than” how many were left?
(a) 80,000
(b) 100,000
(c) 30,000
(d) 20,000

Short Answer Questions

1. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?

2. The author states in Chapter 1 that it is said the source of information of Columbus’s conquests on the islands was written down by a young priest named what?

3. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

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

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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