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

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) Walt Whitman
(b) James Joyce
(c) Percy Shelley
(d) Henry David Thoreau

2. 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) 6 million
(d) 50 million

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

4. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?
(a) Harriot Hunt
(b) Emma Willard
(c) Jimmy Carter
(d) Betty Friedan

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

6. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?
(a) 5 to 10 million
(b) 10 to 15 million
(c) 1 to 3 million
(d) 15 to 20 million

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

8. The Anti-Rent War was also known by what name?
(a) The Helderberg War
(b) The Mondale War
(c) The Powderly War
(d) The Hunt War

9. 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) 1765
(b) 1745
(c) 1750
(d) 1779

10. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?
(a) £1,000,000
(b) £2,800,000
(c) £1,500,000
(d) £800,000

11. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?
(a) 1811
(b) 1837
(c) 1912
(d) 1788

12. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) Robber Barons and Rebels
(b) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(c) The Socialist Challenge
(d) As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs

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

14. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?
(a) 150
(b) 200
(c) 500
(d) 50

15. Who founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary?
(a) Emma Willard
(b) Betty Friedan
(c) Harriot Hunt
(d) Edna Calley

Short Answer Questions

1. Sam Davis was hung by a mob in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in what year?

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

3. Martin Van Buren served as U.S. President during what years?

4. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?

5. When was the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament?

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