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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?
(a) September 18, 1634
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) December 15, 1791
(d) February 10, 1763

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

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

4. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?
(a) The Nina
(b) The Santa Maria
(c) The Gallega
(d) The Pinta

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

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

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

8. Where was the Anti-Rent War centralized?
(a) New Hampshire
(b) New York
(c) West Virginia
(d) Pennsylvania

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

10. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?
(a) 1625
(b) 1711
(c) 1619
(d) 1698

11. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
(a) The Unreported Resistance
(b) The Speech of Polly Baker
(c) The Scarlet Letter
(d) The Empire and the People

12. The Seminole people are originally from what current U.S. state?
(a) Louisiana
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Maine
(d) Florida

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

14. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?
(a) Slaves and wheat
(b) Gold and spices
(c) Diamonds and gold
(d) Spices and silver

15. 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?
(a) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(b) Jonathan Schell
(c) William Berkeley
(d) Bartolome de las Casas

Short Answer 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?

2. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?

3. 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?

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

5. In what year was Mary Dyer executed?

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