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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Nathan Bacon
(b) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(c) William Berkeley
(d) Bartolome de las Casas

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

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

5. What name refers to female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States?
(a) The Cupie Dolls
(b) The Lowell Mill Girls
(c) The Sisters of Mercy
(d) The Molly Maguires

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

7. The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and lasted until when?
(a) 1846
(b) 1850
(c) 1842
(d) 1844

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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 Kentucky compromise
(b) The Atlanta compromise
(c) The Jackson compromise
(d) The Jim Crow compromise

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?

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

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

4. Where did the first victory of the American Revolution take place?

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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