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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was Catharine Beecher born?
(a) 1800
(b) 1698
(c) 1815
(d) 1752
2. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?
(a) Peru
(b) Brazil
(c) Haiti
(d) Trinidad
3. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) 1800
(b) 1865
(c) 1798
(d) 1868
4. When was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) December 15, 1791
(c) September 18, 1634
(d) February 10, 1763
5. 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) 40%
(b) 25%
(c) 10%
(d) 5%
6. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
(a) The Scarlet Letter
(b) The Unreported Resistance
(c) The Empire and the People
(d) The Speech of Polly Baker
7. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?
(a) May 15, 1729
(b) February 10, 1763
(c) September 18, 1734
(d) July 28, 1629
8. 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) The village had disappeared
(c) A fire was engulfing the ship
(d) His sailors were killed
9. 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) 18
(b) 32
(c) 5
(d) 25
10. 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) Bartolome de las Casas
(b) William Berkeley
(c) Nathan Bacon
(d) Martín Alonso Pinzón
11. 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) £800,000
(d) £1,500,000
12. Who founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary?
(a) Harriot Hunt
(b) Betty Friedan
(c) Emma Willard
(d) Edna Calley
13. Where did the first victory of the American Revolution take place?
(a) Yorktown, Virginia
(b) Jamestown, Virginia
(c) Lexington, Kentucky
(d) Boston, Massachusetts
14. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?
(a) Mississippi
(b) Virginia
(c) Louisiana
(d) Kentucky
15. Where did the Dorr Rebellion take place?
(a) Rhode Island
(b) Maine
(c) Connecticut
(d) Massachusetts
Short Answer Questions
1. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by whom?
2. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?
3. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?
4. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?
5. Where was the Anti-Rent War centralized?
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