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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What name refers to a 19th century secret society composed mainly of Irish and Irish-American coal miners?
(a) The Black Underground
(b) The Cupie Dolls
(c) The Lowell Mill Girls
(d) The Molly Maguires

3. In what year was Mary Dyer executed?
(a) 1660
(b) 1703
(c) 1690
(d) 1599

4. 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?
(a) 590
(b) 200,000
(c) 100,000
(d) 1 million

5. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) 1739
(b) 1773
(c) 1776
(d) 1659

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

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

8. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?
(a) King Charles I
(b) King George III
(c) King Edward IV
(d) Queen Victoria

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

10. When was Catharine Beecher born?
(a) 1752
(b) 1698
(c) 1800
(d) 1815

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

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

13. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?
(a) Loyalty to the crown
(b) African slavery
(c) The Indians
(d) Women’s rights

14. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Great Barrington, Massachusetts
(c) Concord, Massachusetts
(d) Portland, Maine

15. The First Seminole War began in 1814 and lasted until what year?
(a) 1830
(b) 1819
(c) 1825
(d) 1901

Short Answer Questions

1. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?

2. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?

3. The Anti-Rent War was also known by what name?

4. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in what year?

5. Where did the Antinomian Controversy take place?

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