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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?
(a) Augusto César Sandino
(b) Jonathan Schell
(c) William Berkeley
(d) Andrew Jackson

3. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?
(a) 645,000
(b) 234,000
(c) 523,000
(d) 828,000

4. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?
(a) 30
(b) 100
(c) 20
(d) 50

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

6. Where was James Polk born?
(a) Connecticut
(b) New Hampshire
(c) North Carolina
(d) Massachusetts

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

8. Where was Amelia Bloomer born?
(a) Lexington, Kentucky
(b) Concord, Massachusetts
(c) Homer, New York
(d) Jamestown, Virginia

9. Sam Davis was hung by a mob in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in what year?
(a) 1868
(b) 1902
(c) 1852
(d) 1811

10. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?
(a) February 10, 1763
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) September 18, 1734
(d) May 15, 1729

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

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

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

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

15. Martin Van Buren served as U.S. President during what years?
(a) 1845-1849
(b) 1837-1841
(c) 1861-1865
(d) 1911-1915

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

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”?

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

4. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?

5. The First Seminole War began in 1814 and lasted until what year?

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