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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?
(a) 10 to 15 million
(b) 5 to 10 million
(c) 1 to 3 million
(d) 15 to 20 million

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

3. 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%

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

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. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?
(a) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(b) The Intimately Oppressed
(c) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(d) The Unreported Resistance

7. Where did the first victory of the American Revolution take place?
(a) Lexington, Kentucky
(b) Jamestown, Virginia
(c) Boston, Massachusetts
(d) Yorktown, Virginia

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

9. When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after inadvertently landing in the Americas, he told the Queen and King of Spain that he had reached Asia and an island off of China. In reality, Columbus had traveled to what currently-known locations?
(a) To Maine and Massachusetts
(b) To California and Oregon
(c) To Virginia and Louisiana
(d) To Cuba and Hispaniola

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

11. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) Kentucky
(b) South Carolina
(c) Virginia
(d) Maine

12. 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) £1,500,000
(d) £800,000

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

14. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?
(a) 150
(b) 200
(c) 50
(d) 500

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Mexican-American War take place?

2. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?

3. Where was James Polk born?

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

5. 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?

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