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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Cuba and Hispaniola
(b) To Virginia and Louisiana
(c) To California and Oregon
(d) To Maine and Massachusetts

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?
(a) £800,000
(b) £2,800,000
(c) £1,500,000
(d) £1,000,000

3. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?
(a) Betty Friedan
(b) Jimmy Carter
(c) Emma Willard
(d) Harriot Hunt

4. According to the author in Chapter 7, “In 1820, 120,000 Indians lived east of the Mississippi. By 1844, fewer than” how many were left?
(a) 80,000
(b) 30,000
(c) 20,000
(d) 100,000

5. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) James Joyce
(c) Henry David Thoreau
(d) Percy Shelley

6. 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 Molly Maguires
(c) The Sisters of Mercy
(d) The Lowell Mill Girls

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

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

9. 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) 100,000
(b) 1 million
(c) 200,000
(d) 590

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

11. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?
(a) 1779
(b) 1750
(c) 1745
(d) 1765

12. 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) 50
(b) 150
(c) 200
(d) 500

13. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?
(a) 1619
(b) 1625
(c) 1600
(d) 1711

14. Where did the Dorr Rebellion take place?
(a) Connecticut
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Maine
(d) Rhode Island

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?

2. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?

3. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?

4. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?

5. 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?

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