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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 10%
(c) 25%
(d) 5%

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

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

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

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

6. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) 1865
(b) 1798
(c) 1800
(d) 1868

7. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
(a) The Speech of Polly Baker
(b) The Empire and the People
(c) The Scarlet Letter
(d) The Unreported Resistance

8. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) Robber Barons and Rebels
(b) The Socialist Challenge
(c) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(d) As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs

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

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

11. 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) 100,000
(c) 200,000
(d) 1 million

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?

2. Where did the Dorr Rebellion take place?

3. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?

4. In Chapter 9, the author asserts that in 1790, there were 500,000 slaves in the U.S. How many slaves were there in 1860?

5. Where did the Antinomian Controversy take place?

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