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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 3 million
(b) 2 million
(c) 1 million
(d) 4 million

2. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?
(a) 1803
(b) 1799
(c) 1698
(d) 1819

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

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

5. When did the Antinomian Controversy take place?
(a) 1598-1610
(b) 1711-1713
(c) 1669-1672
(d) 1636-1638

6. Where was the Anti-Rent War centralized?
(a) New York
(b) Pennsylvania
(c) New Hampshire
(d) West Virginia

7. 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) 5%
(b) 25%
(c) 10%
(d) 40%

8. 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) 200,000
(b) 1 million
(c) 100,000
(d) 590

9. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?
(a) 1779
(b) 1756
(c) 1801
(d) 1730

10. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?
(a) 1619
(b) 1711
(c) 1625
(d) 1698

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Third Seminole War began in what year?

2. 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?

3. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?

4. Where did the Antinomian Controversy take place?

5. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

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