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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did the Antinomian Controversy take place?
(a) 1669-1672
(b) 1636-1638
(c) 1711-1713
(d) 1598-1610
2. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?
(a) African slavery
(b) The Indians
(c) Loyalty to the crown
(d) Women’s rights
3. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in what year?
(a) 1860
(b) 1830
(c) 1890
(d) 1900
4. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?
(a) Diamonds and gold
(b) Spices and silver
(c) Gold and spices
(d) Slaves and wheat
5. 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) 500
(b) 150
(c) 200
(d) 50
Short Answer Questions
1. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
2. Where was James Polk born?
3. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?
4. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?
5. What is the title of Chapter 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the growing violence surrounding slavery in the 1860s and 1870s in Chapter 9?
2. What does the author say of “natural antipathy” in Chapter 2?
3. How does the author describe the Sioux puberty ceremony for women in Chapter 6?
4. Why did the English send 1,000 soldiers to Virginia in 1676, according to the author in Chapter 3?
5. How is the Flour Riot of 1837 described in Chapter 10? What was the cause of the riot?
6. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?
7. How does Howard Zinn describe the growth in the number of slaves in the United States between 1790 and 1860 in Chapter 9?
8. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?
9. What did Columbus discover when he returned to his fort at Navidad on his second journey, according to the author in Chapter 1? What did he take with him?
10. How does Howard Zinn describe the changes of the Native American population from the 1820s to the 1840s in Chapter 7?
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