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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 Mexican-American War take place?
(a) 1823-1829
(b) 1815-1823
(c) 1846-1848
(d) 1798-1805

2. 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?
(a) The Jim Crow compromise
(b) The Kentucky compromise
(c) The Atlanta compromise
(d) The Jackson compromise

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

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

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) Percy Shelley
(c) Henry David Thoreau
(d) James Joyce

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?

2. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?

3. 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?

4. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by whom?

5. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do we know the details of Christopher Columbus’s first encounter with the Arawak people? How does the author describe Columbus’s views of the people in Chapter 1?

2. How does the author compare and contrast the treatment of women to that of the Native Americans in Chapter 7?

3. 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?

4. Where did Christopher Columbus intend to travel when he “discovered” the Americas? Where does the author assert he actually landed in Chapter 1?

5. How does Howard Zinn describe the changes of the Native American population from the 1820s to the 1840s in Chapter 7?

6. How does the author describe Mexico’s land area and status after 1821 in Chapter 8?

7. How does the author describe the uprisings in Kentucky and other colonies in 1760 in Chapter 4?

8. How does the author describe history’s depiction of women in the beginning of Chapter 6?

9. What choice were the Native American people given in regard to their futures and their homes, according to the author in Chapter 7?

10. How does Howard Zinn describe the growth in the number of slaves in the United States between 1790 and 1860 in Chapter 9?

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