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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. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?
(a) 25
(b) 18
(c) 32
(d) 5

2. Who among Christopher Columbus’s shipmates took the Pinta on an unauthorized expedition in search of an island called "Babeque" to search for gold while in Cuba?
(a) William Berkeley
(b) Nathan Bacon
(c) Bartolome de las Casas
(d) Martín Alonso Pinzón

3. 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 Jackson compromise
(b) The Atlanta compromise
(c) The Kentucky compromise
(d) The Jim Crow compromise

4. Where did the Antinomian Controversy take place?
(a) The Massachusetts Bay Colony
(b) The Jamestown Colony
(c) The Plymouth Colony
(d) The Province of Maine

5. 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) 1750
(b) 1765
(c) 1745
(d) 1779

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by what U.S. President?

4. When was the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament?

5. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the traditions and cultures of the Native American tribes described regarding their perception of women in Chapter 6?

2. What positive qualities of the establishment of the United States does Zinn discuss in Chapter 4?

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

4. How does the author describe the growing violence surrounding slavery in the 1860s and 1870s in Chapter 9?

5. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?

6. What does the author say of “natural antipathy” in Chapter 2?

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

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

9. 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?

10. Where does the author assert the history of slavery in the U.S. originated in Chapter 2?

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