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

2. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by whom?
(a) William Bacon
(b) Johnathan Bacon
(c) James Bacon
(d) Nathan Bacon

3. Where was James Polk born?
(a) Massachusetts
(b) New Hampshire
(c) Connecticut
(d) North Carolina

4. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?
(a) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(b) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(c) The Intimately Oppressed
(d) The Unreported Resistance

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Martin Van Buren served as U.S. President during what years?

3. 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?

4. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?

5. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?

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

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

6. How does the author describe the Sioux puberty ceremony for women in Chapter 6?

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

8. How does the author describe Virginia’s “chain of oppression” in Chapter 3?

9. When and where did Dorr’s Rebellion occur? How does the author describe the surrounding circumstances of this event in Chapter 10?

10. How is the Flour Riot of 1837 described in Chapter 10? What was the cause of the riot?

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