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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. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?
(a) Peru
(b) Trinidad
(c) Haiti
(d) Brazil

2. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?
(a) 5 to 10 million
(b) 10 to 15 million
(c) 1 to 3 million
(d) 15 to 20 million

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 7, “In 1820, 120,000 Indians lived east of the Mississippi. By 1844, fewer than” how many were left?
(a) 100,000
(b) 30,000
(c) 80,000
(d) 20,000

5. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) South Carolina
(b) Maine
(c) Virginia
(d) Kentucky

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary?

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

3. Where did the first victory of the American Revolution take place?

4. When was Catharine Beecher born?

5. The Anti-Rent War was also known by what name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who wrote the history of Columbus’s adventures in Cuba from the perspective of the inhabitants, according to the author in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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

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

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 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?

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