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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 Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?
(a) 1846
(b) 1923
(c) 1859
(d) 1862

2. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?
(a) The gold trade
(b) The coal trade
(c) The hemp trade
(d) The cotton trade

3. The author states in Chapter 1 that it is said the source of information of Columbus’s conquests on the islands was written down by a young priest named what?
(a) Bartolome de las Casas
(b) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(c) Jonathan Schell
(d) William Berkeley

4. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?
(a) James Joyce
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) Henry David Thoreau
(d) Percy Shelley

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?

2. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?

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

4. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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