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

2. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?
(a) September 18, 1734
(b) February 10, 1763
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) May 15, 1729

3. 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) 1745
(b) 1765
(c) 1779
(d) 1750

4. The Third Seminole War began in what year?
(a) 1901
(b) 1862
(c) 1855
(d) 1869

5. When was the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament?
(a) 1776
(b) 1659
(c) 1773
(d) 1801

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?

2. When did the Mexican-American War take place?

3. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?

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

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did the English send 1,000 soldiers to Virginia in 1676, according to the author in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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