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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 Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?
(a) 1619
(b) 1711
(c) 1698
(d) 1625

2. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?
(a) 1799
(b) 1819
(c) 1803
(d) 1698

3. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?
(a) Loyalty to the crown
(b) Women’s rights
(c) The Indians
(d) African slavery

4. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by what U.S. President?
(a) Martin Van Buren
(b) James Polk
(c) Abraham Lincoln
(d) Andrew Jackson

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 9?

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

3. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

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

5. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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