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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 author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?
(a) Kentucky
(b) Virginia
(c) Louisiana
(d) Mississippi

2. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?
(a) 828,000
(b) 234,000
(c) 523,000
(d) 645,000

3. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
(a) The Speech of Polly Baker
(b) The Empire and the People
(c) The Unreported Resistance
(d) The Scarlet Letter

4. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?
(a) A fire was engulfing the ship
(b) His sailors had married the village women
(c) His sailors were killed
(d) The village had disappeared

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?

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

3. Where was James Polk born?

4. When did the Antinomian Controversy take place?

5. What is the title of Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 uprisings in Kentucky and other colonies in 1760 in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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