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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. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) Concord, Massachusetts
(b) New York, New York
(c) Great Barrington, Massachusetts
(d) Portland, Maine

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

3. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) 1659
(b) 1773
(c) 1776
(d) 1739

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) 20,000
(b) 80,000
(c) 30,000
(d) 100,000

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament?

2. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?

3. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?

4. What is the title of Chapter 7?

5. When was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in Chapter 5? How successful were the Americans in the first battles?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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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