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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Purgatory: 1891-1934.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the first Homestead Act passed?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1862.

2. When did Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) land on the mainland of North America?
(a) 1490.
(b) 1497.
(c) 1483.
(d) 1488.

3. When did Columbus make a fourth voyage to the Caribbean?
(a) 1509.
(b) 1500.
(c) 1511.
(d) 1502.

4. When did the Spanish attempt to settle in what is present-day South Carolina?
(a) 1498 and 1502.
(b) 1511 and 1521.
(c) 1530 and 1570.
(d) 1526 and 1566.

5. When did Richard Henry Pratt open the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Ghost Dance religion start?

2. When was the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee published?

3. In 1495, how many Indians did Columbus ship back to Spain for sale?

4. At Carlisle, how old was a girl who was raped in her dormitory bed?

5. Since what time were spices traded from east to west via coastal routes?

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