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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?
(a) William Berkeley
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) Jonathan Schell
(d) Augusto César Sandino

2. Where did the Antinomian Controversy take place?
(a) The Province of Maine
(b) The Jamestown Colony
(c) The Massachusetts Bay Colony
(d) The Plymouth Colony

3. What was the name of the agreement struck in 1895 between African-American leaders and Southern white leaders that stipulated Southern blacks would work meekly and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law?
(a) The Jim Crow compromise
(b) The Kentucky compromise
(c) The Jackson compromise
(d) The Atlanta compromise

4. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?
(a) 50
(b) 200
(c) 500
(d) 150

5. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in what year?
(a) 1925
(b) 1911
(c) 1930
(d) 1939

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the alliance comprised of Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I?

3. 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?

4. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?

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

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