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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?
(a) Queen Victoria
(b) King Edward IV
(c) King George III
(d) King Charles I

2. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?
(a) 1730
(b) 1801
(c) 1756
(d) 1779

3. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?
(a) Jimmy Carter
(b) Harriot Hunt
(c) Betty Friedan
(d) Emma Willard

4. The author states in Chapter 1 that it is said the source of information of Columbus’s conquests on the islands was written down by a young priest named what?
(a) William Berkeley
(b) Jonathan Schell
(c) Bartolome de las Casas
(d) Martín Alonso Pinzón

5. Where was Amelia Bloomer born?
(a) Jamestown, Virginia
(b) Homer, New York
(c) Concord, Massachusetts
(d) Lexington, Kentucky

Short Answer Questions

1. What name refers to a 19th century secret society composed mainly of Irish and Irish-American coal miners?

2. 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?

3. What percentage of profits was Christopher Columbus contracted to receive for the goods he brought back to the King and Queen of Spain during his voyage when he accidentally encountered the Americas?

4. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?

5. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

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