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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 5%
(b) 25%
(c) 10%
(d) 40%

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

3. By 1619, how many blacks had already been transported from Africa to the Caribbean and South America to work as slaves, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) 100,000
(b) 1 million
(c) 590
(d) 200,000

4. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?
(a) 3 million
(b) 20 million
(c) 50 million
(d) 6 million

5. When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after inadvertently landing in the Americas, he told the Queen and King of Spain that he had reached Asia and an island off of China. In reality, Columbus had traveled to what currently-known locations?
(a) To California and Oregon
(b) To Maine and Massachusetts
(c) To Virginia and Louisiana
(d) To Cuba and Hispaniola

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?

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

4. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

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

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