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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?
(a) The Nina
(b) The Pinta
(c) The Santa Maria
(d) The Gallega

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

3. Christopher Columbus first encountered the Lucayan-Arawak Indians in a location known now as what?
(a) New England
(b) Peru
(c) The Bahamas
(d) Australia

4. When was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?
(a) February 10, 1763
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) September 18, 1634
(d) December 15, 1791

5. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?
(a) 1711
(b) 1600
(c) 1619
(d) 1625

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did the Mexican-American War take place?

3. 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”?

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

5. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?

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