1. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?
(a) A fire was engulfing the ship
(b) His sailors were killed
(c) His sailors had married the village women
(d) The village had disappeared

2. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?
(a) 1811
(b) 1788
(c) 1837
(d) 1912

3. What name refers to a 19th century secret society composed mainly of Irish and Irish-American coal miners?
(a) The Lowell Mill Girls
(b) The Molly Maguires
(c) The Cupie Dolls
(d) The Black Underground

4. Who among Christopher Columbus’s shipmates took the Pinta on an unauthorized expedition in search of an island called "Babeque" to search for gold while in Cuba?
(a) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(b) Nathan Bacon
(c) Bartolome de las Casas
(d) William Berkeley

5. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?
(a) Women’s rights
(b) Loyalty to the crown
(c) The Indians
(d) African slavery

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?

3. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?

4. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?

5. When did the Antinomian Controversy take place?

(see the answer key)

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