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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 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) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(c) Jonathan Schell
(d) Bartolome de las Casas

2. 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) The village had disappeared
(d) His sailors had married the village women

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

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

5. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?
(a) 1479
(b) 1502
(c) 1492
(d) 1499

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?

2. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?

3. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?

4. What name refers to female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

5. Who founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary?

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