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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) African slavery
(d) The Indians

2. 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) Bartolome de las Casas
(b) William Berkeley
(c) Jonathan Schell
(d) Martín Alonso Pinzón

3. When did the Antinomian Controversy take place?
(a) 1598-1610
(b) 1711-1713
(c) 1669-1672
(d) 1636-1638

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?
(a) The Molly Maguires
(b) The Lowell Mill Girls
(c) The Cupie Dolls
(d) The Sisters of Mercy

5. In what year was Mary Dyer executed?
(a) 1690
(b) 1703
(c) 1660
(d) 1599

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by whom?

2. In Chapter 9, the author asserts that in 1790, there were 500,000 slaves in the U.S. How many slaves were there in 1860?

3. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?

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

5. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?

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