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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 7, “In 1820, 120,000 Indians lived east of the Mississippi. By 1844, fewer than” how many were left?
(a) 30,000
(b) 80,000
(c) 100,000
(d) 20,000

2. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?
(a) The Unreported Resistance
(b) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(c) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(d) The Intimately Oppressed

3. The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and lasted until when?
(a) 1846
(b) 1844
(c) 1850
(d) 1842

4. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?
(a) Coconut oil
(b) Elk
(c) Banana leaf
(d) Cassava flour

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 Maine and Massachusetts
(b) To Virginia and Louisiana
(c) To California and Oregon
(d) To Cuba and Hispaniola

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When was Catharine Beecher born?

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

5. Where was James Polk born?

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