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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States rose to what percentage?
(a) 25%
(b) 10%
(c) 20%
(d) 15%

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

3. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) 1739
(b) 1659
(c) 1773
(d) 1776

4. The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing that took place where?
(a) San Francisco, California
(b) Albuquerque, New Mexico
(c) Los Angeles, California
(d) Reno, Nevada

5. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?
(a) 1625
(b) 1698
(c) 1619
(d) 1711

Short Answer Questions

1. The Third Seminole War began in what year?

2. Where was Alexander Berkman born?

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. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

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

(see the answer key)

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