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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) Portland, Maine
(b) New York, New York
(c) Great Barrington, Massachusetts
(d) Concord, Massachusetts

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

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

4. 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?
(a) 1 million
(b) 200,000
(c) 100,000
(d) 590

5. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?
(a) 30
(b) 100
(c) 20
(d) 50

6. 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?
(a) 2 million
(b) 3 million
(c) 1 million
(d) 4 million

7. 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”?
(a) 6 million
(b) 3 million
(c) 20 million
(d) 50 million

8. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?
(a) King Charles I
(b) King Edward IV
(c) Queen Victoria
(d) King George III

9. Where did the first victory of the American Revolution take place?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts
(b) Yorktown, Virginia
(c) Jamestown, Virginia
(d) Lexington, Kentucky

10. Sam Davis was hung by a mob in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in what year?
(a) 1868
(b) 1852
(c) 1811
(d) 1902

11. What was the name of the agreement struck in 1895 between African-American leaders and Southern white leaders that stipulated Southern blacks would work meekly and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law?
(a) The Atlanta compromise
(b) The Kentucky compromise
(c) The Jim Crow compromise
(d) The Jackson compromise

12. 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) Jonathan Schell
(c) William Berkeley
(d) Martín Alonso Pinzón

13. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?
(a) Jimmy Carter
(b) Harriot Hunt
(c) Betty Friedan
(d) Emma Willard

14. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?
(a) The coal trade
(b) The cotton trade
(c) The gold trade
(d) The hemp trade

15. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?
(a) Gold and spices
(b) Diamonds and gold
(c) Spices and silver
(d) Slaves and wheat

Short Answer Questions

1. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?

2. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?

3. The First Seminole War began in 1814 and lasted until what year?

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?

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