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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?
(a) 18
(b) 5
(c) 25
(d) 32

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

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

4. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?
(a) 1846
(b) 1862
(c) 1923
(d) 1859

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

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

7. What is the title of Chapter 9?
(a) The Empire and the People
(b) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(c) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(d) The Socialist Challenge

8. When was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) December 15, 1791
(c) February 10, 1763
(d) September 18, 1634

9. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?
(a) Trinidad
(b) Peru
(c) Brazil
(d) Haiti

10. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) 1868
(b) 1798
(c) 1865
(d) 1800

11. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?
(a) William Berkeley
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) Jonathan Schell
(d) Augusto César Sandino

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

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

14. 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) 4 million
(c) 3 million
(d) 1 million

15. 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) 200,000
(b) 1 million
(c) 590
(d) 100,000

Short Answer Questions

1. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?

2. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois 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. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?

5. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?

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