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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?
(a) 1750
(b) 1765
(c) 1779
(d) 1745

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

3. Who founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary?
(a) Betty Friedan
(b) Edna Calley
(c) Harriot Hunt
(d) Emma Willard

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Third Seminole War began in what year?

2. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

3. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?

4. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe history’s depiction of women in the beginning of Chapter 6?

2. Who wrote the history of Columbus’s adventures in Cuba from the perspective of the inhabitants, according to the author in Chapter 1?

3. How does the author compare and contrast the treatment of women to that of the Native Americans in Chapter 7?

4. Where does the author assert the history of slavery in the U.S. originated in Chapter 2?

5. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?

6. How does Howard Zinn describe the changes of the Native American population from the 1820s to the 1840s in Chapter 7?

7. What does the author say of “natural antipathy” in Chapter 2?

8. How are the traditions and cultures of the Native American tribes described regarding their perception of women in Chapter 6?

9. Where did Christopher Columbus intend to travel when he “discovered” the Americas? Where does the author assert he actually landed in Chapter 1?

10. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?

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