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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?
2. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?
3. When did the Antinomian Controversy take place?
4. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?
5. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do we know the details of Christopher Columbus’s first encounter with the Arawak people? How does the author describe Columbus’s views of the people in Chapter 1?
2. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?
3. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?
4. How does Howard Zinn describe the growth in the number of slaves in the United States between 1790 and 1860 in Chapter 9?
5. How does Howard Zinn describe the changes of the Native American population from the 1820s to the 1840s in Chapter 7?
6. Where did Christopher Columbus intend to travel when he “discovered” the Americas? Where does the author assert he actually landed in Chapter 1?
7. How does the author describe history’s depiction of women in the beginning of Chapter 6?
8. How does the author describe the uprisings in Kentucky and other colonies in 1760 in Chapter 4?
9. What does the author say of “natural antipathy” in Chapter 2?
10. How does the author describe Virginia’s “chain of oppression” in Chapter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the causes and effects of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. What policy changes were enacted as a result of the movement? When did desegregation take place? What contributions to the movement were made by Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, the Communist Party, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Freedom Riders, and the Black Panther Party?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the different methods employed by labor unions, political parties, and advocacy groups during the nineteenth century in order to evoke change. What methods were most effective? What methods of protest are still used today? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss Nathaniel Bacon and the Bacon Rebellion. What were the causes of the rebellion? How many settlers, Native Americans, and African slaves were killed in the rebellion? How did the aftermath of the rebellion impact governance in the colonies and the relationship between the colonists and the British crown?
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