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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. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in what year?
2. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?
3. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?
4. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?
5. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in Chapter 5? How successful were the Americans in the first battles?
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 is the Flour Riot of 1837 described in Chapter 10? What was the cause of the riot?
4. When and where did Dorr’s Rebellion occur? How does the author describe the surrounding circumstances of this event in Chapter 10?
5. What did Columbus discover when he returned to his fort at Navidad on his second journey, according to the author in Chapter 1? What did he take with him?
6. How does Howard Zinn describe the growth in the number of slaves in the United States between 1790 and 1860 in Chapter 9?
7. Where did Christopher Columbus intend to travel when he “discovered” the Americas? Where does the author assert he actually landed in Chapter 1?
8. How does the author describe history’s depiction of women in the beginning of Chapter 6?
9. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?
10. What positive qualities of the establishment of the United States does Zinn discuss in Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine and discuss the Seminole Wars, the policy of Indian removal, and the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. When was the Indian Removal Act signed into law? By whom? What were the effects of this act on the Native Americans living both east and west of the Mississippi?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss Sojourner Truth and her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech in Akron, Ohio. When did Sojourner Truth give this speech? How was it received? In what ways do you think Sojourner Truth influenced perceptions of women in society?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the racial and class bias regarding those who were allowed to fight in the American Revolutionary War. Why did the Americans originally limit those who served to landowners? Why and when did this restriction change? Why did the Americans refuse to allow Native Americans or African slaves to participate in the war?
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