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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Strikes and More Strikes - Chapter 6: A Noble Experiment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month of 1919 was A. Mitchell Palmer appointed to the position of US attorney general?
(a) September.
(b) June.
(c) November.
(d) March.

2. Sandler points out that the battle for women to attain the right to vote was waged for over how many years before it was resolved?
(a) 10.
(b) 30.
(c) 50.
(d) 70.

3. In what year was the 15th Amendment ratified, granting black men the right to vote?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1910.

4. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?
(a) The Southeast.
(b) The East.
(c) The South.
(d) The West.

5. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?
(a) New York City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Detroit.

Short Answer Questions

1. President Woodrow Wilson made it clear to the nation that he felt in what way about the striking members of the Boston police force?

2. The largest-ever suffrage parade took place in what city in November of a particular year?

3. What is the title of the drawing created in 1915 that depicts "a torch-bearing woman" (38) striding across the United States?

4. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?

5. The "white press" in which area of the country in particular is described as having "made the situation much worse" (73) during the Red Summer?

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