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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is defined as an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means and production and cooperative management of the economy?
(a) Anarchism
(b) Socialism
(c) Communism
(d) Fascism

2. Eugene V. Debs ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States several times as a candidate for what political party?
(a) The Socialist Party of America
(b) The Green Party
(c) The Democratic Party
(d) The Youth International Party

3. 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?
(a) The Jackson compromise
(b) The Kentucky compromise
(c) The Jim Crow compromise
(d) The Atlanta compromise

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

5. What name refers to a 19th century secret society composed mainly of Irish and Irish-American coal miners?
(a) The Black Underground
(b) The Lowell Mill Girls
(c) The Cupie Dolls
(d) The Molly Maguires

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. drop an atomic bomb over Nagasaki?

2. The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing that took place where?

3. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?

4. When did the Antinomian Controversy take place?

5. When did the Mexican-American War take place?

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