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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Martin Van Buren served as U.S. President during what years?
(a) 1911-1915
(b) 1837-1841
(c) 1845-1849
(d) 1861-1865

2. When did the Haymarket affair take place in Chicago?
(a) February 2, 1826
(b) December 15, 1791
(c) May 4, 1886
(d) March 27, 1825

3. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?
(a) James Joyce
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) Henry David Thoreau
(d) Percy Shelley

4. Angela Davis emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of what political party?
(a) The Socialist Party of America
(b) The Democratic Party
(c) The Republican Party
(d) The Communist Party USA

5. The Third Seminole War began in what year?
(a) 1862
(b) 1901
(c) 1869
(d) 1855

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was James Polk born?

2. The Seminole people are originally from what current U.S. state?

3. Sam Davis was hung by a mob in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in what year?

4. In what year did Richard Nixon resign as President of the United States?

5. Who was the first president of South Vietnam , from 1955 to 1963?

(see the answer key)

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