1. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?
(a) The Nina
(b) The Santa Maria
(c) The Gallega
(d) The Pinta

2. When did the Cuban War of Independence take place?
(a) 1895-1898
(b) 1865-1870
(c) 1911-1915
(d) 1799-1815

3. Where was Amelia Bloomer born?
(a) Concord, Massachusetts
(b) Jamestown, Virginia
(c) Lexington, Kentucky
(d) Homer, New York

4. What is the title of Chapter 15?
(a) War is the Health of the State
(b) Robber Barons and Rebels
(c) The Socialist Challenge
(d) Self-Help in Hard Times

5. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?
(a) Emma Willard
(b) Betty Friedan
(c) Jimmy Carter
(d) Harriot Hunt

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

3. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?

4. The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire comprised what side in World War I?

5. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?

(see the answer key)

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