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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Catharine Beecher born?
(a) 1815
(b) 1698
(c) 1800
(d) 1752

2. What term refers to the period of feminist activity that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world?
(a) Neo-feminism
(b) Second-wave feminism
(c) Cultural feminism
(d) Reverse feminism

3. Who signed into law the Espionage Act of 1917?
(a) Andrew Jackson
(b) Martin Van Buren
(c) Woodrow Wilson
(d) James Polk

4. The First Seminole War began in 1814 and lasted until what year?
(a) 1901
(b) 1825
(c) 1819
(d) 1830

5. When did World War I begin?
(a) March 27, 1925
(b) September 15, 1900
(c) July 28, 1914
(d) August 12, 1898

Short Answer Questions

1. What date, leading to the onset of the Great Depression, was known as “Black Tuesday”?

2. In what year did President Harry S. Truman issue Executive Order 9981?

3. When was the American Railway Union founded?

4. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

5. Martin Van Buren served as U.S. President during what years?

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