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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did President Harry S. Truman issue Executive Order 9981?
(a) 1865
(b) 1848
(c) 1899
(d) 1902

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

3. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?
(a) 1803
(b) 1799
(c) 1698
(d) 1819

4. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?
(a) Spices and silver
(b) Gold and spices
(c) Diamonds and gold
(d) Slaves and wheat

5. When was Ho Chi Minh born?
(a) 1935
(b) 1942
(c) 1890
(d) 1915

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?

2. The Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about how many people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States?

3. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

4. The Knights of Labor demanded a workday that consisted of how many hours?

5. What is the title of Chapter 15?

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