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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 term refers to a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations?
(a) Fascism
(b) Socialism
(c) Democracy
(d) Anarchism

2. When did the Korean War take place?
(a) 1950-1953
(b) 1956-1959
(c) 1962-1965
(d) 1944-1949

3. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?
(a) The Intimately Oppressed
(b) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(c) The Unreported Resistance
(d) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

4. The Seminole people are originally from what current U.S. state?
(a) Massachusetts
(b) Maine
(c) Florida
(d) Louisiana

5. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
(a) The Empire and the People
(b) The Unreported Resistance
(c) The Scarlet Letter
(d) The Speech of Polly Baker

Short Answer Questions

1. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?

2. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?

3. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?

4. When was the American Federation of Labor founded?

5. The Socialist Labor Party of America was established in what year as the Workingmen’s Party?

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