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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing that took place where?
(a) Reno, Nevada
(b) Los Angeles, California
(c) Albuquerque, New Mexico
(d) San Francisco, California

2. What trade does the author assert was largely responsible for the growth of slavery in the United States in Chapter 9?
(a) The cotton trade
(b) The coal trade
(c) The gold trade
(d) The hemp trade

3. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?
(a) 1923
(b) 1846
(c) 1862
(d) 1859

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

5. Who was elected president of the American Federation of Labor at its founding convention?
(a) Andrew Jackson
(b) Samuel Gompers
(c) Terence V. Powderly
(d) William Berkeley

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Mary Dyer executed?

2. What name refers to a 19th century secret society composed mainly of Irish and Irish-American coal miners?

3. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?

4. When was The Feminine Mystique published?

5. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?

(see the answer key)

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