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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christopher Columbus first encountered the Lucayan-Arawak Indians in a location known now as what?
(a) Australia
(b) The Bahamas
(c) Peru
(d) New England

2. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by what U.S. President?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) James Polk
(d) Martin Van Buren

3. 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) Reverse feminism
(d) Cultural feminism

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 19?
(a) Surprises
(b) Self-Help in Hard Times
(c) Or Does It Explode
(d) War is the Health of the State

Short Answer Questions

1. What name refers to a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971, that employed chemical warfare?

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

3. The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and lasted until when?

4. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?

5. The first of the Jim Crow laws was enacted in what year?

(see the answer key)

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