1. What date, leading to the onset of the Great Depression, was known as “Black Tuesday”?
(a) December 12, 1930
(b) September 12, 1929
(c) October 29, 1929
(d) June 13, 1928

2. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?
(a) 32
(b) 5
(c) 25
(d) 18

3. Who wrote the book Unsafe at Any Speed?
(a) Augusto César Sandino
(b) Ralph Nader
(c) Jonathan Schell
(d) Daniel Berrigan

4. What name refers to female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States?
(a) The Lowell Mill Girls
(b) The Cupie Dolls
(c) The Sisters of Mercy
(d) The Molly Maguires

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?

2. Where was Mary Harris born?

3. When did the Winooski 44 protest outside of Senator Robert Stafford’s office?

4. When was Bill Clinton born?

5. When did the My Lai Massacre take place?

(see the answer key)

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