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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Martin Van Buren served as U.S. President during what years?
(a) 1861-1865
(b) 1837-1841
(c) 1845-1849
(d) 1911-1915

2. In Chapter 9, the author asserts that in 1790, there were 500,000 slaves in the U.S. How many slaves were there in 1860?
(a) 2 million
(b) 3 million
(c) 4 million
(d) 1 million

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) Reverse feminism
(c) Cultural feminism
(d) Second-wave feminism

4. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Fat Man
(b) Black Rocket
(c) Little Boy
(d) Blue Tear

5. When did the Philippine-American War take place?
(a) 1899-1902
(b) 1865-1870
(c) 1799-1815
(d) 1895-1898

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1619, how many blacks had already been transported from Africa to the Caribbean and South America to work as slaves, according to the author in Chapter 2?

2. The Iran-Contra affair involved the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran, which was to encourage the release of U.S. hostages then held where?

3. The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire comprised what side in World War I?

4. During what years did Jimmy Carter serve as President of the United States?

5. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?

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