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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What U.S. President authorized the Japanese American internment with Executive Order 9066?
(a) Andrew Jackson
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
(c) Martin Van Buren
(d) Woodrow Wilson

2. When did the Spanish-American War begin?
(a) May 15, 1829
(b) February 10, 1763
(c) June 30, 1892
(d) April 25, 1898

3. The People’s Party, or the “Populists” was a short-lived political party established in what year?
(a) 1911
(b) 1915
(c) 1891
(d) 1932

4. 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) Second-wave feminism
(b) Reverse feminism
(c) Cultural feminism
(d) Neo-feminism

5. When did the Cuban War of Independence take place?
(a) 1895-1898
(b) 1865-1870
(c) 1799-1815
(d) 1911-1915

6. The title of Chapter 17 comes from a line of the poem “Harlem” written by whom?
(a) Percy Shelley
(b) E. B. White
(c) Langston Hughes
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr

7. When was the American Railway Union founded?
(a) 1893
(b) 1899
(c) 1905
(d) 1911

8. During what years did Gerald Ford serve as President of the United States?
(a) 1965-1969
(b) 1977-1981
(c) 1974-1977
(d) 1973-1977

9. During the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States rose to what percentage?
(a) 25%
(b) 15%
(c) 20%
(d) 10%

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

11. What is the title of Chapter 15?
(a) Self-Help in Hard Times
(b) Robber Barons and Rebels
(c) War is the Health of the State
(d) The Socialist Challenge

12. What is the title of Chapter 14?
(a) War is the Health of the State
(b) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(c) Robber Barons and Rebels
(d) The Socialist Challenge

13. Eugene V. Debs ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States several times as a candidate for what political party?
(a) The Green Party
(b) The Democratic Party
(c) The Youth International Party
(d) The Socialist Party of America

14. Why does author Zinn make the argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unnecessary?
(a) Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not important cities to Japan
(b) Japan had already surrendered
(c) The U.S. government had more capable weapons to ensure the surrender of Japan
(d) The U.S. government knew the Japanese were considering surrender beforehand

15. In what year did Richard Nixon resign as President of the United States?
(a) 1981
(b) 1977
(c) 1969
(d) 1974

Short Answer Questions

1. For what utopian novel is Edward Bellamy most famous?

2. When did the Korean War take place?

3. What date, leading to the onset of the Great Depression, was known as “Black Tuesday”?

4. Who was the most important leader in the Knights of Labor?

5. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?

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