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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What name refers to a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971, that employed chemical warfare?
(a) Operation Ranch Hand
(b) Operation Orange Agent
(c) Operation Sushi Chef
(d) Operation Eagle Landing

5. Where was Malcolm X born?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Omaha, Nebraska
(c) San Francisco, California
(d) Austin, Texas

6. The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on what date?
(a) June 30, 1892
(b) December 15, 1791
(c) March 27, 1825
(d) March 28, 1905

7. Who was the first president of South Vietnam , from 1955 to 1963?
(a) Ho Chi Minh
(b) Ngo Dinh Diem
(c) Kim Il Sung
(d) Mao Ze-Dong

8. The Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about how many people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States?
(a) 110,000
(b) 50,000
(c) 20,000
(d) 200,000

9. The Knights of Labor demanded a workday that consisted of how many hours?
(a) 12
(b) 6
(c) 5
(d) 8

10. The first of the Jim Crow laws was enacted in what year?
(a) 1863
(b) 1876
(c) 1901
(d) 1836

11. Vietnam Veterans Against the War began as a placard slogan in the staging area for the Spring Mobilization to End the War anti-war demonstration in what year?
(a) 1963
(b) 1969
(c) 1971
(d) 1967

12. When was the city of Hiroshima bombed by U.S. forces?
(a) June 13, 1946
(b) August 9, 1945
(c) August 6, 1945
(d) September 12, 1944

13. When did the U.S. drop an atomic bomb over Nagasaki?
(a) June 13, 1946
(b) August 6, 1945
(c) September 12, 1944
(d) August 9, 1945

14. What was the name of the alliance comprised of Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I?
(a) The Allies
(b) The Axis Powers
(c) NATO
(d) The Central Powers

15. What platoon leader in the Vietnam War was convicted of killing 22 villagers at My Lai and was originally given a life sentence but only served three and a half years under house arrest?
(a) John Whitmore
(b) William Berkeley
(c) Nathan Bacon
(d) William Calley

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does author Zinn make the argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unnecessary?

2. During the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States rose to what percentage?

3. Angela Davis emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of what political party?

4. What U.S. President authorized the Japanese American internment with Executive Order 9066?

5. What is Chapter 13’s title?

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