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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Richard Nixon resign as President of the United States?

2. When was the American Federation of Labor founded?

3. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in what year?

4. What term refers to a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Howard Zinn describe the increasing power of banks as a result of the Industrial Revolution in Chapter 13?

2. How had governments established order by 1877, according to the author in Chapter 11?

3. What does Howard Zinn criticize about the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam in Chapter 18?

4. What were the reasons for the period of American imperialism that began in the 1890s? Chapter 12?

5. How does Zinn describe the differences between the upper and lower classes regarding their trust in the government in Chapter 20?

6. What were the “Pentagon Papers”? How did these documents come to light?

7. What developments emerged to fight back against the growing power of corporations prior to World War I, according to the author in Chapter 13?

8. How does the author describe the position of women in society in the 1960s in Chapter 19?

9. How did World War I begin? How was the war perceived by the American Communist Party, according to the author in Chapter 16?

10. How does Zinn characterize the atmosphere of rebellion during the period of American imperialism in Chapter 13?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the period of the Great Depression and its impact as seen in urban and rural communities across the United States. How did the Great Depression influence migration from the Midwest to California? What was this period of migration known as? Do you think those who lived in urban or rural environments were affected more by the Depression? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the racial and class bias regarding those who were allowed to fight in the American Revolutionary War. Why did the Americans originally limit those who served to landowners? Why and when did this restriction change? Why did the Americans refuse to allow Native Americans or African slaves to participate in the war?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the chain of oppression in Jamestown and the other British colonies in the latter half of the 1600s. In the social hierarchy, where did women exist? Where were African slaves and Native Americans in the hierarchy? Who had the greatest economic control?

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