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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. The title of Chapter 17 comes from a line of the poem “Harlem” written by whom?

2. What was Malcolm X’s birth name?

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

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

5. When did the U.S. drop an atomic bomb over Nagasaki?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What wars emerged as a result of American imperialism? How does the author describe these wars in Chapter 12?

3. When did the My Lai Massacre take place? How is this event described in Chapter 18?

4. How did the Industrial Revolution impact the common people, according to the author in Chapter 11?

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

6. How is the “Cold War” defined by the author in Chapter 16?

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

8. How does Howard Zinn describe the causes and effects of the Great Depression in Chapter 15?

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

10. How does the author describe the beginning of the feminist movement in Chapter 19?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Marshall Plan and its influences and repercussions. When did the plan begin operation? How much money did the United States provide to Europe in order to rebuild the economy and prevent the spread of Communism? Why did the United States see Communism as an ultimate threat?

Essay Topic 3

Examine and discuss the Seminole Wars, the policy of Indian removal, and the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. When was the Indian Removal Act signed into law? By whom? What were the effects of this act on the Native Americans living both east and west of the Mississippi?

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