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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Socialist Labor Party of America was established in what year as the Workingmen’s Party?
(a) 1788
(b) 1915
(c) 1876
(d) 1811

2. 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) 200,000
(b) 50,000
(c) 20,000
(d) 110,000

3. 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) 4 million
(b) 2 million
(c) 1 million
(d) 3 million

4. 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 Socialist Party of America
(c) The Democratic Party
(d) The Youth International Party

5. 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) William Calley
(b) Nathan Bacon
(c) William Berkeley
(d) John Whitmore

Short Answer Questions

1. Sam Davis was hung by a mob in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in what year?

2. Who signed into law the Espionage Act of 1917?

3. COINTELPRO is an acronym for what?

4. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?

5. When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after inadvertently landing in the Americas, he told the Queen and King of Spain that he had reached Asia and an island off of China. In reality, Columbus had traveled to what currently-known locations?

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