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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The first of the Jim Crow laws was enacted in what year?
(a) 1901
(b) 1863
(c) 1876
(d) 1836
2. When was the American Federation of Labor founded?
(a) 1923
(b) 1886
(c) 1865
(d) 1908
3. The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on what date?
(a) December 15, 1791
(b) June 30, 1892
(c) March 27, 1825
(d) March 28, 1905
4. When was Ho Chi Minh born?
(a) 1935
(b) 1890
(c) 1915
(d) 1942
5. What is defined as an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means and production and cooperative management of the economy?
(a) Communism
(b) Fascism
(c) Socialism
(d) Anarchism
Short Answer Questions
1. What term refers to a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations?
2. The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict beginning in what year?
3. When did World War I begin?
4. For what utopian novel is Edward Bellamy most famous?
5. The Knights of Labor demanded a workday that consisted of how many hours?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Zinn describe the differences between the upper and lower classes regarding their trust in the government in Chapter 20?
2. How had governments established order by 1877, according to the author in Chapter 11?
3. How does the author describe the position of women in society in the 1960s in Chapter 19?
4. What quote of Randolph Bourne is discussed in Chapter 14? How does Zinn assert Bourne’s quote is correct?
5. What wars emerged as a result of American imperialism? How does the author describe these wars in Chapter 12?
6. What does Howard Zinn question about the motives of World War I in Chapter 16?
7. How does the author describe the government's campaign to destroy the IWW in Chapter 15?
8. What corruptions of the government are discussed by Howard Zinn in Chapter 20?
9. What movements worked to fight against the corruption of corporations and government during the Industrial Revolution, according to the author in Chapter 11?
10. What developments emerged to fight back against the growing power of corporations prior to World War I, according to the author in Chapter 13?
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