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1.) The first black baseball player in the Major Leagues was Jackie Robinson.       True       False 2.) Ponce de Leon went to Florida to seek the mythical fountain of youth.       True       False 3.) George Wallace was considered racist for saying, "I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two which . . . will probably forever forbid their living together, . . . and I am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position."       True       False 4.) White Americans forced roaming Indians to settle down and farm.       True       False 5.) Who Said the Following Quotation: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."       Abraham Lincoln       Karl Marx       Richard Nixon 6.) Who Said the Following Quotation: "It is above all to be remembered that the war did not originate with the North, but with the South. The North finds itself on the defensive."       Abraham Lincoln       Karl Marx       Richard Nixon 7.) Who Said the Following Quotation: "Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth, to see it like it is and to tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth and live with the truth."       Abraham Lincoln       Karl Marx       Richard Nixon 8.) Who were the first non-Native settlers in what is now the United States?       Vikings       Africans       English       Asians 9.) Who were the first "pilgrims" (escaping religious persecution in Europe) in what is now the United States?       Puritans       Jews       Catholics       Hindus 10.) When was the term "Pilgrims" first used for the early British settlers of Massachusetts?       1600s       1700s       1800s       1900s 11.) What was the population of the Americas in 1492?       1 million       10 million       50 million       100 million 12.) What percentage of the Native Americans of coastal New England was killed by a disease transmitted by Europeans and Africans three years before the Pilgrims landed?       0-25%       25-50%       50-75%       75-100% 13.) Which of these wars cost the most American lives in combat, as a proportion of the total population?       King Phillip's War       French and Indian War       American Revolution       War of 1812       Mexican War       Spanish-American War 14.) Which war cost the most lives in total numbers?       King Phillip's War       French and Indian War       American Revolution       War of 1812       Mexican War       Spanish-American War 15.) What western hemisphere people were quick to aid George Washington's forces in the American Revolution?       Haitians       Native Americans       Canadians       Mexicans       Mexican War       Spanish-American War 16.) Who segregated the federal government?       No one - it had always been segregated.       Abraham Lincoln in 1861       Ulysses S. Grant in 1871       Woodrow Wilson in 1913       Harry S. Truman in 1947 17.) Woodrow Wilson sent American troops into which of the following countries?       Cuba       Dominican Republic       Haiti       Mexico       Nicaragua       U.S.S.R.       Panama       All of the Above 18.) Which one statement about Christopher Columbus is true?       Most of his compatriots, like the scholars of the time, thought the world was flat.       He died never knowing he had "discovered" a new continent.       He and his men massacred and enslaved the Caribbean Indians.       He died alone and penniless. 19.) For how many years did the Norse visit North America?       1       2       6       50       350 20.) Which of these Americans could be considered a communist?       Helen Keller       Groucho Marx       John Brown       Henry David Thoreau       Rush Limbaugh 21.) Why did the Wilson Administration prosecute Robert Goldstein (and get him ten years in prison)?       For murder       For spying       For making a movie making the British look bad       For fraud 22.) How did Squanto learn English?       From White Settlers       As a slave in England       From a book he found       He didn't know English