1.       In his lifetime Karl Marx supported one U.S. president.  That president was

a.       Andrew Jackson

b.      James K. Polk

c.       Abraham Lincoln

d.      Rutherford B. Hayes

2.       Marx believed that  a socialist movement would develop rapidly in the U.S. once

a.       Socialists had taken over the Democratic party

b.      All Western lands had been taken from the native peoples

c.       The Confederacy won the civil war

d.      Slavery had been abolished and the slaveholders destroyed as a class

3.       Marx believed that socialism would triumph in the U.S. sooner rather than later than in many other nations because

a.       The U.S. had no history of feudalism to retard capitalist development

b.      The U.S. had already had a revolution establishing a republic

c.       The U.S was developing industry rapidly after the Civil War

d.       All of the above

4.       In his optimism about the development of socialism in the U.S., Marx underestimated

a.       The high level of equality that capitalism produced in the U.S.

b.      the function of religious and ethnic  division and, most of all, racism, in dividing the working class

c.       the willingness of the capitalist class to support social reforms

d.      the fact that the workers were happy with capitalism

5.       The first Americans who identified with Marx’s developing philosophy, later called Marxism, were

a.       Predominantly German speaking refugees from the Revolutions of 1848

b.      Escaped slaves before the civil war

c.       Irish refugees from the famine of the late 1840s