American Civilization
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Course Introduction
American Civilization explores the major themes, events, and cultural developments that have shaped the United States from its pre-colonial roots to the present day. The course examines the evolution of American society through topics such as indigenous cultures, colonization, revolution, slavery, expansion, social reform, industrialization, and major political movements. Students will analyze significant figures and key moments in U.S. history, as well as the nations ongoing struggles and achievements related to democracy, diversity, and identity. By drawing on historical documents, literature, art, and current issues, the course provides a comprehensive understanding of what constitutes American civilization and its influence on the world.
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Q1) ____ Asia
Answer: 9
Q2) Which of the following mountain ranges was probably created before the continental separation,approximately 350 million years ago?
A) The Rockies
B) The Sierra Nevada
C) The Cascades
D) The Coast Range
E) The Appalachians
Answer: E
Q3) ____ Portugal
Answer: 4
Q4) Among the more highly developed Native American (Indian)cultures of North America were the
A) Mound Builders.
B) Iroquois.
C) Pueblos.
D) Creeks.
E) Incas.
Answer: A,B,C,D,E
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Q1) The native peoples of Virginia (Powhatans)succumbed to the Europeans because they
A) died in large numbers from European diseases.
B) lacked the unity necessary to resist the well-organized whites.
C) were no longer a resource for food once the Virginians began growing their own crops.
D) were not a reliable labor source and could be disposed of without harming the colonial economy.
E) All of these
Answer: E
Q2) The Virginia Charter guaranteed that English settlers in the New World would
A) receive land parcels of 40 acres each.
B) enjoy freedom of religion.
C) be entitled to establish a separate government from that of England.
D) retain the rights of Englishmen.
E) conduct trade only with England and those countries approved by the British government.
Answer: D
Q3) ____ Maryland
Answer: 8
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) In what ways was the Mayflower Compact a genuine step toward self-government?
Answer: The Mayflower Compact was a genuine step toward self-government in several ways. First, it was a voluntary agreement among the Pilgrims to create a government and abide by its laws, demonstrating their willingness to govern themselves rather than be ruled by a higher authority. Second, it established the idea of majority rule, as the signers agreed to make decisions by the will of the majority. This laid the foundation for democratic decision-making and representation in future governance. Additionally, the Compact emphasized the importance of creating laws for the general good of the colony, showing a commitment to the common welfare and the idea of a social contract between the people and their government. Overall, the Mayflower Compact set a precedent for self-governance and democratic principles that would influence the development of government in the New World.
Q2) In Puritan doctrine,the "elect" were also referred to as
A) Separatists.
B) "patroons."
C) "visible saints."
D) Pilgrims.
E) Anglicans.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
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Q1) During the Salem witchcraft trials,most of those accused as witches were
A) property-owning women.
B) from the ranks of poor families.
C) primarily un-Christian.
D) women in their late teen years.
E) from subsistence farming families.
Q2) Write your definition of racism.Then use this definition to argue that the origin of slavery in colonial America was or was not primarily the result of English racism.
Q3) freedom dues
Q4) Assess the extent to which distinctions of wealth and status were widening or narrowing as the seventeenth century drew to a close? Why?
Q5) Write your definition of mass hysteria.Then use this definition to argue that the Salem witchcraft episode was or was not a simple case of mass hysteria.
Q6) William Bradford
Q7) jeremiads
Q8) conversions
Q9) Bacon's Rebellion
Q10) headright system Page 6
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Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) ____ Rum
Q2) Benjamin Franklin
A) was the author of Poor Richard's Almanack.
B) celebrated the virtues of thrift, hard work, and common sense.
C) was a severe critic of the Great Awakening.
D) was John Peter Zenger's defense lawyer.
E) was a scientist.
Q3) praying towns
Q4) The Molasses Act of 1733 was intended to
A) stimulate the colonies' triangle trade with Africa and the West Indies.
B) satisfy colonial demands for earning foreign exchange money.
C) inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies.
D) increase the colonists' standard of living and protect the livelihood of colonial merchants.
E) require Americans to sell their molasses to British merchants.
Q5) Phillis Wheatley
Q6) Anglicans
Q7) John Trumbull
Q8) Benjamin Franklin
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Q9) ____ Sugar and molasses
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Chapter 6: The Duel for North America,1608-1763
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Q1) Acadians
Q2) The population in Catholic New France grew very slowly because
A) French peasants had no economic motive to move to the colonies.
B) the Protestant Huguenots refused to move there.
C) the French government was more concerned with its South American colonies.
D) disease took a heavy toll on New France's inhabitants.
E) of constant attacks by the Huron Indians.
Q3) What was the Proclamation of 1763-how was it viewed by America and how was it viewed by England? What caused this difference in perception?
Q4) The Indians suffered from their association with the French in New France in all of the following ways except
A) exclusion from the fur business.
B) decimation of their numbers by the white man's diseases.
C) violation of their religious beliefs about slaughtering animals.
D) debauchery by the white man's alcohol.
E) weakening of their traditional way of life.
Q5) Louisbourg
Q6) Why did the Ohio Valley become the arena of conflict between the French and British in America?
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) Benjamin Franklin
Q2) King George III
Q3) The Quebec Act was especially unpopular in the American colonies because it did all of the following except
A) turn an extensive amount of territory over to Catholic control.
B) affect many colonies, not just Massachusetts.
C) deny the French the right to retain many of their old customs.
D) alarm land speculators, who saw a huge area snatched from their grasp.
E) set a dangerous precedent against jury trials.
Q4) The most drastic measure of the Intolerable Acts was the A) Quartering Act.
B) Quebec Act.
C) Sugar Act.
D) Courts Act.
E) Boston Port Act.
Q5) The Association
Q6) What does the phrase point of no return mean to you? Identify that point in colonial-British relations between 1760 and 1776 and explain why you picked that event/date.
Q7) Edmund Burke
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Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) ____ Ticonderoga
Q2) American colonists had experience with republicanism
A) only after the Revolution was over.
B) in New England town meetings.
C) in the committees of correspondence.
D) but turned to representative democracy.
E) but rejected it for democracy.
Q3) Hessians
Q4) The British decided to negotiate an end to the Revolutionary War because
A) they were crushed by the failure of their army at Yorktown.
B) there were indications that the Americans might settle for peace terms short of complete independence.
C) they were suffering heavy military losses against the French and Spanish elsewhere.
D) the new British ministry now in power was more pro-American.
E) the French wanted the war to continue.
Q5) natural aristocracy
Q6) Ethan Allen
Q7) ____ Saratoga
Q8) ____ Bunker Hill
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) Why didn't the leaders of the American Revolution extend their spirit of equality to the abolition of slavery and giving women the right to vote?
Q2) Early signs of the abolitionist movement can be seen in the A) Articles of Confederation.
B) Constitution.
C) emancipation of some slaves.
D) passage of laws allowing interracial marriage.
E) abolition of slavery in a few southern states.
Q3) "mobocracy"
Q4) civic virtue
Q5) By their actions,the delegates to the Constitutional Convention manifested their common beliefs in all of the following except
A) government by the consent of the governed.
B) checks and balances in government.
C) manhood-suffrage democracy.
D) the sanctity of private property.
E) a stronger central government.
Q6) Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom
Q7) Thomas Jefferson
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Q1) XYZ affair
Q2) Henry Knox
Q3) All of the following are accurate descriptions of the young American nation except
A) its population was still about 90 percent rural, despite the flourishing cities.
B) the first official census of 1790 recorded almost 4 million people.
C) all but 5 percent of the people lived east of the Appalachian Mountains.
D) most of the population lived in the eastern seaboard cities.
E) foreign visitors looked down at the roughness and crudity of the pioneering life.
Q4) Thomas Jefferson favored a political system in which
A) the central government possessed the bulk of the power.
B) cities were the primary focus of political activity.
C) a large standing army ensured peace.
D) the states retained the majority of political power.
E) manufacturing interests dominated.
Q5) Which sectional and economic groups generally supported the Federalists and which the Democratic-Republicans? Why?
Q6) ____ Tennessee
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11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) Sally Hemings
Q2) As chief justice of the United States,John Marshall helped to ensure that
A) states' rights were protected.
B) the programs of Alexander Hamilton were overturned.
C) the political and economic systems were based on a strong central government.
D) both the Supreme Court and the president could rule a law unconstitutional.
E) Aaron Burr was convicted of treason.
Q3) To guard American shores,Thomas Jefferson
A) built a fleet of frigates.
B) constructed coastal fortifications.
C) constructed two hundred tiny gunboats.
D) signed a peace treaty with Great Britain.
E) enlisted the aid of France.
Q4) After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel,Aaron Burr
A) fled to France.
B) fled to England.
C) was arrested and found guilty of murder.
D) was arrested and found innocent of murder.
E) plotted to divide the United States.
Q5) Chesapeake incident
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) sectionalism
Q2) To what extent had John Quincy Adam's behavior during the Florida Purchase Treaty and the Monroe Doctrine earned him the title of the "lone-wolf nationalist"?
Q3) By 1814,the British strategy included all of the following except
A) invading New York.
B) invading the Chesapeake Bay area.
C) invading the Delaware and Hudson Valleys.
D) blockading the Atlantic coast.
E) invading New Orleans and the Mississippi Valley.
Q4) ____ Maine
Q5) Ohio fever
Q6) Britain opposed Spain's reestablishing its authority in Latin American countries that had successfully revolted because
A) Britain had now allied itself with France.
B) Britain had great sympathy toward democratic revolutions.
C) the United States had asked for such a policy.
D) the ports of these nations were now open to lucrative trade.
E) it wanted to take control of these nations.
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Q7) protective tariff
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by
A) supporting Henry Clay.
B) using smear tactics.
C) forcing the election into the House of Representatives.
D) emphasizing personality over issues.
E) outspending their opponents.
Q2) William Henry Harrison,the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840,was
A) a true "common man."
B) a very effective chief executive.
C) made to look like a poor western farmer.
D) born in a log cabin.
E) the first military officer to become president.
Q3) The purpose behind the spoils system was
A) to press those with experience into governmental service.
B) to make politics a sideline and not a full-time business.
C) to reward political supporters with public office.
D) to reverse the trend of rotation in office.
E) the widespread encouragement of a bureaucratic office-holding class.
Q4) South Carolina Exposition
Q5) Force Bill
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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860
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Q1) Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants
A) were poor.
B) were thought to love alcohol.
C) were Roman Catholic.
D) frequently became police officers.
E) were slow to learn English.
Q2) By 1850,America's factory system was producing
A) textiles.
B) boots and shoes.
C) firearms.
D) steel.
E) sewing machines.
Q3) Cyrus McCormick
Q4) ____ Pennsylvania Canal
Q5) Clermont
Q6) Commonwealth v.Hunt
Q7) General Incorporation Law
Q8) ____ Cumberland Road
Q9) clipper ships
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) Millerites
Q2) A genuinely American literature received a strong boost from the A) wave of nationalism that followed the War of 1812.
B) writing of Charles Wilson Peale.
C) religious writings of the Second Great Awakening.
D) federal support for the arts.
E) literary theories of Edgar Allan Poe.
Q3) American transcendentalist writers included
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B) Henry David Thoreau.
C) James Fenimore Cooper.
D) Angelina Grimke.
E) Margaret Fuller.
Q4) Transcendentalists were dedicated to
A) individualism.
B) self-reliance.
C) respect for authority.
D) conventional wisdom.
E) political activism.
Q5) Noah Webster
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) In society's basement in the South of 1860 were nearly ____ million black human chattels.
A) 1
B) 2
C) 4
D) 8
E) 10
Q2) The Liberator
Q3) Arrange the following in chronological order: the founding of the (A)American Colonization Society,(B)American Anti-Slavery Society,and (C)Liberty party.
A) A, B, C
B) C, A, B
C) B, C, A
D) A, C, B
E) C, B, A
Q4) David Walker
Q5) Theodore Dwight Weld
Q6) Sojourner Truth
Q7) oligarchy
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) During an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain
A) the United States stayed neutral in word and action.
B) the United States imprisoned several American violators of neutrality.
C) America was unlawfully invaded by the British.
D) Canada warned the United States to stay out of the conflict.
E) the U.S. government plotted to annex Canada.
Q2) Zachary Taylor
Q3) Was there any validity to the charge that the Texas annexation and Mexican War were attempts to expand slavery? Why or why not?
Q4) "conscience" Whigs
Q5) Bear Flag revolt
Q6) Compare and contrast President Polk's willingness to go to war against Mexico over Texas but not against Britain over Oregon.
Q7) Write your definition of national interest.Then use this definition to argue that the Webster-Ashburton Treaty or the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo did or did not serve the national interests of the United States.
Q8) David Wilmot
Q9) Walker Tariff
Q10) William Henry Harrison
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) Compare and contrast the views of Clay,Webster,and Calhoun in the congressional debate that produced the Compromise of 1850.
Q2) The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession
A) threatened to split national politics along North-South lines.
B) nearly resulted in the return of the territory to Mexico.
C) resulted in the formation of the Republican party.
D) resulted in strong hostility to further expansionism.
E) caused clashes between proslavery and antislavery settlers in California.
Q3) Of those people going to California during the gold rush
A) the majority had come from foreign nations.
B) slaves constituted a sizable minority.
C) the majority gained considerable financial rewards.
D) most were interested in free-soil farming.
E) a distressingly high proportion were lawless men.
Q4) One of Stephen Douglas's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was
A) not securing the transcontinental railroad for the North.
B) overestimating the protest to the bill.
C) allowing slavery to spread into new territory.
D) underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery.
E) believing that slavery could not survive in Kansas.
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) John Brown's execution produced all of the following results except
A) Harriet Tubman praised Brown's support of freedom for slaves.
B) abolitionists and free-soilers were outraged.
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson and other northerners hailed him as a martyr, much like Jesus.
D) Southerners wondered how they could stay in the Union.
E) Brown's bloody past prior to the Harper's Ferry raid was exposed and he was discredited.
Q2) The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas
A) be free of all slavery.
B) hold a popular referendum on slavery.
C) be controlled by the free-soilers if approved.
D) allow slavery but prohibit slave auctions.
E) protect slave owners already in Kansas.
Q3) When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election,people in South Carolina
A) waited to see how other southern states would act.
B) were very upset because they would have to secede from the Union.
C) vowed to give their loyalty to Stephen Douglas.
D) rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede.
E) accepted the democratic process and vowed to support Lincoln.
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q1) To achieve its independence,the Confederacy had to A) invade the Union.
B) win a decisive military victory on its own soil.
C) fight the invading Union army to a draw.
D) attract more talented military commanders.
E) capture Washington, D.C.
Q2) Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery
A) came as a disappointment to most Northerners and demoralized the Union.
B) revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies.
C) caused some seceded states to rejoin the Union.
D) contradicted the campaign promises of the Republican party.
E) cost him support in the Butternut region of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Q3) Of all the hardships faced by the soldiers during the Civil War,the greatest was
A) starvation.
B) disease.
C) decline of moral standards.
D) lack of proper clothing.
E) constant fighting.
Q4) Charles Francis Adams
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it
A) inflated an already dangerous overconfidence among Southerners.
B) ended Lee's plan of invading the North.
C) delayed Lincoln's plan to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
D) ensured the reelection of President Lincoln.
E) probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy.
Q2) Monitor
Q3) In the l864 election,the Democratic party nominated ____ to oppose Lincoln's reelection.
A) George McClellan
B) Ulysses S. Grant
C) Andrew Johnson
D) Clement C. Vallandigham
E) Horace Greeley
Q4) John Wilkes Booth
Q5) ____ Antietam
Q6) George B.Meade
Q7) Emancipation Proclamation
Q8) Copperheads
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877
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Q1) Among the legacies of the Reconstruction effort were
A) a national commitment to civil rights for all races in America.
B) establishment of economic and political guarantees for southern blacks.
C) a long-term eclipse of Republican party strength in southern states.
D) perpetuation of the ideas of states' rights and local self-government under the Constitution.
E) a sense of resentment and grievance among white southerners.
Q2) Reconstruction Act
Q3) Radical Republicans have been both credited with having high ideals and accused of crass partisanship as motives for their Reconstruction policies.Which argument do you find more persuasive? Why?
Q4) The Fourteenth Amendment is commonly referred to as one of the most important additions to the Constitution.Why?
Q5) Assess the achievements and shortcomings of "radical" regimes in the South.What did they do that is worth admiring and worth condemning? What else might they have done to better achieve their goals?
Q6) Oliver O.Howard
Q7) scalawags
Q8) Thaddeus Stevens
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q1) President Cleveland's hostility to silver and silver-backed currency was driven primarily by his fear that
A) the growing drain of gold from the U.S. Treasury would force the United States off the gold standard.
B) the unlimited supplies of silver within the United States would create runaway inflation. C) supporting silver would play into the hands of radical Democrats like William Jennings Bryan.
D) soon gold and silver would both be replaced by strictly paper currency.
E) the U.S. Treasury did not have sufficient capacity to store silver bullion at Fort Knox.
Q2) James A.Garfield
Q3) Winfield S.Hancock
Q4) Chinese Exclusion Act
Q5) grandfather clause
Q6) William Belknap
Q7) Jim Crow
Q8) Samuel Tilden
Q9) spoils system
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) rebate
Q2) James Buchanan Duke
Q3) Women were drawn into industry by
A) the promise of wages on par with those of men.
B) inventions like the typewriter and telephone switchboard.
C) economic downturns, which hit rural families hardest.
D) the lure of city life.
E) All of these
Q4) John P.Altgeld
Q5) Cornelius Vanderbilt
Q6) The ____ Amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state governments.
A) Fifth
B) Fourteenth
C) Fifteenth
D) Sixteenth
E) Seventeenth
Q7) American Tobacco Company
Q8) Bessemer process
Q9) standard time zones
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q1) How did the new urban forms of sports and recreation reflect both the greater opportunities and the greater stresses of big-city life?
Q2) During industrialization,Americans increasingly
A) had less free time.
B) outlawed cruel and violent sports like boxing.
C) became less involved in physical sports and games.
D) shared a common and standardized popular culture.
E) fragmented into diverse consumer markets.
Q3) A bird of passage was an immigrant who
A) passed quickly from eastern ports to the Midwest or West.
B) only passed through America on the way to Canada.
C) came to the United States looking for a wife.
D) came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe.
E) flew from job to job.
Q4) James Naismith
Q5) Florence Kelley
Q6) Explain the statement that the late-nineteenth-century cities "grew up,out,and apart." Had you been alive at the time,what might have attracted you to the city? What might have caused you to stay there or to go back "down on the farm"?
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Chapter
Revolution,1865-1896
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Q1) Dingley Tariff bill
Q2) Was the reservation system inherently flawed from the beginning,or might it have worked if the federal government had enabled the Indians to keep more and better land and had treated them more fairly?
Q3) James B.Weaver
Q4) Nez Percé
Q5) The nineteenth-century humanitarians who advocated kind treatment of the Indians
A) had no more respect for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them.
B) advocated allowing the Ghost Dance to continue.
C) opposed passage of the Dawes Act.
D) understood the value of the Indians' religious and cultural practices.
E) advocated improving the reservation system.
Q6) Oliver H.Kelley
Q7) Dodge City,Kansas
Q8) "Gold Bugs"
Q9) Marcus Alonzo Hanna
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Q10) Why were the conflicts between federal and state military forces and western Indian tribes exceptionally bitter and cruel?
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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Q2) Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that
A) free trade was essential to a nation's economic health.
B) control of the sea was the key to world domination.
C) the United States should continue its policy of isolationism.
D) the United States should immediately build an isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
E) the United States should construct a fleet of battleships.
Q3) The United States gained a perpetual lease on the Panama Canal Zone in the
A) Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty.
B) Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.
C) Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.
D) Gentlemen's Agreement.
E) Teller Amendment.
Q4) In what sense might the original public demand for intervention in Cuba be said to reflect traditional American idealism and anti-imperialism? How did that idealistic crusade end up leading to America's first major imperialistic ventures?
Q5) William Randolph Hearst
Q6) "twisting the lion's tail"
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican
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Q2) Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was inspired by the publication of
A) Theodore Dreiser's The Titan.
B) Jack London's The Call of the Wild.
C) Henry Demarest Lloyd's Wealth Against Commonwealth.
D) Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives.
E) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Q3) Henry Demarest Lloyd
Q4) Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Q5) The western preservationists suffered their worst political setback when
A) California refused to control suburban sprawl into fragile mountain and desert areas.
B) private developers were allowed to cut off public access to the Pacific Coast beaches.
C) the city of Los Angeles built canals to bring water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
D) the Yosemite National Park was opened to motor vehicles.
E) California's Hetch Hetchy Valley was dammed to supply water to San Francisco.
Q6) General Federation of Women's Clubs
Q7) Jacob Riis
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Q2) William Jennings Bryan
Q3) As governor of New Jersey,Woodrow Wilson established a record as a
A) mild conservative.
B) reactionary.
C) man who could readily work with Democratic party bosses.
D) social radical.
E) passionate reformer.
Q4) One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it
A) opened new markets in Germany and Austria-Hungary. B) suffered severe business losses.
C) conducted an immense amount of trade with the Allies.
D) turned more of its economic activity toward Latin America and Asia.
E) virtually ended American international trade.
Q5) Federal Farm Loan Act
Q6) Clayton Act
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Q7) What were the most important of Wilson's progressive reforms? Was Wilson actually a more effective progressive than Theodore Roosevelt? Why or why not?
Q8) Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) Summarize the impact of American participation in World War I on the national economy,civil liberties,and public attitudes.
Q2) The World War I military draft
A) generally worked fairly and effectively to provide military manpower.
B) caused widespread resistance and riots.
C) permitted men to purchase substitutes to go in their place.
D) included women as well as men.
E) was not as fair as the Civil War draft.
Q3) Do you agree with the text authors that Wilson's high-minded appeal to turn World War I into a "crusade" for democracy and peace "worked perhaps too well"? Why or why not?
Q4) collective security
Q5) Fourteen Points
Q6) The Germans were heavily demoralized by
A) the United States' military performance.
B) their defeat at the Battle of Meuse-Argonne.
C) the United States' unlimited troop reserves.
D) Russia's entry into the war.
E) American propaganda.
Q7) League of Nations
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Chapter 31: American Life in the "Roaring
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Q2) Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from A) women.
B) immigrants and big-city residents.
C) westerners and southerners.
D) businesspeople and labor leaders.
E) evangelical Protestants.
Q3) Sherwood Anderson
Q4) Bolshevik revolution
Q5) Amos 'n' Andy
Q6) Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of A) increased migration of blacks to the North.
B) the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans.
C) a desire to rid the country of the quota system.
D) the desire to halt immigration from Latin America.
E) growing concern about urban overcrowding and crime.
Q7) Zora Neale Hurston
Q8) Lindbergh Law
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932
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Q2) steel strike of 1919
Q3) Charles R.Forbes
Q4) Many historians now believe that Herbert Hoover has been unfairly maligned as the villain of the Great Depression.What blame,if any,does Hoover deserve for the economic collapse and the suffering of the public? Why does the text state that Hoover was caught "on the horns of a cruel dilemma"?
Q5) At the 1921-1922 Washington Conference,the major signatories agreed to A) limit the size of their naval forces.
B) fortify their Far East possessions.
C) preserve the status quo in the Pacific.
D) abandon the Open Door policy in China.
E) prevent Japanese expansion in Asia.
Q6) The nonbusiness group that realized the most significant,lasting gains from World War I was
A) labor.
B) blacks.
C) the Ku Klux Klan.
D) women.
E) veterans.
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939
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Q1) Cite evidence to demonstrate that "the most damning indictment of the New Deal was that it failed to cure the Depression." Then cite achievements of value that the New Deal did in fact accomplish.
Q2) Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was most notable for A) ending the Great Depression.
B) providing moderate social reform without radical revolution or reactionary fascism. C) undermining state and local governments.
D) aiding big cities at the expense of farmers.
E) attacking the American capitalist system.
Q3) parity
Q4) Eleanor Roosevelt was especially notable as an advocate for A) women.
B) the environment.
C) minorities.
D) cities.
E) the poor and deprived.
Q5) Is it accurate to say that Franklin Roosevelt should actually be regarded as a savior of the capitalist system and a hero to American business? Why or why not?
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q1) From 1925 to 1940,the transition of American policy on arms sales to warring nations followed this sequence
A) embargo to lend-lease to cash-and-carry.
B) cash-and-carry to lend-lease to embargo.
C) lend-lease to cash-and-carry to embargo.
D) embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease.
E) lend-lease to embargo to cash-and-carry.
Q2) Kristallnacht
Q3) Assess President Roosevelt's conduct of American foreign policy after 1935.When and why did he move from isolationism to interventionism in the European war? Do you think that he purposely led the United States into war? Why or why not?
Q4) President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy
A) lowered tariffs to increase trade.
B) encouraged trade only with Latin America.
C) continued the policy that had persisted since the Civil War.
D) was reversed only after World War II.
E) sought protection for key U.S. industries.
Q5) America First Committee
Q6) "China incident"
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Chapter 35: America in World War II,1941-1945
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Q1) Until spring 1943,perhaps Hitler's greatest opportunities of defeating Britain and winning the war was
A) the possibility of a successful invasion across the English Channel.
B) that German U-boat would destroy Allied shipping.
C) the defeatism of pro-fascist elements within upper-class British society.
D) that General Rommel would conquer Egypt and the Suez Canal.
E) that the American-British-Soviet alliance would collapse.
Q2) In waging war against Japan,the United States relied mainly on a strategy of
A) heavy bombing from Chinese air bases.
B) invading Japanese strongholds in Southeast Asia.
C) fortifying China by transporting supplies from India over the Himalayan hump.
D) island hopping across the South Pacific while bypassing Japanese strongholds.
E) turning the Japanese flanks in New Guinea and Alaska.
Q3) Once at war,America's first great challenge was to
A) pass a conscription law.
B) raise an army and navy.
C) extend aid to the Soviet Union.
D) develop atomic weapons.
E) retool its industry for all-out war production.
Q4) George S.Patton
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Q2) Douglas MacArthur
Q3) ____ South Sakhalin Island
Q4) ____ Estonia
Q5) thirty-eighth parallel
Q6) Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
Q7) NSC-68 called for
A) the invasion of North Korea by United Nations troops.
B) a blockade of the China coast and bombing of Manchuria.
C) a program of spying on the Soviet Union.
D) the reorganization of the Defense Department.
E) a massive increase in military spending.
Q8) Benjamin Spock
Q9) Compare and contrast America's anticommunist containment policy in Europe and in East Asia.Why was the policy more successful in Europe than in Asia?
Q10) "containment doctrine"
Q11) Nuremberg trials
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Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960
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Q2) The 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine empowered the president to extend economic and military aid to nations of ____ that wanted help to resist communist aggression.
A) Southeast Asia
B) Africa
C) Central and Eastern Europe
D) the Middle East
E) Latin America
Q3) The Lonely Crowd
Q4) Nikita Khrushchev
Q5) In response to a supposed Soviet threat to Middle Eastern oil,the American Central Intelligence Agency in 1953
A) began seeking alternative sources of energy.
B) staged a coup to overthrow the Iranian government and install Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi as dictator-like monarch.
C) engaged in sabotage against pro-Soviet governments in the region.
D) developed close cooperation with Israeli intelligence agencies.
E) gathered conclusive evidence of the Soviets' plans to control Egypt.
Q6) McCarthyism
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Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968
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Q1) President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the A) Great Crusade.
B) Fair Deal.
C) New Frontier.
D) Johnson Revolution.
E) Great Society.
Q2) Lyndon Johnson gained strong support for federal aid to education by
A) making sure that the funds would flow primarily to needy students.
B) guaranteeing that no aid would be given to Catholic schools.
C) sidestepping the controversy over parochial schools by channeling aid directly to students.
D) focusing on improving educational quality rather than racial integration.
E) directing funds toward higher education only.
Q3) Lyndon B.Johnson
Q4) Viet Cong
Q5) Which of the 1960s liberation movements were most significant and enduring? How did African Americans,young whites,Hispanics,workers,women,and gays each experience the sixties differently?
Q6) Beat poets
Q7) "hawks" and "doves"
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Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980
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Q1) In response to Congress's attempt to stop him from continuing the bombing of Cambodia,President Nixon
A) began using secret agents to intimidate members of Congress.
B) gradually reduced the number of bombing raids.
C) shifted the bombing campaign to Laos.
D) declared that he was stopping the bombing but continued the campaign secretly.
E) repeatedly vetoed Congress's bills to halt the attacks.
Q2) Title IX
Q3) How did the Vietnam War end? Why did it end this way? In what way had the United States "in the technical sense ...not lost the war" but "lost more than a war"?
Q4) Vietnamization
Q5) While president,Jimmy Carter
A) called for the renewal of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
B) signed treaties restoring Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal Zone.
C) established formal diplomatic relations with mainland China.
D) helped to settle the Egyptian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East.
E) established good relations with the revolutionary government of Iran.
Q6) Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT)
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Q1) How did the New Right of the 1980s differ from the Old Right of the 1930s and earlier? Where were they similar? What were the most important things that New Right conservatives wanted to conserve?
Q2) One of the more disturbing trends that became apparent in the 1990s was
A) a movement toward more equitable income distribution.
B) a decline in median household incomes and a squeeze on the middle class.
C) an increasing number of working class Americans now moving into the middle class.
D) a dramatic drop in home ownership and mortgage lending.
E) the solidification of the welfare state.
Q3) Why did conservatism gain such strength in the 1980s and 1990s? Where did modern American conservatism come from?
Q4) Agree or disagree with the following statement: George H.W.Bush's administration was essentially the Reagan administration's third term in its policies and goals.Why or why not?
Q5) "gender gap"
Q6) ____ Israel
Q7) Contras
Q8) ____ Persian Gulf
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Q2) Osama bin Laden
Q3) Americans experienced a great wave of national unity and solidarity in the wake of the September 11,2001,terrorist attacks.Yet within a few years they were very bitterly divided over both political goals and tactics.What was the primary cause of these divisions? Were they debates over longstanding cultural and moral differences,or were the divisions directly related to the specific policies and conduct of the Bush administration?
Q4) Two of Clinton's early political blunders occurred in the areas of
A) gun control and the environment.
B) deficit reduction and foreign trade.
C) military preparedness and relations with Latin America.
D) gays in the military and health care.
E) sexual relations with his staff and appointments to the Supreme Court.
Q5) How did George W.Bush's election as the first popular-vote minority president in over a century affect his ability to lead the country? Why was he able to pursue a vigorously conservative political course despite the thinness of his mandate?
Q6) UNMOVIC
Q7) Kyoto Treaty
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Q2) multiculturalism
Q3) abstract expressionism
Q4) The Latino immigrant population maintained their language and culture better than most previous immigrant groups because
A) they were so thinly scattered across the country.
B) they lived in segregated neighborhoods.
C) of their large numbers and geographic concentration.
D) of a stronger desire to preserve their culture than previous groups had.
E) they remained politically loyal to the Latin American nations from which they came.
Q5) Barack Obama
Q6) Jackson Pollock
Q7) In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century,American fiction reflected
A) an increasing number of women writers and female perspectives.
B) a renaissance in Native American literature seeking to recover the tribal past and reimagine the present.
C) the experience of immigrants in America.
D) political themes and social commentary.
E) All of these
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