American Civilization Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
American Civilization examines the historical, cultural, social, and political development of the United States from its colonial origins to the present day. The course explores key events, movements, and figures that have shaped American identity, including the impact of colonization, revolution, expansion, civil conflict, immigration, industrialization, and contemporary issues. Students will analyze the evolution of American institutions, values, and ideologies, considering the diverse experiences of different communities and the nation's ongoing challenges and achievements. Through primary and secondary sources, the course encourages critical thinking about the legacy and future of American society.
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The Unfinished Nation 7th Edition by Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city?
A)St.Louis
B)Memphis
C)New Orleans
D)Baton Rouge
E)Detroit
Answer: A
Q2) The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established at ________.
Answer: Jamestown
Q3) The first European to gaze westward across the Pacific was ________. Answer: Vasco de Balboa
Q4) The Roanoke disaster virtually killed the colonizing impulse in England for a long time.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) Those who believed that the world's wealth was finite were called ________. Answer: mercantilists
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
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Q1) Charles II's brother,the duke of York,became King ________.
Answer: James II
Q2) Which people,Europeans or Indians,enjoyed greater benefit from the fifteenth and sixteenth century exchange of technology of weaponry and agriculture?
Answer: Not answer
Q3) During its early years,the Pennsylvania colony often faced financial ruin.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Like Virginia,Maryland became a center for the cultivation of tobacco.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) In the seventeenth century,English colonists recognized that corn
A)could only be grown in the New World.
B)was their most financially valuable crop.
C)produced yields greater than any of the European grains.
D)was a particularly difficult crop to cultivate.
E)could not be grown in the swampy land around Jamestown.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
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Q1) Cotton Mather promoted the use of inoculation against the disease ________.
Answer: smallpox Pager: 79
Q2) During the course of colonial history,colonial legislatures grew increasingly accustomed to operating on orders from Parliament.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Jeremiads refers to
A)a measurement of wealth.
B)community experiments.
C)sermons.
D)witchcraft.
E)town meetings.
Answer: C
Q4) The first American college,established in 1636,was ________.
Answer: Harvard
Q5) Most indentured servants came to the colonies voluntarily.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition
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Q1) The colonial boycott of tea in 1773
A)was based on colonists' anger at having to pay a new tax.
B)involved relatively small numbers of people.
C)was led by women.
D)had little financial effect on England.
E)resulted in the arrest of the Daughters of Liberty.
Q2) The 1754 effort to deal with Indian issues on an intercolonial basis was called the ________.
Q3) Up until the 1760s,how did the British governance of the colonies shape the general attitudes of Americans regarding their rights and responsibilities within the British Empire?
Q4) The British move on Lexington and Concord in April 1775 was designed to provoke a major battle and end the war before it could really begin.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Resistance to British imperial authority was centered among western farmers.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The Virginian who took the lead in protesting the Stamp Act was ________.
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution
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Q1) Violence between Indians and whites on the Northwest frontier largely subsided following the establishment of the Constitution of 1787.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Among the following,who was NOT a British military leader during the American Revolution?
A)Thomas Gage
B)William Howe
C)John Burgoyne
D)Horatio Gates
E)Barry St.Leger
Q3) The Articles of Confederation could not be amended until all thirteen state legislatures approved.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The blunders of General ________ cost the British dearly in 1777.
Q5) ________ led a failed rebellion of New England farmers during the late1780s.
Q6) During the Revolutionary War,John Adams was asked by ________ to "remember the ladies."
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) The emergence of an alternative political organization to the Federalists was prompted by
A)a dispute over President Washington's policies for westward expansion.
B)fear that the Federalists were attempting to end free elections.
C)belief that the power of the central government needed to be restrained.
D)a growing debate over the national bank.
E)fear that George Washington would try to run for a third term.
Q2) The presidential campaign in 1800
A)saw the Republicans win a decisive victory over the Federalists.
B)was notable for the sensational personal slandering of both candidates.
C)saw leading Federalists in Congress attempt to engineer the election of Aaron Burr.
D)was decided by a newly elected Republican Congress.
E)was further complicated by the emergence of a third party,the Whigs.
Q3) The Federalists fell victim to fierce factional rivalries after Washington's retirement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) After the election of 1800,the ________ branch of government was the only branch controlled by the Federalists.
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian ERA
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Q1) What historical events exposed the instability and weakness of the American federal government during its first thirty years of existence? How was the authority of the government strengthened?
Q2) John Marshall was
A)chief justice of the Supreme Court at the time of Marbury v.Madison.
B)appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court by Thomas Jefferson.
C)a Republican.
D)a former vice president of the United States.
E)secretary of state in the Jefferson administration,and Madison's successor.
Q3) During the War of 1812,the Hartford Convention
A)was a gathering of strong supporters of the war.
B)saw its participants vote to secede from the United States.
C)was made irrelevant by reports of a peace treaty from abroad.
D)sought to strengthen the political influence of the South and West.
E)aimed to create a new political party called the Whigs.
Q4) How did the Second Great Awakening compare with the First Great Awakening?
Q5) New England Federalists opposed to the War of 1812 organized the ________ to show their displeasure.
Q6) Eli Whitney's ________ revolutionized the American South's economy.
Q7) Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston are both associated with ________.
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism
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Q1) President Madison believed that federal funding of internal improvements required a constitutional amendment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Both the 1824 and 1828 presidential elections were decided by the House of Representatives.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements about American currency and banking in this era is FALSE?
A)Counterfeiting was a serious problem.
B)The national bank forbade state banks from issuing their own notes.
C)Congress rechartered the Bank of the United States in 1816.
D)Vast quantities of varying bank notes created confusion over currency.
E)The second Bank of the United States had more capital than its predecessor.
Q4) Could the United States have enforced the Monroe Doctrine in 1823? Why or why not?
Q5) According to the terms of the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819,the United States surrendered its claims to ________.
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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
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Q1) The presidential election campaign of 1840 saw
A)Martin Van Buren drop out of the presidential race.
B)the first influence of the "penny press" in politics.
C)Henry Clay chosen as the Whig presidential candidate.
D)the emergence of the Republican Party.
E)William Henry Harrison serve as the Democratic candidate.
Q2) By the 1830s,political parties were generally regarded as
A)in the control of special interest factions.
B)unnecessary to the political process.
C)a dangerous threat to the democratic process.
D)a desired and essential part of the democratic process.
E)an aberration.
Q3) Since 1790,how had the nation's general perception of political parties as part of the democratic process changed,and why?
Q4) In 1835,Andrew Jackson appointed John Marshall as the new chief justice of the Supreme Court.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Upon the death of William Henry Harrison,the former Democrat who became president was ________.
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution
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Q1) By 1860,as a result of the social expectations expressed in the "cult of domesticity,"
A)unmarried women were generally excluded from all income-earning activities.
B)women became increasingly isolated from the public world.
C)middle-class wives were given no special role in the family.
D)women who read books or magazines were likely to be criticized.
E)women increasingly became seen as contributors to the family economy.
Q2) Examine technological developments in America between 1800 and 1860.What are the characteristic features in the advances made throughout this period?
Q3) The Massachusetts court case of Commonwealth v.Hunt (1842)declared that
A)labor unions were lawful organizations.
B)labor strikes were illegal.
C)child labor laws were unconstitutional.
D)minimum wage laws were a restraint on trade.
E)unions must admit working women as members.
Q4) In the pre-Civil War period,turnpikes were regarded as an improvement over canals as a means of transportation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
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Q1) What were the differences between being a slave in the city and a slave in the country?
Q2) Southern white lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in
A)the cities.
B)river and ocean port towns.
C)the upper South.
D)the mountain regions.
E)the Deep South.
Q3) To the degree that the South developed a nonfarm commercial sector,it was largely to serve the needs of the ________.
Q4) Prior to 1860,southern women differed from northern women in that southern women
A)tended to have more formal education.
B)were expected to be more subordinate to men.
C)had fewer children.
D)generally had a lesser engagement in the economic life of the family.
E)were more likely to take a role in public activities.
Q5) From the 1830s on,state laws governing slavery became gradually less rigid.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform
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Q1) The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" included a demand that women have the right to vote.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Many of the Hudson River school artists expressed a nostalgic view of nature.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why were many utopian communities critical of the traditional role and status of women in American society? What alternatives did these communities offer?
Q4) Transcendentalists
A)rejected European intellectuals.
B)regarded reason to be the most important human faculty.
C)argued that emotional responses inhibited the internal development of individuals.
D)believed all individuals should develop their intellectualism.
E)argued for the liberating potential of "understanding."
Q5) Much of William Lloyd Garrison's philosophy can be found in his newspaper,the
Q6) The Supreme Court case of Prigg v.Pennsylvania concerned the issue of ________.
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner were on opposite sides in the battle over "bleeding Kansas."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Abraham Lincoln gained national recognition from his 1858 debates with ________.
Q3) The Free-Soil Party first appeared in 1848.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the election of 1852,
A)neither party endorsed the Compromise of 1850.
B)the Free-Soil Party gained strength.
C)the Democrats selected a war hero as their candidate.
D)the Whigs were united.
E)the Free-Soil Party endorsed the Compromise of 1850.
Q5) Could the Civil War have been avoided?
Q6) Most travelers going west found the experience both exhilarating and solitary.
A)True
B)False
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Q7) Describe Abraham's Lincoln's positions on slavery prior to his election as president.
Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) Despite being a Democrat,Andrew Johnson was selected to run with Lincoln in 1864.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Jefferson Davis,unlike Lincoln,was a trained professional soldier.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ulysses S.Grant believed in using the North's great advantage in troops and material resources to overwhelm the South.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The North printed paper currency,or ________,in order to finance the Civil War.
Q5) In naval warfare during the Civil War,
A)the Union blockade of the South was largely ineffective.
B)the Confederacy managed to build a navy equal to that of the Union.
C)both the Union and Confederate militaries developed ironclads.
D)the Confederacy devastated Union fleets with ironclad warships.
E)the Confederacy managed to seize key Union ports such as Baltimore.
Q6) How did new technology change the strategy of war?
Q7) The ________ Infantry was the best known of the black Union regiments.
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
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Q1) During Reconstruction,the Southern school system
A)eventually reached 40 percent of all black children.
B)did not allow blacks to be teachers.
C)initially were not segregated.
D)only offered primary instruction.
E)barely reached any children of former slaves.
Q2) The Alabama claims
A)saw the United States refuse to pay Alabama for losses incurred during the Civil War.
B)involved complaints by the United States against England.
C)ended an experiment in black landownership.
D)marked a renewed effort in asserting the rights of states over federal authority.
E)were found by the Supreme Court to invalidate Radical Reconstruction.
Q3) Compare the conditions of black Americans living in the South in the 1850s with the 1870s.
Q4) Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth-century South resulted in declining violence against blacks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
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Q1) The Homestead Act of 1862
A)gave without condition 160 acres to all settlers who would move to the West.
B)only applied to public lands within the borders of an organized state.
C)saw settlers on the Plains complain the claims were too large for grain farming.
D)proved to be enormously popular with western ranchers.
E)was expanded by the Timber Culture Act.
Q2) In the 1860s,cattle drives from Texas to Missouri
A)saw the herds suffer heavy losses.
B)proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets.
C)established a link to the booming urban markets of the East.
D)both proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets,and established a link to the booming urban markets of the East.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q3) During the 1840s,Hispanics living in California
A)often lost ownership of their lands.
B)saw an expansion in the power of californios.
C)attempted to revive the Spanish mission society.
D)joined with white Americans to drive out Indians.
E)increasingly became part of the state's middle class.
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
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Q1) The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer
A)included blowing air through molten iron.
B)involved adding ingredients to molten iron.
C)was also developed by an American,William Kelly.
D)included both blowing air through and adding ingredients to molten iron.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q2) Andrew Carnegie elaborated his philosophy in a 1901 book titled ________.
Q3) Why were railroads such an important factor in the growth of industrial strength in America?
Q4) In the Homestead strike of 1892,Andrew Carnegie's chief lieutenant was ________.
Q5) Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The Knights of Labor
A)was primarily a trade union.
B)did not allow women to join.
C)began as a secret fraternal organization.
D)focused its efforts on improving wages and reducing hours.
E)tried in particular to enlist support for their cause from lawyers.
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Q7) Why were labor unions not more successful during the late nineteenth century?
Chapter 18: The Age of the City
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Q1) D.W.Griffith is most noted for his 1915 film,________.
Q2) Describe the key features one would find in a large urban American city at the end of the nineteenth century.
Q3) The most profound intellectual development of the late nineteenth century was the widespread acceptance of the theory of ________.
Q4) Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed New York City's ________.
Q5) Which of the following innovations did NOT occur in consumer goods in the late nineteenth century?
A)the emergence of ready-made clothing
B)the formation of credit card companies
C)the ability to refrigerate foods artificially
D)the opening of large department stores
E)the development and mass production of tin cans
Q6) Without immigration,American cities would have grown relatively slowly.
A)True
B)False
Q7) In what ways did mass entertainment in the late nineteenth century perpetuate racial,class,and gender distinctions? In what ways did it break down these distinctions?
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Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire
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Q1) A letter critical of ________ written by Spain's minister,Dupuy de Lôme,sparked a controversy in the United States in 1898.
Q2) Later evidence related to the explosion that sank the Maine suggested the likely cause was
A)an accident in an engine room.
B)the work of a Cuban agent.
C)the work of Spanish sailors.
D)a floating mine of unknown origin.
E)sabotage by a disgruntled naval officer.
Q3) The president who was assassinated between Lincoln and McKinley was ________.
Q4) The Spanish-American War began primarily because of events in A)Cuba.
B)the Philippines.
C)Puerto Rico.
D)Mexico.
E)Guatemala.
Q5) At nearly the last minute,unexpected support from ________ helped secure ratification of the Treaty of Paris of 1898.
Q6) ________ waged a "front-porch" campaign in 1896.
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Chapter 20: The Progressives
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Q1) Analyze and assess the presidential election results of 1912.
Q2) The presidential candidate who was the victim of an assassination attempt in 1912 was ________.
Q3) A major reform of American banking was achieved in 1913 with passage of the
A)Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
B)Economy Act.
C)Federal Securities Act.
D)Federal Reserve Act.
E)Currency Act.
Q4) In 1902,President Roosevelt intervened in a strike involving the ________ industry.
Q5) W.B.Du Bois was instrumental in the founding of the Niagara Movement,which later joined sympathetic white progressives to form the ________.
Q6) Why did professionalism develop during the progressive era,and what were its effects?
Q7) New York's major political machine,________,eventually helped advance progressive reform.
Q8) What social factors motivated progressivism to develop as a reform movement when it did?
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Chapter 21: America and the Great War
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Q1) What does Woodrow Wilson's Mexican foreign policy tell you about his conceptions of government and leadership?
Q2) In the early twentieth century,the United States' actions toward Mexico included
A)encouraging an overthrow of the Madero government.
B)a refusal to formally recognize the Huerta government.
C)sending an American expeditionary force across the border into Mexico.
D)both encouraging an overthrow of the Madero government and refusing to formally recognize the Huerta government.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q3) In 1919,the Red Scare in the United States
A)led to government raids that uncovered large caches of weapons.
B)saw more than 6,000 people deported from the country.
C)saw the arrest of several major government figures.
D)was generally opposed by universities and other academic institutions.
E)was partly motivated by a series of bombings.
Q4) Those senators,many of whom were western isolationists,who opposed the Treaty of Versailles in all its forms,were called ________.
Q5) The United Negro Improvement Association was led by ________.
Q6) Would the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt be effective today?
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) In what ways were working Americans of the 1920s better off? How were they worse off?
Q2) Henry Ford pioneered ________,which called for a shortened workweek and higher wages.
Q3) Most working-class Americans saw their standard of living decline during the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The practice of not requiring a worker to join a union is called the ________.
Q5) D.W.Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation glorified the ________.
Q6) Compare the political philosophies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson with those of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
Q7) American-born children of Japanese immigrants were called ________.
Q8) During the 1920s,the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
A)decided to shift away from craft unions.
B)created a partner organization,the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
C)used strikes in an attempt to organize unskilled workers.
D)became more radical after the death of Samuel Gompers.
E)believed workers should be organized on the basis of skills.
Q9) The Democratic candidate for president in 1928 was ________.
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Chapter 23: The Great Depression
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Q1) Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932
A)saw Roosevelt carry every state.
B)was disputed in several states.
C)was a convincing mandate.
D)was decided only in the final days of the election.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q2) During the 1930s,the American Communist Party
A)distanced itself from the Soviet Union.
B)excluded most minorities from its ranks.
C)supported Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
D)both distanced itself from the Soviet Union and excluded most minorities from its ranks.
E)None of these answers is correct.
Q3) President Hoover did attempt to use federal spending to fight the Great Depression. A)True
B)False
Q4) Mr.Deeds Goes to Town and Mr.Smith Goes to Washington were two romanticized populist films of America directed by ________.
Q5) The Grapes of Wrath was written by ________.
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Chapter 24: The New Deal
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Q1) Under the National Industrial Recovery Act,the code writing was to be done by the Congress.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1934,the American Liberty League was formed
A)to help win public support for the more controversial New Deal programs.
B)by western business leaders who felt ignored by the New Deal.
C)to unite southerners who opposed the New Deal's support of unions.
D)by a coalition of radical and semi-radical organizations,including the Socialist Party.
E)by wealthy conservatives who strongly opposed the New Deal.
Q3) The provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act included a promise to workers that they could participate in collective bargaining,but there were no enforcement mechanisms in the legislation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ________ Plan represented a pre-Social Security Act scheme to provide for federal pensions for senior citizens.
Q5) In 1936,________ was the Republican candidate for president.
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Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
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Q1) The Anschluss of 1938 was between Germany and ________.
Q2) The United States never joined the League of Nations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In December of 1941,Germany declared war on the United States before the United States declared war on Germany.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During the 1920s,the United States became increasingly dependent on unstable European economies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war as an instrument of national policy.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The ________ Conference of 1921 was an attempt to prevent a naval arms race among the United States,Great Britain,and Japan
Q7) By late November of 1941,American officials assumed that the next Japanese move would be directed at British or ________ possessions to the south.
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Chapter 26: America in a World at War
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Q1) The Allied introduction of an "acoustic" mine was a major advance in naval warfare.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Regarding European Jewish refugees,between 1939 and 1945,the United States
A)refused to accept large numbers of refugees.
B)won an agreement from England to accept several thousand refugees.
C)made many efforts to help refugees escape the Nazis but not to enter the United States.
D)denied the Nazis were targeting Jews for murder.
E)rescinded the provisions of the 1924 National Origins Act dealing with Jewish immigrants.
Q3) During World War II,Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in
A)centimetric radar.
B)rocket-propelled bombs.
C)ocean mine detection.
D)aircraft bombers.
E)intelligence gathering.
Q4) George Marshall placed General ________ in charge of the plan for the invasion of France in 1944.
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Chapter 27: The Cold War
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Q1) How and why did President Truman alter Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union?
Q2) In 1948,President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by
A)sending American paratroopers into West Berlin.
B)airlifting supplies to West Berlin.
C)threatening war with the Soviet Union.
D)encouraging the United Nations to pass economic sanctions.
E)creating a blockade of East Berlin.
Q3) The Truman Doctrine was announced to garner support for American aid to two countries,________ and Turkey.
Q4) At the Yalta Conference,Stalin agreed again to enter the war in the Pacific against Japan.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In 1945,a small percentage of working women wanted to continue working after the war.
A)True B)False
Q6) A freshman congressman from California named ________ helped convict Alger Hiss.
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Chapter 28: The Affluent Society
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Q1) In his 1956 book on corporate America,The Organization Man,William Whyte Jr.contended
A)the ideal of rugged individualism had been reestablished in the business community.
B)women and minorities had little chance for advancement in American corporations.
C)corporate wealth was not being fairly shared with its workers.
D)the "inner-directed man" had become "other-directed."
E)a worker's most valuable trait in the corporate work setting was to get along.
Q2) In the 1950s,the great majority of American poor people lived in a permanent state of "hard-core" poverty.
A)True
B)False
Q3) John Glenn was the first American launched into space.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Between 1945 and 1950,10 percent of all the new businesses in the United States began in Los Angeles.
A)True
B)False
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B)False
Q2) Ngo Dinh Diem was a Buddhist who had to turn against his fellow Buddhists in order to fight the communists in Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 1968,Richard Nixon won a strong mandate to lead the country. A)True
B)False
Q4) The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was in response to A)alleged attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on American destroyers.
B)a Vietminh attack on an American-occupied air base in South Vietnam.
C)mortar attacks on the American embassy in Saigon.
D)the decision by North Vietnam to arm its allies in the South.
E)the so-called "Tet offensive" by North Vietnamese soldiers.
Q5) Martin Luther King Jr.organized his march on ________ to secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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Q6) The first major post-World War II race riot occurred in the ________ section of Los Angeles.
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Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority
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A)a bipolar world dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union.
B)improving the governments in less developed nations.
C)a balance of power among several major nations.
D)destruction of the government in the Soviet Union.
E)encouraging Europe to take up its own defense against the Soviet Union.
Q2) In 1972,the United States' "Christmas bombing" of North Vietnam
A)saw the United States suffer,by far,its greatest loss of bombers in the war.
B)resulted in a collapse of the peace talks.
C)dramatically altered the terms of the final peace agreement.
D)later drew an apology from President Richard Nixon.
E)avoided Hanoi for the sake of continuing peace talks.
Q3) What factors brought the seemingly endless rise in national prosperity of the 1950s and early 1960s to an end by the early 1970s?
Q4) The first female Supreme Court justice was ________.
Q5) To secure a peace agreement in Vietnam in 1972,President Nixon dropped his demand that North Vietnam withdraw its troops from South Vietnam before American troops would be removed.
A)True
B)False
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Q2) ________ was the third party candidate in 1992 whose candidacy tapped popular resentment of the federal bureaucracy.
Q3) The United States did not participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During President Ronald Reagan's first term,the course of the American economy
A)moved from being relatively strong into a long mild recession.
B)went through a severe recession which gave way to a strong recovery.
C)experienced a mild recession which turned into a slow and steady recovery.
D)remained mired in "Stagflation."
E)experienced explosive economic growth from the start.
Q5) During the Ford administration,
A)the cost of oil rose dramatically.
B)the dependence of the United States on foreign oil lessened.
C)the national inflation rate declined after the end of the 1973 oil embargo.
D)the United States became the world's largest oil producer.
E)government spending increased and taxes decreased.
Q6) What were President Carter's major political successes and failures?
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Chapter 32: The Age of Globalization
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Q2) By the early twenty-first century,regarding African Americans,
A)half of all African Americans lived in the middle-class.
B)African Americans constituted 3 percent of the nation's college population.
C)there was little-to-no economic disparity between black and white professionals.
D)half of all African Americans lived in poverty as members of the "underclass."
E)the percentage of black high school graduates going to college still lagged significantly behind that of white high school graduates.
Q3) In 2011,the number of foreign-born residents of the United States was at the highest in American history-more than 40 million,or over ________ percent of the total population.
Q4) The first system to provide for the orderly sharing of information on the Internet was called the World Wide Web,and it was invented by British scientist ________.
Q5) Unlike President Clinton,Barack Obama was able to pass ________ legislation,over much Republican dissent.
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