American Civilization II Test Bank
Course Introduction
American Civilization II explores the evolution of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present day, examining key political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped modern America. Topics include Reconstruction, industrialization, immigration, urbanization, major wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary issues. The course encourages critical analysis of how diverse groups contributed to American society and how historic events and movements continue to influence the nation's identity and values. Through primary sources, scholarly readings, and discussions, students gain a deeper understanding of the forces that have defined and transformed the United States in the modern era.
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American Pageant Volume 2 16th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Chapter 1: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that
A) the transition to black freedom would be easy.
B) blacks were unable to manage the transition to freedom autonomously.
C) the Civil War had been worth the sacrifice.
D) presidential Reconstruction was working effectively and swiftly.
E) the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War and the North had sacrificed its young men in vain.
Answer: E
Q2) The Black Codes provided for all of the following except
A) a ban on jury service by blacks.
B) a restriction against black migration from the South.
C) a bar on blacks from renting land.
D) punishment of blacks for idleness.
E) fines for blacks who jumped labor contracts.
Answer: B
Q3) Hiram Revels
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Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896
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Q1) An epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of A) a switch of urban workers from the Democratic to the Republican party.
B) Populists declaring their opposition to immigration restrictions.
C) Populist support for a revolutionary overthrow of reactionary state governments.
D) the Populists adding industrial workers to their base of support among farmers.
E) Grover Cleveland's switch to a pro-labor and pro-farmer campaign platform.
Answer: D
Q2) Despite the lack of national political issues, Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like A) imperialism and foreign missions.
B) prohibition and education.
C) race relations and racial justice in the South.
D) sexual morality and women's rights.
E) treatment of criminal prisoners and the mentally ill.
Answer: B
Q3) Farmers' Alliance
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Chapter 3: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
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Q1) The United States changed to standard time zones when
A) Congress passed a law establishing this system.
B) the major rail lines decreed common fixed times so that they could keep schedules and avoid wrecks.
C) factories demanded standard time schedules.
D) long-distance telephones required standard time coordination.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Answer: B
Q2) Which one of the following is least like the other four?
A) Closed shop
B) Lockout
C) Yellow dog contract
D) Blacklist
E) Company town
Answer: A
Q3) trust
Answer: Answers will vary.
Q4) consumer goods
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Chapter 4: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
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Q1) Most New Immigrants
A) eventually returned to their country of origin.
B) tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America.
C) were immediately subjected to stringent immigration restrictions.
D) quickly assimilated into the mainstream of American life.
E) converted to mainstream Protestantism.
Q2) single tax
Q3) American Red Cross
Q4) Jack London
Q5) Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came to escape A) political oppression.
B) famine.
C) the political disintegration of their country.
D) the military draft.
E) the poverty and backwardness of southern Italy.
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"?
Q7) William James
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1865-1896
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Q1) One key to the Republican victory in the 1896 presidential election was
A) McKinley's ability to create divisions between western and southern farmers.
B) the huge financial and propaganda effort of Mark Hanna and the Republicans.
C) McKinley's ability to make the tariff issue more important than free silver.
D) the wide travel and numerous speeches made by William McKinley.
E) the ability of Republicans to win the support of debtor farmers.
Q2) The Buffalo Soldiers were
A) U. S. Army units who survived on the plains by killing buffalo.
B) African American cavalry and soldiers who served in the frontier wars.
C) soldiers who sought to defeat the Indians by depriving them of their primary food supply.
D) soldiers who were killed in the Fetterman massacre.
E) soldiers who were court martialed for assisting Plains Indians with food and other provisions.
Q3) Explain why the Populist party became the most successful third party in American history up to that time. Explain why it failed to survive the decade of the 1890s.
Q4) Populist (People's) Party
Q5) "16 to 1"
Q6) J. M. Chivington
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Chapter 6: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909
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Q1) Dupuy de Lóme
Q2) Big Sister policy
Q3) Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Q4) Write your definition of imperialism. Then use this definition to argue that the conduct of American foreign relations between 1890 and 1905 was or was not imperialistic.
Q5) Elihu Root
Q6) When Filipinos first came to the United States, they worked mainly as A) chefs.
B) railroad laborers.
C) servants in the navy.
D) industrial laborers.
E) agricultural laborers.
Q7) Boxer Rebellion
Q8) What do you consider the most important domestic and foreign-policy consequences of the Spanish-American War? Why?
Q9) Anti-Imperialist League
Q10) Philippe Bunau-Varilla
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Q12) Foraker Act
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Chapter 7: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
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Q1) the Square Deal
Q2) Of the three central goals of Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal, restricting corporate monopolies, conserving the environment, and protecting American consumers, which one was most central? In which area did Roosevelt achieve the greatest results?
Q3) Old Guard
Q4) In the view of progressives, what was wrong with American society? What positive solutions did they proposed to address social problems? Be specific.
Q5) William Howard Taft
Q6) John Muir
Q7) Eugene V. Debs
Q8) Jane Addams
Q9) The Elkins and Hepburn Acts were designed to
A) regulate municipal utilities and end private utility monopolies.
B) guarantee the purity of food and drugs.
C) provide federal protection for natural resources.
D) end corrupt and exploitative practices by the railroad trusts.
E) None of these choices are correct.
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Chapter 8: Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War,
1913-1920
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Q1) Zimmermann note
Q2) One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it
A) opened new markets in Germany and Austria-Hungary.
B) reduced opportunities for trade with the Allies.
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.
Q3) Critically evaluate Woodrow Wilson's personal qualities as they affected his conduct of foreign policy. How did his strong belief in promoting morality and democracy in other countries emerge from his own view of the world?
Q4) Louis D. Brandeis
Q5) German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting American and British merchant and passenger ships without warning
A) because they were violating international law by operating in a war theater.
B) in retaliation for the British naval blockade of Germany.
C) in an effort to keep the United States out of the war.
D) because international law now allowed this new style of warfare.
E) in a last-ditch effort to win the war.
Q6) Underwood Tariff Bill
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Chapter 9: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
1920 1929
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Q1) Sinclair Lewis
Q2) Cultural pluralists like Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne generally advocated that
A) Spanish and German should be recognized as official languages of the United States along with English.
B) "one hundred percent Americanization" of all southern and eastern European immigrants was necessary for America to retain its democratic and cosmopolitan culture.
C) immigrants to the United States could and should remain politically loyal to their original nations.
D) immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American melting pot.
E) the full-fledged preservation of ethnic identity and cross-fertilization among immigrants were both unhealthy and dangerous cultural trends that threatened to the long-term health and democratic nature of America.
Q3) Bible Belt
Q4) modernism
Q5) progressive education
Q6) The Birth of a Nation
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Chapter 10: The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920 1932
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Q1) Progressive party
Q2) Match each member of President Harding's cabinet below with his major area of responsibility.
A.Charles Evans Hughes
B.Andrew Mellon
C.Herbert Hoover
D.Albert Fall
E.Harry Daugherty
1)Taxes and tariffs
2)Naval oil reserves
3)Naval arms limitation
4)Foreign trade and trade associations
5)Justice and law enforcement
A) A-5, B-3, C-2, D-4, E-1
B) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2, E-5
C) A-2, B-4, C-3, D-5, E-1
D) A-4, B-5, C-1, D-3, E-2
E) A-1, B-2, C-5, D-3, E-4
Q3) Albert B. Fall
Q4) Dawes Plan
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Chapter 11: The Great Depression and the New Deal
1933 1939
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Q1) The Wagner Act of 1935 proved to be a trailblazing law that
A) gave labor the legal right to organize and bargain collectively.
B) established the NRA.
C) established the Social Security system.
D) authorized the Public Works Administration (PWA).
E) established a national minimum wage law.
Q2) Eleanor Roosevelt
Q3) 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?
Q4) Was Franklin Roosevelt's victory in 1932 more an endorsement of his reform agenda or a repudiation of Herbert Hoover and the Republican policies?
Q5) How important was Eleanor Roosevelt to the New Deal's image and success? Was she more important as a role model or for her political influence on her husband?
Q6) Securities and Exchange Commission
Q7) John Maynard Keynes
Q8) What were the most enduring accomplishments of the New Deal? Which of its efforts had the least long-term impact?
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Chapter 12: Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
1933 1941
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Q1) ____ The nation invaded by Hitler in 1941 despite a formal nonaggression pact signed two years earlier.
Q2) Rome-Berlin axis
Q3) Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term as president in 1940 mainly by his
A) personal desire to defeat his old political rival, Wendell Willkie.
B) belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis.
C) belief that the two-term tradition was contrary to democratic principles enshrined in the Constitution.
D) opposition to Willkie's pledge to restore a strict policy of American neutrality.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Q4) Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act
Q5) the Holocaust
Q6) Explain how, in the 1930s, "the American people were overwhelmingly anti-Nazi and anti-Hitler, ... but they were desperately determined to stay out [of war]."
Q7) Cordell Hull
Q8) Nazi party
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Chapter 13: America in World War II 1941 1945
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Q1) Which of the following was not among the qualities of the American participation in World War II?
A) A group of highly effective military and political leaders
B) An enormously effective effort in producing weapons and supplies
C) A higher percentage of military casualties than any other Allied nation
D) The preservation of the American homeland against invasion or destruction from the air
E) The maintenance and reaffirmation of the strength of American democracy
Q2) War Production Board
Q3) By the end of World War II, the heart of the United States' African American community had shifted to
A) Florida and the Carolinas.
B) southern cities.
C) Texas and New Mexico.
D) Midwestern small towns.
E) northern and western cities.
Q4) Battle of the Bulge
Q5) Office of Price Administration
Q6) Albert Einstein
Q7) Douglas MacArthur
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Chapter 14: The Cold War Begins 1945-1952
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Q1) Soviet specialist George F. Kennan framed a coherent approach for America in the Cold War by advising a policy of A) détente.
B) appeasement.
C) containment.
D) rollback.
E) negotiation.
Q2) Senator McCarthy's anticommunist crusade ended when he A) began to attack the personal integrity of General George C. Marshall.
B) alleged that there were communists in Hollywood.
C) alleged that there were communists in the Foreign Service.
D) alleged that many college professors were communists.
E) maliciously and recklessly attacked the U.S. Army for allegedly sheltering communists.
Q3) In its early years, the United Nations was successful in A) preserving peace in several hot spots like Iran.
B) guiding several former colonies to independent nationhood.
C) establishing international control over atomic technology.
D) helping to create the new Jewish state of Israel.
E) establishing international health, science, and food agencies.
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Chapter 15: American Zenith 1952-1963
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Q1) Montgomery bus boycott
Q2) Billy Graham
Q3) Oral Roberts
Q4) Beat Generation
Q5) The Alliance for Progress, which intended to improve economic growth and democratic reforms in Latin America, was
A) effectively implemented by American Peace Corps volunteers.
B) effective economically but ineffective in developing pro-American sentiment in the region.
C) generally disappointing in its development and implementation.
D) weakened by the Kennedy administration's harsh policies toward Cuba.
E) an incentive for growing Soviet intervention in the region.
Q6) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Q7) Assess the diplomatic and military policies ofPresident Eisenhower's Secretary of StateJohn Foster Dulles. Do you think that they were realistic? Why or why not?
Q8) Apollo mission
Q9) How might a play like Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman be said to reflect the questions that many social critics were asking about mass American culture in the 1950s?
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Chapter 16: The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973
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Q1) The militant African American leader who most directly challenged Martin Luther King, Jr.'s goal of peaceful integration was
A) Medgar Evers.
B) Malcolm X.
C) Fannie Lou Hamer.
D) Andrew Young.
E) Ralph Abernathy.
Q2) Results of the Cambodian incursion ordered by President Nixon in 1970 included
A) the killing of student demonstrators at Kent State University.
B) the elimination of Viet Cong bases in Cambodia.
C) the repeal of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution by the Senate.
D) a deepening of the division between prowar "hawks" and antiwar "doves."
E) Nixon's resignation of the presidency.
Q3) Henry Kissinger
Q4) Evaluate the impact of the Warren Court on American life. Cite specific cases that "reflected [the Supreme Court's] deep concern for the individual, no matter how lowly."
Q5) Palestine Liberation Organization
Q6) The Beatles
Q7) Six-Day War
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Chapter 17: Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980
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Q1) The first major trouble to afflict President Carter's foreign policy was the
A) Panamanian seizure of the Panama Canal.
B) collapse of the Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt.
C) ominous reheating of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
D) taking of American hostages by Afghan revolutionaries.
E) threatened Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Q2) Helsinki accords
Q3) New Right
Q4) The "boat people" were
A) the first wave of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to the United States immediately after the fall of Saigon.
B) Cuban refugees who fled communism and landed in Florida.
C) a second wave of Vietnamese people who sought to escape Vietnam'soppressive communist regime for freedom.
D) Cambodians who came to the U.S. seeking a better life after the Vietnam War.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Q5) Which of the following was the most important in creating the mood of public disillusionment in the 1970s: Watergate, the loss of Vietnam, or economic woes? Cite specific examples to support your point of view.
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Chapter 18: The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992
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Q1) ____ Saudi Arabia
Q2) Reaganomics
Q3) Margaret Thatcher
Q4) Before being elected president, Ronald Reagan's experience in elected public office had been as
A) senator from California.
B) governor of California.
C) Orange County, California, supervisor.
D) governor of Nevada.
E) U.S. representative from California.
Q5) The United States joined its allies in the Persian Gulf War in order to A) regain control of the Middle East oil supply.
B) roll back Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
C) demonstrate that the U.S. military could conduct a major ground war thousands of miles from its home bases.
D) support Israel against the growing threat from the Arab states.
E) guarantee a permanent U.S. naval presence in the Middle East.
Q6) Religious Right
Q7) "supply-side" economics
Q8) Perestroika
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Chapter 19: America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,
1992-2000
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Q1) President Clinton's primary political legacy was that he
A) revived the vigorous liberal traditions of the Democratic party.
B) established a firm direction for American foreign policy after the Cold War.
C) consolidated the Reagan-Bush revolution by encouraging reduced expectations of government.
D) restored faith in elected officials if not in big government.
E) turned the Democratic party away from his historic commitments to racial and social justice.
Q2) Why have so many attainments in American culture in recent decades come from minorities and immigrants? Is it fair to speak of "minority literature" or "minority art," or is such work simply excellent American art that constitutes part of the American tradition?
Q3) Welfare Reform Bill
Q4) Hillary Rodham Clinton
Q5) Compare and contrast the social, economic, and political experiences of African Americans and Latinos since the 1970s. Which group has made more social, economic, and political progress since the 1970s? What do you attribute to the respective rates of social, economic, and political progress earned by African Americans and Latinos?
Q6) "don't ask, don't tell"
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Q1) The political boost(s) enjoyed by Barack Obama over John McCain during the election of 2008 included
A) an unprecedented war chest of over $70 million in donations to the campaign.
B) a superior performance in televised debates.
C) the widespread hope and enthusiasm of his supporters generated by his campaign and its "Yes we can" slogan.
D) a sudden worldwide economic maelstrom.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Q2) What were the causes of the Great Recession that took hold in the fall of 2008?
Evaluate the short-term and long-term effectiveness of the measures Congress and the Obama administration took to address the recession and the underlying weaknesses in the American economy, banking, and Wall Street.
Q3) traditional media
Q4) Human Genome Project
Q5) No Child Left Behind Act
Q6) National Security Agency
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Q7) In what ways has "the promise of American life" regarding liberty, equality, and democracy been fulfilled for most U.S. citizens, and in what ways does that promise remain an incomplete task to be pursued?
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