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A)the Chesapeake
B)New England
C)the frontier west of the Adirondack mountains
D)the Mid-Atlantic colonies
E)the lower South
Q2) By the 1720s,slaves in ____________________ were beginning to achieve a rate of reproduction that almost equaled that of the settlers.
Q3) Mose or Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose
Q4) By the 1720s,most colonial governments
A)included an appointed governor,a council,and an elected assembly.
B)had a hereditary governor's office.
C)had lost legislative independence and were virtually powerless.
D)were corrupt,inefficient,and undemocratic.
E)had become democratic in their operation.
Q5) More settlers owned books and read outside of New England than in it.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Reform, resistance, revolution
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Q2) The Quartering Act expired quietly in 1770..
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the intellectual movement toward independence in 1776.
Q4) By early 1776,delegates within the Second Continental Congress from all of the following colonies except ____ voted for independence.
A)New England.
B)Georgia.
C)New York.
D)Virginia.
E)Massachusetts
Q5) Britain's first effort at military coercion of the colonies failed with the ____________________.
Q6) The motive behind the American invasion of Canada in June 1775 was territorial expansion.
A)True
B)False
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B)control foreign trade.
C)pass and enforce laws.
D)regulate interstate trade.
E)all of these choices
Q2) The most serious criticism of the Constitution during ratification was the A)establishment of a standing army.
B)lack of a specific list of individual rights.
C)absence of references to God.
D)failure to designate a national capital.
E)undemocratic nature of the electoral college.
Q3) Southern delegates to Congress all opposed the Northwest Ordinance. A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the role of loyalists in the American Revolution.
Q5) George Washington's attack on Trenton resulted in substantial patriot losses. A)True B)False
Q6) Gnadenhutten massacre
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Chapter 7: Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815
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Q1) As president,Thomas Jefferson
A)increased the size and expense of the government.
B)used the Sedition Act to arrest outspoken Federalist opponents.
C)reduced the size of the army and navy and cut back on military spending.
D)spent thousands of dollars on extravagant balls and dinner parties.
E)rejected the opportunity to expand the territory of the U.S.
Q2) Jefferson believed that federal judges should be elected by popular ballot.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 1804,Jefferson won the electoral votes of every state except Delaware and ____________________.
Q4) James Madison's war message listed all except which of the following as reasons for the War of 1812?
A)U.S.interest in acquiring Canada
B)attacks on U.S.shipping
C)impressment of U.S.seamen
D)use of foreign spies and provocations in the United States
E)British influence over western Indians.
Q5) Examine the Hamiltonian system.What were its goals? How successful was it in achieving those goals?
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A)favored free-range livestock
B)remained tied to the river trade
C)often left the south seeing slavery blocked opportunities for them
D)devoted most of their efforts to developing large cultivated farms
E)did not bring slaves with them.
Q2) Eastern visitors to the backcountry were impressed with the health and industriousness of frontiersmen.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the early nineteenth century,the main reason Americans drank was to get drunk.
A)True B)False
Q4) A "razorback" was a southern term for a porcupine.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Artisans considered themselves ____________________ class.
Q6) A Midwife's Tale was based on the diary of ____________________.
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Q1) After 1820,southern state laws gave slaves the right to
A)sue another slave.
B)Sundays off.
C)own a garden.
D)buy their freedom.
E)sell extra items to other slaves.
Q2) The most intensely commercialized farms in the world were found in the Chesapeake.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Southern slaves
A)had no distinct culture.
B)essentially imitated white culture.
C)created their own culture,which included religious piety and African-style songs and folk magic.
D)were brutalized to the extent that they became irresponsible and childlike.
E)never openly resisted slavery.
Q4) In the Chesapeake slave system a majority of women worked as domestic servants.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The first mass-circulation magazine for women was ____________________.
Q2) Examine the feminization of middle-class American domestic life in the nineteenth century.
Q3) Examine the millennialist religions that emerged in the nineteenth-century Northeast.
Q4) How did southern evangelicalism change its position on slavery between 1780-1840?
Q5) The national culture that developed after the 1830s included all of the following elements except A)republicanism.
B)capitalism.
C)abolitionism.
D)Protestantism.
E)paternalism
Q6) The American theater could best be described as A)quiet and orderly.
B)loud and sometimes violent.
C)egalitarian.
D)an upper class phenomenon.
E)unorganized.
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following did Andrew Jackson hate most?
A)the Second Bank of the United States
B)the House of Representatives
C)the Senate
D)the Supreme Court
E)the Democratic party
Q3) Under the "spoils system" Andrew Jackson
A)replaced nearly all executive appointees during his terms in office.
B)chose the best qualified for political positions,regardless of their political affiliation.
C)avoided selecting wealthy men for political office.
D)was decidedly partisan.
E)all of these choices
Q4) Examine the ideals,policies,and consequences of the Bank War.
Q5) The attempt to silence anti-slavery petitions in Congress was known as the ____________________ rule.
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Q2) Examine the movement for public-school reform in the United States.
Q3) ____________________ was an antislavery paper published by the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Q4) Dorothea Dix advocated the use of flogging and cold showers in the treatment of the insane.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Analyze the antislavery movement in the United States in the years following the 1830s.
Q6) As an example of the changing politics of gender and sex in Washington,D.C. ,Vice President ____________________,who served under Martin Van Buren,had a mulatto mistress and had two daughters by her.
Q7) Tax-supported public schools were known as ____________________.
Q8) Despite the fact that legal prohibition made significant inroads in the North,it did not meet with similar acceptance or success in the South.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Examine the importance of the Mexican War in American politics from 1848 to 1850.
Q3) Discuss the concept of manifest destiny and its impact on U.S.foreign policy in the 1840s and 1850s.
Q4) Most Hispanics in the West lived in A)Oregon.
B)California.
C)Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico.
D)Utah.
E)Idaho.
Q5) The four-time invader of Central America and the self-proclaimed president of Nicaragua was
A)William Walker.
B)Narciso Lopez.
C)William Crittenden.
D)Franklin Pierce.
E)James Buchanan.
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Q2) The Panic of 1857 stemmed entirely from domestic causes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s were
A)Irish,Catholic,and unskilled laborers.
B)British,Protestant,and skilled workers.
C)German,Protestant,and unskilled laborers.
D)Italian,Catholic,and skilled workers.
E)Russian,Jewish,and unskilled workers.
Q4) When two competing legislatures emerged in Kansas,the House of Representatives recognized the one that supported slavery.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________________ was the North Carolinian who wrote The Impending Crisis of the South.
Q6) The political group that was pledged to secrecy was the ____________________.
Q7) In the south ____________________ was king.
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Chapter 15: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862
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Q2) Leaders of the Union and the Confederacy both foresaw a long,bloody struggle as war began in 1861.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Naval strategies formed an integral part of the early war effort.Describe the goals and strategies of the North and then discuss the Southern response.
Q4) Jefferson Davis was chosen president of the Confederacy because he was
A)the most outspoken of the radical secessionists.
B)a nephew of George Washington and would therefore make the Confederacy more legitimate.
C)a moderate who had extensive military and political experience.
D)the only person who wanted to assume the office.
E)from the North.
Q5) As 1860 began,the ____________________ Party was one of the few national institutions left in the United States.
Q6) Thomas J.Jackson
Q7) National Banking Act
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Chapter 16: A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865
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Q1) Contraband of war referred to
A)military equipment captured by the Confederacy.
B)escaped slaves.
C)shipments of war material from abroad.
D)stolen food.
E)a secret code.
Q2) Bounty jumpers were men who
A)changed political parties for a bribe.
B)deserted the Confederacy and joined the Union army.
C)enlisted for the bounty and then deserted.
D)were slaves who left the plantations to join the Union army.
E)supported the abolition of slavery.
Q3) greenbacks
Q4) One of the most common denunciations of the Union draft of 1863 was
A)that it made the war a fight to end slavery.
B)that it was a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight."
C)that blacks would be forced to fight to save white lives.
D)that it was illegal.
E)it was too expensive.
Q5) "blueprint for modern America"
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Q1) White southerners' main complaint against the Freedmen's Bureau was that it was inefficient.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ____________________ refers to paying workers with a share of the crop.
Q3) All of the following statements regarding the Fifteenth Amendment are true except it
A)prohibited states from denying the right to vote on grounds of race or color.
B)was popular among northern women.
C)encountered much resistance in the white South.
D)was part of the congressional reconstruction plan.
E)was required by Congress that southern states ratify it.
Q4) Discuss the southern Democrats' attempts to limit opportunities and to control the activities of the freedmen during the Reconstruction period.
Q5) One of Grant's major problems as president was that he put too much trust in people under him.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Compare and contrast the Lincoln Reconstruction plan with the Wade-Davis Bill.
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Q1) The goal of the Indian schools was
A)assimilation into American culture.
B)research into Native American culture.
C)the preservation of Native American language.
D)training of Native Americans to factory work.
E)teaching Native Americans how to vote.
Q2) The Dawes Severalty Act
A)protected tribal ownership of land and separate nation status.
B)offered each Indian head of family 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land.
C)resulted in the addition of millions of acres to tribal holdings.
D)only affected the five "civilized tribes."
E)led to the revival of traditional cultures.
Q3) The biggest boost to the cattle industry in the late nineteenth century was the
A)breeding of longhorn cattle.
B)movement of the railroad westward.
C)arrival of the cowboy.
D)decline of open-range grazing.
E)the invention of barbed wire.
Q4) range war
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Q1) The head of the American Railway Union involved in the Pullman strike was
A)William Bryan.
B)Terence Powderly.
C)Eugene Debs.
D)James Blaine.
E)James Duke.
Q2) The president of the American Railway Union who became a socialist after being jailed during the Pullman strike was ____________________.
Q3) President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops into the Pullman Strike at the request of Illinois Governor,John Altgeld.
A)True
B)False
Q4) William Jennings Bryan endorsed only the idea of free silver in the election of 1896. A)True
B)False
Q5) Munn v.Illinois pertained to grain elevator rates.
A)True
B)False
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Q2) One of the new elements to the dime novels were
A)working class women.
B)romance.
C)fantasies.
D)experience of immigration.
E)domestic women.
Q3) Explore the causes and patterns of immigration during the period 1890-1920.
Q4) Chronic fatigue and inadequate nourishment increased the risk of ____________________ or injury for workers.
Q5) In 1900 American manufacturing workers' earnings were twice the amount of immigrants working in skilled jobs.
A)True
B)False
Q6) By 1920,a majority of states prohibited child labor.
A)True
B)False
Q7) ____________________ was income politicians made outside of their salaries.
Q8) Describe the living and working conditions of immigrant laborers.
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A)True
B)False
Q2) ____________________ was the first state to grant women the right to vote.
Q3) Woodrow Wilson identified with the Bryan wing of the Democratic Party.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Woodrow Wilson was all of the following except
A)the first southerner elected president since the Civil War.
B)a professional educator with a Ph.D.in political science.
C)a deeply religious progressive who believed in peaceful,orderly reform.
D)a Democrat
E)a firm believer in racial equality.
Q5) Settlement houses had dual functions: They were neighborhood resources for immigrants and working-class residents,while they also actively participated in the progressive political agenda nationwide.
A)True
B)False
Q6) During his 1904 presidential campaign,Theodore Roosevelt promised every American a(n)____________________.
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Q1) The U.S.paid ____________________ for the Philippines.
Q2) In 1900,the "Boxer Rebellion" in China
A)was a nationalist uprising.
B)demonstrated Chinese support for the open-door notes.
C)was a Japanese-led overthrow of the Chinese government.
D)was proof that the Chinese wanted to establish diplomatic ties with Europe.
E)was the beginning of the Communist revolution.
Q3) Discuss the acquisition of the Philippines and the American-Filipino War that established U.S.control there.
Q4) Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for which of the following?
A)building the Panama Canal.
B)his peace efforts in Venezuela.
C)negotiating between Russia and Japan to end their war.
D)endorsing the Platt Amendment.
E)his Corollary.
Q5) William Howard Taft had no foreign policy experience when he became president.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The Spanish American War began in April and ended in
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Q1) The International Workers of the World and the Socialist Party
A)always opposed the war.
B)supported the war after U.S.entry.
C)helped to staff the Committee on Public Information.
D)recruited for the military.
E)supported Germany in the war.
Q2) Contrast the goals and provisions of the Fourteen Points and the Treaty of Versailles.
Q3) The overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II's regime in Russia fueled Woodrow Wilson's belief that the war was helping to make the world safe for democracy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Italy was the nation most pleased with the peace negotiations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Radical socialists who used violence and terror to promote revolution were called
Q6) The ____________________ Party gained control of the U.S.Senate in 1918.
Q7) Eugene Debs
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Q1) Herbert Hoover believed that the government should not play a significant role in economic development.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The poet who symbolized black cultural pride and a rejection of the importance of white opinion during the Harlem Renaissance was ____________________.
Q3) All of the following factors contributed to the postwar depression in U.S.agriculture except
A)recovery of European farms after the war ended.
B)falling prices of farm products.
C)a significant rise in the use of tractors.
D)a decline in European demand for U.S.products.
E)substantial increase in acreage in production.
Q4) The Immigrant Restriction Acts
A)widened the number of countries from which immigrants could come.
B)were passed with relatively little protest.
C)increased the number of immigrants from eastern Europe.
D)resulted in a labor shortage.
E)admitted more Africans to the U.S.
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Q2) The ____________________ was composed of African Americans who fought hard against discrimination in New Deal programs.
Q3) The ____________________ Act guaranteed the right of workers to join unions of their choosing.
Q4) Hoovervilles
Q5) What the economy needed in 1931 was an expanded money supply,lower interest rates,and easier credit.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The court-packing plan was formulated with the best interests of the justices in mind.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The Federal Reserve board intensified the severity of the stock market crash by A)ignoring the crisis.
B)borrowing heavily from European banks.
C)inflating the currency and making credit more available.
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Q1) World War II concentrated power in the largest corporations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1939,Japan abrogated its Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) For the most part,the war brought an end to most of the New Deal agencies concerned with the problems of low-income people.
A)True
B)False
Q4) On the national level,the commitment of organized labor to female workers was weak.
A)True
B)False
Q5) All Quiet on the Western Front was a pro-war movie.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Germany's air force,the ____________________,conducted raids on British air bases.
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A)Democrats continued to control both houses of Congress.
B)Republicans won overwhelming victories in both houses of Congress.
C)Republicans won narrow victories in both houses of Congress.
D)he immediately switched to the Democratic Party.
E)Democrats controlled the house,but Republicans controlled the Senate.
Q2) All of the following were characteristics of the suburbs except they
A)offered privacy,playgrounds,and built-in appliances
B)increased property ownership and symbolized the crusade against communism
C)served as model communities for racial integration.
D)benefited from federal loan policies and tax breaks
E)represented an optimistic spirit and confidence in the future.
Q3) National Security Act
Q4) In the election of 1948,Harry Truman was helped by voters loyal to the memory of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The term "containment" first appeared in an article published in
Q6) Strom Thurmond
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Chapter 28: Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963
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Q1) The first artificial satellite ever launched into space was the Mercury.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Economic growth contributed to political stability.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The program that sent Americans overseas to work on developmental projects was the
A)Green Berets.
B)Peace Corps.
C)Green Peace.
D)Jobs Corps.
E)Volunteer Corps.
Q4) The president of South Vietnam during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years was
A)Ho Chi Minh.
B)Mao Tse Tung.
C)Ngo Dinh Diem.
D)Bao Di.
E)Jiang Jieshi.
Q5) The "King" of pop music in the 1950s was ____________________.
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Richard Nixon's "new economic policy" mandated a 90-day freeze on any increase in wages and prices,to be followed by government monitoring to detect excessive increases in either.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
A)launched the free speech movement of the 1960s.
B)helped initiate the women's movement.
C)raised public awareness about the continuing problem of poverty in America.
D)raised concerns about the use of pesticides in agriculture.
E)was a best-selling romance novel.
Q4) Medicare and Medicaid were curtailed during the Nixon administration.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Both Martin Luther King Jr.and ____________________ were killed in 1968.
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Q6) Examine the goals and achievements of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society."
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Q2) The Iranian shah was overthrown in ____________________.
Q3) Iranian militants who held 66 Americans hostage demanded the United States stop its support of Israel for in exchange for their release.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ronald Reagan appointed James Watt as secretary of the Department of the Interior.
A)True B)False
Q5) "Operation Just Cause" was aimed against A)Nicaragua.
B)Iraq.
C)Cuba.
D)El Salvador.
E)Panama.
Q6) Gerald Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" program included cuts in spending and a one-year ____________________.
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Q1) Examine the changes in immigration patterns and the public and government response to those changes in the late twentieth century.
Q2) People from which of the following were most likely to win the right to immigrate to the United States during the 1980s?
A)Cuba
B)El Salvador
C)Guatemala
D)Haiti
E)Ecuador
Q3) The main purpose of downsizing is
A)to increase the price of your product.
B)to increase the wages of those still employed.
C)to increase profits and decrease expenditures.
D)to facilitate horizontal integration.
E)to facilitate vertical integration.
Q4) A 1996 congressional Commission on Immigration Reform called for ending all controls on the total number of immigration slots.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 32: A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2012
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Q1) The ____________________ Act was a Bush educational program that called for mandatory testing.
Q2) Barack Obama has utilized celebrities and new technologies more than any other president.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 2005,an official U.S.government report concluded that,in 2003,Iraq
A)did have biological weapons though it was unclear what happened to them.
B)destroyed its biological weapons once the U.S.invaded.
C)did not have either biological or nuclear weapons when the U.S.invaded.
D)had no desire to possess weapons of mass destruction.
E)had ended all purchases of military weapons of any kind.
Q4) TARP gave ____________________ dollars to companies that were "too big to fail".
Q5) Compared to Bill Clinton in executive style,George W.Bush preferred longer meetings to study more of a plan's details.
A)True B)False
Q6) In 2006,President Bush issued his first veto of a bill on the issue of wiretaps.
A)True B)False
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