American History for Educators Practice Exam
Course Introduction
American History for Educators provides a comprehensive overview of key events, figures, and movements shaping the United States, from its colonial foundations to the present day. Emphasizing historical thinking skills, the course explores political, social, economic, and cultural developments while highlighting the diverse perspectives and experiences that have influenced the nation's evolution. Designed specifically for future educators, the course also incorporates pedagogical approaches and resources for effectively teaching American history in diverse classroom settings, fostering critical analysis and engagement among students.
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AMERICA A Narrative History 10th Edition by
David Emory Shi
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) Which of the following animals were NOT found in the New World before the Europeans arrived?
A) flying squirrels and catfish
B) bison and opossums
C) sheep and pigs
D) turkeys and llamas
E) rattlesnakes and iguanas
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following was NOT a result of the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella?
A) opening of the Atlantic slave trade
B) unification of Spain into a single nation
C) expulsion of the Moors
D) increased interest in spreading Catholicism
E) expanded interest in exploration
Answer: A
Q3) Pueblos were communities built by the Aztecs on cliff sides.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Englands Colonies
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Q1) George Carteret
A)Carolina
B)Georgia
C)Maryland
D)Massachusetts Bay
E)New Jersey
F)New Netherland
G)Pennsylvania
H)Plymouth
I)Rhode Island
J)Virginia
Answer: E
Q2) Charles I:
A) was willing to negotiate the extent of royal power
B) was returned to power after the English Civil War
C) protected Puritans during his reign
D) disbanded Parliament from 1629 to 1640
E) married numerous times in an effort to secure a male heir
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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Q1) John Locke
A)gave the sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
B)urged people to pursue salvation without ministers
C)urged his parishioners to experience a "new birth"
D)challenged biblical notions through science
E)former slave who became a major Virginia landowner
F)author of the Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack
G)was a newspaper editor tried for libel
H)developed indigo as an exotic staple
I)advocate of "natural law" and "natural rights"
J)confessed to witchcraft in Salem
Answer: I
Q2) The events surrounding a suspected slave revolt in New York City in 1741 offer parallels to:
A) the English Civil War
B) the Salem witch craze
C) the American Revolution
D) Bacon's Rebellion
E) the Great Awakening
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Q1) Although the Seven Years' War has often been called a world war, there was very little international conflict.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The colonial wars had a devastating effect on the people of:
A) Virginia
B) Quebec
C) Pennsylvania
D) New York
E) Massachusetts
Q3) In Pennsylvania, the Paxton Boys:
A) killed and threatened peaceful Indians
B) employed mob violence against British officials
C) used vigilante justice against local criminals
D) demanded that the governor reduce taxes
E) tended to support British policy
Q4) Through the first half of the eighteenth century, the power of the colonial assemblies generally declined.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1783
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Q1) Under the Articles of Confederation, some legislative measures required different majorities for approval.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The timely arrival of the French navy off the coast of Yorktown gave Washington's forces the reinforcement they needed to defeat Cornwallis's British army.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In its winter camp at Valley Forge, Washington's army was decimated by all of the following EXCEPT:
A) hunger
B) desertion
C) enemy attack
D) resignations
E) brutal cold
Q4) George Washington's winter at Valley Forge was a special moment in American history. Examine that winter and discuss the important developments that helped transform the Continental army.
Q5) Explain why 1777 has been referred to as the "year of setbacks" for the British.
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Chapter 6: Strengthening the New Nation
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Q1) After Shays's Rebellion:
A) Massachusetts was governed by martial law
B) farmers throughout America were watched by local safety committees
C) England prepared for the possibility of resuming the war
D) there were numerous calls promoting a stronger central government
E) taxes were increased
Q2) Edmond-Charles Genêt
A)was the oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
B)issued a neutrality proclamation in 1793 in response to pressure to enter European conflicts
C)drafted the land ordinance of 1784
D)diplomat who sought to undermine American policy relative to the French Revolution
E)briefly represented New York at the Constitutional Convention
F)claimed to "smell a rat" at the Constitutional Convention
G)defined the United States through his tenure as chief justice of the Supreme Court
H)arrived in Philadelphia having spent months preparing for the convention
I)led American troops at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
J)negotiated the extremely popular treaty with Spain
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Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800-1815
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Q1) Thomas Jefferson believed that a large federal debt would:
A) mean high taxes and public corruption
B) be a national "blessing"
C) help bankers and investors in the United States make money from the federal government
D) be easily paid off in fifty years
E) cause another revolution
Q2) Describe President Jefferson's foreign policy, especially as it related to the Barbary pirates and the French.
Q3) During Thomas Jefferson's presidency, the national debt grew much larger.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Aaron Burr's treason trial featured:
A) John Marshall's insistence upon a rigid definition of treason
B) Burr's dramatic confession
C) Jefferson's testimony on behalf of the prosecution
D) charges that the jury had been bribed
E) three witnesses of overt acts of treason
Q5) What were the short-term and long-term results of the War of 1812?
Q6) Examine Aaron Burr's western conspiracy.
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Chapter 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850
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Q1) German immigrants in the 1850s:
A) were mostly poor and nonreligious
B) almost never returned to their native country
C) tended to come as groups and families
D) usually spoke English already
E) were not a target of the nativists
Q2) Cyrus McCormick
A)invented the telegraph
B)invented the sewing machine
C)with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company
D)wrote "Oh! Susanna"
E)immigrant piano maker
F)invented the primitive grain reaper
G)advocate of free public education
H)patented a process for vulcanizing rubber
I)improved the steamboat
J)used his memory to bring industrial technology from Britain to the United States
Q3) Discuss the transportation revolution that followed the opening of the Erie Canal.
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Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828
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Q1) Four presidential candidates received electoral votes in 1824.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The United States experienced a period of economic prosperity in the years after the War of 1812.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although there was much resistance to the First Bank of the United States, by the end of the War of 1812, there was significant support for chartering a successor bank. Examine this development.
Q4) The American System included support for all of the following policies EXCEPT:
A) high tariffs
B) free public schools
C) a national bank
D) internal improvements
E) high prices for western lands
Q5) Discuss the concept of the "Era of Good Feelings," paying particular attention to the state of the nation after the War of 1812.
Q6) Examine the factors contributing to the rise of Jacksonian democracy.
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Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
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Q1) John Tyler
A)offered as a toast at a Jefferson Day dinner: "Our Union-It must be preserved!"
B)was the husband of the woman snubbed by wives of cabinet members
C)called the "Little Magician"
D)was the director of the Bank of the United States
E)resigned the vice presidency in 1832
F)was Jackson's opponent for president in 1832
G)won the presidency with his "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign
H)as a Massachusetts senator, said "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable"
I)was a presidential candidate for the Anti-Masonic party in 1832
J)was the 1840 Whig vice presidential candidate
Q2) Describe the election of 1832. What were the major political parties, and what were the significant issues involved in the campaign? What was the outcome?
Q3) Ultimately, the Jackson presidency was revolutionary. Discuss the major political changes brought about by Jackson's administration.
Q4) How did Jackson's early life shape his development into adulthood?
Q5) Describe the new party system that emerged in the 1830s.
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Chapter 11: The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860
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Q1) By 1860, slavery was most concentrated:
A) in the Lower South
B) in the Carolinas
C) in the Upper South
D) in Texas and Louisiana
E) equally through the South
Q2) As southerners moved farther west and south between 1812 and 1860:
A) cotton production soared
B) the South became less agricultural
C) the South became less distinctive
D) fewer slaves were needed
E) North-South relations got better
Q3) Which of the following was not a part of the "masculine" culture of the Old Southwest's frontier?
A) violence
B) gender equality
C) alcohol use
D) gambling
E) sexual promiscuity
Q4) What roles did religion, folklore, and family life play in the lives of slaves?
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Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860
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Q1) John Humphrey Noyes
A)set up Seneca Falls Convention
B)founder of the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator
C)pro-slavery senator from South Carolina
D)founded Mormonism
E)founder of the Oneida Community
F)revivalist who initiated the "circuit rider" system
G)promoted statewide school systems
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums
I)escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate
Q2) Describe the various trends in education during this period. Explore how geographic location, gender, or socioeconomic status impacted attitudes and access to education.
Q3) The successful example of antebellum utopian communities converted many Americans to socialism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Evaluate the goals, methods, and leadership of the abolitionist movement. Which of the methods were most effective? Why?
Q5) Discuss the emergence of a popular press in antebellum America.
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Chapter 13: Western Expansion, 1830-1848
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Q1) There were more than 200 different Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River in 1840.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Daniel Webster
A)was the young congressman who argued that Polk had maneuvered the Mexicans into attacking
B)led American forces at Veracruz
C)was elected vice president in 1840
D)was one of the defenders at the Alamo
E)was the American who captured San Diego and Los Angeles
F)was the secretary of state who negotiated the treaty resolving the boundary between the northeastern United States and British Canada
G)was known as "the Pathfinder"
H)died after one month in office
I)was president of the Republic of Texas
J)was known as "Young Hickory"
Q3) Support for the Mexican-American War was strongest in New England.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860
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Q1) As a result of the Compromise of 1850, California entered the Union as a free state.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the mining frontier of the Far West, women often enjoyed greater opportunities than back east.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Republican platform in 1860 promised to end slavery in the southern states.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The idea of popular sovereignty:
A) solved the controversy over slavery's extension
B) would allow people in the territories to decide whether or not to permit slavery
C) guaranteed slavery would spread westward
D) allowed Oregon to enter the Union as a slave state
E) was adopted by the Whigs in the 1848 election
Q5) Explain the issues that led to the Compromise of 1850 and show how the Compromise was fashioned and passed.
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15: The War of the Union, 1861-1865
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Q1) Winfield Scott
A)was Lincoln's second vice president
B)was killed at Chancellorsville by his own men
C)had his division destroyed at the Battle of Gettysburg
D)was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans
E)marched through Georgia living off the land while destroying plantations, crops, and railroad lines
F)devised the Union's "Anaconda Plan"
G)was the 1864 Democratic presidential candidate
H)was the vice president of the Confederacy
I)was the Union admiral who captured Mobile, Alabama
J)was the president of the Confederacy
Q2) Four states joined the Confederacy after the outbreak of actual fighting.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The First Battle of Bull Run was a Union defeat.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss how the Civil War was "the most traumatic event in American history."
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Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Q1) Waving "the bloody shirt" meant referring to the Civil War and the southern rebellion in order to discredit political opponents.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The main issue that caused the dispute between Congress and President Johnson was
A) Johnson's role in Lincoln's assassination
B) Johnson's past service as a Confederate soldier
C) a growing conflict of opinion over Reconstruction policy
D) Congress's insistence that Johnson stole the presidency
E) the House's impeachment of Johnson
Q3) The Fourteenth Amendment recognized the validity of Confederate debts.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Andrew Johnson was
A) impeached and immediately removed from office
B) threatened with impeachment but never actually impeached
C) impeached by the Supreme Court
D) impeached, then imprisoned
E) impeached by the House but not convicted by the Senate
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Q1) All of the following statements are reasons why child labor was problematic EXCEPT:
A) child laborers took well-paying jobs from legal immigrants
B) child laborers often received no education
C) children suffered three times as many accidents as adults
D) a child working in a textile mill was only half as likely to reach the age of twenty as a child outside a mill
E) child laborers often worked dangerous jobs
Q2) The National Labor Union:
A) opposed the eight-hour day for employees of the federal government
B) opposed reforms such as cooperatives and equal rights for women and blacks in favor of simply bargaining with employers to get the best working conditions and wages possible
C) was led by Alfred Chandler
D) was influential in getting Congress to enact an eight-hour workday for federal employees
E) was less concerned with political and social problems than in bargaining with employers
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Chapter 18: The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
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Q1) Black migrants to the West were called "Exodusters" because:
A) most were ex-crop dusters
B) they were often making their exodus from the South
C) they carried topical infections
D) most saw the West as an exotic destination
E) their bodies were extremely dusty after the long trip
Q2) Cattle drives:
A) delivered herds to the slaughterhouses in Chicago
B) were conducted by cowboys, twenty-five percent of whom were African Americans
C) typically started from ranches in Kansas and Oklahoma
D) caused the extinction of Texas longhorns
E) almost always began in Montana and ended in Texas
Q3) Describe the role of women in the New West.
Q4) The major champion of the New South gospel was:
A) J. L. M. Curry
B) Henry W. Grady
C) John Ruffin Green
D) Edmund Ruffin
E) C. Vann Woodward
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Chapter 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900
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Q1) William Graham Sumner
A)chief spokesperson for reform Darwinism
B)wrote On the Origin of Species
C)Republican leader of the "Half-Breeds"
D)devised the subtreasury plan
E)wrote Folkways
F)Democratic presidential candidate in 1896
G)vetoed the Chinese Exclusion Act before it was overridden by Congress
H)led march on Washington, D.C., to demand that the federal government provide jobs for the unemployed
I)founded the Grange
J)McKinley's campaign manager
Q2) Following the 1893 depression, Coxey's Army:
A) demanded government jobs for the unemployed
B) organized a massive protest march down Wall Street
C) tried to overthrow the government
D) carried Cleveland into the White House
E) was led by a poor, broken farmer from Iowa
Q3) Compare social Darwinism and reform Darwinism. What were the basic assumptions of each movement?
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Chapter 20: Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913
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Q1) All of the following were put forward as reasons for the United States annexing the Philippines EXCEPT:
A) the desire to Christianize the Filipinos
B) acquiring better access to trade with China
C) the need to keep the Philippines from being taken over by foreign rivals
D) gaining access to large oil and coal deposits in the Philippines
E) a belief that the Filipinos were unfit for self-government
Q2) When the American-led overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in the early 1890s was improperly done:
A) Japan came in and took over the islands
B) President Cleveland preferred that the monarchy be restored to power
C) native Hawaiians once again became the dominant political force
D) Hawaii immediately became a U.S. colony
E) Cleveland stabilized the new government by sending in the marines
Q3) Spain refused to consider practically all of the American demands concerning Cuba before the United States declared war.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did Hawaii become part of the United States?
Q5) What was the Open Door policy, and how did it come about?
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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
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Q1) Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1908.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Booker T. Washington was the most prominent black leader in the early twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Lincoln Steffens
A)was the original "efficiency expert"
B)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1904
C)wrote The Jungle
D)was a Socialist party presidential candidate multiple times
E)was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1912
F)influenced New Nationalism with The Promise of American Life
G)wrote Congressional Government
H)wrote articles for McClure's
I)served on the Ohio Supreme Court
J)was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court
Q4) In what ways was the election of 1912 significant?
Q5) Who were the muckrakers, and what impact did they have on American society?
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Chapter 22: America and the Great War, 1914-1920
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Q1) What was the major cause of the East St. Louis riot in 1917?
A) racial tension in a defense factory
B) a white man was accused of murdering an African American child
C) an African American was accused of rape
D) misunderstanding of the homeowners' restrictive clauses
E) black members of the National Guard were told to not wear their uniforms
Q2) During World War I, some American symphonies refused to perform Bach and Beethoven.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The U.S. military effort in France:
A) helped turn back several German offensives
B) had little if any significance
C) resulted in millions of American casualties
D) was commanded by Herbert Hoover
E) showed that small elite fighting forces were more effective than trench warfare
Q4) Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit, a pilot, was killed in the war.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
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Q1) Which court case or legal action brought the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments back to life?
A) Abrams v. United States (1918)
B) Schenck v. United States (1917)
C) Buchanan v. Worley (1917)
D) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
E) Guinn v. United States (1915)
Q2) Conservative moralists saw the flappers as just another sign of:
A) progress
B) equality
C) women's rights
D) a degenerating society
E) the work of the devil
Q3) Which one of the following is associated with Detroit, Michigan?
A) airplane industry
B) socialism
C) farming
D) entertainment industry
E) automobile industry
Q4) Describe the defensive temper of the 1920s. What factors contributed to it?
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Chapter 24: The Reactionary Twenties
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Q1) Andrew Mellon was Harding's
A) secretary of the Treasury
B) secretary of state
C) secretary of war
D) secretary of commerce
E) attorney general
Q2) What had the progressivism of the prewar period turned into by the 1920s? What factors led to this transformation?
Q3) Alfred Smith
A)was the secretary of the Treasury
B)was Harding's secretary of state
C)was the secretary of the interior
D)was the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan
E)died in 1923
F)wrote American Individualism
G)was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1920
H)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928
I)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924
J)was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1924
Q4) How might the decade of the 1920s be called "the decade of prosperity"?
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Q1) Harold Ickes
A)author of The Grapes of Wrath
B)created the Share-the-Wealth program
C)served as secretary of labor
D)was a BIA commissioner
E)was the Republican presidential candidate in 1936
F)was a CIO leader
G)proposed to pay $200 a month to those over 60 who retired and promised to spend the money
H)was interior secretary
I)was the "radio priest"
J)headed the FERA and the WPA
Q2) Despite the New Deal, full recovery from the Depression did not come until the crisis of World War II.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By 1935, the National Recovery Administration had become unpopular.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: The Second World War, 1933-1945
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Q1) Harry S. Truman
A)American admiral in the Pacific
B)Republican appointed secretary of war in 1940
C)Democratic presidential candidate in 1940
D)elected vice president in 1944
E)directed the construction of atomic bombs
F)was in charge of all U.S. forces in east Asia
G)lost the presidential election in 1940
H)drew up the Atlantic Charter with an American president
I)senator who led the committee that coined term "merchants of death"
J)lost the presidential election in 1944
Q2) In June 1941, Germany widened the war by:
A) declaring war on the United States
B) invading the Soviet Union
C) attacking Spain
D) invading Britain
E) declaring war on Poland
Q3) Discuss America's attempt at neutrality in the 1930s. How did government policies help steer America away from global conflict? Were these measures successful?
Q4) Detail the Yalta Conference and show its importance to the postwar world.
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Chapter 27: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952
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Q1) One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:
A) end it brought to the Depression
B) racist nature of the enemies of the United States
C) number of northerners it inspired to move to the South
D) lessons in equality American soldiers learned from Europeans
E) greater number of people receiving higher education
Q2) Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to:
A) provoke a war with the Americans and the British
B) gain the rich natural resources of those countries
C) inspire Russian patriotic feeling
D) gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean
E) free those countries from dictatorships
Q3) Senator McCarthy was very effective in:
A) passing major legislation
B) nabbing actual Communists
C) gathering proof to back his accusations
D) protecting American freedoms
E) exploiting public fears
Q4) Trace the major developments in the cold war from 1945 to 1948.
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Chapter 28: Cold War America, 1950-1959
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Q1) By 1960, which American city had the largest concentration of Mexican Americans?
A) New York, New York
B) Chicago, Illinois
C) Miami, Florida
D) Los Angeles, California
E) San Diego. California
Q2) After the war, Americans were most eager to:
A) purchase
B) save
C) travel
D) pursue education
E) work overtime
Q3) What were the main reasons for suburban growth in this period? How did it affect American society?
Q4) Dulles's policy of "roll back" involved:
A) liberating people under Communist rule
B) massing troops on the borders of Communist countries
C) constant provocations of the Soviets
D) regular flights over Soviet territory
E) the abandonment of the containment policy
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Chapter 29: A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968
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Q1) The Voting Rights Act of 1965:
A) was passed by Congress over Johnson's opposition
B) ended black protest movements
C) dramatically expanded black votes in the South D) made the South more strongly Democratic E) was successfully resisted in the Deep South
Q2) Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson: A) had a humble and modest character
B) was a fairly typical southern conservative
C) may have been involved in the assassination
D) like Kennedy, had been born into wealth and privilege E) genuinely cared about the disadvantaged in society
Q3) In early 1968, increasing opposition to the war within his own party:
A) only increased Johnson's determination to win in Vietnam
B) ultimately forced Johnson out of the presidential race
C) led to Johnson's clear defeat in the New Hampshire primary D) caused Johnson to end the war on poverty
E) caused most Americans to rally around Johnson
Q4) Discuss, in detail, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "militant nonviolence." How did this philosophy inspire others to challenge segregation in the South?
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Q1) At Columbia University in 1968:
A) anti-war students disrupted a speech by President Johnson
B) the Yippies held their founding convention
C) students successfully fought for free tuition
D) a student strike shut down the campus
E) the presence of military recruiters sparked a riot
Q2) The youths of the counterculture:
A) came primarily from poor or working-class families
B) congregated in the Watts district of Los Angeles
C) were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950s
D) believed that electoral politics would solve society's problems
E) preferred urban surroundings to a rural life in contact with nature
Q3) The most important factor behind the sexual revolution of the 1960s was the:
A) Supreme Court's legalization of abortion
B) development of birth-control pills
C) free-love philosophy of the hippie movement
D) increasing number of women in college
E) permissive messages and images in Hollywood films
Q4) Discuss the various aspects of President Nixon's Vietnam policy. How was Nixon's policy different from those of his predecessors?
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Q1) Discuss the status of the poor, the homeless, and the victims of AIDS during the 1980s. How did the government respond to the needs of each of these groups?
Q2) Ronald Reagan viewed the Soviet Union as:
A) a close and trusted ally
B) militarily weak
C) a source of global stability
D) an evil empire
E) capable of becoming more democratic while remaining Communist
Q3) Many of those who contracted AIDS in the early and mid-1980s:
A) caught it through casual personal contact
B) could be cured with prompt treatment
C) were in monogamous relationships
D) soon died
E) were put in government detention centers
Q4) The collapse of stock prices that occurred on "Black Monday" (October 19, 1987):
A) caused a depression
B) continued for years
C) affected only the United States
D) caused Reagan to further reduce taxes
E) in percentage terms, was the worst in American history
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Q1) Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In Afghanistan in 2001, the United States installed a democratic government led by the Taliban.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The welfare-reform measure passed by Congress in 1996:
A) was opposed by the Republicans
B) was applauded by liberals
C) limited the amount of time one could receive welfare payments
D) quickly began to lower poverty rates
E) significantly increased federal funding for welfare
Q4) Did American foreign policy change significantly when Bill Clinton became president? Fully explain.
Q5) Discuss the issue of increasing polarization in American politics. How has President Obama tried to lessen the tension, and has he been successful?
Q6) Describe the new patterns of immigration to the United States. What might account for this?
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