American History I Final Exam
Course Introduction
American History I explores the development of the United States from its pre-Columbian origins through the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The course examines key events, figures, and social, economic, and political forces that shaped the nation, including Native American societies, European colonization, the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, westward expansion, slavery, sectionalism, and the conflict between North and South. Through critical analysis of historical documents and interpretative frameworks, students gain a foundational understanding of the early American experience and its lasting impact on society.
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Liberty Equality Power A History of the American People Volume 1 To 1877 6th Edition by John
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Chapter 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, conquest, catastrophe
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Q1) The era of European exploration
A)brought previously isolated societies into contact with other nations and cultures.
B)promoted peaceful and friendly relations between different ethnic groups.
C)promoted religious toleration and ended the persecution of non-Christians around the globe.
D)failed to spread technology.
E)held no benefits to American Indians.
Answer: A
Q2) The Indians of the Pacific northwest divided tasks along gender lines.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The European explorer who reached the Grand Canyon was
A)Francisco de Coronado.
B)Amerigo Vespucci.
C)Francisco Pizarro.
D)Hernan Cortés.
E)Prince Henry.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America
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Q1) By the late 1640s,Massachusetts had established a ____________________,in which the legislature was comprised of two houses or chambers.
Answer: bicameral legislature
Q2) Jamestown was established and settled by
A)Elizabeth I.
B)coastal fishermen from New England.
C)the Virginia company.
D)Puritans.
E)Quakers.
Answer: C
Q3) The Englishman who explored the North River was ____________________. Answer: Henry Hudson
Q4) The population of Virginia and Maryland became self-sustaining about ____________________,when live births finally began to outnumber deaths. Answer: 1680
Q5) ____________________ was the first genuine city in the American South. Answer: Charleston
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Q6) Quakers believed in ____________________;opposing both war and violence. Answer: pacifism
Chapter 3: England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, liberty, and Expansion
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Q1) Merchants were consistent in their support for the government of the Dominion of New England.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) All of the following explored the Mississippi River except A)Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville.
B)Father Jacques Marquette.
C)Louis Joliet.
D)René-Robert Cavelier.
E)Father Hennepin.
Answer: A
Q3) The governmental body charged with overseeing the Navigation Acts in the colonies was the Lords of Trade.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) ____________________ translated the Bible and other religious works into the Wampanoag language.
Answer: John Eliot
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Chapter 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent
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Q1) Examine the Great Awakening.What were its results?
Q2) Archbishop of Canterbury,John Tillotson,had a significant impact on tutors at Harvard College,including John Leverett,Jr.who went on to become president of Harvard in 1707.
A)True B)False
Q3) The descendants of the Acadians who migrated to Louisiana after they were expelled from Nova Scotia by the British are called ____________________.
Q4) Native American villages outside the French alliance were called ____________________ by the French.
Q5) Irish immigrants from Ulster were members of the ____________________ Church.
Q6) The possession of a(n)____________________ gave Africans real protection against malaria.
Q7) Compare and contrast economic development in eighteenth-century America among the three major regions: New England,the mid-Atlantic,and the South.
Q8) Describe and analyze family relations in colonial America.
Q9) To celebrate ____________________ Day,violent Boston mobs burned effigies of the Pope,Satan,and the Stuart pretender. Page 6
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Chapter 5: Reform, resistance, revolution
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Q1) Britain's new imperial policy after 1763 can best be described as
A)one of increased centralized control over the colonies.
B)one of relaxed control over the colonies.
C)unchanged from before 1763.
D)one that sought to get rid of the colonies.
E)one that sought to exterminate the Indians.
Q2) Reasons for the colonists' anger over the Tea Act included
A)the monopolization rights given to certain merchants.
B)the attempt to tax the colonists with cheaper tea.
C)many tea merchants would be hurt by the act.
D)fear that it would lead to further destruction of liberty.
E)all of these choices
Q3) The 1733 Molasses Act was successful in keeping French molasses out of the British colonies in North America.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The colonists named the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act the
Q5) Sugar Act
Q6) Examine the colonial response to the Coercive Acts of 1774.
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary Republic
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Q1) Cornwallis and the British army were pinned down at Yorktown Port by a French navy under the command of
A)Marquis de LaFayette.
B)Pierre de Beaumarchais.
C)Charles DeGaulle.
D)Marquis de LaFitte
E)François de Grasse.
Q2) Massachusetts slave Elizabeth Freeman sued her master in 1781 and won her liberty. A)True
B)False
Q3) The Articles of Confederation
A)gave the central government complete and compulsive power over the states and the citizens.
B)included an independent executive branch.
C)never went into effect because it was never ratified.
D)created a strong court system.
E)created a central government that was weaker than the individual states.
Q4) Daniel Boone
Q5) Shays's Rebellion
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Chapter 7: Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815
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Q1) The leader of the first Congress was ____________________.
Q2) The reception of Jay's Treaty can best be described as A)very negative.
B)very positive.
C)restrained.
D)relief.
E)none of these choices
Q3) Explore the U.S.attempt to remain neutral during the protracted struggle between France and Great Britain.
Q4) The First Congress's first action was to
A)approve the Bill of Rights.
B)create a federal court system.
C)create the executive departments of War,State,and Treasury.
D)declare war on France.
E)pass a tariff on imports.
Q5) Fourteen Republicans were prosecuted for violating the
Q6) Examine President Jefferson's war with the judiciary.
Q7) Hartford Convention
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Q8) ____________________ was elected John Adams's Vice President in 1796.
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Chapter 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850
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Q1) As a result of the market revolution,women spent fewer hours on housework.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Erie Canal was an immense success.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All the following regarding southern farmers who moved into the Northwest is true except they
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.
Q4) By 1818 the National Road
A)ran from Washington D.C to Atlanta.
B)was a smooth,crushed rock thoroughfare.
C)had dramatically reduced the cost of moving goods inland.
D)signaled the decline in steamboat traffic.
E)all of these choices
Q5) A "razorback" was a southern term for a(n)____________________.
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Chapter 9: The Old South, 1790-1850
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Q1) The slaveholding senator from South Carolina who stated that "cotton is king" was
Q2) In the Chesapeake slave system
A)nearly all work was in tobacco.
B)men and women worked together.
C)only men did fieldwork.
D)most women worked as domestic servants.
E)tasks were divided by gender.
Q3) In 1860,the southern slave population was collectively worth $1.3 billion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the plantation counties of coastal South Carolina
A)slave labor forces tended to be small.
B)overseers closely supervised slaves in field work.
C)slaves made up 80 percent of the population.
D)work was organized by the "gang system."
E)the healthy climate resulted in few diseases.
Q5) Examine the impact of slavery and the cotton culture on southern economic development.
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Q6) Explore the various slave rebellions of the early nineteenth century.
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Chapter 10: Toward an American Culture
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Q1) ____________________ was the belief that all theological changes since the end of Biblical times were man made mistakes.
Q2) The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was
A)Harriet Beecher Stowe.
B)Lydia Maria Child.
C)Catherine Beecher.
D)Sarah Josepha Hale.
E)Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Q3) Newspapers were written mainly for women.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The plain Protestants of the North talked often of the millennium.
A)True
B)False
Q5) blood sports
Q6) Northern parents displayed tremendous grief at the death of a child.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Describe the various types of popular entertainment that appealed to northern Americans in the nineteenth century.
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Chapter 11: Whigs and Democrats
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Q1) The 1840 election was a high water mark in ____________________.
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following was not a cause of the Panic of 1819?
A)recovery of European agriculture in the early nineteenth century
B)overexpansion of credit by American bankers
C)underproduction by American farmers
D)the hoarding of available specie by European nations
E)revolution and war had cut off the supply of precious metals from Peru and Mexico.
Q4) Examine the ideals,policies,and consequences of the Bank War.
Q5) European demand for American agriculture increased after the Napoleonic wars.
A)True
B)False
Q6) As many as ____________________ people died during the Trail of Tears.
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Reform
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Q1) Whigs and Democrats encouraged the aspirations of slaves and free blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Analyze the antislavery movement in the United States in the years following the 1830s.
Q3) The most prominent abolitionist in antebellum United States was
A)Charles Finney.
B)Horace Mann.
C)William Lloyd Garrison.
D)Lyman Beecher.
E)Dorothea Dix
Q4) The American Anti-Slavery Society demanded gradual emancipation of slaves.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Postal Campaign
Q6) The leading advocate of humane treatment for the insane was ____________________.
Q7) 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.
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Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny: an Empire for
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Q1) President William Henry Harrison caught pneumonia on his inauguration day and died one month later.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The candidate of the Liberty Party who may have cost Henry Clay the election in 1844 was ____________________.
Q3) In the 1830s and 1840s the arid plains of the west were known as the ____________________.
Q4) Opponents of the Mexican War
A)were mostly merchants who feared the war would disrupt their profitable trade with Mexico.
B)were arrested and tried for treason.
C)claimed the war was a plot to expand slavery into new territories.
D)convinced the public that the war was a terrible mistake.
E)came primarily from the southern states.
Q5) Most of the forty-niners who rushed to California agreed with Free Soilers.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Young America movement
Q7) Chinese men migrated to ____________________. Page 17
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860
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Q1) The leading advocate for southern rights in the dispute over Kansas was
A)Stephen Douglas.
B)David Atchison.
C)Franklin B.Pierce.
D)Jefferson Davis.
E)Abraham Lincoln.
Q2) In the Dred Scott Decision,the Supreme Court argued all of the following except A)blacks were not citizens.
B)Dred Scott had no right to petition the Court.
C)slavery was a state issue not a federal issue.
D)restricting slavery was unconstitutional.
E)the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction in the case.
Q3) The subject of Charles Sumner's speech that led to his beating on the floor of Congress was
A)the hanging of John Brown.
B)the Dred Scott Decision.
C)the Compromise of 1850
D)the Fugitive Slave Act
E)"Bleeding Kansas."
Q4) The political group that was pledged to secrecy was the
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Chapter 15: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862
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Q1) All Republicans insisted that slavery be kept out of all future territories,even if doing so destroyed the Union.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The south had the capacity to build a strong navy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The first battle of the "ironclads" at Hampton Roads was significant because A)the Confederate navy lost its only metal-plated ship and never built another.
B)it proved that steam-powered ships were too dangerous to use in coastal waters.
C)it was the biggest Union naval victory of the war.
D)it demonstrated that a new era of naval technology had begun.
E)it proved the effectiveness of submarine warfare.
Q4) Examine the Crittenden Compromise.Why was it rejected by the Republicans?
Q5) ____________________ refused Southern requests to withdraw federal troops from Fort Sumter.
Q6) The most lethal weapon of Civil War battles was the ____________________.
Q7) National Banking Act
Q8) King Cotton diplomacy
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Chapter 16: A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865
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Q1) The victory at Vicksburg was significant because it
A)finally convinced Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
B)gave the Union control of the Mississippi and divided the Confederacy.
C)stopped Lee's invasion of the North.
D)opened the way for the Union to take Richmond.
E)stopped the Indian raids in the West.
Q2) The race riots of the summer of 1863 were a result of A)the Emancipation Proclamation.
B)the draft.
C)Confederate victories at Chancellorsville.
D)decreasing support for Lincoln.
E)black migration from the South.
Q3) The Confederate incursion into Maryland in September 1862 went well at the start. A)True B)False
Q4) Emancipation Proclamation
Q5) The Emancipation Proclamation radically enlarged the purpose of the Civil War. A)True B)False
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Chapter 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) The main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to
A)destroy the Republican Party in the South.
B)deny freedmen equal protection under the law.
C)return black Americans to slavery.
D)dismantle the Democratic Party.
E)take the South out of the Union.
Q2) Scalawags were
A)northerners who attempted to finance economic enterprises in the postwar South.
B)southern blacks attempting to exert their newly acquired political power.
C)white,southern-born Republicans.
D)white southerners who opposed reconstruction policies.
E)criminals who stole public funds during Reconstruction.
Q3) The Tenure of Office Act
A)angered congressmen by limiting their terms to two years.
B)stated that a president could only hold office while in good standing.
C)required Senate approval before the president could remove a cabinet member.
D)was designed to implement the spoils system.
E)limited the president to two terms in office.
Q4) Carpetbaggers
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Chapter 18: A Transformed Nation: the West and the New
South, 1865-1900
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Q1) The postwar boom in the range cattle industry began in which of the following?
A)Kansas
B)western Missouri
C)southern Texas
D)eastern Oklahoma
E)Nebraska
Q2) Most Chinese immigrants to California did not intend on staying there permanently.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The first immigration restriction legislation in the U.S.was directed toward
A)Chinese migration.
B)Irish migration.
C)Japanese migration.
D)German migration.
E)Italian migration.
Q4) In Williams v.Mississippi,the U.S.Supreme Court outlawed the use of literacy and property qualifications to limit voting rights.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
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Q1) American Impressionism expressed middle class values.
A)True
B)False
Q2) William Jennings Bryan
Q3) The Knights of Labor were unusual in admitting unskilled workers,women,and blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the Gilded Age the most important advertising medium was
A)magazines.
B)billboards.
C)radio ads.
D)newspapers.
E)government ads.
Q5) The ____________________ was young,athletic and self confident.
Q6) The important nineteenth-century labor organizer who led the American Federation of Labor was ____________________.
Q7) Examine the economic development of the United States during the Gilded Age.In what areas did the economy achieve its greatest growth?
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Chapter 20: Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920
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Q1) Most of the "new immigrants"
A)intended to establish permanent homes and to become U.S.citizens.
B)moved to the South to take advantage of industrial development there.
C)immediately joined labor unions.
D)hoped to work and save money in the United States and then to return to their homelands.
E)bought farms.
Q2) Chinese and Japanese immigrants
A)settled primarily in the South.
B)worked primarily in the automobile industry.
C)made up the majority of the urban workforce.
D)were generally more prosperous than European immigrants.
E)were ineligible for citizenship.
Q3) The political boss of Boston was
A)"King Richard" Croker.
B)Abe Ruef.
C)James Michael Curley.
D)Tom Pendergast.
E)James Duke.
Q4) African Americans migrated to ____________________ areas in the north and south.
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Chapter 21: Progressivism
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Q1) Compare and contrast socialism and Progressivism.What were their similarities? Where did they differ?
Q2) Bull Moosers
Q3) Woodrow Wilson remained true to his New Freedom principles.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Federal Reserve Act reflected Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles by breaking up private financial institutions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Progressive Era achieved fame in part because far-reaching political and social reform was achieved at all levels of government throughout the United States.Describe the circumstances that led to this "reform fever" and the basic premises underlying the Progressive impulse.Be sure to discuss reforms at each level of government.What,in your opinion,was the most significant reform? Why?
Q6) Western states granted women the right to vote in the interest of egalitarianism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q1) Frederick Jackson Turner published his "frontier thesis" at a time of national prosperity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
Q3) Great White Fleet
Q4) jingoism
Q5) Although a committed anti-imperialist,____________________ eventually supported the Treaty of Paris,which annexed the Philippines.
Q6) All of the following were conditions of the Platt Amendment except that Cuba
A)could not make treaties with foreign powers.
B)could not impose tariffs on U.S.imports.
C)had to sell or lease land to the U.S.military.
D)had to permit the United States to oversee Cuban political affairs.
E)none of these choices
Q7) Except for a brief period in 1925,U.S.troops remained in ____________________ continuously from 1912 until 1933.
Q8) Describe the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.What was its purpose? What impact did it have on U.S.foreign policy?
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Chapter 23: War and Society, 1914-1920
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Q1) Few Americans were drafted.
A)True
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Q2) The international organization conceptualized by Woodrow Wilson as an organization that would pursue international peace and security was the
Q3) Which of the following was not a factor in the growing U.S.movement toward war?
A)German submarine warfare
B)two revolutions in Russia
C)German overtures toward Mexico
D)German-American support of the war
E)the desire to fight for freedom and democracy
Q4) Russia remained in the First World War until the 1918 armistice.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The "war guilt clause" of the Treaty of Versailles blamed Russia for starting World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Four-minute men
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Chapter 24: The 1920s
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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) Calvin Coolidge
A)was a cheerful alcoholic who liked to "carouse" with his friends.
B)believed that the federal government must regulate the economy and control big business.
C)was president when the Great Depression started.
D)was a somber,honest politician who did not socialize with "the boys."
E)significantly raised income and estate taxes.
Q3) Discuss the rise of advertising and mass marketing.How did these innovations influence the development of the consumer society of the 1920s?
Q4) Only a very small number of Americans responded to the nativist arguments of the Ku Klux Klan.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The ____________________ Pact outlawed war as a tool of national policy.
Q6) Briefly describe the Scopes trial.What was its significance?
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) Which of the following does not describe Franklin D.Roosevelt?
A)He owed his political ascent to the famous name from his older cousin Theodore.
B)He was well educated.
C)He was popular among his associates in the New York Democratic Party.
D)He was charming,gregarious and enjoyed a good time.
E)He was faithful to his wife Eleanor.
Q2) The people who organized and directed the New Deal programs were mostly
A)well-educated,male,technocrats and bankers.
B)members of ethnic and religious minority groups.
C)working-class urbanites with little or no advanced education.
D)university professors eager to put their theories into action.
E)immigrants who brought radical ideas from abroad.
Q3) Not all businessmen opposed the Second New Deal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most Americans agreed with Roosevelt's court packing scheme.
A)True
B)False
Q5) liberalism
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Chapter 26: America During the Second World War
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A)True
B)False
Q2) In late 1944,the fall of ____________________ brought American bombers within range of Japan.
Q3) The Yalta agreement on Poland was clear and unambiguous.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The minority group that suffered the most during World War II were
A)African Americans.
B)Mexican Americans.
C)Native Americans.
D)Japanese Americans.
E)German Americans.
Q5) The United States and Great Britain agreed on the unconditional surrender principle to assuage Soviet concerns about delays in launching the second front. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 27: The Age of Containment, 1946-1953
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Q2) Adlai Stevenson,the Democratic presidential candidate in 1952,was from A)South Carolina.
B)Indiana.
C)New York.
D)California.
E)Illinois.
Q3) The major goal of the Marshall Plan was to A)crush the Soviet Union.
B)destroy communist subversion in the United States.
C)build a series of military alliances throughout the world.
D)counter communism by offering economic aid to war-torn European countries.
E)overthrow communist governments in Latin America.
Q4) Women in movies referred to as film noir were portrayed as A)ideal wives and mothers.
B)competent professionals.
C)beautiful but dangerous.
D)dumb but lovable.
E)communist conspirators.
Q5) Social Security programs expanded under the ____________________.
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Chapter 28: Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963
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Q1) The agreement that divided Vietnam into two states,North and South,was the Paris Peace Accords of 1954.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Eisenhower's "New Look" argued that
A)the government had to pump more money into the domestic economy.
B)Washington had to take a leading role in the struggle for equal rights.
C)the defense of the United States would rely less on ground forces and more on cheaper air power.
D)federal intervention in the economy would cease.
E)the federal government should subsidize the fashion industry.
Q3) The Eisenhower Doctrine can best be described as
A)an attempt to defend Middle Eastern countries from Communist aggression.
B)an attempt to defend Latin American countries from Communist aggression.
C)an attempt to defend Western Europe from Communist aggression.
D)an attempt to defend Asia from Communist aggression.
E)the end of the Cold War.
Q4) Stating that Protestants,Catholics and Jews were all saying the same message is a form of ____________________.
Q5) The author of The Feminine Mystique was ____________________.
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Chapter 29: America During Its Longest War, 1963-1974
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Q1) Lyndon Johnson considered doubt about the war in Vietnam to be unpatriotic.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Nixon administration's devaluation of the U.S.dollar in 1973 had little impact on the deterioration of U.S.trade balances.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Four students were killed by National Guard troops in 1970 at the ____ campus during an antiwar demonstration.
A)Columbia
B)Berkeley
C)Stanford
D)Kent State
E)the University of Texas
Q4) Lyndon Johnson's policy in Vietnam
A)demoralized North Vietnam and brought about "a peace with honor."
B)abandoned South Vietnam to "go it alone" in the war against communism.
C)outlawed the use of chemical weapons and fire bombs.
D)instituted the use of napalm.
E)won overwhelming support in the U.S.
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Chapter 30: Uncertain Times, 1974-1992
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Q1) ____________________ became the most important women's organization.
Q2) Operation Desert Shield
Q3) Ronald Reagan's pro-labor policies helped increase union membership in the 1980s. A)True B)False
Q4) An important event in the rise of gay activism was the police raid at the ____________________ in 1969.
Q5) President George H.Bush opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement. A)True B)False
Q6) Rush Limbaugh's radio program was part of the New Right. A)True B)False
Q7) None of the major participants in the Iran-Contra affair were punished for their crimes. A)True B)False
Q8) The cartel that dominates oil rich nations in the middle East is known as
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Q2) ____________________ was able to avoid the scandals that plagued his fellow television evangelists.
Q3) Between 1991 and 2004,there was a resurgence in the number of Americans who belonged to a union.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The diversification of religious beliefs in the United States was increased by all of the following except
A)the Black Power movement of the 1960s
B)the Immigration Act of 1965
C)the Cold War
D)the counterculture of the 1960s
E)alternative faiths.
Q5) By the early 21 century,San Juan,Puerto Rico was the only city with more Puerto Ricans than New York City.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 32: A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2012
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A)defeated by the Republican Congress.
B)vetoed by President Clinton.
C)eliminated the food stamps program.
D)part of Clinton's plan to make government larger.
E)the first major overhaul of the national welfare system since the 1930s.
Q2) Assess the success and failures of the Bush administration and how they impacted the election of 2008.
Q3) In 2000 George W.Bush ran for President identifying himself as a "____________________ conservative."
Q4) All the following statements regarding the 1996 presidential election are true except
A)Robert Dole chose Jack Kemp as his Republican running mate.
B)Ross Perot ran again as he had in 1992 though he was less aggressive.
C)Clinton won with just over 50 percent of the vote.
D)Clinton was the first Democratic to win at least two terms since Franklin Roosevelt.
E)Clinton had about the same margin of victory as in 1992.
Q5) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Q6) Barack Obama's campaign slogan was Hope and ____________________.
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