American History I Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
American History I offers a comprehensive exploration of the political, social, economic, and cultural development of the United States from the pre-Columbian era through the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. The course examines key events such as European colonization, the American Revolution, the founding of the nation, westward expansion, sectional tensions, and the Civil War. Special emphasis is placed on the experiences of diverse groups, including Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and immigrants, as well as the evolving concepts of democracy, freedom, and citizenship in shaping early American 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) As a result of a 1493 decree by the Pope,Portugal acquired which modern-day South American country?
A)Peru
B)Columbia
C)Brazil
D)Chile
E)Argentina
Answer: C
Q2) The conqueror of the Aztecs was ____________________.
Answer: Hernán Cortés
Hernan Cortes
Q3) In 1519,when Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico,the Indian populations was approximately 15 million;however,by the 1620s the population declined to
A)10 million.
B)7 million.
C)700,000.
D)70,000.
E)7,000.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America
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Q1) The most important crop to Virginia was A)tobacco.
B)rice.
C)cotton.
D)sugar.
E)indigo.
Answer: A
Q2) ____________________ was responsible for introducing tobacco to Virginia. Answer: John Rolfe
Q3) The staple export of South Carolina after 1690 was A)tobacco.
B)wheat.
C)cotton.
D)rice.
E)sugar.
Answer: D
Q4) John Smith
Answer: adventurer often credited with saving the early Chesapeake settlement of Jamestown by forcing the colonists to work.His real impact is hard to assess because of his habit of exaggerating his exploits.
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Q1) ____________________ translated the Bible and other religious works into the Wampanoag language.
Answer: John Eliot
Q2) The autocratic governor of New York and the Dominion of New England was
A)Sir Edmund Andros.
B)Jacob Leisler.
C)Increase Mather.
D)Sir Robert Walpole.
E)William Berkeley
Answer: A
Q3) The Pueblo Revolt in Spanish New Mexico
A)permanently freed the Navajos and Apaches from Spanish authority.
B)virtually destroyed the Hopi tribe.
C)was more successful than any other Indian rebellion in American history.
D)was staged by Mexican peasants who wanted a more democratic government.
E)threatened the British settlements.
Answer: C
Q4) Massasoit's son ____________________ was also known as King Philip.
Answer: Metacom
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Chapter 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent
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Q1) Following a 1730 slave uprising in New Orleans,French authorities turned over some of the African leaders to the Choctaws to be burned alive.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1759 siege of Quebec,British General ____ was killed along with his French counterpart,General Montcalm.
A)Braddock
B)Wolfe
C)Amherst
D)Abercrombie
E)Winthrop
Q3) Explore the significance of the imperial wars of 1689-1716 for colonial Americans.
Q4) Baptists and Methodists expected their ministers to attend college.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Examine the political culture of eighteenth-century America.
Q6) Irish immigrants from Ulster were members of the ____________________ Church.
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Q7) Examine the course of King George's War (1739-1748).
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Chapter 5: Reform, resistance, revolution
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Q1) The First Continental Congress met in
A)New York.
B)Boston.
C)Philadelphia.
D)Charleston.
E)Washington.
Q2) The Proclamation of 1763
A)called for an intercolonial government.
B)prohibited American settlements west of the Appalachian mountains.
C)attempted to raise a revenue in the colonies.
D)attempted to grant the colonists representatives in Parliament.
E)declared colonial resistance to imperial rule.
Q3) The Sugar Act and the Stamp Act required that all duties be paid in ____________________.
Q4) ____________________ led colonial opposition to the Townshend Revenue Act.
Q5) Describe the beginnings of the antislavery movement in pre-revolutionary America.
Q6) Outline the final imperial crisis of 1773-1775 that led to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
Q7) John Dickinson
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary Republic
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Q1) Admiral Richard Howe and General William Howe
A)were French commanders who assisted General Washington at Yorktown.
B)had the same last name but were not related.
C)forced General Washington and the Continental Army out of New York City in the fall of 1776.
D)had the smallest army in North America but still managed to hold on to Boston throughout the Revolutionary War.
E)were British spies in the American army.
Q2) Discuss the Confederation era and analyze the state constitutions and the government created by the Articles of Confederation.How did the central government deal with the major issues of the period?
Q3) The ____________________ state constitution of 1776 allowed women to vote if they headed a household and paid taxes.
Q4) ____________________ drafted the large state plan discussed at the Constitutional Convention.
Q5) Thomas Jefferson wrote Thoughts on Government in 1776.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ____________________ closed the Mississippi River to travel in 1784.
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Chapter 7: Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815
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Q1) The Louisiana Territory was purchased from A)Spain.
B)Great Britain.
C)Portugal.
D)France.
E)Native Americans.
Q2) The First Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed
A)no cruel and unusual punishment.
B)voting rights for white adult men.
C)freedom of speech,press,and religion.
D)the right to bear arms.
E)the right to trial by jury.
Q3) The winner of the presidential election of 1800 was A)James Madison.
B)John Adams.
C)Thomas Jefferson.
D)James Monroe.
E)Aaron Burr.
Q4) Native Americans sided with the ____________________ to try to keep American settlers from expanding.
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Chapter 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850
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Q1) During the early republic,Indians living on western lands
A)were generally able to maintain their territorial holdings.
B)received considerable political and military help from Britain.
C)were constantly pushed further west.
D)saw,by 1820,nearly 100,000 white settlers move onto their lands.
E)were never more unified.
Q2) Eastern visitors to the backcountry were impressed with the health and industriousness of frontiersmen.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Samuel Slater smuggled printed copies for the water-powered spinning machine from England to America.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the 50 years following 1820,American cities grew at a faster rate than at any other time in history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Rhode Island system
Q6) In 1803,____________________ entered the Union as a state.
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Chapter 9: The Old South, 1790-1850
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Q1) In southern yeoman farm communities,slaves did most of the fieldwork.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1860,the southern slave population was collectively worth $1.3 billion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Southern businessmen turned to New York City for credit,insurance,and coastal and export shipping.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In 1789,a major slave revolt was carried out in A)Virginia.
B)Cuba.
C)Haiti.
D)Florida.
E)Brazil.
Q5) Explore the various slave rebellions of the early nineteenth century.
Q6) The slave revolt that was planned with military precision was led by
Q7) Eli Whitney's gin led to an expansion of ____________________ cotton.
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Chapter 10: Toward an American Culture
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Q1) Joseph Smith wrote ____________________ which unified his family.
Q2) Newspapers were written mainly for women.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following statements regarding newspapers are true except A)the federal government neither helped nor hindered newspaper sales
B)they were the most widely distributed form of print in the country
C)in New England,only ten percent of households subscribed to a newspaper D)there were far more newspapers per capita in the United States than in Britain
E)it was common for newspapers to be read aloud in groups
Q4) The literacy rate in preindustrial America was among the highest ever recorded.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Southern evangelicals moved from calling for an end to slavery to strongly supporting it.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Voting rights increased as ____________________ requirements were eliminated.
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Q7) Explore the value and belief structures of the Northern middle class.
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Chapter 11: Whigs and Democrats
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Q1) Peggy O'Neal Timberlake Eaton
Q2) In 1824 Andrew Jackson believed that the American republic
A)had failed.
B)needed to be governed by the educated elite.
C)had proven to be a stunning success.
D)should follow the British parliamentary model.
E)was in danger.
Q3) force bill
Q4) Thomas Jefferson was deeply concerned about the implications of the Missouri Compromise.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Thomas Proviso opened ____________________ Territory to slavery.
Q6) The treaty that acquired Florida for the United States was the A)Rush-Bagot Treaty.
B)British-American Convention.
C)Adams-Onis Treaty.
D)Treaty of Paris
E)Treaty of Florida.
Q7) Describe the election of 1824.Why was it so controversial?
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Reform
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Q1) The most overwhelmingly Democratic group in the country were
A)northern free blacks.
B)immigrant Chinese.
C)native Protestant wage earners.
D)native-born farmers.
E)immigrant Irish Catholics.
Q2) The New York Magdalen Society sought to eliminate A)prostitution.
B)alcohol use.
C)poverty.
D)childhood disease.
E)capitalism.
Q3) Before the 1830s,organized opposition to slavery was mostly limited to
A)American Anti-Slavery Society.
B)William Lloyd Garrison Society.
C)New England Anti-Slavery Society.
D)American Colonization Society.
E)Free Labor Society.
Q4) The only male delegate at the Seneca Falls convention was
Q5) William Lloyd Garrison
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Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or
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Q1) On the issue of slavery in the territories,John C.Calhoun asserted that
A)Congress could and should prohibit slavery there.
B)the Missouri Compromise line should be extended to the Pacific Ocean.
C)the Constitution protected the right of citizens to move from place to place and to take their property with them.
D)the topic should be ignored for a few years in order to let congressional tempers cool down.
E)the South should secede and take the western territories with them.
Q2) In pushing for strict compliance with the Fugitive Slave Act,southerners were motivated primarily by financial concerns.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "Popular sovereignty" was the belief that
A)the United States was destined to control the entire continent.
B)the American Indian was the ward of the U.S.government.
C)settlers to a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.
D)the federal government had the final authority on slavery in the territories.
E)citizens should be free to choose their own reading material.
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860
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Q1) The most important social distinction in the antebellum South was ____________________.
Q2) John Brown was noted for all of the following except
A)killing unarmed proslavery farmers in the civil war in "Bleeding Kansas."
B)attempting to incite a slave rebellion in Virginia.
C)coining the phrase "the irrepressible conflict" to explain the coming of the Civil War.
D)dying as a "martyr to freedom."
E)attacking Harpers Ferry.
Q3) The leading southern advocate of free labor ideology was Jefferson Davis.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the free-labor ideology and the southern response to it.
Q5) In the election of 1856,Republican ____________________ clubs would march in torchlight parades chanting "Free Soil,Free Speech,Free Men,Fremont!"
Q6) Stephen Douglas introduced the idea of ____________________,which states that the people of a territory should decide whether they want the institution of slavery,into the debate over the Kansas territory.
Q7) In the south ____________________ was king.
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Chapter 15: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862
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Q1) Lincoln's cabinet advised him not to withdraw the federal troops from Fort Sumter.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The victorious forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run were ____________________.
Q3) Stephen A.Douglas supported a federal slave code for the territories.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The appointment of ____ to command Confederate armies in Virginia marked a turning point in the Civil War.
A)Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
B)J.E.B.Stuart
C)Robert E.Lee
D)Joseph Johnston
E)Jefferson Davis
Q5) Examine the establishment of the Confederacy in 1860.Compare and contrast the new government with that of the Union.
Q6) Lincoln was sending ____________________ to Fort Sumter.
Q7) Jefferson Davis
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Chapter 16: A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865
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Q1) The Union victory at Atlanta improved Lincoln's prospects for victory in 1864.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the purpose of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? In what ways was the proclamation both important and successful?
Q3) During the battle of Antietam,soldiers found a copy of McClellan's deployment orders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following was not accomplished by the Union victory at Antietam?
A)It convinced England to withhold recognition of the Confederacy.
B)Northern Democrats failed to gain control of the House.
C)The Confederates retreated across the Potomac.
D)It led Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
E)It led to the elevation of Robert E.Lee as commander of Confederate forces.
Q5) The ____________________ Act granted a farmer 160 acres of land after he had lived on it for five years.
Q6) Northerners could pay ____________________ to avoid the draft.
Q7) Ulysses S.Grant
Q8) The New York draft riots were led mostly by ____________________.
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Chapter 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) Bulldozing in several parts of the South during the presidential election of 1876 hurt Republican candidate Rutherford B.Hayes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Black Codes
Q3) The Ku Klux Klan was created by former Confederate soldiers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Republican governor of Mississippi who asked Grant to send troops to control whites' violent intimidation of black voters in that state during the election of 1875 was
Q5) Andrew Johnson removed Edwin M.Stanton from office because he supported congressional Reconstruction policy.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Ulysses S.Grant's opponent in the election of 1868 was ____________________.
Q7) ____________________ was a construction company for the Union Pacific Railroad that gave congressmen stock in return for land grants and loans from the government.
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Chapter 18: A Transformed Nation: the West and the New
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Q1) President Grant's "Peace Policy" toward the Indians
A)called for the extermination of the wild tribes.
B)continued the tradition of dealing with Indian tribes as "separate nations."
C)encouraged Indians to accept civilization,Christianity,and citizenship.
D)offered the peaceful relocation of willing Indians to remote areas in Canada and Alaska.
E)vastly expanded Indian land holdings.
Q2) Most cowboys in the Old West were
A)men who led solitary lives marked by personal freedom.
B)gunfighters who rode oversized horses.
C)laborers who worked for industrial corporations.
D)similar to the handsome romantic heroes depicted in western movies.
E)black,Indian,and Mexican American.
Q3) The opponent of Winfield Scott Hancock in the 1880 presidential election was
A)James G.Blaine.
B)Rutherford B.Hayes.
C)Chester Arthur.
D)James Garfield.
E)William Jennings Bryan.
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Q4) The man who assassinated President Garfield was ____________________.
Chapter 19: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
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Q1) Social Darwinism argued that human history witnessed the
A)inevitable evolution of the weakest groups to the positions of highest power.
B)inevitable collapse of capitalism.
C)evolution of humans from the ape.
D)eventual disintegration of Western civilization.
E)struggle among the races,with the strongest triumphing.
Q2) Who were the critics of the American economic system during the Gilded Age? What were their criticisms? What did they propose?
Q3) African American women were not part of the club movement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Among southern states,in 1892 Populists garnered more than 20 percent of the vote only in
A)Georgia and Alabama.
B)Texas and Virginia.
C)Mississippi and Georgia.
D)Alabama and Texas.
E)South Carolina and Florida.
Q5) One leading painter of American Impressionism was William Merrit
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Q1) Labor and feminist militants were bitterly antagonistic to each other.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The idea of American's nationality being cosmopolitan was first discussed by which of the following?
A)Israel Zangwill
B)Horace Kallen
C)Margaret Sanger
D)Theodore Roosevelt
E)Randolph Bourne
Q3) A major problem with waterworks in the large cities was
A)location of pipes.
B)water contamination.
C)quality of the pipes.
D)reluctance of people to use the supply.
E)all of these choices
Q4) Horace Kallen reinforced the idea of assimilation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The designer of Central Park was ____________________.
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Chapter 21: Progressivism
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Q1) The charismatic speaker and leader of American socialists was ____________________.
Q2) The modern civil rights movement began with the A)Seneca Falls convention.
B)founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
C)passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.
D)election of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States.
E)founding of Tuskegee Institute.
Q3) Popular magazines like McClure's appealed to the buying public by publishing sensational stories exposing the ills of American society.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following statements best illustrates the ideas contained in Woodrow Wilson's commitment to a "New Freedom"?
A)Give the federal government temporary power in order to dismantle trusts.
B)Give the federal government power to regulate the trusts.
C)Transfer ownership of trust companies to the federal government.
D)Give states more power to regulate business and industry within their borders.
E)Adopt a laissez faire approach to business.
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Chapter 22: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q2) In the Treaty of Paris of 1898,the United States
A)recognized Spanish ownership of Wake Island.
B)paid $20 million for the Philippines.
C)promised Spain equal trading rights in Cuba.
D)agreed to grant Puerto Rico its independence.
E)annexed Cuba.
Q3) When political turmoil threatened the interests of companies such as the United Fruit Company of Boston in Central America,the United States sent troops to protect them.
A)True B)False
Q4) The nation that began building the Panama Canal was ____________________.
Q5) The Filipino people had no one leader to fight against the United States. A)True B)False
Q6) In 1906,the ____________________ school board ordered the segregation of Asian schoolchildren,touching off an international crisis with Japan.
Q7) In 1901,____________________ became the first governor-general of the Philippines.
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Chapter 23: War and Society, 1914-1920
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Q1) Which of the following was not included in Woodrow Wilson's vision of a settlement that would achieve peace without victory?
A)disarmament
B)reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine
C)freedom of the seas
D)security against aggression
E)right of self-determination
Q2) The United States entered the war to make the world safer for democracy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The sinking of the ship ____________________ was used to get a pledge from Germany to never launch another attack on the citizen of neutral countries.
Q4) All of the following statements describe Bernard Baruch's leadership of the War Industries Board except
A)war production increased substantially.
B)his methods favored large corporations over small enterprises.
C)his methods favored small corporations over large enterprises.
D)the agency functioned better after he assumed leadership.
E)industries were permitted to charge high prices.
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Chapter 24: The 1920s
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Q1) Which writer focused most on the desire to be accepted in a world of wealth?
A)John Dos Passos
B)Ernest Hemingway
C)F.Scott Fitzgerald
D)Theodore Dreiser
E)Eugene O'Neill
Q2) Alice Paul and her allies succeeded in getting Congress to pass an Equal Rights Amendment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The 1920s was considered a decade of prosperity.Without a doubt,the postwar period was a time of great economic growth for the nation as a whole.All U.S.residents,however,did not enjoy the same prosperity as did the more-visible middle class.Describe Americans for whom the twenties was a time of both frustration as well as pleasure.Be specific as you refer to the experiences of different groups.
Q4) Southern and Eastern European immigrants enjoyed movies,amusement parks,baseball games and boxing matches.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The New Deal restored prosperity to America.
A)True
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Q2) President Roosevelt's policy for dealing with Latin American nations is known as the ____________________ Policy.
Q3) The AAA focused specifically of the plight of sharecroppers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) More than ____________________ veterans died when the US Army disbanded the Bonus Army.
Q5) The Emergency Banking Act and Economy Act were originally proposed by Herbert Hoover.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Under the New Deal,African Americans
A)were completely ignored.
B)were appointed to high-level positions including cabinet posts.
C)received the same pay and job opportunities as whites.
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D)continued to face discrimination and disfranchisement.
E)returned to their southern farms.
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Chapter 26: America During the Second World War
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Q1) The Yalta agreement on Poland was clear and unambiguous.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following was not declared by the Atlantic Charter?
A)disavowal of territorial expansion
B)endorsement of free trade
C)call for an end to the Communist threat
D)creation of a world organization to ensure "general security"
E)support for common principles
Q3) Britain and France declared war on Germany when
A)Germany bombed London.
B)Czechoslovakia fell.
C)Hitler invaded Poland.
D)Hitler declared union with Austria.
E)Hitler militarized the Rhineland.
Q4) All Quiet on the Western Front was a pro-war movie.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Harry Truman
Q6) A.Philip Randolph
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Chapter 27: The Age of Containment, 1946-1953
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Q1) Private lenders denied credit to nonwhites seeking loans for suburban housing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Harry Truman's policy in regard to the Soviet Union was based on his belief that
A)the Russians were honest and could be trusted to negotiate in good faith.
B)the United States should cut off all contact with the U.S.S.R.
C)the United States had to take a firm stand in opposition to Soviet territorial and ideological expansion.
D)the United States should maintain friendly relations with the U.S.S.R.at all costs.
E)his isolationist stance.
Q3) Strom Thurmond
Q4) Truman's Fair Deal attempted to regulate farm prices.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The 1952 Presidential candidate who promised to go to Korea personally to accelerate peace negotiations was ____________________.
Q6) Examine the war in Korea.Describe the U.S.goals in entering the conflict and the implications of the war for American foreign policy.
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Chapter 28: Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963
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Q1) Economist John Kenneth Galbraith asserted that the A)gap between the rich and the poor in the United States was widening.
B)real wages of workers were declining.
C)United States government had been infiltrated by Communists.
D)level of poverty dropped to less than two percent.
E)U.S.consumer society was creating an affluent lifestyle for the masses
Q2) Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade was discredited in televised hearings after he had speculated about subversives in the ____________________.
Q3) Serious Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962 was called the ____________________.
Q4) The first artificial satellite ever launched into space was the Mercury.
A)True
B)False
Q5) President Eisenhower supported the Highway Act of 1956 based on
A)its positive impact on the automobile industry.
B)national security considerations.
C)its role in creating jobs.
D)the need to spend the government surplus.
E)his bid for reelection.
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Chapter 29: America During Its Longest War, 1963-1974
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Q1) During the presidential campaign of 1964,____________________ suggested using tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
Q2) In Roe v.Wade,the Supreme Court ruled that a state law that declared abortion a criminal offense violated a woman's right to privacy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The riot in Watts did not result in a loss of life.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following was not part of the Great Society agenda?
A)Medicare
B)Medicaid
C)Department of Housing and Urban Development
D)Community Action Program
E)Peace Corps
Q5) The Khmer Rouge established a free and democratic government in Cambodia.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Participatory democracy was the goal of the leftist ____________________.
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Q1) President George H.Bush opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In response to the Khmer Rouge seizure of the U.S.ship Mayaguez,Gerald Ford
A)appealed to the United Nations for help in freeing the ship and crew.
B)apologized for the ship's accidental intrusion into Cambodian waters.
C)refused to negotiate with the Cambodians.
D)took no direct action and let events play themselves out.
E)ordered a rescue mission and a bombing attack.
Q3) The winner of the 1976 presidential election was
A)Gerald Ford.
B)Jimmy Carter.
C)Walter Mondale.
D)Robert Dole.
E)Richard Nixon.
Q4) The space-based defense system promoted by Ronald Reagan,which supposedly would stop incoming missiles,was popularly dubbed ____________________.
Q5) Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale called for tax hikes in 1984.
A)True
B)False
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A)True
B)False
Q2) The practice of cutting back or trimming the workforce is called ____________________.
Q3) In 2005,Americans spent more money on medical health costs than on food.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 succeeded in reducing the number of undocumented immigrants entering the country.
A)True
B)False
Q5) All of the following statements regarding MTV are true except A)many of its music videos sexually objectified women.
B)in its early history,critics complained it excluded people of color.
C)it quickly abandoned its all-music video format.
D)the "MTV aesthetic" emphasized a fast-paced visual style.
E)it debuted in 1981.
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Chapter 32: A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2012
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A)Americans will lose the ability to research for information.
B)Americans will become more individually oriented.
C)Printed publications will go out of business.
D)Media will become completely unbiased.
E)All of these choices
Q2) 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.
Q3) Exhaustive official reports concluded Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During the Clinton presidency,unemployment dropped below ____________________ percent.
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