American History II Review Questions
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American History II explores the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course examines topics such as Reconstruction, industrialization, the Progressive Era, world wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary America. Through analysis of historical documents, critical essays, and diverse perspectives, students will gain a deeper understanding of how past events have shaped modern American society and its role in the global community.
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American Pageant Volume 2 16th Edition by
David M. Kennedy
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Chapter 1: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) ____ believed that the Southern states had completely left the Union and were therefore, "conquered provinces" that had to seek readmission on whatever economic and political terms Congress demanded.
A) War Democrats
B) The Supreme Court
C) President Lincoln
D) President Johnson
E) Congressional radical Republicans
Answer: E
Q2) Under congressional Reconstruction, Southern states were required to
A) organize and support the Republican party.
B) ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
C) guarantee adult male slaves the right to vote through provisions in their state constitutions.
D) provide land and education for former slaves.
E) protect black religious freedom.
Answer: B, C
Q3) Hiram Revels
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 2: Political Paralysis in the
Gilded Age, 1869-1896
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Q1) repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Answer: The repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893 was historically significant because it marked a shift in the United States' monetary policy. The act, which had been passed in 1890, required the government to purchase a large amount of silver and issue it as currency, in an effort to inflate the money supply and help struggling farmers and miners. However, the act led to a rapid depletion of the government's gold reserves and a resulting financial crisis.
The repeal of the act was significant because it signaled a move away from bimetallism (the use of both gold and silver as currency) and towards a gold standard. This shift in monetary policy had far-reaching effects on the economy, including stabilizing the value of the dollar and restoring confidence in the financial system. It also set the stage for the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, which further centralized control over the nation's monetary policy.
Overall, the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act was a pivotal moment in the history of U.S. monetary policy, marking a transition towards a more stable and centralized system of currency and banking.
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Chapter 3: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
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Q1) By 1900, American attitudes toward labor began to change as the public came to recognize the right of workers to bargain collectively and strike. Nevertheless,
A) labor unions continued to decline in membership.
B) the American Federation of Labor failed to take advantage of the situation.
C) the vast majority of employers continued to fight organized labor.
D) Congress declared the AFL illegal.
E) workers began to turn to the Socialist party.
Answer: C
Q2) The largest southern-based monopolistic corporation was the one founded by James Duke to produce
A) steel.
B) oil.
C) textiles.
D) cigarettes.
E) alcohol.
Answer: D
Q3) trust
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 4: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
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Q1) Thomas Eakins
Q2) Explain the statement that the late-nineteenth-century cities "grew up, out, and apart." Had you been alive at the time, what might have attracted you to the city? What might have caused you to stay there or to go back "down on the farm"?
Q3) Sears/Montgomery Ward
Q4) What were the primary changes in American education in the late nineteenth century? What did the developments in basic public education have in common with the changes in American colleges and universities?
Q5) Louis Sullivan
Q6) Daniel Burnham
Q7) The arrival of immigrants on American shores in the late nineteenth century involved both push and pull factors. Describe the major motives that caused emigrants to leave Europe and come to the United States during this period.
Q8) Edward Bellamy
Q9) New Immigration
Q10) Little Poland/Little Italy
Q11) James Gibbons
Q12) George Washington Carver
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1865-1896
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Q1) One major problem with the Homestead Act was that
A) the government continued to try to maximize its revenue from public lands.
B) 160 acres were inadequate for productive farming on the rain-scarce Great Plains.
C) midwestern farmers had to give up raising livestock because of stiff competition with the West.
D) most homesteaders knew little or nothing about farming in the West.
E) it took several years to earn a profit from farming a homestead.
Q2) Populist (People's) Party
Q3) Mark Hanna, the Ohio Republican president-maker, believed that the prime function of the federal government was to
A) defend against foreign enemies.
B) maintain a laissez-faire policy.
C) ensure peace in labor relations between business and labor.
D) overturn the trickle down theory of economics.
E) provide aid to big business.
Q4) Chief Joseph
Q5) Jacob S. Coxey
Q6) Haymarket Square anarchists
Q7) William Hope Harvey
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Chapter 6: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909
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Q1) Assess Theodore Roosevelt's conduct of American foreign policy, especially in Latin America and East Asia. Did Roosevelt's vigorous assertion of American interests enhance the United States' role in these regions or create resentment of the United States as just another imperialistic great power?
Q2) insurrectos
Q3) By acquiring the Philippine Islands at the end of the Spanish-American War, the United States
A) assumed rule over millions of Asian people.
B) became a full-fledged East Asian power.
C) assumed military and political commitments that would be difficult to defend.
D) developed popular support for a big navy.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Q4) Portsmouth Conference
Q5) Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Q6) Write your definition of imperialism. Then use this definition to argue that the conduct of American foreign relations between 1890 and 1905 was or was not imperialistic.
Q7) George Washington Goethals
Q8) Anti-Imperialist League
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Chapter 7: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
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Q1) preservationism
Q2) Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?
A) Ending special regulations for safety and sanitary conditions governing women in the workplace
B) Preventing child labor in factories and sweatshops
C) Ensuring that food products were healthy and safe
D) Attacking tuberculosis and other diseases bred in slum tenements
E) Winning pensions for women with dependent children
Q3) Defend or refute the following statement, "Environmentalism and consumer protection were the two causes that revealed the soul of progressivism."
Q4) The American population in 1900 can best be described as
A) ethnically and racially mixed.
B) reaching nearly 76 million people.
C) one in seven people were foreign-born.
D) beset with increasingly complex social and economic problems.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Q5) Jacob Riis
Q6) Florence Kelley
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Chapter 8: Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War,
1913-1920
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Q1) irreconcilables
Q2) Sixteenth Amendment
Q3) Woodrow Wilson's early efforts to conduct a strongly anti-imperialist U. S. foreign policy were first undermined when he
A) dispatched U.S. military forces to protect American interests in China.
B) told the Filipinos that they could not obtain their independence for at least forty years.
C) sent American marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
D) sent the U.S. Navy to seize the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
E) began constructing a massive U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Q4) Tampico incident
Q5) Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's fundamental approach to American foreign policy?
A) Imperialistic
B) Moralistic
C) Realistic
D) Balance-of-power
E) Isolationist
Q6) Jones Act
Q7) ABC Powers
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Chapter 9: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
1920 1929
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Q1) William Jennings Bryan
Q2) The most spectacular and deadly example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was in
A) San Francisco.
B) New Orleans.
C) Boston.
D) Chicago.
E) Las Vegas.
Q3) The American radio industry was distinctive from radio in European nations because it
A) did not carry news programming.
B) gave preference in station ownership to religious and other nonprofit groups.
C) practiced censorship against sexually offensive material.
D) developed nationwide networks of stations broadcasting the same program.
E) was a commercial business dependent on advertising.
Q4) cultural pluralism
Q5) John T. Scopes
Q6) National Woman's party
Q7) Winesburg, Ohio
Q8) H. L. Mencken
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Chapter 10: The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920 1932
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Q1) The advent of the gasoline-powered tractor in the 1920s meant that
A) productivity went way up but so did debt.
B) farmers did not need to plow as much land to make the same profit.
C) farmers would have to spend time training hands on new equipment.
D) bigger crops could be grown on smaller areas.
E) None of these
Q2) Dawes Plan
Q3) Warren G. Harding's weaknesses as president included all of the following except a(n)
A) lack of political experience.
B) mediocre mind.
C) inability to detect moral weaknesses in his associates.
D) unwillingness to hurt people's feelings by saying no.
E) administrative weakness.
Q4) steel strike of 1919
Q5) Al Smith
Q6) McNary-Haugen Bill
Q7) Adkins v. Children's Hospital(1923)
Q8) Warren G. Harding
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Chapter 11: The Great Depression and the New Deal
1933 1939
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Q1) What role did women play in the government and intellectual life of the 1930s? How did the interests and concerns of women in this period differ from those of the 1920s (see Chapter 30, American Life in the "Roaring Twenties," 1920-1929)?
Q2) the election of 1932
Q3) "a switch in time saves nine"
Q4) National Recovery Act
Q5) The first Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) raised the money that it paid to farmers not to grow crops by
A) raising the tariff.
B) imposing a tax on the sale of farms.
C) selling government surplus grain.
D) increasing taxes on the wealthy.
E) taxing processors of farm products.
Q6) Indian Reorganization Act
Q7) Schechter case
Q8) What were the most enduring accomplishments of the New Deal? Which of its efforts had the least long-term impact?
Q9) "the forgotten man" Page 16
Q10) Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Chapter 12: Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
1933 1941
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Q1) America's neutrality policy during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 contributed to A) Hitler conquering Spain and establishing Nazi occupation of Spain during World War II.
B) the Loyalists from winning the war.
C) Roosevelt and Francisco Franco becoming personal friends and strategic allies.
D) the Soviets successfully defending the Spanish Republic from Spanish Fascist forces.
E) Spain becoming a Fascist dictatorship after Franco's victory.
Q2) It is a common observation that American foreign policy often reflects domestic politics. In what way did domestic considerations influence the Roosevelt administration's recognition of the Soviet Union, adoption of a Good Neighbor policy, and extension of independence to the Philippines?
Q3) War Refugee Board
Q4) the St. Louis
Q5) invasion of Ethiopia
Q6) "Quarantine Speech"
Q7) isolationism
Q8) Charles Lindbergh
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Chapter 13: America in World War II 1941 1945
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Q1) The minority group most adversely affected by Washington's wartime policies was
A) German Americans.
B) blacks.
C) Japanese Americans.
D) American communists.
E) Italian Americans.
Q2) WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service)
Q3) Bataan Death March
Q4) Japanese Americans were placed in concentration camps during World War II
A) due to numerous acts of sabotage.
B) in retaliation for the placement of Americans in concentration camps by the Japanese.
C) as a result of anti-Japanese prejudice and fear.
D) because many were loyal to Japan.
E) All of these
Q5) In terms of defending America's national interests, which do you think was the most critical front in World War II, the European theater or the Pacific? Why?
Q6) War Production Board
Q7) Casablanca Conference
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Chapter 14: The Cold War Begins 1945-1952
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Q1) U.N. Security Council
Q2) The immediate crisis that prompted the announcement of the Truman Doctrine was related to the threat of a communist takeover in A) Iran.
B) Greece and Turkey.
C) Communist China.
D) Czechoslovakia.
E) West Germany.
Q3) Assess President Truman's response to the outbreak of hostilities in Korea in 1950. Do you think that he acted properly with regard to the United Nations, Congress, and his military commanders? Why or why not?
Q4) Marshall Plan
Q5) Among anticommunists, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was the A) most effective.
B) first Republican.
C) only true World War II hero.
D) one who most damaged free speech and fair play.
E) one who organized a national movement.
Q6) iron curtain
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Chapter 15: American Zenith 1952-1963
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Q1) Berlin Wall
Q2) The vast expansion of employment opportunities for women in the 1950s
A) led to the advent of the "pink collar ghetto" of occupations.
B) created a dual role for women as homemakers and workers.
C) fueled a social revolution that raised questions about gender roles.
D) included women filling a substantial percentage of the new jobs created in the clerical and service industries.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Q3) The factor that may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was
A) his age.
B) his religion.
C) his televised debates with Richard M. Nixon.
D) President Eisenhower's heavy loss of popularity in his last two years in office.
E) his family.
Q4) Sputnik
Q5) Josephine Baker
Q6) "massive retaliation"
Q7) Playboy magazine
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Chapter 16: The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973
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Q1) Vietnamization
Q2) "rights revolution"
Q3) Clean Air Act
Q4) To what extent was the gay rights movement a direct outgrowth of the 1960s? How does it compare with the other civil rights and liberation movements of the time?
Q5) counterculture
Q6) Robert F. Kennedy
Q7) Malcolm X
Q8) Why did so much of the idealistic youthful political movements and counterculture end in disillusionment and cynicism? Could those movements have taken a different turn under different circumstances, such as if President Johnson had concluded a peace treaty ending American involvement in the Vietnam War and if the political assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X during the 1960s had not occurred?
Q9) The Beatles
Q10) What was the political impetus for the War Powers Act? Do you think that the War Powers Act unduly restricted the ability of the president to conduct foreign affairs and act as commander-in-chief? Do you believe the law is unconstitutional? Why or why not?
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Chapter 17: Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980
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Q1) Although the median income of American families stagnated from 1970s to 1990, the reason it didn't decline was
A) people logged more hours.
B) the rise in wages of working married men and women exceeded the rate of inflation.
C) wives' wages maintained the family income.
D) people had fewer children.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Q2) Iranian hostage crisis
Q3) CREEP
Q4) Helsinki accords
Q5) The Constitution says that the president "shall be removed from office for, and on conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." Do you think that the accusations against President Nixon were impeachable crimes? Why or why not?
Q6) Was defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) a major setback for feminism? Why or why not?
Q7) Spiro Agnew
Q8) Leonid Brezhnev
Q9) Thurgood Marshall
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Chapter 18: The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992
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Q1) What were Ronald Reagan's goals as he entered the presidency in 1981? How successful was he in implementing them? In what ways did he fail to achieve his goals? Why?
Q2) Iran-Contra Affair
Q3) Religious Right
Q4) All of the following represent the furor over Clarence Thomas's confirmation to the Supreme Court except
A) many women were enraged by the all-male Senate Judiciary committee's behavior.
B) a gender gap emerged between the two political parties.
C) pro-choice women distanced themselves from the Republican party.
D) the social issues that helped elect Republicans were growing in their public appeal.
E) many women became increasingly critical of the president's stand on abortion.
Q5) Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Q6) Edward Kennedy
Q7) New Right
Q8) Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
Q9) Grenada
Q10) Perestroika
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Chapter 19: America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,
1992-2000
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Q1) Richard Cheney
Q2) What gains has the African American community attained since the 1960s? What are the greatest challenges still facing African Americans and U.S. society regarding race?
Q3) Oklahoma City bombing
Q4) The Latino immigrant population maintained their language and culture better than most previous immigrant groups because
A) they were so thinly scattered across the country.
B) they lived in segregated neighborhoods.
C) of their large numbers and geographic concentration.
D) of a stronger desire to preserve their culture than previous groups had.
E) they remained politically loyal to the Latin American nations from which they came.
Q5) What were the greatest successes of the American economy in the 1990s? What role did Clinton's international trade agreements play in the expanding prosperity of the period? Why was the process of economic globalization often controversial?
Q6) multiculturalism
Q7) Slobodan Milosevic
Q8) Al Gore
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Q1) Apple
Q2) Which of the following was not among the issues that sharply divided Americans during the George W. Bush administration?
A) The introduction of high technology into education, business, and government
B) The degree to which civil liberties should be limited in order to combat terrorism
C) Proposals to privatize Social Security
D) Affirmative action in college admissions and employment
E) Gay rights and same-sex marriage
Q3) deleveraging
Q4) Al Qaeda
Q5) Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Q6) USA-Patriot Act
Q7) Taliban
Q8) weapons of mass destruction
Q9) Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
Q10) affirmative action
Q11) Hurricane Katrina Page 26
Q13) stem cell research
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