American Studies
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American Studies is an interdisciplinary course that examines the history, culture, politics, and society of the United States from multiple perspectives. Drawing on fields such as literature, history, sociology, political science, and the arts, the course explores key themes such as identity, race, gender, immigration, democracy, and national myths. Students analyze primary and secondary sources to better understand the evolution of American life, values, and global influence, fostering critical thinking about what it means to be "American" and how the nation's past and present shape its future.
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Chapter 1: The Atlantic World and the Dawn of Exploration, 1492-1535
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Q1) Ghana,Mali,and Songhay were early empires in which region of the African continent?
A)Southern Africa
B)Eastern Africa
C)Northern Africa
D)Western Africa
E)Central Africa
Answer: D
Q2) New technologies used by the Portuguese to improve navigation and nautical warfare included all of the following except:
A)Lateen Sails
B)Astrolabe
C)Compass
D)Sonar
Answer: D
Q3) Explorer Amerigo Vespucci named the new continent he "discovered" after himself,calling it "America."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Contact, colonization, and Exchange in the
Atlantic World, 1492-1600
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Q1) Which of the following transpired after Narváez's expedition got lost at sea?
A)The Spaniards were captured by the Karankawa Indians.
B)Narváez led a successful military offensive against the Karankawa Indians.
C)One of them,Cabeza de Vaca,lived among the Native Americans and later issued a report about his journey to his fellow Spaniards.
D)Both A and C
E)Both B and C
Answer: D
Q2) The cultivation of sugar cane in the Americas led to the first large-scale use of slave labor there.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church because he
A)believed that Martin Luther professed the true faith.
B)did not want his children to be raised as Catholics.
C)desired an annulment so that he could marry again.
D)resented sending part of his country's wealth to Rome in tithes.
E)caught his Catholic wife in an adulterous relationship.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) Georgia was founded to serve as a haven for the poor and also to
A)provide another slave economy.
B)produce rum for sale in the West Indies.
C)serve as a buffer zone between Florida and South Carolina.
D)provide a haven for the pacifist Quakers.
E)Both B and C
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following was the primary focus of French activities in New France?
A)Farming in the interior
B)Colonization of Quebec
C)Fur trading and trapping
D)Christianizing the Native Americans
E)Searching for gold
Answer: C
Q3) By 1720,blacks composed 20 percent of the population in the Chesapeake region.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) One reason for the uproar over the Sugar Act was that it took effect during an economic depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Stamp Act Congress convened in what city?
A)Philadelphia
B)Washington
C)Boston
D)Albany
E)New York
Q3) After 1763,Spain becamefriendlierwith Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government
A)dealt with specific laws and the consequences of breaking them.
B)spoke to government leaders,excluding the will of the people.
C)stressed that humans had a right to life,liberty,and property.
D)expressed his belief that a people never had the right to overthrow their government.
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) After the Revolutionary War,the Confederation Congress virtually disbanded the army,despite the objections of
A)George Washington.
B)Alexander Hamilton.
C)Thomas Jefferson.
D)James Madison.
E)All of these
Q2) Which of the following events occurred first?
A)The Spanish began to allow Americans to use the port of New Orleans after paying duties.
B)Congress passed an ordinance to establish rules for obtaining statehood in the Northwest Territory.
C)America's first depression struck the nation.
D)The Bank of North America was established.
Q3) The principal author of the first Northwest Ordinance was John Adams.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Forging a New Nation, 1790-1828
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Q1) Where did the Convention of 1818 set the boundary between the United States and Canada?
A)Seventeenth parallel
B)Thirty-eighth parallel
C)Sixtieth parallel
D)Fifty-fifth parallel
E)Forty-ninth parallel
Q2) The cornerstone of Hamilton's new financial plans for the country was a national bank that would
A)hold the federal government's funds.
B)regulate state banks.
C)expand the money supply.
D)All of these
E)None of these
Q3) The Monroe Doctrine was issued jointly by the United States and Great Britain.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Market Revolution and Social Reform,
1800-1860
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Q1) Revivalism and religious awakenings of the 1820s sought to A)convert Catholics to the Protestant faith.
B)contain the emerging faith of Mormonism.
C)simplify the services of local churches.
D)bring others closer to God by spreading their message.
Q2) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott forged a friendship when they first met at the Seneca Falls Convention.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Upon completion in 1825,the Erie Canal connected what river with Lake Erie?
A)Ohio River
B)Mississippi River
C)Hudson River
D)Missouri River
Q4) Horace Mann became most famous for his work in what profession?
A)business
B)education
C)law enforcement
D)clergy
E)journalism
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Chapter 8: The Peculiar Institution: the Old South and
Slavery, 1800-1860
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Q1) Young male slaves would bring the highest prices in the slave markets.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Gabriel was an enslaved blacksmith in Virginia who led a doomed rebellion in 1800,fueling white fears
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the first religious group to prohibit members from owning slaves?
A)Baptists
B)Methodists
C)Quakers
D)Anglicans
E)Puritans
Q4) Leading abolitionist Frederick Douglass had once been a slave in Maryland. A)True
B)False
Q5) David Walker's Appeal was widely read and accepted by the white South. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) Nullification was a universally accepted belief that a state had the right to ignore,or nullify,a federal law within its own borders if that law was deemed unsuitable. A)True B)False
Q2) Santa Anna was the Mexican general who led the infamous attack on the Alamo A)True B)False
Q3) Andrew Jackson's defense of Peggy Eaton's so-called scandalous past contributed to the rift between Jackson and John C.Calhoun
A)True B)False
Q4) Andrew Jackson vetoed the rechartering of the Bank of the United States because he believedit
A)prevented state banks from lending money.
B)refused to accept deposits of federal revenue.
C)went against states' rights.
D)constantly meddled in national politics.
E)had been responsible for his losing thousands of dollars years earlier.
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1820-1860
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Q1) The phrase "fifty-four,forty or fight" refers to Americans' support for a war with Mexico
A)True
B)False
Q2) About one in four of the eastern Cherokees died on the Trail of Tears.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mexico gave up more than 600 million acres to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Cherokees adopted white notions of "civilized" behavior and customs as a strategy for retaining their land
A)True
B)False
Q5) Fifteen years after Joseph Smith was killed by a mob in 1844,Brigham Young led the entire Mormon population in a mass migration to Utah.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) Jefferson Davis strongly supported secession.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After the 1860 election,the Democrats retained control of which government body?
A)Senate
B)Supreme Court
C)House of Representatives
D)Both the Senate and Supreme Court
E)All of these
Q3) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 instituted popular sovereignty in the territories and inflamed people throughout the country.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The young prominent U.S.representative from Illinois who played a major role in bringing about the Compromise of 1850 was Abraham Lincoln.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) Confederate commander P.G.T.Beauregard gave the orders to fire on Fort Sumter.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What caused the bread riot?
A)A lack of sufficient supplies of bread during the wartime South
B)Widespread starvation
C)Suspicions that merchants created wartime shortages of flour to drive prices up
D)All of these
E)None of these
Q3) What great contradiction did the Confederacy face as it waged the war?
A)Its decision to free slaves within its borders
B)The need to create a central government
C)The decision to finance the war by printing paper currency
D)The use of conscription to staff its army
Q4) Tennessee was the second state to secede from the Union.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and
Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) What federal agency was formed to assist former slaves in making the economic adjustment to freedom?
A)Freedmen's Bureau
B)Department of Education
C)African American Rights Association
D)NAACP
Q2) What was the result of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment?
A)He was convicted and removed from office.
B)He was acquitted and so remained in office.
C)The Senate voted to remove Secretary Stanton and allow the president to remain.
D)Many Americans came to view the Senate as vindictive and petty.
E)None of the above
Q3) What was the most significant result of the 1876 election?
A)In effect,an end to Reconstruction
B)A period of scandal-free government
C)The election of the first Democratic president since the 1850s
D)An easing of racial tensions in the South
E)A return to "normalcy" across the United States
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Q1) Who proposed the "frontier thesis," that the availability of free land was pivotal to the development of democracy in America?
A)Mark Twain
B)Josiah Strong
C)Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
D)Frederick Jackson Turner
Q2) In The Influence of Sea Power on History,1660-1783,Captain Alfred T.Mahan advocated which of the following?
A)An expansionist policy supported by a strong navy and overseas bases
B)A protectionist policy supported by high tariffs on a range of imported goods
C)An isolationist policy that would help the United States focus on domestic needs
D)A foreign policy that would make ties with the most powerful European nations
Q3) No one was aboard the USS Maine when it exploded in the Havana Harbor in 1898.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Hawaii was annexed by the United States following a bloody civil war there.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Change and Resistance: Industrialization,
urbanization, and Farm Protest, 1865-1910
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Q1) Which region of the country favored William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential election?
A)the Northeast
B)the South
C)the Great Plains
D)the Far West
Q2) Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant who gained considerable wealth in the steel industry.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the most common form of government in U.S.cities toward the end of the nineteenth century?
A)Mayor-council
B)City manager
C)Town meeting
D)Commission
Q4) J.P.Morgan founded the Standard Oil Company.
A)True
B)False
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1895-1920
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Q1) What did the Newlands Reclamation Act establish in the West?
A)a system of irrigation reservoirs
B)a system of reservation lands
C)new interconnected rail lines
D)guidelines for mining operations
Q2) Regulations related to which of the following stemmed at least in part from Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel,The Jungle?
A)food safety
B)child labor
C)workplace safety
D)civil rights
Q3) The Department of Justice brought a lawsuit to break up the Northern Securities Company resulting from mergers in what industry?
A)Steel
B)Railroads
C)Oil
D)Banking
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
1914-1920
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Q1) Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge helped draft the League of Nations proposal.
A)True B)False
Q2) Why did the U.S.not establish an embargo against warring European nations after the outbreak of war?
A)Because the large population of German immigrants in the U.S opposed it
B)Because it did not have a large enough naval fleet to maintain an embargo
C)Because U.S.defense experts considered espionage a stronger and safer strategy
D)Because a blockade would have harmed the U.S.economy
Q3) Which statement regarding U.S.participation in World War I is true?
A)The United States chose to use an all-volunteer system for raising troops.
B)Roughly 3 million men joined the armed forces during World War I.
C)The United States got the majority of the funds for the war through taxes.
D)Most of the U.S.convoys escorting merchant ships were destroyed by German submarines.
Q4) Charles Evans Hughes was a Supreme Court justice and the Republican Party's 1916 presidential candidate.
A)True B)False
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Q1) The first motion picture with sound was The Grapes of Wrath.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1927,Ford attempted to regain market share from General Motors by doing all of the following except
A)advertising extensively.
B)introducing a new Model A.
C)offering credit to car buyers.
D)dismantling the assembly line.
Q3) In the 1921-1922 Washington Naval Conference,a commitment to respect one another's territorial possessions was agreed to by all of the following countries except:
A)France
B)Great Britain
C)Japan
D)the Soviet Union
E)the United States
Q4) Amelia Earhart made a successful trans-Atlantic flight in in the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: A Nation in Crisis: the Great Depression and the
New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution after the organization refused to allow Marian Anderson to sing at Constitution Hall because she was black.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act,the federal government paid subsidies to farmers who agreed to
A)reduce their crop production.
B)increase their farm production.
C)hire unemployed migrant workers.
D)donate surpluses to the unemployed.
Q3) By 1931,the number of Americans who were unemployed had soared to A)1 million.
B)2 million.
C)8 million.
D)20 million.
Q4) The programs of the Tennessee Valley Authority targeted America's poorest region for relief.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) What federal office was charged with supervising rationing and controlling inflation caused by over-demand and under-supply?
A)the Lend-Lease Program
B)the National War Labor Board
C)the Office of Price Administration
D)the War Production Board
Q2) The Selective Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S.history.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding the progress of Allied forces during World War II is true?
A)U.S.troops invaded the French colonies of Morocco and Algeria in late 1942.
B)Britain and the United States mounted a joint defensive in France in early 1943.
C)The United States sent troops to fight alongside Russian troops on the Russian border in mid-1943.
D)By 1943 new technologies had made German submarines less effective than they had been earlier in the war.
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
1945-1960
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Q1) What was Sputnik?
A)a nuclear missile
B)a nuclear submarine
C)a Russian satellite
D)a Russian spy plane
Q2) Richard Nixon planned to resign from the vice presidency prior to the 1956 to run for the Senate,but President Eisenhower persuaded him to remain as his running mate.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As veterans began to return home following the end of World War II,they experienced all of the following except
A)a rising divorce rate.
B)a serious housing shortage.
C)the growth of a consumer society.
D)the inability to get loans to buy homes.
Q4) At the end of the Korean War,North and South Korea were divided at the thirty-eighth parallel.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) La Raza Unida was a social group founded to help integrate Chicanos into California society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "Plumbers" were members of a White House unit that Nixon charged with stopping security leaks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who was President John F.Kennedy's secretary of state?
A)Robert Kennedy
B)Robert McNamara
C)Dean Rusk
D)Sergeant Shriver
Q4) Who said the famous words,as he stepped onto the moon: "That's one small step for man,one giant leap for mankind"?
A)Buzz Aldrin
B)Neil Armstrong
C)Michael Collins
D)John Glenn
E)Alan Shepard
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) Which of these presidents appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female justice to the U.S.Supreme Court?
A)Ronald Reagan
B)Gerald Ford
C)Jimmy Carter
D)George H.W.Bush
Q2) The Moral Majority was
A)a sign of the rise of the religious right in American politics
B)opposed to women's rights
C)a vocal opponent of homosexuality
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q3) Jimmy Carter chose the first female vice presidential candidate when he selected Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The president who deregulated the airline industry was Ronald Reagan.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) What was America Online?
A)an early Internet retailer
B)one of the first online blogs
C)an Internet service provider
D)a conservative television news station
Q2) A federal government budget surplus was realized under which president?
A)George H.W.Bush
B)George W.Bush
C)Bill Clinton
D)Barack Obama
Q3) In 2013,the Supreme Court struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In 1992,Manuel Noriega was tried in a Florida court and convicted of A)drug trafficking.
B)crimes against humanity.
C)embezzling public funds.
D)planning a terrorist attack.
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