AP United States History
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AP United States History is a rigorous, college-level course that provides students with an analytical perspective on the development of American history from pre-Columbian times to the present. The course emphasizes critical thinking, historical analysis, interpretation of primary and secondary sources, and the development of coherent arguments. Key themes include political institutions, social and cultural transformations, economic trends, and Americas role in the global context. Through intensive reading, writing, and discussion, students gain a deeper understanding of the complex forces that have shaped the United States and prepare for the AP U.S. History exam.
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Q1) Columbus called the native people in the "New World" Indians because
A) that was what they called themselves.
B) he believed that he had skirted the rim of the "Indies."
C) it was a form of the Spanish word for heathen.
D) the Vikings had first called them by that name.
E) the Spanish often used this generic word, which meant "outsider" or "non-Spanish."
Answer: B
Q2) The Iroquois Confederacy was able to menace its Native American and European neighbors because of
A) its military alliances, sustained by political and organizational skills.
B) the Iroquois warriors' skill with the Europeans' muskets.
C) the scattered nature of the Iroquois settlements, which made it difficult for their enemies to defeat them.
D) the alliance with the Aztecs and Incas.
E) its use of new weapons.
Answer: A
Q3) ____ Spain
Answer: 6
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Q1) In 1650,Virginia counted only 300 blacks in its population,although by the end of the century,blacks,most of them enslaved,made up approximately ____ percent of the colony's population.
A) 6
B) 14
C) 25
D) 56
E) 73
Answer: B
Q2) The statutes governing slavery in the North American colonies originated in A) England.
B) Virginia.
C) Brazil.
D) Barbados.
E) Spain.
Answer: D
Q3) sea dogs
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Q4) ____ Maryland
Answer: 8
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A)restoration of Charles II to the English throne,(B)English Civil War,(C)Glorious Revolution,and (D)Protestant Reformation.
A) D, B, A, C
B) C, A, B, D
C) D, C, B, A
D) B, C, A, D
E) A, B, C, D
Answer: A
Q2) All of the following were characteristics of New Netherland except
A) New England immigrants made up half its population of 10,000 in 1664.
B) its development was not a priority of the Dutch.
C) it took on an aristocratic tint, including feudal estates known as patroonships.
D) its main seaport city was the cosmopolitan New Amsterdam,
E) it was established by the Dutch East India Company.
Answer: E
Q3) salutary neglect
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) The headright system,which made some people very wealthy,consisted of
A) using Indians as forced labor.
B) giving land to indentured servants to get them to come to the New World.
C) giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.
D) discouraging the importation of indentured servants to America.
E) giving a father's wealth to the oldest son.
Q2) Compared with most seventeenth-century Europeans,Americans lived in A) relative poverty.
B) larger cities.
C) affluent abundance.
D) a more rigid class system.
E) more primitive circumstances.
Q3) Whether slave or free,North or South,which of the following was universally true about men and women?
A) Women cooked, cleaned and cared for children.
B) Women were the primary farmers.
C) Men cleared the land and planted the crops.
D) Children gathered berries.
E) Children helped with all chores and picked up an education when possible.
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Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century
A) a momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country.
B) the British government was pleased that more workers would be available to fill an increasing need for laborers in Britain.
C) the need for slave labor declined.
D) the colonists became more dependent on Britain for the goods that they needed to survive.
E) the British government granted greater autonomy to colonial governments.
Q2) Benjamin Franklin
A) was the author of Poor Richard's Almanack.
B) celebrated the virtues of thrift, hard work, and common sense.
C) was a severe critic of the Great Awakening.
D) was John Peter Zenger's defense lawyer.
E) was a scientist.
Q3) ____ Tobacco,fish,lumber,and flour for British textiles
Q4) jayle birds
Q5) John Singleton Copley
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Q1) With the end of the Seven Years' War,the disunity,jealousy,and suspicion that had long existed in the American colonies
A) continued without change.
B) began to melt somewhat.
C) finally came to a complete end.
D) resulted in renewed acts of violence.
E) None of these
Q2) The early wars between France and Britain in North America were notable for the A) large number of troops committed by both sides.
B) lack of Indian participation.
C) carryover of European tactics to America.
D) use of primitive guerrilla warfare.
E) advanced technology used during the warfare.
Q3) The Jesuit priests,despite their initial failure in gaining converts,played a vital role because
A) of the many converts to Catholicism.
B) of the health care they provided.
C) they made peace with the Indians.
D) they encouraged the Indians to participate in the fur trade.
E) of their exploration and work as geographers.
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A)Sugar Act,(B)Declaratory Act,(C)Stamp Act,and (D)repeal of the Stamp Act.
A) A, C, D, B
B) C, A, D, B
C) C, B, A, D
D) B, A, C, D
E) A, B, D, C
Q2) Stamp Act Congress
Q3) The colonists took the Townshend Acts less seriously than the Stamp Act because A) they saw the futility of resistance.
B) smuggling was nearly impossible.
C) it was a direct tax.
D) the items taxed were rarely used.
E) they were light and indirect.
Q4) Explain the relationship between mercantilism,the Navigation Laws,and British efforts to create an administrative structure for their empire after 1696.
Q5) King George III
Q6) Hessians
Q7) "No taxation without representation"
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Q1) Bunker Hill
Q2) Which of these is not a true statement about African Americans' support of the Loyalist cause?
A) Some believed the British would grant them freedom from slavery.
B) Those who fled to British lines served as soldiers, servants, workers and spies.
C) The British used them in all-black regiments battling the Patriots.
D) Thousands of black Loyalist supporters were promised and given parcels of land in exchange for service.
E) Some were sold back into slavery after the war ended.
Q3) To help the British,colonial Loyalists did all of the following except
A) fight for the British.
B) serve as spies.
C) pay extra taxes to fund the war.
D) keep Patriot soldiers at home to protect their families.
E) incite the Indians.
Q4) John Paul Jones
Q5) John Burgoyne
Q6) Hessians
Q7) ____ Bunker Hill
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) consent of the governed
Q2) As a means of ensuring that legislators stay in touch with the mood of the people,state constitutions
A) were rewritten once every ten years.
B) were rewritten once every five years.
C) required yearly visits to the homes of their constituents.
D) stipulated that ordinary legislation could override the constitution.
E) required the annual election of legislators.
Q3) Electoral College
Q4) Federalists
Q5) Shays's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for A) lower taxes.
B) granting long-delayed bonuses to Revolutionary War veterans.
C) a vigilante effort by westerners to halt the Indian threat.
D) a stronger central government.
E) a weaker military presence in the West.
Q6) James Madison
Q7) republicanism
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) Democratic-Republicans
Q2) strict construction
Q3) Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
Q4) impressment
Q5) Despite the flourishing cities,America's population was still about ____ percent rural.
A) 20
B) 40
C) 55
D) 70
E) 90
Q6) When the French Revolution developed into a war with Britain,George Washington and the American government
A) supported Britain.
B) assisted France militarily.
C) tried to capture French possessions in North America and the West Indies.
D) remained neutral.
E) captured British possessions in North America.
Q7) Neutrality Proclamation of 1793
Q8) ____ Tennessee
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Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) President James Madison made a major foreign-policy mistake when he A) accepted Napoleon's promise to repeal its trade restrictions.
B) failed to suppress the war hawks in his own party.
C) permitted Napoleon to offer financial aid to the United States.
D) began compromising away America's neutral rights.
E) tried to use Russia as a counterweight to Britain and France.
Q2) Thomas Jefferson sent two envoys to France in 1803 with the essential goal of A) preventing Napoleon from handing Louisiana back to Spain.
B) purchasing as much territory west of the Mississippi as they could get.
C) preventing Napoleon from fortifying New Orleans and St. Louis.
D) bribing the French foreign ministry into permitting Americans to deposit grain in New Orleans.
E) purchasing New Orleans to make it secure for American shippers.
Q3) Napoleon Bonaparte
Q4) Toussaint L'Ouverture
Q5) judicial review
Q6) ____ Louisiana Purchase of 1803
Q7) William Marbury
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) Tallmadge Amendment
Q2) Select two of the following and explain what important contributions to American nationalism after the War of 1812 they made: John Marshall,Daniel Webster,Henry Clay,and John Quincy Adams? Justify your selection.
Q3) ____ Lake Champlain
Q4) The British attack on Fort McHenry
A) resulted in another British victory.
B) made possible the British invasion of Washington, D.C.
C) inspired the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
D) produced the "Bladensburg Races."
E) resulted in the destruction of many British shops.
Q5) The Era of Good Feelings
A) was characterized by the absence of any serious problems.
B) was noted for cooperation between the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists.
C) marked a temporary end to sectionalism by uniting all parts of the country.
D) was a misnomer, because the period was a troubled one.
E) saw the start of the Whig political party.
Q6) Thomas Macdonough
Q7) Panic of 1819
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) While he was president,John Quincy Adams was roundly criticized for his A) land policy.
B) Indian policy.
C) support for internal improvements.
D) replacement of so many public servants with his own supporters.
E) supposedly aristocratic life style.
Q2) Stephen F.Austin's grant from the Mexican government required that immigrants whom he helped settle in Texas
A) become Mexican citizens.
B) be Roman Catholics.
C) not own slaves.
D) be willing to make their settlements self-governing.
E) serve a short time in the Mexican army.
Q3) In the 1820s and 1830s,the two issues that greatly raised the political stakes were
A) westward expansion and Indian removal.
B) the end of property qualifications for voting and political conventions.
C) the admission of Texas and Oregon to the Union.
D) hard money and banking regulation.
E) slavery and economic distress.
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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860
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Q1) cotton gin
Q2) Samuel F.B.Morse
Q3) Know Nothing Party
Q4) "twisting the lion's tail"
Q5) Write your definition of revolution.Then use this definition to argue that the industrial revolution was or was not a revolutionary event.
Q6) Compare and contrast the United States with Britain and Europe in the industrialization of its economy.
Q7) Clermont
Q8) With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West
A) subsistence farming became common.
B) farmers began to support the idea of slave labor.
C) farmers quickly faced mounting indebtedness.
D) the South could harvest a larger crop.
E) the issue of farm surpluses came to the fore.
Q9) "Molly Maguires"
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Q10) How did Eli Whitney make the American Civil War more likely,and at the same time,give the Union an advantage once the war began?
Q11) rugged individualism
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) The original prophet of the Mormon religion was
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B) Brigham Young.
C) Charles G. Finney.
D) the angel Moroni.
E) Joseph Smith.
Q2) The Poet Laureate of Democracy,whose emotional and explicit writings expressed a deep love of the masses and enthusiasm for an expanding America,was
A) Edgar Allan Poe.
B) Emily Dickinson.
C) Walt Whitman.
D) Herman Melville.
E) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Q3) Unitarianism
Q4) New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of A) prison and asylum reform.
B) the peace movement.
C) the temperance movement.
D) abolitionism.
E) women's education.
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) peculiar institution
Q2) The Liberator
Q3) Harriet Beecher Stowe
Q4) Assume the role of a southern slave.Describe what life is like for you.What experiences have you had,what have you seen happen,what emotions have you felt,and what do you believe and value?
Q5) Cotton Kingdom
Q6) The profitable southern slave system
A) hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole.
B) saw many slaves moving to the upper South.
C) led to the textile industry's development in the South first.
D) relied almost totally on importing slaves to meet the unquenchable demand for labor. E) enabled the South to afford economic and educational progress.
Q7) The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because
A) they opposed slavery.
B) they could not afford the purchase price.
C) their urban location did not require them.
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D) their racism would not allow them to work alongside African Americans.
E) they feared the possibility of slave revolts.
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) "conscience" Whigs
Q2) The British-American dispute over the border of Maine was solved
A) by the Third War for American Independence.
B) by a compromise that gave each side some territory.
C) when America was given all of the territory in question.
D) by the Caroline incident.
E) by admitting Maine into the Union and New Brunswick into Canada.
Q3) In 1846,the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except
A) the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
B) the deaths of American soldiers at the hands of Mexicans.
C) the desire to gain payment for damage claims against the Mexican government.
D) the impulse to satisfy those asking for spot resolutions.
E) Polk's desire to acquire California.
Q4) Liberty party
Q5) John Slidell
Q6) Aroostook War
Q7) Texas declared its independence from Mexico in 1836.Why wasn't it annexed to the United States until 1845?
Q8) Fiscal Bank
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) In the Compromise of 1850,Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was
A) to be banned.
B) protected by federal law.
C) to be decided by popular sovereignty.
D) to be ignored until either territory applied for admission to statehood.
E) to be decided by the Supreme Court.
Q2) Lewis Cass
Q3) Zachary Taylor
Q4) The Free Soilers condemned slavery because
A) of the harm it did to blacks.
B) of moral principles.
C) it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise from wage-earning to self-employment.
D) it was the only way they had of combating the appeal of the Democratic party. E) it damaged the national economy.
Q5) To what extent did the building of the first transcontinental railroad linking the East and the West contribute to the wrenching apart of the North and the South?
Q6) Daniel Webster
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) Dred Scott decision
Q2) Assess the validity of the following statement,"It was probably fortunate for the Union that secession and civil war did not come in 1856,following a Republican victory."
Q3) The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in
A) Atlanta, Georgia.
B) Montgomery, Alabama.
C) Richmond, Virginia.
D) Knoxville, Tennessee.
E) Charleston, South Carolina.
Q4) The 1860 Republican party platform favored
A) the abolition of slavery.
B) protective tariffs.
C) construction of a transcontinental railroad.
D) free homesteads.
E) non-extension of slavery.
Q5) Harpers Ferry raid
Q6) panic of 1857
Q7) Uncle Tom's Cabin
Q8) southern nationalism
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q1) The problems that Abraham Lincoln experienced as president were less prostrating than those experienced by Jefferson Davis partly because the North
A) had a long-established and fully recognized government.
B) had strong political support from Britain and France.
C) held firm to states' rights principles.
D) was united in the cause of abolitionism.
E) had fewer internal political divisions.
Q2) To achieve its independence,the Confederacy had to A) invade the Union.
B) win a decisive military victory on its own soil.
C) fight the invading Union army to a draw.
D) attract more talented military commanders.
E) capture Washington, D.C.
Q3) Despite the war,300,000 people migrated to the West,lured mainly by
A) the prospect of free land under the Homestead Act.
B) the ability to push Indians off their land without government interference.
C) the opportunity to flee from federal draft laws.
D) the hope of fleeing slavery.
E) None of these
Q4) Maximilian
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Q1) Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War
Q2) First Battle of Bull Run
Q3) The North's victory at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to
A) issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
B) seek military assistance from Great Britain.
C) force the Border States to remain in the Union.
D) keep General McClellan as commander of the Union forces.
E) suppress Copperhead opposition in the North.
Q4) Clement L.Vallandigham
Q5) Clement L.Vallandigham,a Southern sympathizer and vocal opponent of the war,was derisively labeled a
A) Carpetbagger.
B) Contraband.
C) Copperhead.
D) Doughface.
E) Prince of Jesters.
Q6) Historians usually rank the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln,as the greatest of American presidents.Do you agree? Why or why not?
Q7) Battle of Chancellorsville
Q8) Battle of Gettysburg
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877
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Q1) Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 prompted Congress to seek passage of A) the Thirteenth Amendment.
B) an extension of the Freedmen's Bureau.
C) an act to overturn the Black Codes.
D) the Fourteenth Amendment.
E) articles of impeachment against Johnson.
Q2) In the 1866 congressional elections
A) President Johnson conducted a highly successful "swing around the circle" campaign tour promoting his policies.
B) radicals replaced moderates as the dominant Republican faction in Congress.
C) voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction.
D) Republicans lost their majority control of Congress.
E) a substantial number of white southern Republicans were elected to Congress.
Q3) The greatest achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in
A) providing "forty acres and a mule" to freed blacks.
B) education.
C) the provision of food and clothing.
D) helping people to find employment.
E) securing black civil rights.
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q1) In religious and cultural terms,the Republicans appealed especially to groups that derived their views from the
A) less orthodox traditions of Unitarianism and Quakerism.
B) Catholic and Lutheran traditions of creed, liturgy, and understanding of human weakness.
C) Baptist tradition that feared government intrusion on personal and religious freedom. D) scientific tradition that saw religion as a fading force in American society.
E) Puritan tradition of strict moral codes and government regulation of morality and society.
Q2) Despite the lack of national political issues,Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like A) imperialism and foreign missions.
B) prohibition and education.
C) race relations and racial justice in the South.
D) sexual morality and women's rights.
E) the phrase "In God We Trust" on American currency.
Q3) Black Friday
Q4) Colored Farmers' National Alliance
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with
A) cash grants from new taxes.
B) land grants and loans.
C) cash grants from higher tariffs.
D) reduced prices for iron and steel.
E) aid for construction of railroad stations.
Q2) Great Northern Railroad
Q3) Which of the following was not among the common forms of corruption practiced by the wealthy railroad barons?
A) Bribing judges and state legislatures
B) Forcing their employees to buy railroad company stock
C) Providing free railroad passes to journalists and politicians
D) Watering railroad stocks and bonds in order to sell them at inflated prices
E) Receiving kickbacks from powerful shippers
Q4) blacklist
Q5) Grange
Q6) pure and simple unionism
Q7) stock watering
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q1) Thomas Eakins
Q2) Americans offered growing support for a free public education system
A) to combat the growing strength of Catholic parochial schools.
B) when the Chautauqua movement began to decline.
C) because they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens.
D) when private schools began to fold.
E) as a way of identifying an intellectual elite.
Q3) The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880
A) had experience with democratic governments.
B) arrived primarily from Germany, Sweden, and Norway.
C) were culturally different from previous immigrants.
D) received a warm welcome from the Old Immigrants.
E) represented nonwhite racial groups.
Q4) Atlantic Monthly
Q5) Young Men's Christian Association/Young Women's Christian Association
Q6) In what ways was the city a "frontier of opportunity for women"? Name at least two women who seized this opportunity and elaborate on their experiences.
Q7) George Washington Carver
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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural
Revolution,1865-1896
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Q1) Farmers were slow to organize and promote their interest because they A) were not well educated.
B) did not possess the money necessary to establish a national political movement. C) were divided by the wealthier, more powerful manufacturers and railroad barons. D) were too busy trying to eke out a living.
E) were, by nature, highly independent and individualistic.
Q2) Dingley Tariff bill
Q3) The first major farmers' organization was the
A) National Grange.
B) Populists.
C) Greenback Labor party.
D) Farmers' Alliance.
E) American Farm Bureau.
Q4) Oliver H.Kelley
Q5) Granger Laws
Q6) Bonanza farms
Q7) George A.Custer
Q8) A Century of Dishonor
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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Q1) Was Theodore Roosevelt's policy toward Japan fundamentally friendly,fundamentally hostile,or somewhere in between? Include in your answer discussion of the Russo-Japanese War mediation,the San Francisco school crisis,the Root-Takahira agreement,and the "Great White Fleet."
Q2) Write a thumbnail sketch of Theodore Roosevelt.Consider both the key characteristics of his personality and his style of leadership.In what ways did he make his own personality essential to his political and international goals?
Q3) Philippine insurrection
Q4) The major alternative route,besides Panama,that was seriously considered as the location for a canal between oceans was across
A) Colombia.
B) Nicaragua.
C) British Honduras.
D) Mexico.
E) Costa Rica.
Q5) jingoism
Q6) Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Q7) Pearl Harbor
Q8) Theodore Roosevelt
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican
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Q2) According to the text,Teddy Roosevelt's most important and enduring achievement may have been
A) building the Panama Canal.
B) busting the corporate monopoly trusts.
C) mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
D) conserving American resources and protecting the environment.
E) protecting the American consumer.
Q3) Activists in the anti-liquor campaigns saw saloons and alcohol as intimately linked with
A) prostitution.
B) drunken voters.
C) crooked city officials, paid off by liquor companies.
D) All of these
E) None of these
Q4) Sierra Club
Q5) The Theory of the Leisure Class
Q6) Ida Tarbell
Q7) Muller v.Oregon
Q8) trustbusting Page 33
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q2) Victoriano Huerta
Q3) In the 1930s,many Americans came to believe that American business and arms manufacturers had engaged in a conspiracy to get the United States into World War I.Is there any evidence to support such a view? In what ways did American business actually benefit from U.S.neutrality in the war?
Q4) Woodrow Wilson
Q5) The dangerous proviso that Germany attached to its Sussex pledge not to attack unarmed neutral shipping was the requirement that
A) Americans would have to refrain from sailing on British-owned passenger ships.
B) U-Boats could capture merchant vessels if the submarines surfaced.
C) the Americans would have to guarantee that passenger vessels were not secretly carrying military supplies.
D) the United States would have to persuade the Allies to end their blockade of Germany or submarine warfare would be resumed.
E) Woodrow Wilson would have to seek a fair, negotiated settlement of the war.
Q6) U-boat
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Q2) Women's Bureau
Q3) For German military strategists,the entry of the United States into the war meant that
A) they would no longer be able to use their submarine weapon effectively.
B) they would have to defeat France and Britain before a large American force arrived in Europe.
C) they would have to continue to fight on the second front in Russia.
D) the war would become one of swift movements rather than stalemated trench warfare.
E) they would have to switch from an offensive to a defensive strategy.
Q4) President Wilson viewed America's entry into World War I as an opportunity for the United States to
A) reestablish the balance of power in European diplomacy.
B) become a dominant global great power.
C) rebuild its dangerously small military and naval forces.
D) establish a permanent military presence in Europe.
E) shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy.
Q5) Bolsheviks
Q6) William D.Haywood
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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.
Q2) Langston Hughes
Q3) Al Capone
Q4) What explains the rise of Marcus Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association movement? Why was Garvey such an important figure even though his movement failed?
Q5) Job opportunities for women in the 1920s
A) expanded dramatically.
B) offered higher-paying positions than before.
C) were plentiful in Hollywood and radio.
D) existed mainly in the area of education.
E) tended to cluster in a few low-paying fields.
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A) involvement in the World Court.
B) armed intervention in the Caribbean and Central America.
C) involvement in the League of Nations' humanitarian operations.
D) naval buildup.
E) continuing attempt to oust the Communists from power in the Soviet Union.
Q2) 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
Q3) Warren G.Harding
Q4) Charles R.Forbes
Q5) Charles Dawes
Q6) Calvin Coolidge
Q7) Andrew Mellon
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New
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A) acquired farms in the San Joaquin Valley.
B) found steady work in the canning industry.
C) still struggled for food, shelter, and work in the San Joaquin Valley.
D) became caught up in radical labor movements.
E) formed mutually supportive evangelical religious communes.
Q2) Glass-Steagall Act
Q3) The Democratic party platform on which Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for the presidency in 1932 called for
A) extensive social reforms and a balanced budget.
B) deficit spending and a higher military budget.
C) higher tariffs and support for American manufacturers.
D) nationalization of key industries.
E) breaking up monopolistic corporations and supporting small business.
Q4) Roosevelt coalition
Q5) Alfred M.Landon
Q6) Huey Long
Q7) "Every Man a King"
Q8) Wagner Act
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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A) inflation in the United States was reduced.
B) the United States was voted out of the League of Nations.
C) tensions rose between the United States and Britain.
D) the United States began to pull out of the Depression.
E) the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened.
Q2) Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's invasion of ____,Hitler's invasion of ____,and Franco's overthrow of the republican government of ____.
A) Egypt; France; Poland
B) Albania; Italy; Austria
C) Ethiopia; Czechoslovakia; Spain
D) Belgium; the Soviet Union; France
E) Ethiopia; Norway; Portugal
Q3) Explain in what way
a. the fall of France,
b. Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, and
c. the attack on Pearl Harbor mark the most important turning points in American foreign policy between 1935 and 1942.
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Q2) By the end of World War II,the heart of the United States' African American community had shifted to
A) Florida and the Carolinas.
B) southern cities.
C) the Pacific Northwest.
D) Midwestern small towns.
E) northern and western cities.
Q3) War Production Board
Q4) Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
Q5) Korematsu v.United States
Q6) The major consequence of the Allied conquest of Sicily in August 1943 was
A) a modification of the demand for unconditional surrender of Italy.
B) the overthrow of Mussolini and Italy's unconditional surrender.
C) the swift Allied conquest of the Italian peninsula.
D) a conflict between Churchill and General Eisenhower over the invasion of the Italian mainland.
E) the threat of a Communist takeover of the Italian government.
Q7) Erwin Rommel
Q8) Fair Employment Practices Commission
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Q1) Since 1945,population in the United States has grown most rapidly in the A) Northeast.
B) Midwest.
C) Sunbelt.
D) Frostbelt.
E) Pacific Northwest.
Q2) In 1948,many southern Democrats split from their party to support Governor J.Strom Thurmond because
A) China had fallen to the communists.
B) they opposed American membership in the United Nations.
C) President Truman took a strong stand in favor of civil rights.
D) they found the Republican candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, more sympathetic to their conservative ideology.
E) Truman appointed an ambassador to the Catholic Vatican City.
Q3) ____ Latvia
Q4) ____ Yugoslavia
Q5) thirty-eighth parallel
Q6) Dixiecrats
Q7) ____ Poland
Q8) Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
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A) Science and technology drove economic growth.
B) There were fewer jobs in the military-related aerospace industry.
C) White collar workers were surpassing blue collar workers in numbers.
D) Labor unions reached a peak and then began to decline.
E) Job opportunities were opening to women in the white collar work force.
Q2) Richard Nixon
Q3) The title of Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man refers to a(n)
A) anticommunist agent who is forced to live underground.
B) World War II bomber pilot who is ignored upon his return home.
C) victim of nuclear testing who is dying of radiation.
D) father who is disrespected by his family.
E) African American whose supposed supporters are unable to see him as a real man.
Q4) In retrospect,the election of John Kennedy in 1960 is seen as bringing an end to the political consensus and caution of the 1950s.Could this have been predicted from the campaign of 1960? Should Kennedy be seen as a liberal critic of Eisenhower and Nixon,or in some ways a conservative one?
Q5) The Feminine Mystique
Q6) Jackie Robinson
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Q1) Why were the Peace Corps and the promise to "land a man on the moon by the end of this decade" both identified as key initiatives of the Kennedy administration? Were these two efforts more symbol than substance,or did they reflect important efforts to "get America moving again," as Kennedy had promised?
Q2) The War on Poverty was inspired by
A) the sickness and dire conditions President Johnson witnessed in the mining regions of Appalachia.
B) Michael Harrington's book The Other America.
C) increasing public faith that an affluent nation such as America should be able to end poverty.
D) None of these
E) All of these
Q3) Great Society
Q4) With the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A) the United States declared war on Vietnam.
B) Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam.
C) the military was given the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons.
D) Congress maintained its war-declaring power.
E) the goals of American military involvement in Vietnam were clear.
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Q1) Some historians argue that only a staunch anticommunist like Richard Nixon could have softened the once-bitter American relations with Communist China.Is this view accurate?
Q2) The shaky agreement that brought an end to American fighting in Vietnam in January 1973 represented
A) a thinly disguised American retreat.
B) an end to warfare in Vietnam.
C) the establishment of a unified, neutral Vietnam.
D) the achievement of the essential American goals in the war.
E) a vote of confidence in the South Vietnamese government's ability to defeat the communists.
Q3) Why was the feminist movement the most enduring and successful social movement of the 1970s?
Q4) President Nixon's policy of Vietnamization of the war in Vietnam called for
A) a gradual handover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese.
B) a full-scale conventional invasion of North Vietnam.
C) reorganization of the American army in Vietnam into antiguerrilla units.
D) an end to all American military and economic aid to South Vietnam.
E) a de-emphasis on military assaults in favor of Vietnamese social reform.
Q5) Thurgood Marshall
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B) evangelical Christians.
C) gold-standard advocates.
D) midwesterners.
E) neoconservatives.
Q2) Saddam Hussein
Q3) "ABC" movement
Q4) religious right
Q5) Solidarity Movement
Q6) Ronald Reagan's supply side economic advisers assured him that the combination of budgetary discipline and tax reduction would do all of the following except A) stimulate new investment.
B) produce a recession-proof economy.
C) boost productivity.
D) foster dramatic economic growth.
E) balance the budget.
Q7) Jimmy Carter
Q8) Geraldine Ferraro
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A) remained solidly behind the president.
B) solidified more strongly against the war.
C) helped President Bush maintain approval ratings of nearly 50%.
D) were evenly split between support and belief that the war had been a mistake.
E) None of these
Q2) Abu Ghraib
Q3) To President George W.Bush,"the axis of evil" that menaced American security consisted of the nations of
A) France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
B) Russia, China, and Cuba.
C) Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
D) Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
E) Sudan, Egypt, and Libya.
Q4) How did the U.S.domestic reaction to the "war on terror" compare with similar responses to World War I,World War II,and the Cold War? In which of these conflicts were there greater threats to America's tradition of civil liberties,and why?
Q5) "culture wars"
Q6) Columbine High School
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A) gained powerful political momentum through the support of the Catholic Church.
B) won strong support from most elements of his Republican party.
C) pleased almost no one and failed to pass Congress.
D) was welcome by most immigrants and their advocates.
E) sharply divided immigrant groups between those favoring and those opposing it.
Q2) Evaluate the impact of the postindustrial economy on the American family.In what ways is it accurate to say that the family has not so much declined as altered its forms and functions? What were the greatest challenges that American families faced?
Q3) Human Genome Project
Q4) Maxine Hong Kingston
Q5) Sandra Cisneros
Q6) The authors conclude that after much of its history as a revolutionary force in a conservative world,America "is now a conservative force in a world of revolution." Do you agree? Why or why not?
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