Contemporary World History
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Course Introduction
Contemporary World History explores significant global events and transformations from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The course examines key political, economic, social, and cultural developments, including the world wars, decolonization, the Cold War, the rise of international organizations, technological advancements, and new social movements. Students analyze the causes and consequences of change in different regions, considering the interplay between local and global forces. By investigating shifting power dynamics and the impact of globalization, this course fosters a deeper understanding of how current world affairs have been shaped by historical processes.
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HIST 3 3rd Edition by Kevin M. Schultz
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Chapter 1: Three Societies on the Verge of Contact
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Q1) Religion as practiced in Lower Guinea by the 1500s
A) was mainly that of Islam.
B) consisted of one major god and several lesser gods with specific capacities. C) was monotheistic.
D) had one major demigod the people prayed to as a direct connection between them and their major god.
E) was based almost completely on animal worship.
Answer: B
Q2) One thing that we know for certain about the earliest people is that
A) the largest influx of people took place between 9500 and 8000 BCE.
B) most arrived about 15,000 years ago.
C) the greatest influx of people in the early period came between 20,000 and 10,000 BCE.
D) they brought with them their skills in fur-trapping.
E) they were already skilled in agriculture when they arrived.
Answer: C
Q3) The Anasazi were noted for their complex earthen mounds.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Contact and Settlement, 1492-1660
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Q1) So different were the worlds of Indians and Europeans that native tribes had simply no way to blend Christian symbolism with that of their own native religions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach India via the shorter,eastern route because
A) Spain, the country he sailed for, was determined to beat the Portuguese.
B) the Portuguese had spent a great deal of time along the southern coast of Africa and were most familiar with the coastline.
C) he made a successful turn along the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and then headed north, which got him to India before others.
D) Columbus was still trying to reach India by going west.
E) he had been promised great wealth by the king of Portugal if he was first.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Expansion and Its Costs, 1660-1700
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Q1) Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia was initiated by Nathaniel Bacon because he
A) did not approve of Governor Berkeley's method of dividing land in the colony.
B) hoped to unseat the governor and take his place.
C) was upset over Governor Berkeley's failure to quell Indian raids in the county.
D) wanted more democracy in the colony.
E) wanted to do away with slavery.
Answer: C
Q2) The slave codes
A) established the rules for conducting slave auctions in Virginia.
B) limited the number of slaves that could be owned at any one time.
C) allowed masters to punish slaves as they saw fit and required that slaves have written permission to leave plantations.
D) dictated that the condition of the child followed that of the mother.
E) required that slaves register to carry firearms.
Answer: C
Q3) Proprietary colonies were ruled by the English crown.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763
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Q1) The Negro Act,which consolidated South Carolina's slave codes into one comprehensive law,was passed in response to
A) the Stono Rebellion.
B) Nat Turner's Rebellion.
C) Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion.
D) the Gullah Uprising.
E) Bacon's Rebellion.
Q2) Which was <i>not</i> a part of the Treaty of Paris?
A) The Mississippi River became the dividing line between England and Spain.
B) France lost its holdings in North America.
C) Spain received Louisiana from France.
D) The western interior of North America went to the English.
E) England was required to accept only partial territorial control of Canada and Florida from France.
Q3) Discuss the consequences of the British victory in the French-Indian War for Native Americans.
Q4) Describe what a typical "middle passage" would have been like for its slave passengers.
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Chapter 5: Toward Revolution, 1763-1775
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Q1) When Parliament repealed most of the Townshend Acts in 1770,it kept the tax on
A) tobacco.
B) tea.
C) paper.
D) stamps.
E) sugar.
Q2) Most of Britain's population felt that the colonists' complaints were unfair,since they too,had heavy tax burdens and little say in the government.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The colonists summarized which of the following parliamentary acts as the "Intolerable Acts"?
A) The Townshend Duties
B) The Stamp Act
C) The Tea and Sugar Acts
D) The Declaratory and Restraining Acts
E) The Coercive and Quebec Acts
Q4) Explain the origins and motivations for Parliament's introduction of a new order in the colonies in 1763.
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Chapter 6: The Revolution
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Q1) The British commander who captured the coastal cities of Savannah and Charleston was the same person who surrendered at Yorktown to give the patriots the victory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the Treaty of Paris,Britain offered generous terms to the Americans in land and trading rights because
A) established cultural ties between the two parties in the treaty made a complete severance of relations difficult.
B) British merchants managed to steer the negotiations in their favor, which included maintaining trade relations with Americans.
C) Britain was so soundly defeated on the battlefield that it was in the kingdom's best interest to appease the Americans.
D) Britain wanted to make sure that its archrival France would not end up with the best trading rights in North America.
E) the future of the British Empire depended on the wealth of America's raw materials, as English diplomats recognized.
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Chapter 7: Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789
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Q1) The main way in which individual states competed with each other under the Articles of Confederation was through
A) undercutting prices of goods also produced in other states.
B) the implementation of higher tariffs on goods entering their respective states.
C) non-importation of goods from neighboring states.
D) jostling for the small amounts of money available for loans by the federal government.
E) lowering their respective tariffs on goods from other countries.
Q2) The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 is significant for all of the following reasons <i>except</i>
A) It stipulated that a territory could elect a legislature when its male population reached 5,000.
B) It contained a bill of rights.
C) It left to each new state the decision of whether to allow slavery.
D) It created boundaries for the territories.
E) It allowed territories to enter the Union as states once their total population reached 60,000.
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Q1) The Democratic-Republicans sided with France rather than with Great Britain and supported a national bank.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hamilton,Adams,and Jefferson would all come to be known as Federalists.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the significance of the Haitian slave revolution - to France and to North America? How did the island rebellion influence Gabriel's Conspiracy?
Q4) Under Alexander Hamilton's financial plan for the country,he viewed the new national government's debt as
A) something to be avoided at all costs, if possible.
B) an economic instrument to commit wealthy individuals who were owed money from the Revolutionary War to the success of the federal government.
C) having no place in a strong, centralized government.
D) a responsibility that should be passed on to the states.
E) favorable to the federal government, but troublesome for bankers and merchants.
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Chapter 9: Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1814
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Q1) Which legislation set up land offices in the West,made pieces of land smaller,and allowed payments over time,thus helping settle the newer lands?
A) Northwest Ordinance of 1787
B) Land Act of 1785
C) Homestead Act
D) Land Act of 1800
E) Land Ordinance of 1804
Q2) The Embargo Act of 1807
A) stopped American exports from going to Europe and banned U.S. ships from trading in foreign ports.
B) prompted American traders to begin smuggling goods out of the country.
C) proved to be the biggest mistake of Jefferson's administration.
D) had a devastating effect on the American economy, especially New England.
E) All of these choices.
Q3) When Jefferson sent his emissaries to France to negotiate with Napoleon,he was hoping to purchase all of the Louisiana Territory,but he would have settled for the city of New Orleans.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Market Revolution
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Q1) The Erie Canal was an important aspect of the transportation revolution in all of the following ways <i>except</i>
A) aiding in the growth of New York City as a major economic hub.
B) moving goods faster, more cheaply, and more efficiently.
C) encouraging other states to invest in transportation networks.
D) linking the eastern states with those in the South.
E) encouraging the nation's farmers to specialize.
Q2) List and discuss the most important transportation improvements that took place in the first half of the 1800s.Which was most important? Why?
Q3) The development of the railroad improved the self-sufficiency of the South with its diversified farming.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Westward expansion finally brought the question of slavery out into the open where it could be discussed freely and without rancor.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Politics of the Market Revolution
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Q1) The direct appointment to a government job in exchange for helping a politician campaign for office is called the "spoils system," or A) patronage.
B) protection.
C) leverage.
D) keeping retainers.
E) corruption.
Q2) What were the events that led up to the Panic of 1837 and the depression that followed? How much credit or blame would you assign to Andrew Jackson for his actions during this time?
Q3) When and why was the Whig Party formed,and what groups made up most of its membership?
Q4) A significant factor leading to the Panic of 1819 was the unexpected decrease in the world's demand for the cotton grown in the American South.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The "corrupt bargain" deprived John Quincy Adams of his reelection in 1828.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860
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Q1) New York City became America's largest city in the 1800s because
A) its cultural diversity attracted rural Americans.
B) the city's generous welfare provisions assured a comfortable lifestyle for the poor.
C) other American cities regulated immigration more strictly.
D) it had the only harbor big enough to accommodate the big Atlantic vessels from Europe.
E) migration from Europe and from the countryside combined to make the city's population reach 814,000 by 1860.
Q2) How did southern states react to the news of Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Q3) What was everyday life like for most middle-class women in the North?
Q4) How did the lives of planters and of yeomen farmers differ from each other in the antebellum South?
Q5) Describe the growth of American cities in the North between 1830 and 1860.How did the immigrant population contribute to this growth?
Q6) <i>Gone with the Wind</i> provided a generally accurate picture of the antebellum American South.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: The Continued Move West
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Q1) If the warhawks in the Democratic party had been successful in persuading President Polk to force Britain to agree to the northern boundary where they wanted it established,Vancouver,British Columbia,today would have been part of the state of Washington.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of the situation with Texas prior to its statehood?
A) Texas became a Mexican colony in 1810 after Mexico declared its independence from Spain.
B) During the 1820s, Americans in Texas grew to outnumber Mexicans there two to one.
C) Although Mexico had previously abolished slavery, Americans brought their slaves with them in defiance of Mexico's wishes.
D) The new American settlers enrolled their children in the local schools so they could learn to speak Spanish fluently.
E) Many Americans in Texas became assimilated into Mexican society.
Q3) Discuss the changes in the territorial boundaries of the United States.Why and how did these changes occur?
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Chapter 14: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) In the <i>Dred Scott</i> decision,the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger Taney asserted that
A) by virtue of having been moved temporarily to a free state, Dred Scott had become a free man.
B) the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional; Congress had no right to prohibit slavery anywhere in the United States.
C) since whites considered blacks property, they could never be found guilty of murdering a slave.
D) Dred Scott was guilty of running away from his mistress.
E) Dred Scott had never set up residence personally in either Illinois or Wisconsin, so he was not free.
Q2) The original name of the Know-Nothing Party was the Federal Party.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Free Soil Party slogan was "Free soil,free speech,free labor,and free men."
A)True
B)False
Q4) What argument in Congress led to the Compromise of 1850? What were its main provisions?
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Chapter 15: The Civil War
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Q1) The "20 Negro Law" stated that
A) for every twenty Negroes on a plantation, one white male could be exempt from the draft.
B) wealthy landholders who owned at least twenty slaves could be exempted from military service to make sure that their valuable cotton got harvested.
C) owners of factories using twenty or more Negro workers could remain at home to run their factories if they produced war materiel.
D) those who owned fewer than twenty slaves could not receive an exemption from service if drafted.
E) counties that contained fewer than twenty slaves were not required to send men to fight.
Q2) Discuss the challenges the Union and the Confederacy faced on their homefronts.
Q3) Explain exactly what the Emancipation Proclamation did and did not do.Why was it so important to Lincoln to make that public declaration? What did the Emancipation Proclamation accomplish?
Q4) Discuss the historical significance of the Civil War.
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Chapter 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) What were some of the major scandals of the Grant years? How responsible does Grant appear to have been for these things?
Q2) In the aftermath of the Civil War,women's rights activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Olympia Brown did all of the following, <i>except</i>
A) use new national journals like The Agitator to advertise their cause.
B) push for the reform of marriage laws.
C) campaign for changes in inheritance laws.
D) wholeheartedly campaign on behalf of the political and economic rights of black men.
E) push for a constitutional guarantee of women's suffrage.
Q3) The Fourteenth Amendment included,among other things,protection for the voting rights of African Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As an indication of the strength of the Ku Klux Klan,we can look to the fact that the organization killed or injured 2,000 people in Louisiana alone before the election of 1868.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) Within twenty years of the first oil discovery,____ Oil Company controlled 90 percent of the country's petroleum.
A) National
B) American Standard
C) Standard
D) U.S. Oil
E) American Petroleum
Q2) Shortly before the Civil War,it was discovered that kerosene,a byproduct of crude oil that had been considered useless,could be used for lighting.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved
A) railroads.
B) kickbacks.
C) congressmen.
D) company stock.
E) All of these choices.
Q4) Explain the origins of the national consumer market.Which businesses and innovations were central to this development?
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Chapter 18: The Industrial Age: North, south, and West
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Q1) It is true of the southern textile industry that
A) it was the most successful area of industrial development for the South.
B) although for a while the textile industry did well, the North eventually surpassed it, and by 1900 it was on its last legs.
C) wages in southern textile mills were the same as in the North.
D) the production of iron had outpaced textile production by 1900.
E) it employed a large percentage of Southerners.
Q2) How did industrialization affect the settlement of the West,especially in regard to farming?
Q3) Why did Mark Twain describe this era as "The Gilded Age"? What does "gilded" mean? Why does it seem to fit this age so well?
Q4) The most prominent educational institution founded for African Americans was A) the Tuskegee Institute.
B) Atlanta University.
C) Fisk University.
D) Howard University.
E) Spellman.
Q5) What was the Grange? How did it evolve into the Farmers' Alliance? How did the Alliance evolve into the Populist Party?
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Chapter 19: The Progressive Era
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Q1) Municipal housekeeping is a term that describes A) the implementation of sanitation departments across America during the Progressive era.
B) Progressive women's reform efforts as an extension of their household roles. C) city government efforts to clean up industrial waste throughout the cities.
D) Progressive initiatives for cleaner, safer workplaces.
E) All of these choices.
Q2) The Anti-Saloon League was composed mostly of men,although women were the main advocates for temperance,because men did not think women should have to be involved in the dirty work of politics.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In <i>Twenty Years at Hull House</i>,Jane Addams finally admitted that her work at Hull House had given her life meaning for the first time. A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare and contrast the Progressivism of presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.Which of these men do you think would have been more supportive of the push for woman suffrage?
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Chapter 20: Becoming a World Power
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Q1) After the Spanish-American War ended and the peace treaty was signed,the United States passed the Platt Amendment,which
A) gave freedom to the Filipinos.
B) proposed a close relationship between the governments of the United States and Cuba.
C) was added to the Cuban constitution and gave the United States the right to intervene militarily should revolution threaten.
D) provided for humanitarian aid to the Cubans for as long as necessary.
E) stated America's intention to annex Cuba.
Q2) It is accurate to say that,in many ways,big business interests in America
A) were always expansionist.
B) favored tariffs but not expansion.
C) guided Congress in what laws should be passed.
D) believed in the "survival of the fittest."
E) drove American foreign policy from early in the nation's history.
Q3) Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan during his reelection campaign of 1916 was,"He Kept Us Out of War."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Prosperity and Change in the Twenties
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Q1) The consumer economy of the United States looked very good during the 1920s,as evidenced by the fact that
A) unemployment was just below 10 percent on average.
B) per capita incomes in the United States grew by about 10 percent during the decade.
C) most people enjoyed rising wages and rising standards of living.
D) one out of every two privately owned cars in the world belonged to Americans.
E) industries in America produced 8 percent more during the Twenties than in the years just prior to the war.
Q2) Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry by developing the A) touring car.
B) Model A.
C) United Auto Workers Union.
D) assembly line.
E) first roadster.
Q3) By the early 1920s,Hollywood in Southern California had grown into the center of America's rapidly growing movie industry.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: The Great Depression and the New Deal
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Q1) The disruptive effects of the Dust Bowl on residents included
A) almost ten years of drought that killed the majority of the livestock.
B) deep debt with which farmers were saddled long after the Depression.
C) rampant and massive crop failures.
D) the exodus from the farms that put thousands of poor migrants on the road to California.
E) All of these choices.
Q2) Discuss President Herbert Hoover's response to the economic crisis.What were his biggest mistakes? Did his policies have anything in common with the New Deal that would follow?
Q3) One of the most iconic films of the Depression/New Deal era was <i>Mr.Smith Goes to Washington</i>.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Like some New Deal Democratic supporters of Roosevelt,Federal Emergency Relief Administration administrator Harry Hopkins believed that public works projects were superior to direct payments to the public,because payments wounded the pride of the recipients.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: World War II
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Q1) Similar to a militant and extreme version of the New Deal,the deficit spending by Hitler's Nazi government during the 1930s,including a massive German arms buildup which put many Germans to work,helped pull Germany out of its economic depression by 1936.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "Double V" campaign refers to
A) U.S. victory against the Japanese and the Germans.
B) growing victory gardens at home to help feed servicemen overseas.
C) African American efforts to win the war overseas and end discrimination at home.
D) Roosevelt's initiative to build public support for America's entry into World War II.
E) None of these choices.
Q3) American troops fought their first battles of the war in 1942 in the Pacific,where they were soundly defeated in each one.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: Cold War America
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Q1) Why was Truman accused of "losing" China?
A) China had sided with North Korea instead of with the US. and South Korea.
B) China refused to join the United Nations.
C) China entered a secret pact with the Soviet Union in 1948.
D) China declared the Open Door Policy null and void, closing the door to vast exports of U.S. products.
E) China, an ally during World War II, had fallen to communism, despite U.S. efforts to prevent it.
Q2) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization stipulated that
A) the Soviet Union was an evil empire.
B) Communism was like a game of dominoes.
C) an attack on one or more treaty partners would be considered an attack against them all.
D) there was no peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union.
E) the destruction of the Warsaw Pact was the organization's primary goal.
Q3) What triggered the Cold War? What prevented it from turning "hot"? In hindsight,did the United States and the Soviet Union have reason to mistrust each other?
Q4) How would you evaluate Harry Truman as president? Give some examples to explain your answer.
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Q1) All of the following is true about the presidential election of 1960, <i>except</i>
A) The debates between Kennedy and Nixon were the first ever to be televised.
B) The 22nd Amendment, passed in 1951, prevented the very popular Eisenhower or any future president from a third term in office.
C) Eisenhower's support for Nixon was lukewarm at best.
D) Nixon had built his reputation as an aggressive anti-communist.
E) Kennedy defeated Nixon with a landslide majority of popular votes.
Q2) The growth of America's counterculture showed that many young people,besides condemning the Vietnam War,also
A) simply enjoyed the hippie lifestyle.
B) were eager to rebel against the strict attitudes of their parents.
C) rejected traditional American politics, social values, and the cut-throat world of business.
D) joined like-minded groups for the plentiful drugs and sex.
E) took a stand on immigration issues.
Q3) What was the Tet Offensive? How significant was the operation in Vietnam to the military on the ground? How significant was it to Americans back home?
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Chapter 26: The Age of Fracture: the 1970s
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Q1) Richard Nixon held long-smoldering resentment against what he termed the "Eastern Establishment."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Americans reeled from an embargo on oil deliveries to the United States from the oil-producing countries in the Middle East because those countries
A) resented the help America had given Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
B) wanted to convince the United States to stay out of Middle Eastern affairs.
C) believed the United States had pushed Israel to begin the 1973 war.
D) wanted to see Americans begging for help.
E) resented the friendly relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and the American press.
Q3) Nixon is often called an accidental liberal because
A) he resented the Eastern Establishment.
B) he covered up his role in the Watergate break-in.
C) of his crimes of tax evasion and bribery.
D) of his commitment to liberal principles.
E) his preoccupation with getting reelected led him to advocate many liberal goals.
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Chapter 27: Reagans America
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Q1) The term used for the complete expulsion of an entire ethnic population from a particular area is
A) ethnic decongestion.
B) ethnic devolution.
C) ethnic cleansing.
D) perestroika.
E) ethnic containment.
Q2) Reagan was the perfect conservative candidate and president because of his belief in
A) the free market system.
B) traditional family values.
C) anticommunism.
D) reducing social programs.
E) All of these choices.
Q3) In October 1983,a Libyan air raid on the Lebanese city of Beirut killed 241 U.S.Marine peacekeepers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the rationale for Reagan's supply-side economics.
Q5) What social effects did Reagan's economic policy have on Americans?
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Chapter 28: America in the Information Age
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Q1) What is the purpose of NAFTA? What is the purpose of the WTO? How successful have those two institutions been?
Q2) President Bill Clinton named his vice president,Al Gore,to head a committee to develop a new health care plan for Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of these views did Bill Clinton <i>not</i> espouse as he campaigned for the presidency?
A) Political centrism
B) Support for tough anticrime measures
C) Anti-NAFTA
D) Advocacy of welfare reform
E) Support for the Head Start program
Q4) Discuss the emergence of "two Americas" in the 1990s.What does this term mean? What kinds of changes contributed to this divisiveness?
Q5) Republicans seemed more concerned about the well-being of immigrants than did the Democrats.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 29: Globalization and Its Discontents
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Q1) Kenneth Lay was the head of
A) FEMA when Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
B) the Enron Corporation.
C) the largest trailer manufacturing firm to receive orders from the federal government for Katrina victims.
D) Homeland Security after Michael Brown "resigned."
E) the biggest "Ponzi" scheme ever perpetrated on the American people.
Q2) All of the following are true statements about the Great Recession that began in 2008 <i>except</i>
A) Several of the nation's largest banks had overextended themselves and were filing for bankruptcy.
B) One contributing factor was a large number of housing loans made to unqualified buyers, who defaulted in large numbers.
C) Businesses stopped expanding and banks held onto their cash reserves, making new loans difficult to obtain.
D) It had a global effect, as countries such as Spain and Greece watched their economies fail, too.
E) Unemployment reached a high of 14 percent.
Q3) What were George W.Bush's avowed goals in invading Iraq?
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