Early American History
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Early American History offers an in-depth exploration of the social, political, economic, and cultural developments in North America from pre-Columbian times through the early nineteenth century. Covering indigenous cultures, European colonization, the origins and impact of slavery, the American Revolution, and the formation of the new republic, this course examines the diverse peoples, ideas, and events that shaped the foundation of the United States. Students will analyze primary sources and interpret historical debates, gaining a nuanced understanding of how early American experiences continue to influence contemporary society.
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Chapter 1: First Founders
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Q1) Columbus __________.
A) argued that he could sail to Japan in roughly nine months
B) believed the world was larger than it actually is
C) believed the world was flat
D) accepted the ideas of Ptolemy
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following was true of the Viking settlement in Vinland?
A) It was established as a military outpost.
B) It lasted almost two hundred years.
C) It was very small.
D) Its inhabitants never had any conflict with native peoples.
Answer: C
Q3) __________ visited the future sites of Montreal and Quebec.
A) Jacques Cartier
B) Hernando de Soto
C) John Cabot
D) Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: European Footholds in North America, 1600-1660
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Q1) Puritan churches resembled which of the following?
A) lecture halls
B) private clubs
C) taverns
D) warehouses
Answer: A
Q2) In 1580, Spain's Philip II laid claim to the throne of __________.
A) Portugal
B) France
C) England
D) Holland
Answer: A
Q3) Richard Hakluyt was __________.
A) England's leading publicist for overseas expansion
B) a French explorer and fur trader
C) a Protestant dissenter
D) the founder of the East India Company
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715
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Q1) The creation of North Carolina was the result of __________.
A) a debt crisis
B) two rebellions
C) renewed competition with Spain
D) the Glorious Revolution
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following best characterizes Sir Edmund Andros's rule of the Dominion of New England
A) heavy-handed and dictatorial
B) fair and efficient
C) cruel and tyrannical
D) open and democratic
Answer: A
Q3) In Salem, witchcraft hysteria resulted in __________ executions.
A) 5
B) 20
C) 62
D) 159
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation
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Q1) Prior to turning to African slaves, English colonies used captured Native Americans and __________ as sources of cheap labor.
A) eastern Europeans
B) Asian migrants
C) prisoners of war
D) impoverished Europeans
Q2) The Middle Passage followed the __________.
A) arrival of slaves in the Caribbean
B) capture of slaves in African villages
C) sale of slaves to European buyers in the Americas
D) sale of slaves to European sea captains
Q3) By the mid-eighteenth century, South Carolina planters were shipping large quantities of indigo and __________ to Europe.
A) sugar
B) rice
C) wheat
D) tobacco
Q4) How did Britain's participation in the Atlantic slave trade evolve from 1640 to the 1730s?
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Chapter 5: Colonial Diversity, 1713-1763
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Q1) Discuss the causes of rapid population growth in the English colonies in the eighteenth century.
Q2) Which of the following was true of North Carolina's Outer Banks?
A) They were unsuitable for crop agriculture.
B) They offered easy access for oceangoing vessels.
C) They had no important natural resources.
D) They were an important center of rice cultivation.
Q3) Pietism stressed the __________.
A) need to restore emotion and intensity to worship
B) equality of men and women in all things
C) importance of rational explanations for religious beliefs
D) idea of universal salvation
Q4) German-speaking immigrants usually __________.
A) settled in the Deep South
B) came as whole families
C) were quite wealthy
D) were Catholic
Q5) Discuss the development of the New England economy in the eighteenth century. Why did New Englanders increasingly turn to the sea for their livelihood?
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Chapter 6: The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763-1775
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Q1) Which of the following strengthened the position of pro-war Indian factions in the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes region?
A) he Albany Conference
B) the Treaty of Paris
C) the Treaty of Ghent
D) Bacon's Rebellion
Q2) The Declaratory Act __________.
A) asserted Parliament's right to make laws for the colonies
B) established clear limits on Parliamentary authority
C) was cheered by colonial elites
D) established a new tax on estates
Q3) Patrick Henry's "Virginia Resolves" __________.
A) challenged Parliament's right to impose taxes
B) outlined fundamental natural rights
C) called for independence from Britain
D) questioned British conduct during the Seven Years' War
Q4) Describe the steps that led to Spanish colonization of the California coast.
Q5) What measures did George Grenville take in an effort to impose order on Britain's American colonies?
Q6) Who were the Regulators and what did they want?
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Chapter 7: Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783
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Q1) What mistake did the British make in late 1776?
A) They failed to press their advantage over Washington's army.
B) They ignored American peace overtures.
C) They sought to destroy the entire American army.
D) They killed civilians and destroyed crops.
Q2) How did Congress respond to Washington's insistence that his soldiers needed tighter discipline and better pay?
A) Congress instituted a military draft and set up officer-training schools.
B) Congress ignored Washington's requests.
C) Congress threatened to replace Washington with another commander.
D) Congress expanded Washington's disciplinary powers and offered a bonus to those who enlisted for a three-year term.
Q3) What common concerns shaped all of the new state constitutions?
Q4) With which of the following statements would John Locke have agreed?
A) Rulers possess conditional authority over the people.
B) Democracy is the best form of government.
C) Sovereign power rests in the monarch, the church, and God.
D) Citizens have the right to overthrow the existing government at any time and for any reason.
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Chapter 8: New Beginnings: the 1780s
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Q1) The mountain state of Franklin was __________.
A) founded by some of North Carolina's western landholders
B) intended as a refuge for runaway slaves
C) populated by discontented farmers
D) formed by Spanish and French adventurers
Q2) How did Washington respond to the threat of a military takeover of the American government?
A) He remained neutral and let his officers deal with Congress.
B) He used his personal leverage to force Congress to pay off his officers.
C) He persuaded his officers to work with Congress and secured a reasonable settlement.
D) He had General Gates arrested for treason.
Q3) Which of the following sparked Shays' Rebellion?
A) Indian attacks
B) legal reforms
C) a new tax
D) a military draft
Q4) How did James Madison select the amendments that would become the Bill of Rights?
Q5) Describe the key aspects of the postwar economic crisis.
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Chapter 9: Revolutionary Legacies, 1789-1803
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Q1) The Democratic-Republicans were supporters of __________.
A) Britain in international conflicts
B) the British model of democracy
C) a strong federal government
D) the rights of states
Q2) Samuel Slater's first factory workers were __________.
A) children
B) unmarried women
C) indentured servants
D) recent immigrants
Q3) The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were written in opposition to __________.
A) Jay's Treaty
B) slavery
C) the Alien and Sedition Acts
D) war with France
Q4) Which of the following states offered free blacks the most rights?
A) Pennsylvania
B) New Jersey
C) Massachusetts
D) New York
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Q1) Who led the way in making the investments that drove the Market Revolution?
A) southern planters
B) New England merchants
C) ordinary Americans
D) New York bankers
Q2) What led to the Market Revolution?
Q3) Tenskwatawa was also known as the __________.
A) War Hawk
B) Prophet
C) Leader
D) Wolf
Q4) Which of the following was true of Major Ridge?
A) He was Cherokee leader who accepted the need to adopt European American ways.
B) He was the first African American officer in the U.S. army.
C) He was a British officer who was tried for treason.
D) He was a Creek leader who fought against Andrew Jackson.
Q5) In what ways was Speaker of the House Henry Clay typical of the war hawks?
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Q6) How did the institution of slavery change in the first decades of the nineteenth century?
Chapter 11: Society and Politics in the Age of the Common
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Q1) __________ authored the Nullification Proclamation of December 10, 1832.
A) Henry Clay
B) Andrew Jackson
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Nicholas Biddle
Q2) The architect of the Monroe Doctrine was __________.
A) John Jay
B) James Monroe
C) Henry Clay
D) John Quincy Adams
Q3) __________ marked the end of armed Indian resistance north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi.
A) Pontiac's War
B) The Black Hawk War
C) King Philip's War
D) The Battle of Tippecanoe
Q4) What were the core values of early American Victorianism?
Q5) Why was the question of Missouri's admission to the Union controversial? How was the controversy resolved?
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Chapter 12: Peoples in Motion, 1832-1848
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Q1) Anti-Jackson forces, led by __________, formed the Whig party.
A) Nicholas Biddle
B) Henry Clay
C) Daniel Webster
D) Martin Van Buren
Q2) In 1845 a potato blight in __________ led to mass migration to the United States.
A) Ireland
B) Germany
C) Scotland
D) France
Q3) In his book Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States, __________ charged that Catholics were a threat to American democracy.
A) Franklin Pierce
B) Martin Van Buren
C) Samuel F. B. Morse
D) Henry Ward Beecher
Q4) What were the key issues in the election of 1844?
Q5) Describe the development of the American antislavery movement in the 1830s.
Q6) Who were the nativists and why did they oppose immigration and immigrants?
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Chapter 13: The Crisis Over Slavery, 1848-1860
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Q1) In Leaves of Grass, __________ captured the restlessness of a people on the move.
A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Walt Whitman
C) Herman Melville
D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Q2) The lower Midwest had strong cultural ties to __________.
A) Mexico
B) central Europe
C) New England
D) the South
Q3) Which of the following helps explain the prosperity of southern plantations in the mid-nineteenth century?
A) high prices for cotton on the world market
B) acquisition of new territory by the United States
C) continual importation of African slaves
D) growing diversification in farming and production of natural resources
Q4) What challenges did Plains Indians face in the 1850s?
Q5) What were the key components of the Compromise of 1850?
Q6) What political divisions were revealed by the presidential election of 1860?
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Q1) The U.S. Sanitary Commission did which of the following?
A) distributed health pamphlets
B) inspected food supplies
C) installed sewer systems
D) trained nurses
Q2) The New York City draft riot contributed to which of the following?
A) the hardening of anti-Irish sentiment among some native-born Americans
B) the reform of Union conscription laws
C) the defeat of the Union in the Battle of Shiloh
D) a surge in antipathy toward free blacks in the North
Q3) On December 20, 1860, __________ seceded from the Union.
A) Alabama
B) South Carolina
C) Georgia
D) Virginia
Q4) In 1864, Lincoln's reelection campaign benefited from __________.
A) a series of Union victories
B) the lack of a credible opponent
C) his overwhelming popularity among northern Democrats
D) the clumsy efforts of the Confederacy to intervene in the election
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Chapter 15: Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865-1877
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Q1) White southern Republicans were referred to as __________ by their detractors. A) scalawags
B) carpetbaggers
C) Yankees
D) black birds
Q2) Which of the following was true of members of the postbellum American middle class?
A) They rejected traditional gender roles.
B) They were increasingly secular.
C) They were committed to radical political reform.
D) They felt a deep cultural connection to their English counterparts.
Q3) Which of the following was most likely to be elected to political office in the South during Reconstruction?
A) a southern black minister who had been free before the war
B) a field hand who escaped and joined the Union army during the war
C) an older slave who was freed when the war came to an end
D) a northern black who came South after the war
Q4) Describe Lincoln's approach to Reconstruction.
Q5) Describe the Compromise of 1877. What were its consequences?
Q6) What role did Chinese immigrants play in the economy of postwar California?
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Q1) What is vertical integration? How did Andrew Carnegie apply it to his steel company?
Q2) Who invented the telephone?
A) Bell
B) Edison
C) Singer
D) Matzeliger
Q3) The three major sports in the late nineteenth century were baseball, football, and __________.
A) lacrosse
B) hockey
C) boxing
D) track and field
Q4) Why did Democrats run Winfield S. Hancock, a former Union general, in the 1880 presidential election?
A) to counter the "bloody shirt" effect
B) to highlight social and economic inequality
C) to give credibility to the party's foreign policy agenda
D) to create promote party unity
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Q5) What role did urban machines play in late nineteenth-century American cities?
Chapter 17: Challenges to Government and Corporate
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Q1) In the case of Ling Sing v. Washburn, the California Supreme Court ruled that Chinese miners could not be singled out for __________.
A) special taxes
B) deportation
C) hiring freezes
D) exclusion from unions
Q2) The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the San Francisco laundry licensing board had engaged in discriminatory application of the law in the case of
A) Koramatzu v. the United States
B) Tape v. Hurley
C) Ling Sing v. Washburn
D) Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Q3) How did white officials respond to the rising tide of lynchings in the South in the 1890s?
A) They created a special task force to investigate lynchings.
B) They claimed that lynching was rare or nonexistent.
C) They did little or nothing to stop it.
D) They passed new laws to punish members of lynch mobs.
Q4) What were the goals of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s?
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Chapter 18: Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression
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Q1) According to the Hearst newspapers, who was responsible for the destruction of the Maine?
A) the Spanish
B) Cuban rebels
C) incompetent American sailors
D) the company that made the ship
Q2) Which of the following was true of Sigmund Freud?
A) He argued that dreams reveal the dreamer's unconscious desires.
B) He claimed that dreams were fundamentally meaningless.
C) He posited that people's surroundings profoundly influence their behavior.
D) He explored the fears and self-delusions of former soldiers.
Q3) Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis promoted the idea of American __________.
A) isolationism
B) universalism
C) imperialism
D) exceptionalism
Q4) What were the key elements of Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise"?
Q5) Explain Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis. Why did he think that 1890 was a turning point in American history?
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Q6) What motives were behind American overseas expansion in the 1890s?
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Q1) Which of the following had a strong influence on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
A) the Niagara Movement
B) the Seneca Falls conference
C) the labor movement
D) the temperance movement
Q2) Most Italian immigrants were __________.
A) Orthodox Christian
B) Lutheran
C) Methodist
D) Roman Catholic
Q3) Discuss the role of socialism in American politics and the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Q4) The Bull Moose platform called for __________.
A) less government intervention in the economy
B) women's suffrage
C) a temperance amendment to the Constitution
D) equal rights for blacks
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Q5) What explains the influx of Jewish immigrants between 1880 and 1920?
Q6) How did Henry Ford revolutionize automobile production?
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Chapter 20: War and Revolution, 1912-1920
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Q1) What did Theodore Roosevelt and Elihu Root suggest America do in 1914?
A) prepare for war
B) give economic aid to the Central Powers
C) remain neutral in every way
D) provide troops to both sides
Q2) After __________'s attack on Columbus, New Mexico, President Wilson sent United States troops into Mexico.
A) Pancho Villa
B) Emiliano Zapata
C) Venustiano Carranza
D) Victoriano Huerta
Q3) What was the aim of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?
A) to redistribute wealth
B) to regulate wages
C) to strengthen industry
D) to abolish depressions
Q4) How did the federal government and the private sector work together to support the American war effort?
Q5) What was the connection between European global expansion and the growing tensions between European powers?
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Chapter 21: All That Jazz: the 1920s
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Q1) In The Man That Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton portrayed Jesus as a __________.
A) lawyer
B) factory worker
C) farmer
D) businessman
Q2) During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan wielded considerable power in Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, and __________.
A) New Jersey
B) Indiana
C) California
D) Michigan
Q3) In 1924, the __________ party nominated Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin for president.
A) Democratic
B) Progressive
C) Republican
D) Socialist
Q4) How did advertising shape the consumer culture of the 1920s?
Q5) How did automobiles shape the society and culture of the 1920s?
Q6) Describe the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.
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Chapter 22: Hardship and Hope: the Great Depression of the 1930s
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Q1) By 1929, the 200 biggest American corporations controlled nearly __________ percent of all industry.
A) 15
B) 25
C) 50
D) 75
Q2) The Townsend Plan was meant to help __________.
A) urban youth
B) recent immigrants
C) elderly Americans
D) African Americans
Q3) Describe the political career of Huey Long.
Q4) John Lewis helped found the __________.
A) International Workers of the World
B) Knights of Labor
C) Congress of Industrial Organizations
D) American Federation of Labor
Q5) What were the root causes of the Great Depression?
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Q6) What was the Civilian Conservation Corps and what did it achieve?
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Chapter 23: Global Conflict: World War Ii, 1937-1945
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Q1) The war set off a large migration to __________.
A) Canada
B) northern industrial cities
C) the rural South
D) the mountain states
Q2) In 1941, __________ threatened to organize a massive march on Washington D.C.
A) W. E. B. Du Bois
B) Paul Robeson
C) A. Philip Randolph
D) Marcus Garvey
Q3) Which of the following best helps explain the extreme brutality of the war in the Pacific?
A) the absence of sustained fighting on land
B) Japanese racism
C) racism on both sides
D) American racism
Q4) How did U.S. officials respond to Nazi persecution of Jews before the war? After the war had begun?
Q5) Describe the rise of Nazi Germany from the late 1920s to 1940.
Q6) What steps did the U.S. government take to build support for the war effort?
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Q1) Korea was a colony of __________ between 1910 and 1945.
A) Japan
B) China
C) Britain
D) the Soviet Union
Q2) Alan Freed brought __________.
A) the works of the Harlem Renaissance to widespread notice
B) rock 'n' roll to mainstream white audiences
C) discrimination in public housing to the public's attention
D) the plight of the homeless to the notice of government officials
Q3) How did Truman respond to the Jewish desire for a homeland in the Middle East?
A) He actively opposed the creation of the state of Israel.
B) He refused to take a stand on the creation of the state of Israel.
C) He decided to recognize the state of Israel.
D) He urged Jews to reconsider establishing the state of Israel.
Q4) The academic studies of Dr. Alfred Kinsey __________.
A) shocked the American public
B) were greeted with indifference by the American public
C) were censored by the federal government
D) were proven to be fraudulent
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Chapter 25: Domestic Dreams and Atomic Nightmares, 1953-1963
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Q1) Which of the following was true of the Submerged Land Act?
A) It enriched the federal government.
B) It compensated flood victims for their financial losses.
C) It gave the states control of oil-rich offshore lands.
D) It established environmental regulations for wetlands.
Q2) Describe the most important developments in American foreign policy during the Eisenhower administration.
Q3) In 1953, the CIA helped to overthrow the elected government in __________.
A) Egypt
B) Japan
C) Iran
D) Mexico
Q4) In the 1950s, 25 percent of all women attending college __________.
A) were from poor families
B) majored in home economics
C) were from minority groups
D) married before completing their degree
Q5) How did white Southerners respond to the Brown decision?
Q6) Describe the key components of Kennedy's domestic policy agenda.
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Chapter 26: The Nation Divides: the Vietnam War and
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Q1) Johnson's administration tackled health care concerns by __________.
A) creating the Department of Health and Human Services
B) approving passage of the Clean Air Act and Clean Waters Act
C) establishing universal single-payer health care
D) establishing Medicare and Medicaid
Q2) Why was the Supreme Court case of Miranda v. Arizona significant?
A) It affected environmental protection laws.
B) It upheld desegregation legislation.
C) It guaranteed the rights of impoverished prisoners to legal counsel.
D) It required police to inform anyone they arrested of their rights.
Q3) Which of the following programs was put in place during the Johnson administration?
A) TVA
B) CCC
C) WPA
D) AFDC
Q4) What initial policy choices did President Johnson make with respect to Vietnam? Why?
Q5) Describe Nixon's approach to his political opponents in his first term.
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Chapter 27: Reconsidering National Priorities, 1972-1979
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Q1) In 1973 OPEC initiated an oil embargo against the United States in retaliation for U.S. support of __________.
A) the Soviet Union
B) Saudi Arabia
C) China
D) Israel
Q2) Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman __________.
A) nominated as a vice-presidential candidate
B) to travel into space
C) to be elected as a state governor
D) appointed to the Supreme Court
Q3) Describe the emergence of the environmental movement in the 1970s.
Q4) The percentage of female students in law school shot up from 5 percent to __________ percent between 1970 and 1980.
A) 15
B) 25
C) 40
D) 55
Q5) How did Congress attempt to reassert its power over foreign policy in the 1970s?
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Q6) Why did Nixon seek to improve U.S. relations with China?
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Q1) Most of the new jobs created in the 1980s were in the __________.
A) nonunionized service sector
B) manufacturing sector
C) high tech sector
D) farm sector
Q2) The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan most resembled __________.
A) British involvement in India
B) U.S. involvement in Vietnam
C) U.S. involvement in Mexico
D) British involvement in Ireland
Q3) Religious fundamentalists around the world sought to __________.
A) strengthen cultural traditions
B) overthrow democratic governments
C) unite believers of all faiths in a single political party
D) eliminate social injustice
Q4) Susan Faludi explored opposition to __________ in her book Backlash.
A) the women's movement
B) affirmative action
C) gay rights
D) integration
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Chapter 29: Post-Cold War America, 1991-2000
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Q1) The Promise Keepers were focused on __________.
A) the rights and responsibilities of fathers
B) furthering the cause of social justice
C) diffusing racial tensions
D) improving the environment for future generations
Q2) Which of the following was true of the Clintons' efforts to pass health care reform?
A) Their efforts resulted in the implementation of several important reforms.
B) Their plan passed Congress, but was struck down by the Supreme Court.
C) Their plan failed to pass the Senate by a single vote.
D) Their efforts were abandoned after a year of hearings and no action by Congress.
Q3) What was the apparent motive behind the Oklahoma City bombing?
A) anger over U.S. military bases in Saudi Arabia
B) retaliation for the FBI raid on the Branch Davidians
C) revenge for the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi
D) concern about environmental degradation
Q4) What was the Contract with America? How did President Clinton respond to Republican efforts to implement the programs outlined in the Contract?
Q5) How did Americans in the bottom half of the income ladder fare in the 1990s?
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Chapter 30: A Global Nation in the New Millennium
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Q1) The key factor in ecological transformation between 1900 and 2000 was
A) population growth
B) rising sea levels
C) a mini ice age
D) genetic mutation
Q2) The world's population consumed __________ as much fossil fuel in the early 2000s as in 1950.
A) 50 percent
B) twice
C) five times
D) ten times
Q3) George W. Bush sought to move the nation in the direction of what he called
A) "Christian America"
B) "Big America"
C) "compassionate conservatism"
D) "prudent progress"
Q4) Describe President Bush's domestic agenda in his first term.
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