Foundations of the American Republic
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Course Introduction
This course explores the political, philosophical, and historical origins of the United States, examining key documents, events, and figures that shaped the foundation of the American republic. Students will study the ideological roots of American government, including the influence of Enlightenment thought, colonial experiences, and revolutionary ideals. The course analyzes the drafting and adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist debates, and the development of American political institutions and civic culture. Through primary and secondary sources, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the principles and struggles that defined the nations founding era.
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) Martin Luther
A)conquered the Inca Empire
B)wrote The Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
C)led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe but was killed in the Philippines
D)began the Protestant Reformation
E)was the captain of the Santa Maria
F)led the first French effort to colonize the New World
G)defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588
H)explored what is now the southeastern United States
I)a priest who advocated for humanitarian treatment of natives
J)founded the first British colony in the New World at Roanoke Island
Answer: D
Q2) European exploration of the Americas was greatly assisted by:
A) increased literacy
B) the Reformation
C) new sailing technologies
D) decentralized European nation-states
E) the decline of European monarchies
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Englands Colonies
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Q1) The Indian wars of the mid-1670s cost proportionately more casualties than any other American war.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) All of the following are true of the Pilgrims EXCEPT that they:
A) established the Plymouth colony
B) based their initial colonial government on the Mayflower Compact C) were Separatists who had abandoned the Church of England
D) originally fled to Holland
E) were a sect of radical Catholics
Answer: E
Q3) As a result of the Glorious Revolution, England abolished the monarchy and became a republic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT true of New England home life?
A) New Englanders lived in plain and sturdy dwellings.
B) Most people went to bed at dark regardless of the season.
C) The "chair man" sat at the head of the table at dinner.
D) Family life was centered around the main room with a fireplace.
E) Most New Englanders had well-appointed homes with glass windows.
Answer: E
Q2) Which had the most far-reaching consequences on American culture: the Enlightenment or the Great Awakening? Why?
Answer: This is a very difficult question to answer since both of these movements have had a great deal of impact on American society. However, I would argue that the Enlightenment has had more of an impact.
The Great Awakening has had a tremendous impact on American society. Arguably, every evangelical Christian today traces their religious convictions back to the Great Awakening. This was a movement that promoted the idea of a personal relationship with God. In this way, the Great Awakening led to the existence of one half of our
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Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Q1) Prime Minister Robert Walpole's relaxed policy toward the colonies:
A) was criticized by the king
B) enabled the Americans to pursue greater political independence
C) resulted in his impeachment
D) was seen as a positive policy in colonial relations by the Crown
E) reflected his lack of interest in his official duties
Q2) The Sugar Act of 1764:
A) legalized trade with the French West Indies
B) was intended to generate revenue from the colonies
C) doubled the existing tax on molasses
D) aimed to reduce rum drinking in the colonies
E) taxed sugar refined in the colonies
Q3) Which was more important in the coming of the Revolution: the development of a set of intellectual assumptions in the American colonies regarding liberty, equality, and so forth, or changes in British imperial policy?
Q4) Through the first half of the eighteenth century, the power of the colonial assemblies generally declined.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1783
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Q1) Many Loyalists emigrated from the American colonies during and after the American Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Lord Dunmore
A)author of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
B)wrote The American Crisis
C)surrendered his army to Washington at Yorktown
D)American commander in the South known as the "fighting Quaker"
E)was a brutal British leader in the South
F)major American peace negotiator
G)arrogant British general defeated at Saratoga
H)promised American slaves their freedom if they would join the British war effort
I)fought against Indians in Kentucky
J)ended Benedict Arnold's plot, hanged as a spy
Q3) Discuss the validity of the following assertion: "Without the cooperation of the French, American victory in the Revolution would not have been possible."
Q4) Trace the negotiations and details of the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
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Chapter 6: Strengthening the New Nation
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Q1) Examine George Washington's motives in declaring that the United States would remain neutral in the conflict between England and France.
Q2) Describe the system of checks and balances in the Constitution.
Q3) The phrase "Critical Period" refers to:
A) the time of the Revolutionary War
B) the summer the Constitution was written
C) America under the Articles of Confederation
D) George Washington's presidency
E) the years of tension over British taxes
Q4) Who among the following was an anti-Federalist?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) John Jay
C) George Mason
D) James Madison
E) George Washington
Q5) Examine the Whiskey Rebellion with an eye on the issue of whether or not it was a serious threat to the life of the young nation.
Q6) What major compromises were made at the Constitutional Convention, and what issues did they settle? What issues remained unsettled?
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Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800-1815
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Q1) In the early 1800s, the United States engaged in a naval conflict with:
A) France
B) North African pirates
C) Britain
D) Spain
E) Canadian smugglers
Q2) Although it was soon forgotten, Americans had a fixation on incorporating Canada into the United States in the early nineteenth century. Examine that idea and discuss the philosophy behind it.
Q3) From 1763 to 1803, the Louisiana Territory belonged to France.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the case of Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court:
A) showed its commitment to states' rights
B) ruled that Marbury should occupy his judicial position
C) made itself the government's most powerful branch
D) proved it was not influenced by politics
E) declared a federal law unconstitutional
Q5) Examine Aaron Burr's western conspiracy.
Q6) What were the short-term and long-term results of the War of 1812?
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Chapter 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850
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Q1) Of all the immigrant groups that came to the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century, which was least tolerant of enslaved African Americans?
A) Chinese
B) Free blacks
C) Irish
D) Mexicans
E) Germans
Q2) Discuss the various aspects of popular culture in antebellum America.
Q3) Trace the development of organized labor in early America. Be sure to include both the early union movement and the development of labor politics.
Q4) Explain the unique character of American technological development in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Q5) The largest professional occupation for men in the United States by 1860 was:
A) teaching
B) medicine
C) the law
D) nursing
E) engineering
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Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828
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Q1) The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was published in response to the:
A) election of 1824
B) Tariff of 1828
C) Missouri Compromise
D) Second Bank of the United States
E) Panic of 1819
Q2) Missouri's admission to the Union as a slave state was balanced by the admission of the free state of:
A) Maine
B) Ohio
C) Vermont
D) Minnesota
E) Wisconsin
Q3) What factors led to the decline of the first party system?
Q4) The Tariff of 1816 was intended to do all of the following EXCEPT:
A) raise revenue
B) protect American industry
C) tax imports
D) promote economic independence
E) lower the price of British goods
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Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
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Q1) Pet banks were:
A) state banks that received federal government deposits
B) allowed to issue notes that were not covered by specie reserves
C) those established by Jackson's executive order in 1829
D) chartered in 1832 for the express purpose of handling foreign investments
E) banks owned by Jackson's biggest political cronies
Q2) Ultimately, the Jackson presidency was revolutionary. Discuss the major political changes brought about by Jackson's administration.
Q3) The Whig presidential candidate in 1840, William Henry Harrison, was the hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During Jackson's presidency, the national debt grew smaller until it was paid off entirely in 1835.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss Jackson's idea of personal politics, to include the death of his wife shortly after his 1828 electoral victory and his destruction of the B.U.S.
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Chapter 11: The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860
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Q1) Why were theories of racial superiority significant in the South?
A) They created a sense of unity that bridged class divisions among most southern whites.
B) They were primarily adhered to by the planter elite that owned slaves.
C) They played no role in encouraging white support of slavery.
D) They were created by slaves to justify their enslavement.
E) They fostered slave rebellions among slaves who believed in the inferiority of the planter class.
Q2) The plantation mistress:
A) usually led a life of idle leisure
B) often criticized the prevailing social order and racist climate
C) generally confronted a double standard in terms of moral and sexual behavior
D) was sometimes known as the slave driver
E) represented the typical southern white woman
Q3) Life in the Old Southwest was characterized by:
A) a lack of women
B) pleasant working conditions
C) prohibition of alcohol
D) pacifism
E) opposition to slavery
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Q1) Describe the various facets and accomplishments of the women's movement of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Q2) John Calhoun
A)set up Seneca Falls Convention
B)founder of the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator
C)pro-slavery senator from South Carolina
D)founded Mormonism
E)founder of the Oneida Community
F)revivalist who initiated the "circuit rider" system
G)promoted statewide school systems
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums
I)escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate
Q3) Which of the following is NOT true of Charles Finney?
A) He generated 100,000 conversions.
B) He was active in New York's burned-over district.
C) He emphasized both good faith and good works.
D) He rejected the doctrine of predestination.
E) He was an active Universalist preacher.
Q4) Describe the southern defense of slavery before and after 1830.
Q5) Discuss the emergence of a popular press in antebellum America.
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Chapter 13: Western Expansion, 1830-1848
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Q1) The Mexican ban on American immigration to Texas:
A) was ineffective
B) halted the flood of immigrants to the area
C) went into effect in 1820
D) was necessary because Americans in Texas already numbered almost half the Mexican population there
E) caused the United States to break diplomatic relations with Mexico
Q2) Why was Henry Clay and not the incumbent, John Tyler, nominated by the Whig party in 1844?
Q3) The Mexican-American War erupted when:
A) Mexican and U.S. troops clashed north of the Rio Grande
B) American settlers started a revolt in California
C) the United States recognized Texas as independent
D) Mexico insulted the U.S. ambassador and ordered him to leave the country
E) Polk won the 1844 election
Q4) The outbreak of the Mexican-American War was caused by the dispute over Oregon.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why were many Americans opposed to the Mexican-American War? How significant was their opposition?
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860
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Q1) Preston Brooks's caning of Charles Sumner:
A) took place in Kansas
B) ended Brooks's career in Congress
C) showed that both North and South rejected political extremists
D) was totally without motive or provocation
E) made Brooks a hero in much of the South
Q2) Congress never passed the Wilmot Proviso.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Lincoln won the election of 1860 by:
A) appealing to fear
B) sweeping the free states
C) carrying the biggest states in both North and South
D) massive voter fraud
E) changing his position on slavery
Q4) The proposed Lecompton Constitution would make Kansas a free state.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What various solutions were proposed to deal with the problem of slavery in the territories?
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Q1) Lincoln replaced McClellan as Union commander because McClellan was overly aggressive.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the Battle of Bull Run. Why was there a sense of naïve optimism, and what impact did the outcome have on both sides?
Q3) Winfield Scott
A)was Lincoln's second vice president
B)was killed at Chancellorsville by his own men
C)had his division destroyed at the Battle of Gettysburg
D)was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans
E)marched through Georgia living off the land while destroying plantations, crops, and railroad lines
F)devised the Union's "Anaconda Plan"
G)was the 1864 Democratic presidential candidate
H)was the vice president of the Confederacy
I)was the Union admiral who captured Mobile, Alabama
J)was the president of the Confederacy
Q4) Discuss how the Civil War was "the most traumatic event in American history."
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Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Q1) The Radical state governments in the South did all the following EXCEPT:
A) construct railroads
B) cut taxes
C) establish public schools
D) build roads and bridges
E) provide opportunities for ex-slaves
Q2) Discuss the nature of intransigence in the South after the Civil War. How did this intransigence affect moderate Republicans in Congress?
Q3) Describe the development in the North as a result of the Civil War. What effect did the absence of southern members of Congress have on the economic agenda of northern Republicans?
Q4) The South emerged from the Civil War with a strong, diversified economy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson:
A) was a pro-Union southerner
B) supported black equality
C) supported the interests of southern planters
D) was Lincoln's equal in political skill
E) tried to repeal the Thirteenth Amendment
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Q1) The city of Chicago annexed the city of Pullman after:
A) Eugene Debs won his court case
B) a successful strike by the American Railway Union
C) anarchists took over the town
D) a city referendum
E) George Pullman died
Q2) The number of inventions registered at the U.S. Patent Office remained fairly constant through the nineteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following best accounts for the success of Standard Oil?
A) Its scientists found new technical processes for refining oil more efficiently.
B) It bought out the Erie Railroad in order to keep transportation charges low.
C) It was one of the first companies to invest heavily in advertising.
D) Rockefeller was lucky to find the highest-quality oil on his Ohio farm.
E) Its corporate structure-known as vertical integration-allowed the company to grow tremendously.
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Chapter 18: The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
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Q1) Hydraulic mining was the technique that proved least damaging to the environment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who was a prominent southern tobacco executive during the late nineteenth century?
A) H. L. Mencken
B) Joe Camel
C) James Buchanan Duke
D) Henry Grady
E) Roy Bean
Q3) The American Tobacco Company was:
A) based in Dallas, Texas
B) second only to the Bull Durham Company in cigarette production at the turn of the century
C) dominating the U.S. tobacco industry by the twentieth century
D) the first such government-owned company in the United States
E) Virginia's largest industrial employer
Q4) How did the nature of mining change in the second half of the nineteenth century, and what impact did these changes have on the environment?
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Chapter 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900
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Q1) One of the main reasons McKinley defeated Bryan in the election of 1896 was that:
A) Bryan could not win the support of rural America
B) Bryan was a terrible orator who bored his audience with his speeches
C) Bryan's "front-porch campaign" alienated many voters
D) Bryan got little support from factory workers in the cities
E) the Populists refused to support his candidacy
Q2) Popular Science Monthly, founded in 1872, became the chief magazine for promoting:
A) the Academy of American Science
B) the Republican party
C) The Greenback party
D) The Progressive party
E) social Darwinism
Q3) Following the 1893 depression, Coxey's Army:
A) demanded government jobs for the unemployed
B) organized a massive protest march down Wall Street
C) tried to overthrow the government
D) carried Cleveland into the White House
E) was led by a poor, broken farmer from Iowa
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20: Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913
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Q1) George Dewey
A)was secretary of state; called Spanish-American War "a splendid little war"
B)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1900
C)wrote Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis
D)negotiated an agreement with Japan concerning the future of Korea
E)was elected vice president in 1900
F)owned the New York Journal
G)proposed returning Queen Liliuokalani to Hawaiian throne
H)wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History
I)acquired Alaska for the United States
J)captured Manila Bay
Q2) The purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million proved to be a huge bargain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Trace Theodore Roosevelt's climb to the presidency of the United States and explain why he was such an appealing vice presidential candidate in 1900.
Q5) How did Hawaii become part of the United States?
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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
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Q1) During the 1908 presidential race:
A) Theodore Roosevelt sought reelection
B) the Democrats once again nominated William Jennings Bryan
C) the Socialist vote practically disappeared
D) prohibition became the major issue
E) Taft lost to Cleveland
Q2) The author of Working People and their Employers was:
A) George F. Baer
B) Ray Stannard Baker
C) Henry Demarest Lloyd
D) Washington Gladden
E) Ida M. Tarbell
Q3) As a result of the Brownsville Riot in 1906:
A) Roosevelt supported the African American soldiers
B) Roosevelt discharged the entire regiment of African American soldiers
C) Congress impeached Roosevelt
D) Congress protested Roosevelt's actions
E) The state of Texas discharged the entire African American regiment
Q4) "From its beginning to its end, the progressive movement was, more than anything else, paradoxical." What evidence could be used to support this statement?
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Chapter 22: America and the Great War, 1914-1920
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Q1) All of these took place in 1917 EXCEPT:
A) the East St. Louis riots
B) the Bolshevik Revolution
C) the Espionage Act
D) the U.S. enters World War I
E) the Paris Peace Conference
Q2) Calvin Coolidge
A)was Massachusetts governor at the time of the Boston police strike
B)was the U.S. attorney general that led the Red Scare
C)was Wilson's first secretary of state
D)was Wilson's second secretary of state
E)was the leading reservationist concerning the League of Nations
F)headed the Food Administration during World War I
G)headed the War Industries Board
H)was the Republican presidential candidate in 1916
I)was a World War I general
J)was jailed for encouraging draft resistance
Q3) Why did America enter the war in Europe when it did? Why did it not enter before?
Q4) Trace America's attempt at neutrality prior to its entry into World War I.
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Chapter 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
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Q1) William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey is best associated with:
A) football
B) baseball
C) horse racing
D) boxing
E) radio
Q2) Amelia Earhart:
A) was the first aviator to fly around the world
B) was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
C) was the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic
D) was the first woman elected to Congress
E) was an advocate of Prohibition
Q3) What were the professional baseball leagues for African Americans called?
A) Negro Leagues
B) Black Leagues
C) African American Leagues
D) Minor Leagues
E) Inner City Leagues
Q4) Examine and evaluate the characteristics of the African American life in the 1920s.
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Chapter 24: The Reactionary Twenties
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Q1) John W. Davis:
A) was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924
B) invented the radio
C) starred in The Jazz Singer
D) was the first head of the Federal Communications Commission
E) was one of the first great liberal Democrats
Q2) John W. Davis
A)was the secretary of the Treasury
B)was Harding's secretary of state
C)was the secretary of the interior
D)was the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan
E)died in 1923
F)wrote American Individualism
G)was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1920
H)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928
I)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924
J)was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1924
Q3) Trace the rise of Calvin Coolidge to the presidency of the United States.
Q4) What had the progressivism of the prewar period turned into by the 1920s? What factors led to this transformation?
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Q1) How did New Deal reforms attempt to raise farm prices and stabilize industry?
Q2) John Steinbeck
A)author of The Grapes of Wrath
B)created the Share-the-Wealth program
C)served as secretary of labor
D)was a BIA commissioner
E)was the Republican presidential candidate in 1936
F)was a CIO leader
G)proposed to pay $200 a month to those over 60 who retired and promised to spend the money
H)was interior secretary
I)was the "radio priest"
J)headed the FERA and the WPA
Q3) In 1932, how many people were unemployed in America?
A) 25 million
B) 35 million
C) 15 million
D) 40 million
E) 50 million
Q4) Describe the gains made by labor during the New Deal.
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Chapter 26: The Second World War, 1933-1945
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Q1) Which of the following statements about the attack on Pearl Harbor is NOT true?
A) It was one part of a larger Japanese offensive launched into Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
B) A specific attack on Pearl Harbor had been long expected by American officials.
C) The attack killed more than 2,400 U.S. servicemen and sank nineteen ships.
D) The attack ignored onshore facilities and oil tanks.
E) The Japanese missed the U.S. aircraft carriers in the attack.
Q2) By the autumn of 1941:
A) Congress declared war on Germany
B) the U.S. Navy was engaging the German Navy in the Atlantic
C) Roosevelt ordered ships to avoid combat zones
D) Roosevelt broke diplomatic relations with Germany
E) Congress passed legislation outlawing naval convoys
Q3) Detail how the United States financed World War II and what impact the war had on the U.S. economy.
Q4) Describe America's early battlefield experiences during World War II. How did America fare in these initial battles?
Q5) Detail the Yalta Conference and show its importance to the postwar world.
Q6) Why did America drop the atomic bomb on Japan? Was the action justified?
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A) Japan
B) Canada
C) the United States
D) Britain
E) France
Q2) The person who lost the most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was:
A) Richard Nixon
B) Alger Hiss
C) Whittaker Chambers
D) Harry Truman
E) Douglas MacArthur
Q3) By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals:
A) would revolutionize American life
B) were enacted
C) would wipe out the New Deal
D) disappointed most Democrats
E) were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress
Q4) Why did Truman win the presidential election of 1948? Why was his victory considered a major upset?
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Chapter 28: Cold War America, 1950-1959
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Q1) During the 1950s, novelist John Updike observed:
A) he and other writers felt estranged "from a government that extolled business and mediocrity"
B) communism had become popular in the U.S.
C) federal government was not receptive to the needs of poor Americans
D) the "land of the free" was not the "land of the free"
E) nothing
Q2) The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:
A) a massive government jobs program
B) new inventions
C) cold war-related military spending
D) the work ethic of the American population
E) trade with Europe and Japan
Q3) Society's message to women in the 1950s was that they should strive to combine motherhood and professional careers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 29: A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968
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Q1) The Voting Rights Act of 1965:
A) was passed by Congress over Johnson's opposition
B) ended black protest movements
C) dramatically expanded black votes in the South
D) made the South more strongly Democratic
E) was successfully resisted in the Deep South
Q2) The Viet Cong were the rebel army in South Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
Q3) James Meredith
A)was a segregationist Alabama governor
B)won California's Democratic primary in 1968
C)was the first black student at the University of Mississippi
D)was the Birmingham police commissioner
E)won Arizona in 1964 presidential race
F)wrote The Other America
G)was elected vice president in 1960
H)was secretary of state
I)was an American army commander in Vietnam
J)became major spokesman for Black Muslim movement
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Chapter 30: Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique:
A) celebrated the cult of female domesticity
B) explained the unhappiness of so many middle-class women
C) told women how to better please their husbands
D) painted an ideal portrait of suburban living
E) argued that women should be paid high wages for housework
Q2) Gerald Ford suffered terrible political damage when he:
A) continued Nixon's economic policies
B) vetoed the War Powers Act
C) pardoned Nixon
D) sent Americans back into Vietnam
E) failed to achieve peace in the Middle East
Q3) Nixon's southern strategy involved winning southern support by:
A) capitalizing on their skepticism of federal social welfare programs
B) stepping up the military effort in Vietnam
C) expressing sympathy toward fundamentalist Christians
D) making southerners dominant in his cabinet
E) increasing federal support of the South's economy
Q4) Describe the domestic policy of the Nixon administration.
Q5) Trace how the Watergate crisis brought an end to the Nixon presidency.
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Chapter 31: Conservative Revival, 1977-1990
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Q1) In late 1989, all the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe toppled bloodlessly EXCEPT that of:
A) East Germany
B) Poland
C) Hungary
D) Czechoslovakia
E) Romania
Q2) By the time of his nomination for the presidency in 1988, George H. W. Bush had served as all of the following EXCEPT:
A) director of the CIA
B) vice president
C) envoy to China
D) ambassador to the United Nations
E) secretary of the Treasury
Q3) Describe the status of organized labor during the Reagan administration. Did unions make any gains, and did they have any setbacks?
Q4) Describe and illustrate the main features of Reaganomics.
Q5) Detail the election of 1980. Who were the major parties? What issues dominated the campaign?
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Chapter 32: Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present
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Q1) In January 2009, angry activists coalesced into a decentralized nationwide protest movement soon labeled the:
A) Green Party
B) Reform Party
C) New Republican Party
D) Party of Hope
E) Tea Party
Q2) By 2011, the conservative insurgency led by the Tea Party focused on the record-breaking federal deficit and the tepid economic recovery (2011 home sales were the worst in history).
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Bush Doctrine emphasized:
A) close coordination of U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations
B) preemptive military action against terrorists and terrorist regimes
C) a determination to contain terrorism by keeping it where it already existed
D) strengthening America's nuclear deterrent
E) using terrorism against terrorists
Q4) What factors accounted for the public's view of the Bush presidency by the time of the 2008 election?
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