Global History
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Course Introduction
Global History explores the interconnectedness of human societies across different regions and periods, examining major political, economic, social, and cultural developments from ancient times to the present. The course emphasizes historical processes such as migration, trade, war, imperialism, and the spread of ideas and technologies that have shaped the global landscape. By analyzing cross-cultural interactions and examining diverse perspectives, students gain a deeper understanding of common patterns and distinctive characteristics that define world history, fostering an informed appreciation for the complexities of the modern world.
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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) The Renaissance was
A) a movement to breathe new life into Christian religion.
B) the rebirth of feudalism.
C) a movement celebrating cultural difference.
D) an intellectual and artistic flowering in fourteenth century Europe.
E) a period of great exploration and expansion.
Answer: D
Q2) Increasing trade and competition among European powers was a major factor in the decline of feudalism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Most Indian religions were
A) polytheistic and animistic.
B) sentimental.
C) hedonistic.
D) egalitarian.
E) monotheistic.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Contact and Settlement, 1492-1660
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Q1) What is the significance of joint stock companies for English colonization?
A) They owned ships and profited from the cost of passage to the New World.
B) They were able to amass the large sums of money needed to establish colonies in the New World.
C) Working-class people could own stock in these companies and therefore share in the investment potential of the New World.
D) They were funded by the crown and enabled the establishment of royal colonies.
E) They exported products to be sold to colonists in the New World and imported colonial goods back to England.
Answer: B
Q2) Francisco Pizarro faced only mild resistance to his seizure of the Inca capital of Qosqo because Inca warriors were gone battling another tribe.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Expansion and Its Costs, 1660-1700
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Q1) Which of these wars pitted Indian tribes against each other rather than against the English?
A) King Philip's War
B) Metacom's War
C) The Beaver Wars
D) Opechancanough's War
E) The Pequot Wars
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is <i>not</i> a true statement about King Philip's War?
A) Indian communities experienced a heavy death toll.
B) It led to a decline in Puritan leadership, since colonists saw the war as a sign of God's displeasure with them.
C) Metacom (King Philip) declared war as a result of settlers' disregard for tribal lands.
D) The war lasted six months and extended from Massachusetts to Connecticut.
E) One in ten New England colonists died during the war.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763
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Q1) In what ways did religion change in the colonies as a result of the Great Awakening?
Q2) Known as the "New Lights," the Protestant denominations of the Great Awakening supported evangelism,new methods of prayer,and equality before Christ.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the Chesapeake,the majority of slaves worked as
A) house servants.
B) artisans.
C) factory workers.
D) field hands.
E) shipbuilders.
Q4) As a result of the Great Awakening,the Baptists
A) lost large numbers of the faithful to the newer religious sects.
B) saw their numbers and influence grow considerably in the Chesapeake.
C) founded Brown College.
D) established their first churches in the colonies.
E) became the strongest sect in New England.
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Chapter 5: Toward Revolution, 1763-1775
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Q1) The first real battle of the Revolutionary War took place at A) Boston Harbor.
B) Lexington.
C) Bunker Hill.
D) Philadelphia.
E) Albany.
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) Which of the following was not a part of Britain's plans to revamp treatment of the colonies and take more control there after the French and Indian War?
A) Limit areas where the colonists could settle.
B) Make sure that royal officials stayed on their jobs in the colonies rather than hiring substitutes.
C) Limit widespread colonial smuggling that cost Britain in revenues.
D) Encourage the colonies to trade with France.
E) Raise additional revenues from the colonies.
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Chapter 6: The Revolution
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Q1) From the Continental Army's situation during the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge,one might have expected that
A) Washington's army would have achieved total victory by spring.
B) the war would not last much longer and Washington's army would have to surrender.
C) the British managed to commandeer the colonial army's supplies.
D) they were many miles away from their source of supplies, rather than just a few miles.
E) the men would rebel against Washington for his lack of leadership.
Q2) About 150,000 copies of Thomas Paine's popular pamphlet <i>Common Sense</i> were distributed throughout the colonies,helping to mold public opinion in favor of rebellion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The first state to draft and enact a statute protecting religious freedom for all was Massachusetts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789
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Q1) The Anti-Federalists preferred a weaker confederation of states and more direct democracy than provided for in the Constitution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare and contrast the Virginia and New Jersey Plans that were presented at the Constitutional Convention.Explain the compromise that brought the two sides together.
Q3) The Virginia Plan included all of the following provisions <i>except</i>
A) revising the Articles of Confederation.
B) creating a Congress with two houses.
C) establishing a federal judiciary.
D) establishing a president, elected by Congress.
E) creating a central government in which Congress had veto power over the states.
Q4) For the Constitution to take effect,nine of the thirteen states had to ratify it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does the idea of "separation of powers" apply to the three branches of the U.S.government?
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Q1) The election of 1800
A) saw the Federalists retain control of the House of Representatives.
B) led to the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution, allowing electors to vote for president and vice president separately.
C) saw the Federalists retain control of the Senate.
D) resulted in the Democratic-Republicans gaining a president but losing Congress.
E) ended with the Democratic-Republicans losing the Senate but taking control of the House.
Q2) In compiling possible items for the Bill of Rights,James Madison proposed seventeen amendments to the Constitution.However Congress approved only twelve of these amendments,and the states,in turn,ultimately ratified only ten of the original seventeen amendments proposed by Madison.
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?
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Chapter 9: Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1814
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Q1) Under the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809,
A) Jefferson tried to get the warring British and French to leave America out of its war.
B) American ships could trade with all nations except Britain and France.
C) The U.S. demanded that Britain pay American merchants for seized ships and goods.
D) The U.S. assessed a fine to all nations that harassed American ships.
E) led British leaders to announce their respect for U.S. neutrality.
Q2) Discuss the immediate outcomes of the War of 1812 and its long-term consequences.
Q3) All of the following is true about the election of 1808, <i>except</i>
A) Jefferson had chosen not to run for a third term.
B) Jefferson ensured that the nomination would go to another Virginian, James Madison.
C) The Federalist presidential candidate was Charles Pinckney.
D) James Madison handily defeated his opponent.
E) Democratic Republicans got exceedingly confident in the wake of their election victory and completely disregarded the growing anger over Jefferson's Embargo Act.
Q4) Explain the significance of the Supreme Court case Marbury v.Madison.
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Chapter 10: The Market Revolution
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Q1) In Francis Lowell's textile mills,most of the workers were initially
A) young men from the overcrowded cities.
B) children from twelve to seventeen years of age.
C) newly arrived immigrants with no other choices.
D) young, single, Protestant farm women.
E) family groups.
Q2) Which of the following happened during the Market Revolution?
A) Goods could first be taken to market quickly across the entire United States.
B) Each town began to open fresh air markets for selling and bartering crops.
C) A growing number of farmers began to focus on single crops that they could sell for profit, rather than only growing what they needed to be self-sufficient.
D) The United States stopped all overseas commercial transactions between the America and Europe.
E) The United States tried to separate itself from the world economy and buy and sell only at home.
Q3) Explain how and why life in America's cities changed as a result of the Market Revolution and the increasing industrialization and urbanization of the country.
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Chapter 11: Politics of the Market Revolution
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Q1) By 1824,almost all states had
A) passed laws forbidding women to vote.
B) passed laws forbidding African Americans to vote.
C) dropped literacy tests as a requirement for voting.
D) specifically excluded poor blacks from voting.
E) passed laws to allow all free white males to vote.
Q2) President Andrew Jackson initially enforced the right of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia after the Supreme Court decision in Worcester v.Georgia.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although the Second Bank of the United States had a twenty year charter that would not be up for renewal until 1836,Nicholas Biddle maneuvered to make it an issue in Jackson's campaign for reelection.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the changes in the way political campaigns were conducted that took place during the Age of Jackson.How would those campaigns compare to our presidential contests today?
Q5) Explain the differences between the Whigs and the Democrats.
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Chapter 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860
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Q1) How did life change for those living in the northern countryside?
Q2) Which of the following best describes the actual treatment of slaves by slaveholders in the antebellum South?
A) Humane
B) Indifferent
C) Benignly protective
D) Sympathetic
E) Cruelly coercive and violently punitive
Q3) One hallmark of a middle-class family was that women were free to choose whether or not they wanted to pursue a career and work outside the home.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Writers who suggested that slavery was necessary to protect blacks who were unable to care for themselves,and who began to reference the Bible when supporting slavery,helped slave owners rationalize that slavery was a "positive good" for all concerned.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe ways in which whites' defense of slavery changed over time.
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Chapter 13: The Continued Move West
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Q1) In the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851,the U.S.government
A) agreed to pay cash restitution to the Plains tribes for disruptions to the buffalo grounds.
B) set aside a portion of land for a reservation for the Sioux.
C) relocated the Plains Indians away from a new transportation corridor that had been put in use.
D) wrung an agreement from the Plains Indian tribes to give up a large part of their tribal lands.
E) agreed not to allow white settlers to make war against the Plains tribes.
Q2) The person who coined the term "manifest destiny" was
A) newspaperman William Randolph Hearst.
B) author Mark Twain.
C) President James K. Polk.
D) Senator Henry Clay.
E) journalist John O'Sullivan.
Q3) Why did President Polk want a war with Mexico? How did he go about getting what he wanted? What were the results?
Q4) How did Texas transform from a Mexican province to a U.S.state? Who advocated annexation,who opposed it,and why?
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Chapter 14: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) After several southern states seceded from the Union,the Crittenden Compromise attempted to bring them back by
A) offering to resurrect the Missouri Compromise of 1820's boundaries regarding slavery.
B) reinstating the sale of slaves in the District of Columbia.
C) allowing slave owners to establish slavery in the West.
D) promising to reimburse plantation owners for the cost of each slave that they freed.
E) agreeing to put the major hub of the transcontinental railroad in the South.
Q2) Which of these was <i>not</i> a part of the Compromise of 1850?
A) California would join the Union as a free state.
B) Slave auctions would be banned in the nation's capital.
C) Congress passed a tougher Fugitive Slave Law.
D) Texas would get $10 million but would have to stop trying to sway New Mexico toward adopting slavery.
E) New Mexico and Utah could have slaves as long as they remained territories, but when they became states, slavery would end.
Q3) How and when was the Know-Nothing Party established? For what purpose?
Q4) What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
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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 historical significance of the Civil War.
Q3) The North had a population that was more than twice the size of the South's. A)True B)False
Q4) 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?
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Chapter 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) The only state to have an African American judge on the state supreme court during the Reconstruction era was
A) Virginia.
B) Georgia.
C) North Carolina.
D) South Carolina.
E) Tennessee.
Q2) A number of famous Confederates joined the Republican Party after the war,including James Longstreet and Pierre Beauregard.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As Reconstruction moved into the background of the thoughts of northerners,racism and intimidation of black and Republican voters in the South became more visible.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The man who became president through the Compromise of 1877 was Rutherford Hayes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) Social Darwinism was the notion that the theory of "survival of the fittest" extended to the world of business.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Much of Rockefeller's success can be attributed to his pioneering efforts at A) capital accumulation.
B) assembly line production.
C) process integration.
D) horizontal integration.
E) vertical integration.
Q3) Andrew Carnegie made his fortune with the help of the Bessemer converter which A) transformed large quantities of iron ore into steel by using extremely hot air.
B) refined crude oil into gasoline, diesel, and lubricants.
C) refined large amounts of sugar within less than 2 minutes.
D) employed the assembly line technique for rapid manufacturing processes.
E) identified large coal deposits as far as 2000 feet below ground.
Q4) In what ways did business practices change to make doing business on a large scale not only possible but extremely profitable?
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Chapter 18: The Industrial Age: North, south, and West
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Q1) The final act in the U.S.war against the Plains Indians took place at
A) Little Big Horn.
B) Sand Creek.
C) Wounded Knee.
D) the Canadian border.
E) Pine Ridge.
Q2) The farmers' alliances began as political organizations,seeking to give farmers a voice in government.
A)True
B)False
Q3) President Grant's "Peace Policy" in dealing with Plains Indians fostered the notion of "conquest through kindness."
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did industrialization affect the settlement of the West,especially in regard to farming?
Q5) Compare and contrast the experiences of Chinese and Native Americans in the West after the Civil War.
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Chapter 19: The Progressive Era
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Q1) To achieve their goal of bettering society,Progressives relied on all of the following strategies <i>except</i>
A) crafting laws against perceived social wrongs.
B) writing exposés that made the public aware of problems and galvanized their support for change.
C) supporting trust-busting efforts by political leaders.
D) relying on parades, protests and demonstrations to rally public support for their initiatives.
E) relying on the courts to end racism and place limits on the hours women and children could work.
Q2) The 19th Amendment
A) granted the federal government the right to levy a national income tax.
B) prohibited the selling and consumption of alcohol.
C) granted women the right to vote.
D) limited the President of the United States to two terms in the White House.
E) reduced the national voting age from 21 to 18.
Q3) Explain the principles of scientific management.Whose interests did it serve? What,do you think,was the workers' reaction to scientific management?
Q4) Who were the Progressives? What were their main goals?
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Chapter 20: Becoming a World Power
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Q1) The first country in which the United States wanted to build a canal across Central America was Colombia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "water cure" was one of the atrocities committed by American soldiers in the Philippines.
A)True
B)False
Q3) American humanitarian efforts in the Philippines,Puerto Rico,Guam,and Cuba included all of the following, <i>except</i>
A) Missionaries built churches and orphanages.
B) Educators built schools.
C) Americans helped local people to establish independent, domestic businesses.
D) Doctors built hospitals.
E) Dr. Walter Reed discovered how yellow fever was spread.
Q4) Today's territory of American Samoa was a part of America's foray into gaining permanent footholds in the Pacific.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 21: Prosperity and Change in the Twenties
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Q1) Many women's rights advocates in the Twenties turned their attention to economics and the job market by focusing their advocacy efforts on political instruments such as the Equal Rights Amendment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Twenties ushered in new ways of doing business,as companies began to A) run out of new customers.
B) produce goods to last only a few years, in order to get "repeat" customers.
C) manufacture items that were connected with some other product, to encourage repeat sales - as with the phonograph and records for playing on it.
D) compete with each other in earnest for customers.
E) stimulate demand by allowing consumers to purchase goods on the installment plan.
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) What were the major agencies involved in relief efforts during the early period of the New Deal? How effective were they? What were some of their major accomplishments?
Q2) All of the following were reasons for the depth and length of the Great Depression,except
A) A long-suffering and depressed agricultural sector
B) The decline in consumer spending
C) High taxes on Americans
D) The financial interdependency of the United States with Germany, Great Britain and France after World War I
E) The stock market crash and related reckless speculation
Q3) During the winter of 1932-1933,the Depression
A) showed some signs that the crisis might be over.
B) deepened, with neither the lame duck president nor the president-elect able to act effectively.
C) led to the deaths of over 2,000 homeless people in cities (from exposure) across the nation.
D) led to closure of 60 percent of the nation's banks.
E) caused food riots in the cities of the Northeast.
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Chapter 23: World War II
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Q1) In 1940,the United States experienced its first
A) attempted attack from another country on American soil, in the state of Oregon.
B) peacetime draft.
C) request for military assistance from another country: Britain.
D) debate in Congress as to whether the United States should enter the new European war.
E) attack by a German submarine on an American merchant ship.
Q2) Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima and later Nagasaki because
A) he wanted to demonstrate the full force of the U.S. military.
B) Japan did not respond to an Allied ultimatum to end the war or face destruction.
C) he feared if he did not strike first, Japan would again launch an attack on U.S. soil, more devastating than Pearl Harbor.
D) he knew that the Japanese and German governments were developing a bomb of their own.
E) All of these choices.
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Chapter 24: Cold War America
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Q1) How would you evaluate Harry Truman as president? Give some examples to explain your answer.
Q2) When the Korean War broke out,Truman responded by secretly sending atomic bombs and short-range missiles to American air and naval bases around the world.
A)True B)False
Q3) The rapid growth of the suburbs had all of the following results, <i>except</i>
A) It suddenly ended the experimental gender roles created by World War II.
B) It prompted an increase in racial segregation.
C) It led to a postwar religious revival.
D) It muted the critics who had complained of conformity.
E) It left a lasting environmental footprint outside America's major metropolitan regions.
Q4) What was the significance of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v.Board of Education? In what ways did the Brown decision affect the actions of African Americans in the South during the ensuing years?
Q5) Who was Joseph McCarthy? Why do you think so many Americans were ready,even eager,to listen to what he had to say?
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Chapter 25: The Sixties
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Q1) Thurgood Marshall was
A) head of the EEOC.
B) LBJ's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
C) America's first "education Czar."
D) the author of the eye-opening book, The Other America.
E) the first African American Supreme Court justice.
Q2) The Twenty-fourth Amendment
A) declared complete equality of men and women.
B) limited U.S. presidents to two terms.
C) outlawed the poll tax in federal elections, which had been used to block blacks from voting.
D) reduced the voting age to 18.
E) abolished prohibition.
Q3) The summer of 1965 was a tortured one in America,due to riots across the country that erupted after the Watts Riots in Los Angeles.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the divisiveness and widely varying attitudes that had developed in America by the end of the 1960s.What events were most significant in bringing about this change?
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Chapter 26: The Age of Fracture: the 1970s
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Q1) William F.Buckley's <i>National Review</i> was touted as one of the best liberal publications of the 20 century.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these was not enacted or created during the Nixon years?
A) Environmental Protection Agency
B) OSHA
C) Pell Grants for higher education
D) Doubling of the budget for the National Endowment for the Humanities
E) Increased funding for the National Endowment for the Arts
Q3) All of the following is true about young conservatives in the late 1950s under the leadership of William F.Buckley, <i>except</i>
A) They opposed Great Society and New Deal-style government programs.
B) They opposed abortion and embraced traditional family values.
C) They advocated aggressive imperial expansion.
D) They urged tax cuts and less government intervention in people's lives.
E) They were militantly anti-communist.
Q4) What were Nixon's reasons for visiting China in 1972? Was he successful? Explain.
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Chapter 27: Reagans America
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Q1) The person who began the "Just Say No" campaign against drug use was Ron Reagan,the son of the president.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain how the Iran-Contra Affair developed.What were the first goals of the president and his advisors? Describe how those goals morphed into something quite different.
Q3) The first Eastern European country to demonstrate that the Soviet Union was losing control over the countries in its "sphere of influence" was
A) Germany.
B) Belgium.
C) Poland.
D) Romania.
E) Lithuania.
Q4) What social effects did Reagan's economic policy have on Americans?
Q5) Discuss the escalation of the Culture Wars.What repercussions of the confrontation between Liberals and the New Right do you detect in the politics of today?
Q6) Discuss the rationale for Reagan's supply-side economics.
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Chapter 28: America in the Information Age
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Q1) During the 1990s,America's international agenda was oriented toward reducing trade barriers and
A) dealing with the aftereffects of the Cold War.
B) keeping Saudi Arabia happy.
C) bringing democracy to countries around the world.
D) helping the U.N. end poverty.
E) maintaining friendly relations with the Western European countries.
Q2) The L.A.riots of 1992 occurred after
A) white officers were filmed beating a black man.
B) black officers were relieved of their duties after being charged with police brutality.
C) O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of killing his ex-wife.
D) a black and white jury found four white police officers guilty of beating a black man, Rodney King.
E) an all-white jury found four white police officers not guilty of beating a black man, Rodney King.
Q3) What kinds of fields would be included under the term "information technologies"? Why is this term so important to us today?
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Chapter 29: Globalization and Its Discontents
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Q1) Shortly after taking office,which of the following signaled a potential problem for George Bush from his own party?
A) His controversial plan to search for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
B) Republican Senator Jim Jeffords declaring himself an independent.
C) Criticism of his initial reaction to the terrorist attacks of September 11.
D) His father's record on the Middle East.
E) All of these choices.
Q2) After he was deposed,Saddam Hussein hid out for several months before he was discovered living in a hole in the ground; handed over by the Americans to the Iraqis,Saddam was soon executed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the political status of Afghanistan in 2001 that made it a target of America's wrath?
Q4) What were George W.Bush's main goals when he came into the White House? How did he plan to achieve them?
Q5) What was the Bush doctrine? How did it differ from all earlier doctrines proposed by presidents Monroe,Roosevelt,and Truman?
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