History of Modern America
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History of Modern America examines the social, political, economic, and cultural developments in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present day. The course explores key events and movements such as Reconstruction, industrialization, the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, and recent political transformations. Special emphasis is placed on how diverse groups have shaped and responded to changes in society, as well as on the impact of technological innovations and global interactions on American life. Students will engage with primary sources, analyze historical debates, and consider the ways in which the modern American experience has been defined by both continuity and change.
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The Unfinished Nation 7th Edition by Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) The term scholars use for the early history of humans in America is
A)Neolithic period.
B)Paleolithic period.
C)Archaic period.
D)Stone Age.
E)Mesolithic era.
Answer: C
Q2) As of the sixteenth century,Europeans had generally built up a greater immunity to smallpox than had the Native Americans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) England's first experience with colonization came in A)North America.
B)the Caribbean.
C)Canada.
D)Ireland.
E)Africa.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
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Q1) The New Jersey colony developed no significant class of large landowners.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The conflict between tidewater Virginia and a rising elite to its west was called
Answer: Bacon's rebellion
Q3) Starting in 1642,who of the following was the royal governor of Virginia for more than thirty years?
A)Captain John Smith
B)Lord De La Warr
C)John Rolfe
D)Sir William Berkeley
E)Sir Thomas Dale
Answer: D
Q4) Residents of Massachusetts generally had greater freedom of worship than the Puritans had had in England.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
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Q1) Puritanism reinforced traditional patterns of male authority.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The characteristic social unit in New England was the nuclear family living on a farm.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The verdict of the 1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger
A)increased freedom of the press in the colonies.
B)restricted the ability of the press to report on government affairs.
C)resulted in the closure of several colonial newspapers.
D)ruled that criticisms by the press,even if factually accurate,were libelous.
E)banned all printed attacks on the King or Parliament in the colonies.
Answer: A
Q4) French Calvinists were referred to as ________.
Answer: Huguenots
Q5) Most women who entered into the medical profession did so as ________.
Answer: midwives
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition
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Q1) Trace the course and nature of colonial objections to British policies between 1763 and 1775.
Q2) The Paxton Boys and the Regulators both
A)demanded tax relief.
B)feared violence from western farmers.
C)demanded independence from England.
D)sought to increase the authority of local colonial governments.
E)demanded the redistribution of the land making up the former French colonies.
Q3) British official Thomas Hutchinson
A)was an early and outspoken supporter of the Stamp Act.
B)called for suppression of colonial demonstrations.
C)was murdered during colonial protests against the Stamp Act.
D)had his home ransacked by anti-Stamp Act demonstrators.
E)signed his name to the "Virginia Resolves" to support the colonists' position.
Q4) Which of the following statements regarding the Coercive Acts is true?
A)Massachusetts became politically isolated from the other colonies.
B)Colonial boycotts decreased.
C)Massachusetts became a martyr in the cause of resistance.
D)The Acts had little practical effect on the Massachusetts colony.
E)The Acts were basically ignored by other colonial legislatures.
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution
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Q1) Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each side in fighting the Revolutionary War.
Q2) What was the legacy of the American Revolution for Native Americans?
Q3) When George Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night,1776,he was intent on surprising A)American Loyalists.
B)Indians.
C)Hessians.
D)British regulars.
E)William Howe.
Q4) As commander of the Continental Army,George Washington
A)had no shortage of Americans willing to volunteer to fight the British.
B)had no previous actual military experience.
C)was an early critic of independence.
D)saw Congress leave all important military decisions up to his judgment.
E)was admired,respected,and trusted by nearly all Patriots.
Q5) When George Washington took command of the Continental Army,he did not have a great deal of public confidence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) The "Republicans" of the 1790s are institutionally related to the modern Republican Party.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Thomas Jefferson promoted a vision of a(n)________ republic.
Q3) Characterize the "competing visions" the Federalists and the Republicans had for the country during the 1790s.Which side do you believe had the better vision,and why?
Q4) Why was there such opposition to the proposed Constitution of 1787?
Q5) After his wife's death,Thomas Jefferson lived with his slave,Sally Hemmings,and fathered several of her children.
A)True
B)False
Q6) After the election of 1800,the ________ branch of government was the only branch controlled by the Federalists.
Q7) The new Constitution banned the slave trade,but it did not ban slavery.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Alexander Hamilton,James Madison,and John Jay were the authors of ________.
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian ERA
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Q1) The chief designer of the capital city of Washington was
A)Thomas Jefferson.
B)Robert Fulton.
C)Daniel Burnham.
D)Guy Dupont.
E)Pierre L'Enfant.
Q2) The revivalism of the Second Great Awakening was essentially restricted to white people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton was the result of A)a business failure between them.
B)a dispute over a woman.
C)Hamilton's election as governor of New York.
D)Burr's belief that Hamilton had slandered him.
E)Burr's attempt to capture Mexico from the Spanish.
Q4) Describe the main features of American education during the early nineteenth century.
Q5) How did the Second Great Awakening compare with the First Great Awakening?
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Q6) The Treaty of ________ ended the War of 1812.
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism
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Q1) By 1818,American steam-powered shipping
A)carried more cargo on the Mississippi than all other forms of river transport combined.
B)increased the transport of manufactured goods westward.
C)stimulated agriculture in both the West and the South.
D)had reached as far up the Ohio River as Pittsburgh.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q2) Western settlements were generally opened by people who lived in eastern seaboard cities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Panic of 1819 was preceded by a surplus of farm goods that caused plummeting prices for American farmers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What factors motivated Americans to engage in a westward migration in the early nineteenth century? What type of American was more likely to move into the West?
Q5) The series of early presidents from the same state is called the ________.
Q6) Compare life in the Old Northwest with life in the Old Southwest.
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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
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Q1) In 1835,Andrew Jackson appointed John Marshall as the new chief justice of the Supreme Court.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What alternatives to Indian removal existed,and why were they not taken?
Q3) The Whig Party was LEAST successful at
A)defining its political position.
B)attracting a loyal constituency of voters.
C)connecting with evangelical Protestants.
D)competing against Democrats in local,state,and congressional races.
E)uniting behind a strong national leader.
Q4) In 1840,efforts to expand voting rights in Rhode Island resulted in
A)new laws that actually further restricted voting rights.
B)federal troops occupying the state capital for two years.
C)an effort within the state to secede from the Union.
D)two governments claiming control of the state.
E)female and black male suffrage for a brief period of time.
Q5) Thomas Dorr and his followers formed a(n)"________."
Q6) The forced Cherokee migration on what was called the Trail of Tears ended in the territory of ________.
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution
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Q1) Before 1860,American middle-class families
A)were typically renters.
B)rarely employed servants.
C)usually saw women holding part-time employment outside of the home.
D)became the most influential cultural form of urban America.
E)had to cook their meals over an open hearth.
Q2) The advent of the telegraph prompted newspaper publishers to share their reporting.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Prior to 1860,the fastest-growing segment in American society was the A)slaves.
B)very poor.
C)middle class.
D)well-to-do.
E)very rich.
Q4) In New York City,the construction of ________ resulted primarily from pressure from members of high society,who wanted an elegant place for their daily carriage rides.
Q5) How did the rise of the factory system change the American family?
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Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
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Q1) Of the following,the most common form of resistance to slavery was
A)group rebellions.
B)arson.
C)running away.
D)subtle defiance.
E)poisoning.
Q2) The slave codes of the American South
A)defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black.
B)legalized slave marriages.
C)were rigidly enforced.
D)considered it a crime for an owner to kill a slave.
E)banned blacks from attending church.
Q3) Which of the following statements about the poorest class of white southerners is FALSE?
A)They often felt affinity with slaves as members of another oppressed class.
B)They were known variously as "crackers" or "sand hillers."
C)They supported themselves by foraging or hunting.
D)They suffered from pellagra,hookworm,and malaria.
E)They were forced to resort at times to eating clay.
Q4) It was said that the South "grew,but it did not ________."
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform
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Q1) Ralph Waldo Emerson was both a minister and a transcendentalist philosopher.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?
Q3) The Oneida Community sought to redefine gender roles and engage in "free love."
A)True
B)False
Q4) By the 1840s,Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott sought to apply the equality of treatment they received in the abolition movement to all aspects of female life.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Transcendentalists
A)rejected European intellectuals.
B)regarded reason to be the most important human faculty.
C)argued that emotional responses inhibited the internal development of individuals.
D)believed all individuals should develop their intellectualism.
E)argued for the liberating potential of "understanding."
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) In the mid-1840s,the Oregon country in the Pacific Northwest
A)remained the center of the French fur-trading empire.
B)was primarily occupied by Great Britain.
C)contained many more English settlers than Americans.
D)was of little interest to the American government.
E)included an Indian population that had been devastated by disease.
Q2) The Wilmot Proviso passed Congress but was vetoed by President Polk. A)True
B)False
Q3) Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican candidate to run for president. A)True B)False
Q4) Describe Abraham's Lincoln's positions on slavery prior to his election as president.
Q5) In the end,Kansas voters rejected the Lecompton constitution. A)True B)False
Q6) The United States and Great Britain agreed on the "joint occupation" of ________.
Q7) Why was the Compromise of 1850 written? How did it affect national politics?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) The National Woman's Loyal League worked simultaneously for the abolition of slavery and for the vote for women.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In naval warfare during the Civil War,
A)the Union blockade of the South was largely ineffective.
B)the Confederacy managed to build a navy equal to that of the Union.
C)both the Union and Confederate militaries developed ironclads.
D)the Confederacy devastated Union fleets with ironclad warships.
E)the Confederacy managed to seize key Union ports such as Baltimore.
Q3) The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to all of the slave states.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Confederacy was organized before Lincoln was inaugurated.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Both Antietam and Shiloh could be described as Union victories.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The ________ Infantry was the best known of the black Union regiments.
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
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Q1) The most effective weapon used by Southern whites to undermine Reconstruction was
A)economic pressure.
B)preventing blacks from voting.
C)intimidation.
D)political action.
E)boycott.
Q2) During Reconstruction,black family roles soon came to resemble similar roles within white families.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many of the so-called scalawags were former Southern ________.
Q4) Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? Did he deserve to be removed from office?
Q5) During Reconstruction,all adult male former slaves were given the constitutional right to vote and to hold elected office.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why has the presidency of Andrew Johnson generally been considered a failure by historians?
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Q7) The Treaty of Washington was negotiated between the United States and
Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
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Q1) Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns
A)were nearly all single when they first arrived.
B)had few economic opportunities outside of prostitution.
C)often found work doing domestic tasks.
D)generally worked as miners.
E)often greatly outnumbered the men.
Q2) The 1869 completion of the ________ accelerated development of the West.
Q3) American Indians were generally willing to accept the terms of the Dawes Act.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Dawes Act of 1887
A)was intended to preserve traditional Indian culture.
B)denied United States citizenship to landowning Indian adults.
C)was viewed by the United States government as a plan to save the Indians.
D)ended the United States government's effort to assimilate Indian tribes.
E)reaffirmed tribal ownership of western lands in the face of white claims to it.
Q5) Frederick Jackson Turner wrote of the significance of the ________ in American history.
Q6) Compare the myths and the realities of the American cowboy.
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
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Q1) Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward promoted a philosophy he called ________.
Q2) The taking over of all the different businesses on which a company relies to produce its primary product is called ________.
Q3) The Molly Maguires were a militant
A)offshoot of the Knights of Labor.
B)anti-immigration organization.
C)woman suffrage organization.
D)anarchist group.
E)labor union in the coal industry.
Q4) What factors in society and the business community during the late nineteenth century that would likely determine an individual's prospects for economic success were not considered by the "self-made man" philosophy?
Q5) In his books,Horatio Alger
A)offered true accounts of poor Americans who had become wealthy.
B)took critical issue with the ideas of Social Darwinism.
C)paid tribute to the possibility of social mobility in America.
D)criticized child labor in American industry.
E)argued that wealth and privilege were ultimately hollow achievements.
Q6) The most important leader of the Knights of Labor was ________.
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Chapter 18: The Age of the City
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Q1) The most profound intellectual development of the late nineteenth century was the widespread acceptance of the theory of ________.
Q2) In the late nineteenth century,suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by
A)very poor people.
B)the working class.
C)moderately well-to-do people.
D)people from all income backgrounds.
E)very wealthy people.
Q3) The census of 1920 revealed that for the first time in American history a majority of Americans lived in ________ areas.
Q4) According to the philosophy of pragmatism,society should be guided by A)scientific inquiry.
B)inherited ideals.
C)democratic tradition.
D)moral principles.
E)religious faith.
Q5) A Danish immigrant named Jacob Riis is most noted for his book on slum conditions titled ________.
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Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire
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Q1) The election of 1888
A)involved clear economic differences between the major parties.
B)was one of the few elections during this era to escape charges of corruption.
C)produced a clear mandate from the voters for political reform.
D)was decided by the Congress.
E)saw the Democrats take back the White House.
Q2) The ________ Act established formal colonial government in Puerto Rico,while the Jones Act made all Puerto Ricans American citizens.
Q3) What statement regarding the national Grange movement is FALSE?
A)At their peak,Grange supporters controlled the legislatures of most Midwest states.
B)It attempted to teach new scientific farming techniques to its members.
C)It sought to regulate the power and practices of railroads and warehouses.
D)It was greatly strengthened by the end of the economic depression in the late 1870s.
E)The political inexperience of many Grange leaders hurt the movement.
Q4) What was the "silver question" in the 1890s and why was it such a prominent issue?
Q5) "Liberal Republicans" were known derisively by their critics as "________."
Q6) What were the major consequences of the Spanish-American War for Cuba?
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Chapter 20: The Progressives
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Q1) Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens could both be called muckrakers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party pioneered the "separate sphere" argument for woman suffrage.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As an environmental conservationist,President Theodore Roosevelt
A)opposed hunting on all federal lands.
B)added extensive areas of land to the national forest system.
C)opposed new dam construction on major rivers.
D)opposed the growing preservationist movement as impractical.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q4) During the progressive era,political "interest groups"
A)rose to replace the declining power centers of the parties.
B)were attacked by progressive reformers.
C)gradually became less powerful as time went on.
D)were attacked by progressive reformers and gradually became less powerful as time went on.
E)All these answers are correct.
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Chapter 21: America and the Great War
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Q1) President Wilson ordered General ________ to lead an American expeditionary force across Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.
Q2) The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"
A)was invalidated by the Supreme Court during the Wilson administration.
B)stated that neighboring countries had to adhere to U.S.policy in times of war.
C)was created as a result of a military crisis in Cuba.
D)stated that the U.S.had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries.
E)stated that England and England alone was exempted from the Monroe Doctrine.
Q3) President Taft's foreign policy was called "________ Diplomacy" by its critics.
Q4) President Taft's "Dollar Diplomacy" brought stability to Latin America.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why did the United States stay out of World War I between 1914 and 1917?
Q6) The decision to send the "Great White Fleet" around the world was directed primarily at the country of ________.
Q7) Marcus Garvey called for blacks to reject capitalism. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) Throughout the 1920s,the performance of the United States economy
A)saw ten straight years of continuous growth.
B)struggled with a persistent high rate of inflation.
C)saw per capita income flatten while manufacturing output soared.
D)saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities.
E)experienced a severe recession in 1923 that lasted two years.
Q2) How did the status of organized labor change between 1919 and 1929?
Q3) D.W.Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation glorified the ________.
Q4) During the 1920s,the Ku Klux Klan grew increasingly focused on southern segregation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What were the major achievements in technology and science during the 1920s and how were they applied to society?
Q6) During the 1920s,airplanes
A)were used extensively for commercial travel.
B)had no practical use.
C)were used almost exclusively for military purposes.
D)saw the development of the first experimental jet engines.
E)were largely a source of entertainment.
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Chapter 23: The Great Depression
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Q1) After 1929,in the face of the worsening global economic crisis,the United States
A)reduced the debts owed by European nations to America.
B)forgave the debts owed by European nations to America.
C)demanded immediate payment of all debts owed by European nations to America.
D)refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed by European nations to America.
E)forgave the debts owed by former allies during the war,and reduced the debts of other nations.
Q2) ________ magazine was the leading photographic journal in the 1930s.
Q3) During the 1930s,the American Communist Party
A)distanced itself from the Soviet Union.
B)excluded most minorities from its ranks.
C)supported Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
D)both distanced itself from the Soviet Union and excluded most minorities from its ranks.
E)None of these answers is correct.
Q4) The Socialist Party of America in the 1930s was led by ________.
Q5) In the 1930s,listening to the radio was often a family or community experience.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: The New Deal
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Q1) The recession of 1937 seemed to be the result of reductions in federal spending by the Roosevelt administration.
A)True
B)False
Q2) During the 1930s,the sit-down strike
A)was first used in the steel industry.
B)was a new and controversial labor tactic.
C)was upheld by the courts and state governments.
D)was eventually broken by the Michigan National Guard.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q3) The sit-down strike was an effective way to prevent companies from using strikebreakers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During the New Deal,the federal government maintained a much greater and more visible bureaucratic presence in the West than in any other region of the country.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was the significance of the results of the 1936 elections?
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Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
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Q1) President Franklin Roosevelt made his "quarantine" speech in an effort to block Hitler's takeover of Austria.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Following the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939,President Franklin Roosevelt
A)declared that the United States would remain neutral.
B)declared the United States would be the "arsenal of democracy."
C)sent American military advisers to England.
D)ordered a "preparedness" campaign much like Woodrow Wilson had in 1916.
E)was unsure whether a majority of Americans supported Germany.
Q3) In 1941,prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
A)Japanese troops attacked the Philippines.
B)the Japanese developed a new,unbreakable communication code.
C)Japan tried to repair relations with the United States in order to restore their flow of supplies.
D)President Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japan's diplomats to leave Washington.
E)President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States.
Q4) Were American isolationists in the 1920s and 1930s a recent phenomena or did their thinking fit into traditional American ideas regarding foreign policy? Justify your response.
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Chapter 26: America in a World at War
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Q1) During World War II,organized labor in the United States
A)lost membership as wages rose across most industries.
B)frequently used the threats of strikes to obtain higher wages.
C)agreed to freeze union membership and wages until the war was over.
D)won automatic union memberships for new defense plant workers.
E)won a significant victory with the passage of the Smith-Connally Act.
Q2) In the 1944 elections,
A)Republicans gained control of the Senate.
B)President Franklin Roosevelt was too ill to campaign.
C)Democrats increased their control of the House.
D)Thomas Dewey nearly won the electoral vote.
E)Henry Wallace was elected vice president.
Q3) The United States government consistently resisted calls to make an Allied effort to save Jews caught in the Holocaust.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In which area-intelligence or strategic use-were the technological advances by the Allies more important to their winning the war? Explain.
Q5) The D-Day invasion of France took place along the ________ coast.
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Chapter 27: The Cold War
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Q2) A freshman congressman from California named ________ helped convict Alger Hiss.
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding Korea is NOT true?
A)In 1945,both the United States and the Soviet Union had troops in Korea.
B)The Soviet Union established a communist government in the north.
C)The United States left Korea in 1946.
D)The Soviet Union left Korea in 1949.
E)The country was divided along the 38th parallel.
Q4) The intellectual architect of the containment doctrine was American diplomat ________.
Q5) Between the Yalta Conference and his death,President Franklin Roosevelt
A)saw no evidence that Stalin would not live up to his promises at Yalta.
B)concluded that diplomacy would not settle American differences with Stalin.
C)began planning for a military confrontation against the Soviet Union.
D)frequently conveyed his fears about Russia to Vice President Harry Truman.
E)became increasingly concerned that Stalin was not going to fulfill conference agreements.
Q6) The Truman Doctrine was announced to garner support for American aid to two countries,________ and Turkey.
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Chapter 28: The Affluent Society
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Who were the leading domestic critics of the America of the 1950s? What were their major criticisms?
Q3) Where would one most likely find the poor in America in the 1950s? Why did they remain poor?
Q4) The most significant and costly initiative of the federal government under President Dwight Eisenhower involved
A)a nuclear energy program.
B)the space program.
C)a federal highway system.
D)a national healthcare system.
E)a large tax cut.
Q5) The rise of rock musicians such as Elvis Presley was an example of the limited willingness of white audiences to accept black musicians.
A)True
B)False
Q6) James Dean starred as an alienated youth in the 1955 film,Rebel ________.
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Chapter 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism
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A)proposed and approved during the Kennedy administration.
B)proposed and approved during the Johnson administration.
C)proposed by Eisenhower and approved during the Kennedy administration.
D)proposed by Johnson and approved during the Nixon administration.
E)proposed by Kennedy and approved during the Johnson administration.
Q2) In 1961,CORE organized the "________ rides" into the South.
Q3) The first major post-World War II race riot occurred in the ________ section of Los Angeles.
Q4) In January 1966,highly publicized hearings airing criticisms of the war were staged by
A)Senator J.William Fulbright.
B)Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford.
C)General William Westmoreland.
D)Senator Robert Kennedy.
E)Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Q5) When Lyndon Johnson became president was he,in essence,already committed to following a policy of escalating involvement in Vietnam? Why or why not?
Q6) Describe the multiple traumas of 1968.How did the country respond to them?
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Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority
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Q1) In order not to lose public support,President Nixon informed the American people of his decision to begin bombing Cambodia before his doing so.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1972 presidential election,George McGovern carried only the state of ________ and the District of Columbia.
Q3) The Vietnam War caused the deaths of 1.2 million Vietnamese soldiers,countless additional civilians,and ________ Americans.
Q4) In the 1960s,the ________ was founded and led by César Chávez.
Q5) In the 1970s,the Nixon administration believed the world's most volatile region to be
A)the Middle East.
B)eastern Europe.
C)the so-called Third World.
D)China.
E)sub-Saharan Africa.
Q6) Was the new youth culture truly a "revolution" in America? What were its limits?
Q7) How do you explain the Watergate scandal and President Nixon's role in it?
Q8) What type of individual was attracted to the counterculture,and why?
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Chapter 31: From the Age of Limits to the Age of Reagan
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Q2) The 1988 election results gave the Republican Party control of the presidency and both houses of Congress.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 1979,Iranians who took American hostages demanded,in return for release of the hostages,
A)a large ransom payment.
B)the removal of all westerners from Iran.
C)an end to the United States' support of Israel.
D)the United States' return of the shah of Iran.
E)the removal of all American troops from Saudi Arabia.
Q4) Historically,there has been a strong populist tradition in the American South and West.
A)True B)False
Q5) The United States did not participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. A)True
B)False
Q6) What were the assets and liabilities faced by Gerald Ford's presidency?
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Q2) Briefly explain the series of financial problems that beset the U.S.beginning in mid-2007.What triggered the problems and what has been the outcome?
Q3) What agenda did Bill Clinton bring to the presidency in 1992? What were his successes and failures in enacting that agenda?
Q4) In the mid-1980s,Apple dominated the personal computer market.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Human Genome Project
A)originally hoped to identify all the specific genes in humans by 2015.
B)was opposed by the Bush administration on ethical grounds.
C)was created during the Clinton administration.
D)set out to identify all of the more than 100,000 human genes.
E)was funded solely by private sources.
Q6) Was Bill Clinton a Democrat in the New Deal tradition,or the Great Society tradition,or something else?
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