History of the Americas
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Course Introduction
This course explores the rich and diverse history of the Americas, covering pre-Columbian civilizations, European colonization, and the evolution of societies across North, Central, and South America. Students will examine key political, social, economic, and cultural developments from the ancient peoples of the Americas to the modern era, addressing topics such as indigenous societies, colonial encounters, revolutions and independence movements, nation-building, and contemporary issues. Through primary sources, critical analysis, and comparative perspectives, the course aims to foster an understanding of the interconnected histories that have shaped the American continents.
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures in the 16th Century
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Q1) The diversity of native populations in the New World can be illustrated by the more than 300 languages that they spoke.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) On the eve of first contact between the "Old" and "New" Worlds,the most powerful empire in the world was
A)France.
B)England.
C)Spain.
D)The Netherlands.
E)Portugal.
Answer: C
Q3) Before the arrival of the Europeans,the horse was an important part of every New World culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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2: England and Its American Colonies, 1607-1732
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Q1) After the failure of the Virginia colony to turn a profit,it
A)was converted to a royal colony and used as a penal colony.
B)was restructured to attract new settlers with a lure of free land.
C)was deserted after a severe drought.
D)was left to die because investors sold their stocks.
E)collapsed after the "Starving Time" and no one survived.
Answer: B
Q2) After being banished from Massachusetts because of his strict interpretation of the Puritan faith,Roger Williams founded Rhode Island.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The first Jewish colonists who arrived in the New World were primarily of __________ descent
A)Iranian
B)Spanish-Portuguese
C)French
D)English
E)Germanic-Russian
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Colonial Ways
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Q1) The Half-Way Covenant addressed the problem of New England's unfavorable balance of trade.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In the Americas,
A)land was not plentiful.
B)land was not cheap.
C)workers were not scarce.
D)laborers were expensive.
E)all workers were white.
Answer: D
Q3) Of the English colonies in the New World,which had the most ethnically diverse population?
A)The New England colonies
B)The middle colonies
C)The southern colonies
D)Barbados
E)Jamaica
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: From Colonies to States, 1607-1776
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Q1) One major way that the English differed from the French and Spanish in their settling of the New World was that
A)England forced the natives to conform to Christianity.
B)both France and Spain established missions for the natives and the English did not.
C)the English enslaved the natives and forced them to work on their plantations.
D)the English imported slaves while France and Spain imported indentured servants to work their fields.
E)France and Spain established their cities on existing Native American civilizations to force the natives to work for them.
Q2) The first Continental victory in the American Revolution occurred at A)Lexington.
B)Bunker Hill.
C)Valley Forge.
D)Camden.
E)Saratoga.
Q3) Compare and contrast Grenville's and Townshend's taxation policies and the colonial reactions to each.
Q4) In what ways did the French and Indian War pave the way for the Revolution?
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1783
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Q1) The national government,under the Articles of Confederation,could do all of the following except
A)start a war.
B)end a war.
C)levy taxes.
D)issue coinage.
E)make treaties.
Q2) The Articles of Confederation left many powers to the states.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the Treaty of Paris (1783),which ended the American Revolution.Describe the negotiations and terms of the treaty,as well as its future implications.
Q4) Thomas Paine's pamphlet The American Crisis gave the colonists inspiration with the line,"These are times that try men's souls."
A)True
B)False
Q5) After 1778,most of the fighting in the Revolution was done in the South.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The way that Washington handled the __________ caused Jefferson to resign in late 1793.
A)Whiskey Rebellion
B)neutrality during the French Revolution
C)creation of the national bank
D)Edmund Genet crisis
E)public debt consolidation
Q2) The Articles of Confederation required unanimous approval for amendment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The dividing issue in the Constitutional Convention was
A)the powers given to the states.
B)the powers given to the federal government.
C)whether a navy should be kept full time.
D)how should slaves be counted.
E)how should new territories be added to the union.
Q4) Most Americans supported the French Revolution,even in its violent phase known as the Reign of Terror.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800-1815
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Q1) Discuss the issues that led to the Marbury v.Madison case of 1803.What were the results of the decision,and what impact did it have on the Supreme Court and the country?
Q2) James Madison followed Thomas Jefferson as president.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements about the United States in the aftermath of the War of 1812 is most accurate?
A)In the short term and the long term the United States suffered economically as a result of the war.
B)The United States,overall,saw no economic changes as a result of the war.
C)The war benefited the United States most in the arena of manufactures.
D)Manufacturing decreased in the United States because of the war.
E)Britain ended all economic relations with the United States as a result of the War of 1812.
Q4) Tecumseh was a Shawnee leader who supported the United States in the War of 1812.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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) Describe the general immigration trends of the period.What forms did the nativist response to this immigration take?
Q2) In 1830,Congress passed this law that allowed people to claim land before it was surveyed.
A)Land Ordinance Act
B)Northwest Ordinance
C)Preemption Act
D)Graduation Act
E)Timberland Act
Q3) Write an essay discussing the early textile industry,including its efforts in lobbying the government and innovating labor practices such as the Lowell system.
Q4) Church attendance and temperance were enforced among early workers at Lowell.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most of the growth of the Catholic Church in America in the mid-nineteenth century can be attributed to immigration from Ireland.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828
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Q1) Andrew Jackson
A)invaded Florida with full Congressional and presidential approval.
B)and his troops were welcomed by the Spaniards and Indians in Florida with open arms.
C)took his orders regarding Florida directly from Secretary of State Calhoun.
D)became even more popular with the common man as a result of his invasion of Florida.
E)found his troops were no match for the Indians in Florida.
Q2) The "Era of Good Feelings" was marked by peace and prosperity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In what ways might the foreign policy of this period be called nationalistic?
Q4) Which of the following important American diplomatic matters did not occur during the presidency of James Monroe?
A)The Rush-Bagot Agreement
B)The Convention of 1818
C)The Transcontinental Treaty
D)Statehood for Florida
E)The Adams-Onis Treaty
Q5) Discuss the causes and results of the Panic of 1819.
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Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
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Q1) Most Whigs were states' rights advocates.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the result of Jackson's vetoing of the Bank of the United States bill?
A)It started the industrial revolution.
B)It caused a prolonged depression.
C)It stimulated the greatest period of growth the United States has ever seen.
D)It caused a slight economic recession.
E)It forced small banks to use solid currency.
Q3) What did not occur during the Jackson administration?
A)Rising tensions between North and South over slavery
B)Booming industrialization
C)The creation of the second party system
D)A rapid decline in cities as people moved west
E)Accelerated growth of cities
Q4) President Jackson's response to the nullification crisis was to ask Congress to raise the tariff.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the new party system that emerged in the 1830s.
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Chapter
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The South and Slavery, 1800-1860
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Q1) Gabriel
A)Plotted a slave revolt near Richmond
B)Slave who was hanged for killing her master when defending herself against a sexual assault
C)Thomas Jefferson's nephew who killed a rebellious slave in front of other slaves as a warning to them
D)Plantation mistress who was a critic of the plantation system
E)Mulatto slave owner from Louisiana
F)Allegedly plotted slave rebellion in South Carolina
G)Led the largest slave revolt in American history,just north of New Orleans
H)Led a slave revolt in 1831 in a rural area of Virginia
Q2) The vast majority of slaves in the South
A)lived in cities.
B)worked as field hands.
C)were house slaves.
D)were drivers.
E)were overseers.
Q3) How was the South distinct from the rest of the United States in the early 19th century?
Q4) Describe white society in the Old South.
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Chapter 12: Religion, romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860
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Q1) Describe the "cult of domesticity." Define what it meant,its impact,and how it relates to the concept of "separate spheres."
Q2) Evaluate the Second Great Awakening.What core message was preached? What impact did the Second Great Awakening have on American society?
Q3) ________ contended that the Second Great Awakening was also intended to reform human society.
A)William Cobbett
B)John Latrobe
C)Lyman Beecher
D)James Whitman
E)William Kennedy
Q4) Describe the southern defense of slavery before and after 1830.How did this change affect the intellectual life of the Old South?
Q5) Trace the reforms in prisons and asylums in America.Include the major changes in the treatment of prisoners and the mentally ill in antebellum America.
Q6) Discuss the women's movement in the first half of the 19th century.
Q7) Discuss the concept of Deism and its influence on the development of American society.
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Q1) John Tyler
A)Introduced "spot resolutions" in Congress
B)Led American forces at Veracruz
C)Was elected vice president in 1840
D)One of the defenders at the Alamo
E)Was a California "governor"
F)Was the secretary of state who negotiated the treaty concerning the boundaries for Maine and the Great Lakes region
G)Died after one month in office
H)Was president of the Republic of Texas
I)Was known as "Young Hickory"
Q2) At what point (if any)did the Civil War become inevitable? If you could change historical events,what would you do at that point to avoid war?
Q3) John Tyler favored Henry Clay's American System.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Support for the Mexican-American War was strongest in New England.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter
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Q1) After the Battle of Vicksburg
A)Confederates had free reign of the oceans.
B)the Union controlled the Mississippi.
C)Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
D)Grant was reassigned to command of the western theater.
E)Lee never again invaded the South.
Q2) African Americans after the Civil war tended to compare their trials with
A)the biblical Exodus.
B)the Holocaust.
C)the Middle Passage.
D)Great Flood.
E)the destruction of the Indians.
Q3) Which of the following was not a state Lincoln was concerned about losing if he embraced the concept of abolishing slavery?
A)Delaware
B)Kentucky
C)Tennessee
D)Maryland
E)Missouri
Q4) In what ways can the Civil War be considered the first "modern" war?
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) The Fifteenth Amendment
A)gave women suffrage.
B)gave Native Americans the right to vote.
C)provided for universal manhood suffrage.
D)outraged Radical Republicans.
E)was easily accepted by Americans.
Q2) How was the contested election of 1876 decided? Describe the political,racial,and sectional effects of the decision.
Q3) Pinckney B.S.Pinchback
A)Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
B)Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
C)Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
D)Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
E)Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
F)Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
G)Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
H)Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
I)Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
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Chapter
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Q1) Compare and contrast the major industrial leaders of the late 19th century.How did each rise to power,and what did they do to ensure they would stay at the top of their respective industries? What do they have in common,and what differences distinguish them from each other? What makes each of them important to understanding the late 19th century?
Q2) Most Americans experienced a rising standard of living in the late 19th century.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Eugene V.Debs and the ___________ became famous during the ____________.
A)Pinkerton Agency,Homestead Steel Strike
B)Workingmen's Union,Sandlot Incident
C)American Railway Union,Pullman Strike
D)International Workers of the World,Anthracite Coal Mine Strike
E)Knights of Labor,Haymarket Riot
Q4) After the Second Industrial Revolution,corporations tried their hands at A)Farming.
B)Mining.
C)Oil drilling.
D)Manufacturing.
E)Politics.
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Chapter 17: The South and the West Transformed,
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Q1) Helen Hunt Jackson
A)Was editor of the Atlanta Constitution
B)Made improved plow for Plains farmers
C)A livestock dealer who helped establish Abilene,Kansas,as the first successful cowtown
D)Founded the American Tobacco Company
E)Said that the Indian wars were the result of broken promises by Americans
F)Wrote that the frontier had shaped the American national character
G)Led the massacre of two hundred Indians at Sand Creek
H)Was a barbed-wire promoter
I)Author of A Century of Dishonor
Q2) By 1900,lumbering in the South had surpassed textiles in value.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Write an essay exploring the environmental impact of the changes taking place in the South and the West.Consider the pervasive use of tenancy and sharecropping in the South and the changing nature of mining in the West.
Q4) One might say that the West actually consisted of three frontiers: the miners',the cowboys',and the farmers'.What problems did each of these groups face?
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Chapter 18: Society and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900
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Q1) Native-born Americans who saw the influx of new immigrants to the United States with concern were called
A)racists.
B)nativists.
C)the American party.
D)muckrakers.
E)mugwumps.
Q2) Unlike the Grange,the ____________ promoted political involvement among its members to enact change for their members.
A)Farmers' Alliances
B)Knights of Labor
C)Working Man's party
D)American Federation of Labor
E)Congress of International Workers
Q3) The Farmers' Alliances accepted black members.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As late as 1900,most New York City residents were still native-born Americans.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) In 1866,Secretary of State William H.Seward attempted to gain ______________ for the United States.
A)Alaska
B)Hawaii
C)British Columbia
D)Holland
E)Washington Territory
Q2) According to your textbook,at the very end of the War of 1898
A)the Philippines was an American territory.
B)the status of the Philippines was unresolved.
C)the Philippines was an American colony.
D)the Philippines was given back to Spain.
E)the Philippines petitioned the United States for statehood.
Q3) The United States agreed to pay $10 million plus $250,000 a year for the Panama Canal Zone.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
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Q1) Frederick Winslow Taylor and the gospel of efficiency is best associated with which concept?
A)Scientific management
B)Social Darwinism
C)Reform capitalism
D)Neo-conservatism
E)Gospel of wealth
Q2) The reason that Woodrow Wilson won the presidency in 1912 was
A)that God ordained it.
B)because Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote.
C)because the voters knew Wilson would not take them to war in Europe.
D)because the people were tired of Republican presidents.
E)that he ran a better campaign than his opponents.
Q3) Compare and contrast Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Wilson's New Freedom.In what ways were they similar? In what ways were the different? How might one account for those differences?
Q4) In what ways could the progressive movement be considered paradoxical?
Q5) Federal money for farm demonstration agents was approved in the Adamson Act.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: America and the Great War, 1914-1920
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Q1) President Wilson believed that the keystone to ensuring lasting world peace was
A)the United Nations.
B)the League of Nations.
C)the end of the Bolsheviks.
D)the utter destruction of Germany.
E)higher tariffs.
Q2) With the signing of the Treaty of _________________ Russia ended its involvement in the Great War.
A)Paris
B)Moscow
C)Petersburg
D)Berlin
E)Brest-Litovsk
Q3) The _________________ voted to reject the Treaty of Versailles that President Wilson had worked so hard on.
A)U.S.Congress
B)U.S.House of Representatives
C)U.S.Senate
D)U.S.Supreme Court
E)League of Nations
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Chapter 22: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
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Q1) What were the political and cultural manifestations of a new sense of identity among blacks in the 1920s?
Q2) According to your textbook,the most scandalous event in the history of American art occurred at
A)the Armory Show in 1913.
B)the Tea Pot Dome in 1920.
C)the Louvre in 1916.
D)the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1912.
E)the Smithsonian in 1915.
Q3) According to Calvin Coolidge,the president should passively defer to Congress. A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the 1928 election: the candidates,issues,results,and factors that helped make it unique.
Q5) The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.
A)True B)False
Q6) Write an essay describing the "consumer culture" that developed in the 1920s.
Q7) Trace the rise of Calvin Coolidge to the presidency of the United States.
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Chapter 23: New Deal America, 1929-1939
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Q1) Trace the election of 1932.How did each party settle on its respective nominee,and what was the result of the election?
Q2) According to your textbook,_________________ states dealt with rising homelessness in the Great Depression by banning paupers from voting.
A)two
B)four
C)six
D)ten
E)fourteen
Q3) President Hoover believed the best ways to help the needy during the Great Depression were ________________ and ________________.
A)lower taxes,lower interest rates
B)lower taxes,lower tariffs
C)socialism,Communism
D)self-reliance,voluntarism
E)Federal programs,higher taxes
Q4) The Fair Labor Standards Act forbade racial discrimination in hiring.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: The Second World War, 1933-1945
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Q1) At Casablanca,Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that the terms for ending the war must include the "unconditional surrender" of all enemies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dwight D.Eisenhower
A)Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1944
B)Headed the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
C)Headed Operation Overlord
D)Was an American admiral in Pacific
E)Lost the presidential election in 1944
F)Was elected vice president in 1944
G)Alerted Roosevelt to German research on nuclear fission
H)Directed construction of atomic bombs
Q3) During the 1930s,China was weakened by civil war between __________ and
A)Mao Zedong,Chiang Kai-shek
B)Ho Chi Minh,Vo Nhu Giap
C)Yamamoto,Hirohito
D)Empress Dowager,the Boxers
E)Hikaru Sulu,Kim Jong-Il
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Chapter 25: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952
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Q1) Discuss the election of 1948.Who were the major parties,and what issues dominated the campaign? What was the eventual outcome of the race?
Q2) J.Strom Thurmond
A)Wrote influential article on cold war policy in Foreign Affairs
B)Was taunted and baited during the 1947 baseball season
C)Was the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948
D)Was convicted in 1950 of perjury in an espionage case
E)Was the Republican presidential candidate in 1948
F)Was a former Soviet agent and later an editor of Time magazine
G)Proposed to widen the Korean War by attacking Communist China
H)Was a senator from Wisconsin
I)Was secretary of state in 1947
J)Led UN forces in Korea after April 1951
Q3) Detail how the cold war led to the rise of the national security state.
Q4) Truman's firing of MacArthur in 1951 was one of the most popular actions of his presidency.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What did Truman mean by a Fair Deal? How did it compare to FDR's New Deal?
Q6) How did the cold war affect civil liberties?
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Chapter 26: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age,
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Q1) The first author to illustrate the increasing feeling of anxiety in the United States after World War II was
A)John Hildebrand.
B)John Philips Souza.
C)John Galbraith.
D)John Jameson.
E)John Smith.
Q2) What was a major stumbling block to the policy of massive retaliation?
A)Space-based weaponry
B)The ability to launch intercontinental missiles
C)That both the United States and the Soviet Union had created more powerful hydrogen bombs
D)That the CIA was infiltrating U.S.launch points
E)That Soviet spies stole our launch codes
Q3) Eisenhower considered this the biggest mistake he had ever made.
A)The D-day invasion
B)Campaigning for the presidency
C)Abolishing segregation
D)Appointing Chief Justice Earl Warren
E)Only running for two terms
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Chapter 27: New Frontiers, 1960-1968
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Q1) The most important issue of President Kennedy's administration was
A)civil rights.
B)the Vietnam War.
C)the Cuban Revolution.
D)the Equal Rights Amendment.
E)the cold war.
Q2) Robert C.Weaver
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 first African American cabinet member
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 the American army commander in Vietnam
J)Became major spokesman for the black Muslim movement
Q3) Trace the early foreign-policy setbacks during the Kennedy administration.
Q4) Discuss,in detail,Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent civil disobedience.How did this philosophy inspire others to challenge segregation in the South?
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Chapter 28: Rebellion and Reaction, the 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) After the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam,
A)South Vietnam was able to defeat North Vietnam.
B)North Vietnam was able to defeat South Vietnam.
C)Korea invaded North Vietnam and defeated the communists there.
D)Russia began to provide weaponry for South Vietnam.
E)Both South and North Vietnam agreed to a truce.
Q2) The Watergate scandal involved a break-in at the
A)Democrat National Committee Headquarters.
B)Republican National Committee Headquarters.
C)Brookings Institute.
D)Cato Institute.
E)Smithsonian Museum.
Q3) Thanks to this section of the Educational Amendments of 1972,discrimination on the basis of gender was forbidden at institutions that received federal funding.
A)19th
B)Title IX
C)8
D)Title 20
E)Tenant 3
Q4) Detail all aspects of the counterculture in the United States during the 1960s.
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Chapter 29: Conservative Revival, 1977-1990
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Q1) The first telltale sign of the collapse of the Soviet Union was
A)the overthrow of Communist forces in France.
B)the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
C)the abolishment of the Soviet Union's parliament.
D)the overthrow of their president,Boris Yeltsin.
E)the SALT II treaty.
Q2) Were the Reagan and Bush administrations more successful at handling domestic or foreign problems? Explain.
Q3) As he had predicted,Reagan's tax cuts helped reduce the federal deficit.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Before becoming president,Ronald Reagan was governor of which state?
A)California
B)Wyoming
C)Texas
D)Washington
E)North Dakota
Q5) Despite his loss to Reagan in 1984,Walter Mondale made a close race of it.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 30: Twenty-First Century America, 1993-Present
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Q1) What was President Clinton's greatest legislative failure during his first administration?
A)Health care reform
B)Gays in the military
C)Reform of the Veteran's Affairs Administration
D)A free trade association with Canada
E)Ending the war in Afghanistan
Q2) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was designed
A)to provide cash to states to spend on various projects.
B)to bailout the financial community.
C)to provide operating funds for General Motors and Chrysler Motors.
D)to increase the amount of money available for financial aid.
E)to prop up the ailing economy of Russia.
Q3) The statement that the United States could not afford to continue to be the world's only policeman is the
A)Bush Doctrine.
B)Clinton Doctrine.
C)Obama Doctrine.
D)Monroe Doctrine.
E)Olney Corollary.
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