History of the Americas
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Course Introduction
This course explores the rich and diverse history of the Americas from pre-Columbian times to the present day, examining the social, political, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped North, Central, and South America. Through an analysis of indigenous civilizations, colonial exchanges, independence movements, and modern nation-building, students gain a comprehensive understanding of the interactions between various peoples and cultures. Key themes include colonization, revolution, slavery, migration, industrialization, and the evolving concepts of identity and citizenship across the hemisphere.
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Liberty Equality Power A History of the American People 7th Edition by John M. Murrin
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Chapter 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe
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Q1) Humans did not actually live on Beringia; it was used only as a means of travel between Siberia and Alaska.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Before the nineteenth century, more than ____ of the people who sailed across the Atlantic were slaves.
A)one-quarter
B)one-third
C)one-half
D)two-thirds
E)three-quarters
Answer: D
Q3) The Norse settlements founded in the 1000s on the coast of Newfoundland
A)exist into the present.
B)endured until after Columbus's voyages.
C)met no resistance from native Americans.
D)brought African slavery to the Americas.
E)died out before Columbus's voyages, and had no lasting impact on history.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Colonization in North America, 1600-1680
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Q1) The Jesuits focused their missionary efforts on the Iroquois Five Tribes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Before becoming Lord Protector of England, Oliver Cromwell gained fame as a
A)member of the House of Lords.
B)member of the House of Commons.
C)military commander.
D)religious leader.
E)judge.
Answer: C
Q3) Most that came to New England were middle class.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The population of Virginia and Maryland became self-sustaining about ____________________, when live births finally began to outnumber deaths.
Answer: 1680
Q5) The clergy's answer to a lack of conversions was the ____________________.
Answer: Half-way covenant
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Chapter 3: Empires, Indians, and the Struggle for Power in North
America, 1670-1720
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Q1) King William's War occurred before Queen Anne's War.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) ____________________ was the last colony to accept William and Mary as England's rulers.
Answer: Maryland
Q3) Nathaniel Bacon was
A)the governor of Virginia who successfully opened up the tidewater area for settlement.
B)the only congregational minister to openly protest against the slave trade.
C)a rebellious Virginia planter who murdered peaceful Indians and burned Jamestown.
D)a protégé of William Berkeley.
E)a minister of the Great Awakening.
Answer: C
Q4) By 1700, the population of England's mainland colonies reached ____________________.
Answer: 250,000
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Chapter 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent,
1720-1763
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Q1) Colonial slaves considered the nation of ____________________ as the best hope for their liberty.
Q2) George Whitefield was embraced by all of the following except A)Congregationalists.
B)Baptists.
C)Presbyterians.
D)Anglicans.
E)none of these choices
Q3) The first colonial newspaper was established in the city of
Q4) Baptists and Methodists expected their ministers to attend college.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss women's changing roles in colonial America in the 18th century.
Q6) Compare and contrast the development of the "old South" and the middle-Atlantic region during the eighteenth century.
Q7) Africans and African Americans who genetically inherit sickle cell anemia have some immunity to malaria.
A)True
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Chapter 5: Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776
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Q1) In response to the Boston Port Act, colonists organized the First
Q2) The Declaratory Act was acceptable to the colonists because they interpreted it as prohibiting Parliament from levying taxes on the colonists.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The "regulators" in the Carolinas were
A)committees that opposed British policy.
B)committees that attempted to regulate the backcountry economy.
C)settlers that attempted to impose order in the absence of an organized government.
D)tax collectors who made regular collections from residents.
E)farmers who made illegal liquor.
Q4) The ____________________ Act (1764) forbade the colonies from issuing any paper money as legal tender.
Q5) The primary purpose of the Townshend Revenue Act was not to generate revenue.
A)True B)False
Q6) The ____________________ Act launched the first post-1763 colonial crisis.
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary Republic, 1776-1789
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Q1) The only Indians in the Deep South to fight on the American side during the Revolution were the ____________________.
Q2) Kentucky was heavily populated by Native Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most significant victory for George Washington was Philadelphia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) France declared war on England after the treaties with the United States were signed in early 1778.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Before 1787, most of the land in the Northwest Territory was purchased by independent settlers.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the major debates and points of tension at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Q7) Shays' Rebellion occurred in the state of ____________________.
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Chapter 7: Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815
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Q1) The 1807 Embargo Act was a motivating force for American commerce.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The debate over the national bank was the first to raise the question of "necessary and proper" laws and actions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Lewis and Clark expedition traveled more than 1,600 miles on the Missouri River.
A)True
B)False
Q4) With the Battle of New Orleans, the United States won the War of 1812.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The first controversy of the Washington administration involved the
A)dignity to attach to the president's office.
B)location of the nation's capital.
C)role of the cabinet in formulating policy.
D)name of the new country.
E)salary to be given to the president.
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Chapter 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850
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Q1) In 1811, Francis Lowell received valuable information on designing a factory town from
A)the United States patent office.
B)industrial espionage while in England.
C)speaking to a German inventor.
D)his wife.
E)an international trade conference.
Q2) By 1820, ____________________ percent of the nation's population were westerners.
Q3) New York's governor, ____________________, talked the state legislature into building what became the Erie Canal.
Q4) Which of the following was not a result of rising farm incomes after 1790?
A)the improved appearance of rural houses by painting and planting flowers
B)the purchases of salt, pepper and gunpowder
C)a greater concern with personal and household cleanliness
D)the ownership of mirrors and watches
E)All of these choices are correct
Q5) After 1830 most migrants to the Northwest came from the ____________________.
Q6) In 1790, most rural farmhouses were ____________________ story.
Q7) The Boston Associates built their first mill at ____________________.
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Chapter 9: The Old South, 1790-1850
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Q1) By 1834, the cotton belt produced more than half of the cotton in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A slave revolt by ____________________ was betrayed by slaves.
Q3) Slaves in the cotton belt worked longer and harder than slaves in the Chesapeake.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The whipping of slaves was
A)regulated by law.
B)a common form of punishment.
C)reserved for runaways and thieves.
D)unheard of outside of the deep South.
E)banned after 1848.
Q5) Diseases on southern coastal plantations kept masters and overseers out of the fields.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The primary crop of the low country was ____________________.
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Chapter 10: Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850
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Q1) The first mass-circulation magazine for women was ____________________.
Q2) ____________________ wore blackface in the first minstrel show in 1831.
Q3) The popular literature of the 1830s
A)was often written by women for women.
B)characterized women as weak, helpless, and fragile.
C)first introduced the male dominated action-adventure story to the public.
D)consisted of newspapers and magazines.
E)was not widely circulated.
Q4) The first full-blown camp meeting held in Cane Ridge, Kentucky in 1801 did not include
A)Methodists.
B)Baptists.
C)Presbyterians.
D)Lutherans.
E)all of these choices
Q5) The novel Quaker City imagined an idealized America built on Quaker beliefs.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explore the value and belief structures of the Northern middle class.
Q7) Sentimental novels upheld middle class ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Whigs and Democrats, 1815-1840
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Q1) The Democratic Party was born when Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Whig Party supported a strong national government. A)True B)False
Q3) The creation of the second party system was complete in the election of ____________________.
Q4) The postal campaign was halted by a federal censorship law. A)True B)False
Q5) The man who ran for President on the Log Cabin campaign was ____________________.
Q6) The attempt to silence anti-slavery petitions in Congress was known as the ____________________ rule.
Q7) The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the union, but forbade slavery in any state carved out of the Louisiana Territory north of Missouri. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860
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Q1) The only male delegate at the Seneca Falls convention was ____________________.
Q2) Discuss American views on slavery and racial differences along with the rise of abolitionism in the years from 1820 to 1840.
Q3) The political party most suspicious of federal attempts to promote internal improvements (canals and turnpikes) was the
A)Federalist.
B)Whig.
C)Democratic.
D)Republican Party of the 1850s.
E)Know Nothing.
Q4) The Whig party supported all of the following except
A)public suspicion and mistrust of the influence of privileged economic groups on federal policies.
B)moral legislation regulating alcohol consumption.
C)government-supported internal improvements.
D)an active government role in encouraging the expansion of the market economy.
E)public schools.
Q5) One of the most prominent forms of prison reform, attempting to both reform and reduce expenses, was the ____________________.
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Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or
Slavery 1845-1860
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Q1) In the election of 1844, James K. Polk
A)advocated legislation prohibiting the admission of any more slave states to the union.
B)threatened to declare war on England.
C)promised to acquire Texas and Oregon.
D)lost the presidency to Henry Clay.
E)opposed slavery.
Q2) President William Henry Harrison caught pneumonia on his inauguration day and died one month later.
A)True
B)False
Q3) General Zachary Taylor established the "bear flag republic" in California in 1846. A)True
B)False
Q4) The candidate of the Liberty Party who may have cost Henry Clay the election in 1844 was ____________________.
Q5) Analyze the Compromise of 1850. What were its major goals and conclusions? Was the compromise a success?
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860
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Q1) Advocates of the free labor ideology viewed labor strikes as A)dangerous, subversive plots.
B)unfortunate misunderstandings that could be solved by prayer.
C)evidence of the increased influence of foreign immigrants.
D)justification for forming a new political party.
E)positive events that helped free workers improve their working conditions.
Q2) Describe the issues surrounding the Dred Scott Supreme Court case of 1857. What was the effect of this decision on the nation?
Q3) Most of the foreign-born voters in the 1830s and 1840s joined the Democratic Party. A)True
B)False
Q4) Examine the political crisis of the 1850s. What were the origins of this crisis, the central issues involved, and the repercussions for the United States?
Q5) The first use of the term "Republican" to describe the new political party in the 1850s was at ____________________.
Q6) ____________________ was the North Carolinian who wrote The Impending Crisis of the South.
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Chapter 15: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862
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Q1) The Republican platform in 1860 proved especially attractive to young people.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Lincoln instituted a Union blockade of Confederate ports three months after the surrender of Fort Sumter.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To win the war, the Confederacy believed it just had to hold out long enough for the Union to see that the cost of war was too high.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Examine the establishment of the Confederacy in 1860. Compare and contrast the new government with that of the Union.
Q5) The Union Commander who prevailed at the Battle of Shiloh was ____________________.
Q6) The 1860 Republican platform was designed to appeal to many groups in the North.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The Virginia Theater seemed to favor the ____________________.
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Chapter 16: A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865
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Q1) Northern Democrats supported enlisting black troops to serve in the Union army.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The prisoner-of-war issue became a serious problem
A)after the Union began organizing regiments of former slaves.
B)during the election of 1864.
C)after the original prison compounds filled up.
D)because of both sides' plans for mass executions of prisoners.
E)when the Union began deporting prisoners to Mexico.
Q3) Sherman burned roughly two-thirds of Atlanta during his march through the city.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The New York draft riots were led mostly by ____________________.
Q5) The issue of ____________________ was very devisive in the North.
Q6) At the beginning of the Civil War most Northerners
A)hoped to add Mexican territory to the Union.
B)were indifferent to the issues.
C)were divided by the issues regarding slavery.
D)felt that the South should be allowed to secede.
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E)agreed they were fighting to preserve the Union.
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Chapter 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) In regard to civil rights, the Fourteenth Amendment
A)greatly expanded the federal government's powers and limited the authority of state governments.
B)extended citizenship to Native Americans (Indians).
C)reduced constitutional protection of minority rights.
D)limited the power of the federal government and expanded the authority of state governments.
E)gave blacks the right to vote.
Q2) Bulldozing in several parts of the South during the presidential election of 1876 hurt Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ulysses S. Grant was guilty of
A)standing in the way of congressional Reconstruction.
B)participation in the "Whiskey Ring."
C)unwise appointments of public officials.
D)lying to Congress.
E)treason.
Q4) Johnson created the ____________________ Party.
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Chapter 18: A Transformed Nation: the West and the New
South, 1865-1900
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the Mugwumps, Stalwarts, and Half-Breeds?
A)They were conflicting groups within the Democratic Party.
B)Both the Mugwumps and Half-Breeds supported reforms while the Stalwarts opposed reform.
C)Only the Stalwarts advocated civil-service reform.
D)All three groups favored extension of the spoils system.
E)They were three fledging political parties who supported "clean" politics.
Q2) Compare and contrast the federal and state governments' treatment of the Plains Indians and Mexican Americans in the late nineteenth century.
Q3) Southern cotton production after the Civil War was so plentiful, prices for it declined tremendously.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By 1890, the Sioux and other reservation Indians
A)were rapidly adapting to a capitalist, agrarian lifestyle.
B)had achieved full U.S. citizenship and equal rights.
C)were reduced to lives of poverty, depression, and alcoholism.
D)were profiting from the discovery of oil on their ancestral lands.
E)were working in large numbers for the mining industry.
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Chapter 19: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
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Q1) The financier who triggered a crash of the New York Stock Exchange that, in turn, sparked the Panic of 1873 was
A)J.P. Morgan.
B)John D. Rockefeller.
C)Jay Cooke.
D)Henry George.
E)Edward Bellamy.
Q2) The U.S. economy grew very rapidly between 1878 and 1893.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The American Federation of Labor was a loosely affiliated association of unions organized by trade or craft.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which union was hurt irrevocably by the Haymarket Square protest?
A)Congress of Industrial Organizations
B)National Labor Union
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)American Federation of Labor
E)Knights of Labor
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Chapter 20: Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920
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Q1) By 1900, the average work week in American industry was fifty hours.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is true about labor in the early twentieth century?
A)French-Canadian immigrants and their children held one of every two jobs in New England's cotton textile industry.
B)Mexican and Filipino women and children formed a large part of the labor force in California's agricultural industry.
C)First- and second-generation immigrants constituted more than 96 percent of the labor force that built and maintained the nation's railroads.
D)Of 750,000 Slovaks arriving in America before 1913, at least 600,000 went to work in the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania.
E)all of these choices.
Q3) In the early years of the movie industry the price of theater tickets was too high for the working classes of the cities to enjoy this new form of entertainment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Progressivism, 1900-1917
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Q1) The Federal Reserve Act reflected Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles by breaking up private financial institutions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Woodrow Wilson gained the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912 on the first ballot.
A)True B)False
Q3) ____________________ were journalists who exposed major social problems in American society.
Q4) ____________________ was the first state to grant women the right to vote.
Q5) Suffragists of the Progressive Era maintained that women were morally superior to men.
A)True B)False
Q6) New York lagged behind in municipal progressive reform.
A)True B)False
Q7) ____________________ founded the National Woman's Party in 1916.
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Q8) Theodore Roosevelt unveiled his New Nationalism at ____________________.
Chapter 22: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q1) Most of American missionary activity between 1870 and 1900 was directed toward
Q2) President Wilson dispatched troops to Mexico to punish ____________________ after his attacks on U.S. citizens and on New Mexico.
Q3) By the end of the Spanish-American War, U.S. troops had invaded Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Spanish military leader in Cuba was General ____________________.
Q5) The United States gave up ownership and control of the Panama Canal in the year 2000.
A)True B)False
Q6) The United States annexed Hawaii shortly before the war with Spain began. A)True B)False
Q7) Except for a brief period in 1925, U.S. troops remained in ____________________ continuously from 1912 until 1933.
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Q8) The nation that began building the Panama Canal was ____________________.
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Chapter 23: War and Society, 1914-1920
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Q1) At the beginning of World War I, the U.S. identified most strongly with A)Great Britain.
B)France.
C)Austria-Hungary.
D)Germany.
E)Japan.
Q2) The Committee on Public Information did all of the following except A)send men out to give four minute long speeches. B)sell war bonds.
C)covered the nation with propaganda posters.
D)placed advertisements in magazines.
E)sponsored exhibitions.
Q3) Describe the factors that led to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 and the factors that eventually led to the U.S. entry in the war. Your answer should discuss both the ideologies and the events that led to the "Great War." In your opinion, was U.S. entry inevitable?
Q4) Wilson's dream of constructing the League of Nations failed to materialize after the war because the U.S. Senate would not ratify the Versailles Treaty. Discuss the reasons the treaty could not pass the Senate.
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Chapter 24: The 1920s
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Q1) For Fundamentalists, God is a deity who intervenes directly in the lives of individuals and communities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The film ____________________ helped inspire the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
Q3) The Republican Party selected Warren G. Harding as its presidential candidate in 1920 because he was a tough, hard-nosed, competent leader.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ethnic associations, affiliations, and celebrations declined during the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The pseudoscience known as ____________________ contended that nations could improve their population by expanding stronger racial strains and shrinking weaker ones.
Q6) Warren Harding and Woodrow Wilson had much in common.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) As first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt was shy, inarticulate, passive, and awkward.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After the 1936 election, new constituencies that united to form the ________________, which would help to solidify the Democrats as the majority party in American politics for decades.
Q3) End Poverty in California (EPIC) was led by socialist and novelist
Q4) Of the following groups, which benefited the least from New Deal policies?
A)middle-class consumers
B)European ethnics
C)northern factory workers
D)southern industrial workers and farm laborers
E)the elderly
Q5) The National Recovery Administration had the power to force adherence to its codes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: America During the Second World War, 1939-1945
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Q1) The idea of firebombing urban targets was proposed to Franklin Roosevelt by General ____________________.
Q2) The Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the U.S. government's plan to relocate people of Japanese ancestry was ____________________.
Q3) The so-called "cash and carry" legislation was all of the following except
A)a requirement that belligerents pay cash for their arms purchases and carry them away on their own ships.
B)an effort on the part of the Roosevelt administration to help Great Britain.
C)an attempt to bypass earlier neutrality declarations.
D)a way for the United States to strengthen its defenses.
E)a means of broadening arms sales to belligerents.
Q4) Opponents of President Roosevelt's pro-Allied policy included
A)those who sympathized with Hitler's anti-Semitism.
B)those who feared that war would centralize the government's power.
C)those who sympathized with the Fascists' anticommunism.
D)members of religious groups committed to nonviolence.
E)all of these choices
Q5) In ____________________ Congress officially apologized for Japanese internment.
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Chapter 27: The Age of Containment, 1946-1953
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Q1) During the Cold War homosexuality was connected with communist subversion and thus depicted as a threat to national security.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The U.S.-backed government of Syngman Rhee in South Korea was
A)a communist regime.
B)a democratic government.
C)an autocratic government.
D)a theocratic state.
E)a Nazi regime.
Q3) In 1949, Mao Zedong forced Jiang Jieshi's forces off mainland China to the offshore island of
A)Korea.
B)Hawaii
C)Tahiti.
D)Indonesia.
E)Formosa.
Q4) Examine Harry Truman's stand on the major civil rights issues of the 1940s and 1950s.
Q5) The ____________________ created the Council of Economic Advisers.
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Chapter 28: America at Midcentury, 1953-1963
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Q2) Examine the 1960 election and the "New Frontier."
Q3) Religious groups denounced rock music as a communist plot to corrupt America's youth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Elvis Presley was known for his sensual, electric stage presence.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What percentage of the American population identified themselves as Protestant, Jewish, or Catholic?
A)30
B)40
C)50
D)75
E)95
Q6) David Riesman's 1950 study of the shift in the United States from an "inner-directed" society to an "outer-directed" one was called ____________________.
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Chapter 29: America During a Divisive War, 1963-1974
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Two African-American students were killed by law-enforcement officials following an antiwar protest rally at Jackson State College in 1970.
A)True B)False
Q3) The most publicly controversial rights-related cases of the Warren Court involved A)civil rights.
B)abortion rights.
C)women's rights.
D)rights of criminal suspects.
E)immigrant rights.
Q4) Martin Luther King Jr. died in Memphis, TN, where he was supporting a protest by
Q5) The Communist guerrilla force in Cambodia was called the
Q6) By 1971, unemployment topped ____________________ percent.
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Chapter 30: Uncertain Times, 1974-1992
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Ronald Reagan was designated the "____________________ president" because his personal popularity was not diminished by criticism of his policies.
Q3) Which of the following is not an example of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy?
A)establishment of formal diplomatic relations with Communist China
B)negotiations that improved relations between Israel and Egypt
C)expansion of American control in the Panama Canal Zone
D)development of a human-rights policy to determine which countries received U.S. foreign aid
E)failure to deal effectively with the hostage crisis
Q4) Explore the rise of the "new right." What was its focus? How did it help shape the political landscape?
Q5) Between 1970 and 1990, the number of African American families living in the middle-class had ____________________.
Q6) The Iranian shah was overthrown in ____________________.
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Chapter 31: Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the
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A)True
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Q2) Movie attendance in 1970 was at the same level as it was in 1960.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Immigration Act of 1990,
A)quotas based on national origins determined the number of immigrants admitted each year.
B)no immigrants from Central and South America were allowed into the United States.
C)immigrants with family ties in the United States or with special skills were given priority.
D)only those fleeing persecution by Communist governments were admitted.
E)only the wealthy were admitted.
Q4) MTV was on the cutting edge of media programming when it debuted.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________________ launched Sundance Film Institute.
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Q6) ____________________ began migrating because of Fidel Castro's revolution.
Chapter 32: A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2014
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A)True
B)False
Q2) ____________________.com is a site that allows people to post video online.
Q3) In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush's margin of victory in the popular was
A)less than 1 percent.
B)less than 3 percent.
C)more than 5 percent.
D)more than 8 percent.
E)more than 12 percent.
Q4) During his eight years in office, Bill Clinton signed more than ____________________ trade agreements.
Q5) John McCain more successfully used social networking sites than Barack Obama. A)True
B)False
Q6) In 1994, President Clinton's major proposal to reform ____________________ was heavily criticized and easily defeated in Congress.
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