History of the Modern World Exam
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This course offers a comprehensive examination of global history from the late 18th century to the present, focusing on the profound social, political, economic, and cultural transformations that have shaped the modern world. Students will explore key events and themes such as the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, the world wars, decolonization, the Cold War, technological advancements, and globalization. Through diverse perspectives, the course emphasizes the interplay among societies, the rise of new ideologies, and the enduring impact of historical developments on contemporary issues.
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HIST 3 3rd Edition by Kevin
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Chapter 1: Three Societies on the Verge of Contact
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Q1) The Anasazi were noted for their complex earthen mounds.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The Pueblo people of the Southwest
A) were famous for their basket weaving and ceramics.
B) constructed multistoried buildings in canyons and river valleys.
C) held major buffalo hunts each year for food to preserve for the winter.
D) usually had tobacco as their main trade crop.
E) carved elaborate totem poles and masks for special occasions.
Answer: B
Q3) Most Native Americans believed that property
A) should never be sold.
B) could not be privately owned, but could be used by everyone when needed.
C) belonged to the spirits.
D) was given to them by the gods.
E) belonged to the people using it at the time.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Contact and Settlement, 1492-1660
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Q1) The crop that finally ensured the long-term success of the Jamestown colony was
A) sugar cane.
B) rice.
C) marijuana.
D) tobacco.
E) cotton.
Answer: D
Q2) So different were the worlds of Indians and Europeans that native tribes had simply no way to blend Christian symbolism with that of their own native religions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Sir Walter Raleigh hoped that by sending families instead of conquerors to the New World,he would be able to re-create English society and its agricultural system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Expansion and Its Costs, 1660-1700
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Q1) The <i>first</i> use of African slaves in the Americas was for the production of A) rice.
B) hemp.
C) grains for beer.
D) sugar.
E) tobacco.
Answer: D
Q2) The French had fortified positions on the Mississippi River,and they enjoyed friendly relations with many of the tribes along that route.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of these proprietary colonies was founded <i>after</i> the English Restoration?
A) Carolina
B) New York
C) Pennsylvania
D) Georgia
E) East and West Jersey
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763
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Q1) Which was <i>not</i> a part of the Treaty of Paris?
A) The Mississippi River became the dividing line between England and Spain.
B) France lost its holdings in North America.
C) Spain received Louisiana from France.
D) The western interior of North America went to the English.
E) England was required to accept only partial territorial control of Canada and Florida from France.
Q2) In what ways did religion change in the colonies as a result of the Great Awakening?
Q3) Communities in the southern colonies
A) centered on the local church.
B) were slow to develop.
C) were based solely on stable families.
D) were the year-round home to wealthy plantation owners who liked the warm climate.
E) had people with a longer life expectancy than other regions.
Q4) Describe what a typical "middle passage" would have been like for its slave passengers.
Q5) Discuss the consequences of the British victory in the French-Indian War for Native Americans.
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Chapter 5: Toward Revolution, 1763-1775
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Q1) To try to force Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act,opponents in Massachusetts initially
A) began dumping tea in the harbor of Boston.
B) rioted against military stationed in Boston, leading to the Boston Massacre.
C) created a circular letter inviting representatives from all colonies to a Stamp Act Congress.
D) began to smuggle sugar from the French Caribbean.
E) stopped buying British-made goods.
Q2) When the Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in the fall of 1765,it was doing so with the tacit approval of the British Parliament.
A)True
B)False
Q3) After the battles of Lexington and Concord,the colonists organized the Second Continental Congress in May 1775 to
A) name the militia around Boston as the core of the Continental Army.
B) Pass resolutions supporting the war.
C) declare their loyalty to King George III.
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.
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Chapter 6: The Revolution
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Q1) When and how did the Revolutionary War come to be one that the British would not win?
Q2) In all,several thousand slaves responded to the British call to fight,hoping to win their freedom if Britain won the war.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The British hoped to demoralize and break the will of the patriots in all of the following ways,<i>except</i>
A) enslaving prisoners of war.
B) harassing the coastline with their Navy.
C) maintaining the occupation of New York.
D) trying to bribe major leaders of the Continental Army.
E) promising southern slaves freedom in return for their fight against the rebels.
Q4) The best known experience of republican ideas in revolutionary America was
A) the Declaration of Independence.
B) the Olive Branch Petition.
C) the Albany Plan.
D) the Treaty of Paris.
E) Thomas Paine's<i> Common Sense.</i>
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Chapter 7: Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789
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Q1) Among other things,states were specifically forbidden to A) establish separate school systems.
B) develop their own currency.
C) establish treaties among themselves.
D) maintain state militias.
E) nullify federal laws.
Q2) The farmers who came out in protest in Massachusetts in 1786 demanded
A) the payment of government subsidies in specie rather than promissory notes.
B) equal access to land.
C) a moratorium on taxes and lawsuits against debtors.
D) that government live within its means and stop the spending spree.
E) new elections after allegations of voter fraud had emerged.
Q3) The New Jersey plan called for
A) increasing the power of states with large populations.
B) a limit to the physical size of new states.
C) a Bill of Rights.
D) a revision of the Articles of Confederation, giving each state equal representation.
E) the ending of the slave trade in twenty years.
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Q1) "Implied powers" suggested that the Constitution gave Congress much more power than mere words would suggest,by stating that it had the power to do whatever was "necessary and proper" to the efficient functioning of the government.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Democratic Republicans were opposed to President Washington's response to A) Gabriel's Conspiracy.
B) the French Revolution.
C) the Haitian Revolution.
D) the XYZ Affair.
E) All of these events.
Q3) The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were the first instances of individual states attempting to A) secede from the Union.
B) nullify a federal law.
C) hijack a presidential election.
D) negotiate directly with a foreign country.
E) change the way presidential elections were run within individual states.
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Chapter 9: Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1814
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Q1) What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition? How successful was the journey?
Q2) Which of the following is not true about Tecumseh and his brother,the Prophet?
A) They founded the pan-Indian settlement of Prophetstown.
B) They toured across the country preaching a revival of old Native American customs.
C) They opposed the acceptance of European and American habits such as drinking whiskey and shooting guns.
D) They tried to organize their tribes for a massive migration westward.
E) Their goal was to unite tribes from the Old Northwest and the South in resistance against American encroachment.
Q3) The person who was commissioned to design Washington,D.C.'s Capitol buildings was an Englishman named Gilbert Stuart.
A)True
B)False
Q4) America's national anthem,"The Star Spangled Banner," was set to the music of an English drinking song.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Market Revolution
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Q1) How did Eli Whitney's invention,the cotton gin,transform southern agriculture?
A) It made it possible to cultivate cotton in poor soil.
B) It made it possible for farmers to earn huge profits with just a little land and a few slaves.
C) It maintained slavery and facilitated its movement onto western territories.
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.
Q2) What was the Monroe Doctrine,why and when was it issued,and what was its significance?
Q3) The Erie Canal was an important aspect of the transportation revolution in all of the following ways <i>except</i>
A) aiding in the growth of New York City as a major economic hub.
B) moving goods faster, more cheaply, and more efficiently.
C) encouraging other states to invest in transportation networks.
D) linking the eastern states with those in the South.
E) encouraging the nation's farmers to specialize.
Q4) Cyrus McCormick advanced the shift to commercial agriculture with his invention of the reaper.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Politics of the Market Revolution
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Q1) Which of the following was not true of the situation between whites and blacks in the North?
A) Free blacks could not settle in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
B) Only in Massachusetts could a black person sit on a jury.
C) Segregation was the norm, with separate sitting areas in basically all methods of transportation.
D) Free blacks were allowed to sit on juries throughout most states in the North.
E) Racism was rampant in northern society, and almost total separation between the two races was the preference of most whites.
Q2) By 1840,the turnout for voting in national elections had reached an astounding 80 percent.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A significant factor leading to the Panic of 1819 was the unexpected decrease in the world's demand for the cotton grown in the American South.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the differences between the Whigs and the Democrats.
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Chapter 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860
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Q1) How did the lives of planters and of yeomen farmers differ from each other in the antebellum South?
Q2) The most significant part of African American worship that emerged during the 1800s was
A) singing, dancing, and clapping.
B) spirituals that held messages of hope.
C) lengthy sermons.
D) the conviction that accepting their lot in this life would bring great rewards in the next one.
E) All of these were of equal significance.
Q3) Nativists tended to define a true American as someone with an English background who was born in the United States.
A)True B)False
Q4) How did life change for those living in the northern countryside?
Q5) One hallmark of a middle-class family was that women were free to choose whether or not they wanted to pursue a career and work outside the home.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: The Continued Move West
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Q1) The last city captured to end the war in Mexico was
A) Havana.
B) Juarez.
C) Vera Cruz.
D) Hidalgo.
E) Mexico City.
Q2) Most of the early mining camp settlements went on to become major California towns and cities after the Gold Rush ended.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What did Polk hope to get from provoking a war with Mexico?
A) Full and certain ownership of Texas
B) Control of much of Mexico's territory throughout the Southwest
C) A morale boost by defeating the Mexicans handily
D) Recognition from other major nations of the world
E) Control of California, where gold had recently been discovered
Q4) After gaining independence from Mexico,Texans fought hard to maintain their independence from the United States.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) The first state to secede from the Union was South Carolina,which took the fateful step just before Christmas in 1860.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1860 election,Lincoln polled a majority of the popular vote and handily beat the other three candidates in the race.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Senator David Wilmot proposed that slavery be kept out of the new territories the country might acquire so that small farmers would have the chance to get in on the opportunities there.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The <i>main</i> goal of the new Republican Party was
A) ending slavery.
B) preventing slavery from expanding further into the West.
C) getting Abraham Lincoln elected president.
D) a protective tariff.
E) ensuring that the election in Kansas was fair.
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Chapter 15: The Civil War
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Q1) Inflation in the civil war South was so bad that the cost of living in the South had grown ____ over the course of the war.
A) threefold.
B) fivefold.
C) twelvefold.
D) fifty-twofold.
E) ninety-twofold.
Q2) Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus was used in Maryland to arrest and imprison Confederate sympathizers who might incite others.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One strategy that both the Union and Confederacy used as the war progressed was
A) limited warfare.
B) instituting an income tax.
C) requiring slaves and former slaves to serve in combat.
D) sending emissaries to negotiate a limited peace.
E) mandating that all men serve in the military, regardless of class.
Q4) Discuss the challenges the Union and the Confederacy faced on their homefronts.
Q5) Discuss the historical significance of the Civil War.
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Chapter 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) As Reconstruction moved into the background of the thoughts of northerners,racism and intimidation of black and Republican voters in the South became more visible.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Congress impeached Johnson because
A) the president had clearly committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
B) Radical Republicans in the House charged the president with violating the Tenure of Office Act.
C) the president had appointed a set of Southern stalwarts to the United States Supreme Court.
D) his vetoes had made governing virtually impossible.
E) Northern Democrats were eager for an early election that would give their candidate the upper hand.
Q3) Describe what happened in the 1876 election and explain how that turned out to be the end for Reconstruction.
Q4) What were some of the major scandals of the Grant years? How responsible does Grant appear to have been for these things?
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Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) Much of Rockefeller's success can be attributed to his pioneering efforts at A) capital accumulation.
B) assembly line production.
C) process integration.
D) horizontal integration.
E) vertical integration.
Q2) What major factors contributed to the development of the Industrial Revolution in America?
Q3) Vertical integration meant
A) buying up all competitors.
B) breaking up older but less competitive monopolies.
C) owning all aspects of production and distribution under one corporate organization, from accessing and owning the raw materials, to the production of the good(s), to the delivery of the finished product(s) to the consumer.
D) creating a business model that would allow for mass production.
E) buying just enough shares in a publicly traded company so as to control it.
Q4) Explain the origins of the national consumer market.Which businesses and innovations were central to this development?
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Q1) Coney Island was one of the most popular amusement parks in the country.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the Grange? How did it evolve into the Farmers' Alliance? How did the Alliance evolve into the Populist Party?
Q3) The major industries that developed in the South prior to 1900 included all of the following <i>except</i>
A) railroads.
B) cotton production.
C) textiles.
D) electricity.
E) iron production.
Q4) In the last two decades of the nineteenth century,almost 2,000 black men in the South
A) managed to purchase small plots of land.
B) were wrongfully imprisoned.
C) were shot in arguments with whites.
D) left the South because there was so much violence against African Americans.
E) were lynched by white mobs.
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Chapter 19: The Progressive Era
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Q1) Which of these devices was <i>not</i> designed to expand democratic participation in American politics?
A) Initiative
B) Primary
C) Recall
D) Urban league
E) Referendum
Q2) The first target of Progressive reform was
A) temperance.
B) the cities.
C) legislation concerning factories.
D) food and drug legislation.
E) woman suffrage.
Q3) All of the following books are classics in the muckraking tradition, <i>except</i>
A) Upton Sinclair, <i>The Jungle</i>
B) Horatio Alger,<i>Ragged Dick</i>
C) Lincoln Steffens, <i>The Shame of the Cities</i>
D) Jacob Riis, <i>How the Other Half Lives</i>
E) Ida Tarbell, <i>The History of America's Meatpacking Industry</i>
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Chapter 20: Becoming a World Power
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Q1) The new Panama Canal that began operation in 1914
A) cut about 5,000 miles off the sailing distance between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
B) was leased by the United States in twenty-year periods.
C) opened just before World War I broke out.
D) caused tension and resentment among the Colombians who had lost out on the deal.
E) brought new wealth to the people of Panama.
Q2) After the Spanish-American War ended and the peace treaty was signed,the United States passed the Platt Amendment,which
A) gave freedom to the Filipinos.
B) proposed a close relationship between the governments of the United States and Cuba.
C) was added to the Cuban constitution and gave the United States the right to intervene militarily should revolution threaten.
D) provided for humanitarian aid to the Cubans for as long as necessary.
E) stated America's intention to annex Cuba.
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Chapter 21: Prosperity and Change in the Twenties
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Q1) At the "Scopes Monkey Trial,"
A) famous defense lawyer Clarence Darrow volunteered to defend science teacher John Scopes, who was arrested for teaching evolution.
B) Scopes was accused of breaking the law by teaching that man had descended directly from Adam.
C) William Jennings Bryan came to Tennessee to assist Darrow in the defense of Scopes.
D) Scopes was convicted and fined $1,000, but the ACLU was successful in overturning the law prohibiting teaching evolution.
E) the people of Tennessee completely abandoned religious fundamentalism.
Q2) The first president to make a radio broadcast was
A) Warren G. Harding.
B) Theodore Roosevelt.
C) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
D) Calvin Coolidge.
E) William Howard Taft.
Q3) Who were some of the artists and writers who became expatriates in Europe during the 1920s? What were their reasons for leaving?
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Chapter 22: The Great Depression and the New Deal
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Q1) All of the following are true statements about radio during the Great Depression <i>except</i>
A) It helped Americans deal with hard times.
B) It featured popular music and swing orchestras with upbeat tunes and messages.
C) Its programs featured sitcoms, sometimes with black characters, that were popular with black and white audiences.
D) It contributed to the growth of the political right.
E) It helped create celebrity personalities.
Q2) In 1935,the Supreme Court invalidated the NIRA on the grounds that it gave unconstitutionally broad powers to local and state governments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One of the most iconic films of the Depression/New Deal era was <i>Mr.Smith Goes to Washington</i>.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: World War II
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Q1) Who were the major participants in the meeting that resulted in the Munich Agreement? What was included in that agreement? What famous statement issued after that agreement proved to be absolutely untrue?
Q2) Women participated in the U.S.World War II effort by
A) working in war plants.
B) joining the military.
C) growing Victory Gardens.
D) playing in baseball leagues.
E) All of these choices.
Q3) What were the "reasons" for the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II? What exactly did "internment" mean for these families? Were there ironies in these actions by the U.S.government? When and how did the internment end?
Q4) Hitler's and Stalin's nonaggression pact involved which of these countries?
A) England.
B) United States.
C) France.
D) Poland.
E) Sweden.
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Q1) In reaction to laws ordering desegregation,those in charge of many schools and other public facilities in the South responded grudgingly but acceptingly.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Marshall Plan
A) provided $13 billion to governments that promised to become or remain democracies.
B) sought to introduce a new currency to West Germany.
C) was a blueprint for the U.S. invasion of Soviet-occupied East Germany.
D) described the theory of containment.
E) was the foundation of the National Security Act.
Q3) Stalin initiated the blockade of the city of West Berlin in order to
A) keep West Berliners from visiting the Soviet portion of the city.
B) keep people in the Soviet section from fleeing the country.
C) try to starve the West Berliners into giving in to control by his government.
D) keep western influence and West German currency out of the Soviet zone.
E) try to get the Americans to give him control of all of Germany.
Q4) How would you evaluate Harry Truman as president? Give some examples to explain your answer.
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Chapter 25: The Sixties
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Q1) The Cuban Missile Crisis
A) brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
B) ended when Kennedy agreed to remove missiles from Cuba and the Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles from Turkey.
C) ended the Cold War.
D) was a U.S. attempt to seize control of Cuba from Fidel Castro.
E) caused the U.S. to escalate its testing of nuclear weapons.
Q2) Evaluate the leadership of Malcolm X in the civil rights movement.What was so different about his approach compared to that of Martin Luther King,Jr.?
Q3) The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to
A) abolish literacy tests as a means of qualifying to vote.
B) do away with poll taxes that had to be paid for a person to register to vote.
C) outlaw any attempts by whites to keep blacks from voting.
D) amend the flaws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that was supposed to do away with such discrimination.
E) All of these choices.
Q4) The first president to be involved with Vietnam was John F.Kennedy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: The Age of Fracture: the 1970s
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Q1) Richard Nixon held long-smoldering resentment against what he termed the "Eastern Establishment."
A)True
B)False
Q2) During the 1970s,American Indian activists drew attention to their cause by
A) staging sit-ins in downtown San Francisco.
B) hosting teach-ins at Berkeley.
C) marching peacefully.
D) occupying the former federal prison on Alcatraz for over one year.
E) rioting in the cities' poorer neighborhoods.
Q3) Detenté,disillusionment,and disco dramatized the complexities of the 1970s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Gerald Ford (Republican)and Jimmy Carter (Democrat)both failed to win their bids for reelection.Apart from the differences between these two presidents,what shared circumstances may have jeopardized their chances at a second term?
Q5) What were Nixon's reasons for visiting China in 1972? Was he successful? Explain.
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Chapter 27: Reagans America
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A)True
B)False
Q2) The first Eastern European country to demonstrate that the Soviet Union was losing control over the countries in its "sphere of influence" was
A) Germany.
B) Belgium.
C) Poland.
D) Romania.
E) Lithuania.
Q3) People for the American Way was one of the New Left organizations founded during the 1980s to promote moral conservatism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain how the Iran-Contra Affair developed.What were the first goals of the president and his advisors? Describe how those goals morphed into something quite different.
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Chapter 28: America in the Information Age
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Q1) Which of the following was <i>not</i> a presidential candidate in 1992?
A) Bill Clinton
B) H. Ross Perot
C) Patrick Buchanan
D) Newt Gingrich
E) George H. W. Bush
Q2) Clinton's worst political defeat during his first term was
A) the unpopularity of his "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on gays in the military.
B) his failure to get the Senate to pass NAFTA on its first round through the legislative process.
C) the failure of Congress to vote for joining the WTO.
D) welfare reform.
E) the failure of his administration to achieve health care reform.
Q3) President Bill Clinton named his vice president,Al Gore,to head a committee to develop a new health care plan for Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What promises did globalization hold for Americans and others? What have been the misgivings?
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Q1) John McCain's bid for the presidency was hindered by his presumed ties to the unpopular George W.Bush.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The centerpiece of George W.Bush's agenda when he entered office was
A) getting to the bottom of the Enron scandal.
B) a large tax cut for wealthy Americans.
C) an increase in defense spending.
D) defending the United States against terrorists.
E) deposing Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
Q3) Abu Ghraib refers to
A) a naval base in Cuba where U.S. houses prisoners.
B) a battle during the Iraq war.
C) the location where Osama bin Laden hid out in Afghanistan.
D) an Iraqi prison where U.S. soldiers tortured and humiliated prisoners of war.
E) None of these choices.
Q4) How did Hurricane Katrina reinforce Americans' beliefs that the federal government was inept?
Q5) Discuss the problems and challenges Barack Obama faced in office.
Q6) What were George W.Bush's avowed goals in invading Iraq?
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