History of the United States: 1865 to Present Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the history of the United States from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to the present, focusing on the political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that have shaped modern America. Topics include Reconstruction, industrialization, immigration, the rise of the U.S. as a world power, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, and contemporary developments. By examining key events, influential figures, and everyday experiences, students will gain a deeper understanding of the forces and challenges that have defined the nation through periods of change, conflict, and progress.
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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) By the mid-1600s, there were ____________________ Spanish missions in Florida containing about 26,000 converted Indians.
Answer: 30
Q2) The Toltecs controlled the Valley of Mexico for three centuries.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following is not true of the Spanish conquistadores?
A)They succeeded in part because smallpox decimated the Indian population.
B)They led huge armies of 50,000 to 100,000 well-trained Europeans.
C)They searched unsuccessfully for fabulous golden cities in North America.
D)They conquered two major empires in the Americas and greatly increased the wealth and power of Spain.
E)They destroyed religious items of the native people.
Answer: B
Q4) The ____________________ helped the Spanish conquer the Aztecs.
Answer: Tlaxcalans
Q5) The ____________________ Empire was the largest non-literate empire in history.
Answer: Inca
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Chapter 2: Colonization in North America, 1600-1680
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Q1) Before 1700, far more Englishmen went to the West Indies than the Chesapeake.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) New Netherland was the most religiously and ethnically diverse of the seventeenth-century North American colonies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Restoration colonies were
A)the smallest and least profitable colonies in New England.
B)founded by political exiles who were driven out of the Puritan colonies.
C)Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont.
D)founded by the Catholics.
E)proprietary colonies founded by cavalier supporters of Charles II and James II.
Answer: E
Q4) The Puritans wanted to push the Church of England in a more ____________________ direction.
Answer: Calvinist
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Chapter 3: Empires, Indians, and the Struggle for Power in North
America, 1670-1720
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Q1) The only New England staple desired in Europe was ____________________.
Answer: fish
Q2) One Native American strategy of survival was the assimilation of captives, including women and children, from one tribe to another.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) New England settlers were confident they could defeat the Indians at the start of Metacom's War because
A)The Wampanoags were divided over the decision to go to war.
B)The English had been victorious in their war with the Pequots.
C)The Indians did not have good weapons.
D)The French had agreed to assist the New Englanders.
E)They controlled the food supplies in the region.
Answer: B
Q4) Prior to the beginning of the American Revolution, the largest revolt in the English colonies was ____________________.
Answer: Bacon's Rebellion
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Chapter 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent,
1720-1763
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Q1) In the 1759 siege of Quebec, British General ____ was killed along with his French counterpart, General Montcalm.
A)Braddock
B)Wolfe
C)Amherst
D)Abercrombie
E)Winthrop
Q2) New Englanders constructed more ships than all of the other colonies combined.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During the course of the eighteenth century, those who held high political office increasingly came from the lower social status.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The "country" constitutions of the southern colonies relied on elaborate royal patronage to achieve political stability.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Examine the Great Awakening. What were its results?
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Chapter 5: Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776
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Q1) The Quebec Act (1774) established French civil law and the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec.
A)True
B)False
Q2) John Wilkes was the advisor to the king most criticized by North American colonists.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) The citizens committee responsible for enforcing sanctions against England in 1775 was known as the ____________________.
Q5) An act, passed after the failure of the Stamp Act that affirmed Parliament's sovereignty over the colonies was the ____________________ Act.
Q6) In response to the Boston Port Act, colonists organized the First ____________________.
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary Republic, 1776-1789
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Q1) Shays' Rebellion occurred in the state of ____________________.
Q2) The greatest opposition to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 came from the South over the institution of slavery.
A)True B)False
Q3) The most significant victory for George Washington was Philadelphia. A)True B)False
Q4) No southern state supported the 1786 treaty that John Jay negotiated with Spain. A)True B)False
Q5) Ratification of the Constitution was a relatively easy and quick affair once the document had been written.
A)True B)False
Q6) Compare and contrast the Virginia and New Jersey Plans that were debated at the Constitutional Convention.
Q7) Those against the ratification of the Constitution were called
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Chapter 7: Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815
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Q1) Purchasing Louisiana necessitated an increase in the size of the military to protect the new territory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Federal judges receive lifetime appointments and can be removed from office by impeachment only.
A)True
B)False
Q3) French displeasure at the election of John Adams resulted in the determination to seize without compensation all American ships carrying "so much as a(n) ____________________ made in England."
Q4) Each of the following was a part of the Hamiltonian Plan except A)a national bank.
B)a tariff.
C)funding of the debt.
D)building a turnpike.
E)assuming state debts.
Q5) The ____________________ was at the center of Alexander Hamilton's plan for a powerful national state.
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Chapter 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850
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Q1) In 1790, more than ____________________ percent of Americans lived on farms and in rural villages.
Q2) All of the following statements regarding transportation in 1815 are true except A)it was easier to transport goods into western settlements than out
B)transportation west of the Appalachians was almost entirely undeveloped
C)transporting goods by boat between Louisville and New Orleans took three to four months
D)the cost of transporting wheat from Buffalo to New York City tripled its price
E)trans-Appalachian settlements were marginal to the market economy
Q3) Most canals built in the 1830s were built and financed by A)state governments.
B)private corporations.
C)foreign investors.
D)the federal government.
E)associations of farmers.
Q4) The nation's transportation network was built primarily by private enterprise.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Farmers in the South and West embraced the _________________, in which they simply remembered what they were owed.
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Chapter 9: The Old South, 1790-1850
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Q1) Few yeoman farmers in the south were wholly subject to market fluctuations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Nat Turner's Rebellion killed ____________________ people.
Q3) A common calculation that separated planters from yeoman farmers was that a planter owned
A)five slaves.
B)ten slaves.
C)twenty slaves.
D)fifty slaves.
E)one hundred slaves.
Q4) The inventor of the cotton gin was
A)James Henry Hammond.
B)Eli Whitney.
C)Samuel Slater.
D)Richard Arkwright.
E)Thomas Edison.
Q5) ____________________ and Savannah were the two major ports for slaves from Africa.
Q6) How did Christianity affect southern slaves?
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Chapter 10: Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850
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Q1) The middle class was a product of A)industrialization and a market economy.,
B)a strong agrarian society.
C)a religious revival.
D)strong attachments to ideas of honor and the family.
E)all of these choices
Q2) The plain folk of the North were culturally conservative. A)True
B)False
Q3) By the 1830s, most of the responsibility for child-rearing in northern homes rested with A)fathers.
B)mothers.
C)the school.
D)the church.
E)the servants.
Q4) Northern plain folk rejected middle-class culture and reformism. A)True B)False
Q5) The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Whigs and Democrats, 1815-1840
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Q1) The Thomas Proviso opened ____________________ Territory to slavery.
Q2) The primary defender of the right of "nullification" was
A)Henry Clay.
B)Daniel Webster.
C)Martin Van Buren.
D)John C. Calhoun.
E)Andrew Jackson.
Q3) Many Americans were grateful to the Bank of the United States for its assertive and positive response to the Panic of 1819 that mitigated the damage of the economic downturn.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Andrew Jackson criticized the Bank because he believed that it
A)benefited northern and foreign investors at the expense of southern and western farmers.
B)was too liberal with its loan policies.
C)did not exercise enough centralized control over the monetary system.
D)charged excessive interest rates.
E)benefited plantation owners more than small farmers.
Q5) Describe the election of 1824. Why was it so controversial?
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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) Democrats often doubted the value of commerce.
A)True
B)False
Q3) New York's Married Women's Property Act was passed in ____________________.
Q4) Describe the various approaches to prison reform during the period from 1820 to 1840. What were the goals and successes of those who wished to reform America's prisons?
Q5) Many Catholic parents refused to send their children to public school because A)they felt that the education received there was inadequate. B)the teachers were not qualified.
C)students were forced to recite Protestant prayers and read the Protestant Bible. D)they believed their children would be persecuted. E)they were too poor to buy their supplies.
Q6) ____________________ wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Q7) Analyze the antislavery movement in the United States in the years following the 1830s.
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Q8) Explore the movement for reform in American society during the market revolution of the early nineteenth century.
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Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or
Slavery 1845-1860
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Q1) General Winfield Scott's nickname was
A)"Blood and Guts."
B)"Old Fuss and Feathers."
C)"Grizzly."
D)"Rough and Ready."
E)"Old Hickory."
Q2) The one issue in the Compromise of 1850 that clearly favored the South was
A)resolution of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute.
B)the Fugitive Slave Act.
C)the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
D)the settlement of Texas war debt.
E)the admission of California.
Q3) Which of the following was not part of the Compromise of 1850?
A)repeal of all existing fugitive slave laws
B)abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia
C)guarantee of slavery in the District of Columbia
D)admission of California as a free state
E)settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary.
Q4) Examine the causes and results of Mormon migration to Utah.
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Q5) Describe the growing impact of the antislavery movement on American politics.
Chapter 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860
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Q1) The person who led a group of so-called "border ruffians" to Kansas to vote for a pro-slavery government there was
A)Stephen Douglas.
B)David Atchison.
C)Franklin B. Pierce.
D)Jefferson Davis.
E)Abraham Lincoln.
Q2) The Supreme Court chief justice who ruled against Scott in the Dred Scott case was ____________________.
Q3) The first use of the term "Republican" to describe the new political party in the 1850s was at ____________________.
Q4) By the late 1850s, the United States was the second-leading industrial producer in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The gap between the rich and poor was larger in the north than in the south.
A)True
B)False
Q6) By 1856, the ____________________ had become the largest party in the North.
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Chapter 15: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862
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Q1) The appointment of ____ to command Confederate armies in Virginia marked a turning point in the Civil War.
A)Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
B)J. E. B. Stuart
C)Robert E. Lee
D)Joseph Johnston
E)Jefferson Davis
Q2) Examine the establishment of the Confederacy in 1860. Compare and contrast the new government with that of the Union.
Q3) Examine the election of 1860. What were the issues that divided the two parties? How were these issues resolved?
Q4) During the Civil War, the Confederate forces that pushed into New Mexico were made up primarily of men from ____________________.
Q5) The Union war effort was financed primarily by
A)war bonds.
B)"greenbacks."
C)tariffs.
D)income taxes.
E)charitable contributions.
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Chapter 16: A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865
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Q1) The New York draft riots were led mostly by ____________________.
Q2) An order issued by a judge to law enforcement officers requiring them to bring an arrested person before the court to be charged with a crime is called a writ of
Q3) Examine the outbreak of class tensions in both Northern and Southern society during the Civil War.
Q4) The peace terms that Ulysses S. Grant dictated to Robert E. Lee at Appomattox were usually harsh.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________________ was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1864.
Q6) The Emancipation Proclamation
A)ended slavery in the border states.
B)officially ended slavery in the United States.
C)ended slavery in areas in rebellion.
D)ended slavery in Confederate states under Union occupation.
E)ended slavery only in national territories.
Q7) Examine the military importance of the year 1863. In what ways was this a "turning point" in the war?
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Q8) The most serious economic problem for the South was ____________________.
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Chapter 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) White southerners' main complaint against the Freedmen's Bureau was that it was inefficient.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Fourteenth Amendment did all of the following except
A)define blacks as American citizens.
B)grant equal protection of the laws.
C)guarantee the Confederate debt.
D)disqualify a significant number of ex-Confederates from holding federal or state office.
E)grant due process under the law.
Q3) Discuss the role of race and racism in the post Civil War South. What role did race play in southern resistance to Reconstruction? How did southern society attempt in the post-war era to retain the racial structure of the pre-war era?
Q4) White southerners who joined the Republican Party were called
Q5) Explore the Compromise of 1877. Explain the participants in the agreement, the goals of each group, and the details of the final compromise.
Q6) Roughly ____________________ percent of southern Republican voters were white.
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Chapter 18: A Transformed Nation: the West and the New
South, 1865-1900
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Q1) The writings of Thomas Nelson Page
A)dealt realistically with the problems of southern society.
B)were not read outside the South.
C)criticized lynching.
D)encouraged a diversified economy in the New South.
E)romanticized plantation society of the Old South.
Q2) The writer who offered a first-hand account of the spiritual suffering of Indian children in boarding schools run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs was Helen Hunt Jackson.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ida Wells was an advocate for A)copper miners.
B)Chinese women in California.
C)southern blacks.
D)civil reform in government.
E)Mexican Americans.
Q4) Compare and contrast the federal and state governments' treatment of the Plains Indians and Mexican Americans in the late nineteenth century.
Q5) General Custer lost his life in his defeat at ____________________.
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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) Define, describe, and evaluate the "robber barons."
Q3) One leading painter of American Impressionism was William Merrit
Q4) In his book, Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy imagined the United States in the year 2000 when social inequality would not exist.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Founded in 1867, the Patrons of Husbandry was also known as the
Q6) Discuss the emergence of a national consumer culture in the late nineteenth century. What form did it take and what were the factors that contributed to its emergence?
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Chapter 20: Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920
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Q1) The movement toward urban architectural renovation became known as ______________________________.
Q2) Between 1880 and 1920 the number of immigrants coming to the United States declined significantly.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 1882, national legislation to limit immigration to the United States was directed at the ____________________ immigrants.
Q4) Man local politicians made money through graft.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The black middle class tended to be smaller and more precarious than its counterpart in other ethnic communities.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Examine the changing sexual mores and attitudes toward women in the period from 1890 to 1920.
Q7) The new kind of building in the city was the ____________________.
Q8) Amusement parks tended to attract the ____________________.
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Chapter 21: Progressivism, 1900-1917
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Q1) The ____________________ strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission's powers to review railroad rates.
Q2) Progressive reforms actually resulted in a decline in voting participation rates between 1896 and 1920.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The device for removing public officials from office who had betrayed the public trust was called the _________________.
Q4) ______________________ was an early advocate of scientific management and used it at his automobile manufacturing facility.
Q5) Compare and contrast socialism and Progressivism. What were their similarities? Where did they differ?
Q6) The modern civil rights movement began with the A)Seneca Falls convention.
B)founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
C)passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.
D)election of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States.
E)founding of Tuskegee Institute.
Q7) ____________________ was the first state to grant women the right to vote.
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Chapter 22: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q1) During the Spanish-American War, American racial prejudice caused American leaders to
A)minimize the contributions of black soldiers.
B)cooperate effectively with the light-skinned Cuban rebels.
C)overestimate the capabilities of the Spanish troops.
D)allow unnecessarily harsh punishment of Spanish prisoners.
E)execute only black prisoners of war.
Q2) William McKinley ordered the Maine into Havana's harbor in order to A)protect U.S. citizens in Cuba.
B)threaten the Spanish.
C)threaten the Cubans.
D)start a war.
E)bring refugees to the U.S.
Q3) Explain the factors that led to the U.S. involvement in Cuba and the decision to declare war on Spain.
Q4) Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis" has stood the test of time.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. What was its purpose? What impact did it have on U.S. foreign policy?
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Chapter 23: War and Society, 1914-1920
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Q1) ____________________ gave the League of Nations the power to punish aggressor nations.
Q2) ____________________ were cash payments that the Allies demanded from Germany as compensation for World War I.
Q3) Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan's position on British blockades and German submarine warfare
A)was so unpopular it prompted his resignation from office.
B)meant that he publicly supported the President although he privately disagreed with him.
C)accused Wilson of treason and called for impeachment proceedings against him. D)sided with the British. E)sided with the Germans.
Q4) The United States was completely neutral in word and deed. A)True
B)False
Q5) None of the centralized federal mobilization agencies in the First World War succeeded very well.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: The 1920s
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Q1) Describe the Harlem Renaissance. What was its significance?
Q2) Coolidge supported the ______________________ as a way to reduce U.S. military commitments abroad and shrink the size of the federal government.
Q3) The presidential candidate for the Farmer-Labor Party in 1924 was
A)William Jennings Bryan.
B)Robert LaFollette.
C)Teddy Roosevelt.
D)Jack Dempsey
E)Woodrow Wilson.
Q4) Workers in which of the following industries fared the worst during the 1920s?
A)steel and textiles
B)automobiles and textiles
C)railroads and textiles
D)coal and textiles
E)garments and textiles
Q5) The unemployment rate between 1922 and 1929 never rose above ____________________ percent.
Q6) The poet who symbolized black cultural pride and a rejection of the importance of white opinion during the Harlem Renaissance was ____________________.
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25: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) The New Deal supported the idea of the federal government as a substitute for private enterprise.
A)True
B)False
Q2) From 1929 to 1932, industrial production fell by
A)10 percent.
B)25 percent.
C)50 percent.
D)75 percent.
E)90 percent.
Q3) The first response of President Herbert Hoover to the Depression was to establish "associations" of business leaders and farmers that would regulate their own industries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One of President Roosevelt's first acts in office was to close all of the nation's banks.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the demands of labor during the 1930s.
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Chapter 26: America During the Second World War, 1939-1945
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Q1) The successor to President Franklin Roosevelt was
A)Dwight Eisenhower.
B)Thomas Dewey.
C)Lyndon Johnson.
D)Henry Wallace.
E)Harry Truman.
Q2) The ____________________ Project was the center of the atomic bomb production during the war.
Q3) The 1941 law known as the ________________ authorized the U.S. to loan, rather than sell, munitions to the Allies.
Q4) The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of August 1939 divided ____________________ between the two signatories.
Q5) The proposed East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was designed to A)create better trade relations between Asian nations.
B)forge a stronger economic alliance with the West.
C)create a self-sufficiency economic zone, led by Japan.
D)establish a union of Asian nations, led by China.
E)None of these choices.
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Q6) Describe the effects of the war years on African Americans and Mexican Americans.
Chapter 27: The Age of Containment, 1946-1953
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Q2) Ohio Senator Robert Taft was the leading supporter of NATO.
A)True B)False
Q3) The ________________ offered assistance to veterans for education, job-training, and financing a home.
Q4) Truman's Fair Deal attempted to regulate farm prices. A)True B)False
Q5) Examine the beginnings of the Cold War. Explore the issues, points of conflict, and policies of the various participants.
Q6) Describe the election of 1948. What were the different agendas promoted, and to what extent did this election suggest the possible passing of the New Deal's domestic welfare policies?
Q7) The ____________________ were secret messages collected between the U.S.S.R. and spies in the United States by the U.S. Army counterintelligence in the 1940s.
Q8) Social Security programs expanded under the ____________________.
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Q1) During the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy ordered an Air Force attack on Soviet forces in Cuba.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Social critics of the 1950s portrayed the United States as a society of A)rugged individualists.
B)"other-directed" conformists.
C)"inner-directed" rebels.
D)semiliterate comic-book readers.
E)violent rebels.
Q3) By 1967, almost ____________________ of the nation's Native Americans were living in relocation cities.
Q4) In 1961, a U.S.-backed Cuban military force attempting to overthrow Fidel Castro was defeated at
A)the Bay of Cows.
B)Guantanamo Bay.
C)Havana.
D)the Bay of Pigs.
E)the Bay of Naples.
Q5) Trace and evaluate the Eisenhower administration's Native American policies.
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Chapter 29: America During a Divisive War, 1963-1974
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A)True
B)False
Q2) The Johnson administration's sustained campaign of bombing in North Vietnam was code-named ____________________.
Q3) The FAP program was created under which of the following presidents?
A)Nixon
B)Johnson
C)Kennedy
D)Ford
E)Carter
Q4) The protests at Kent State University and Jackson State College were touched off by the expansion of the war in Southeast Asia into Cambodia.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Examine the reasons for the U.S. escalation of the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s.
Q6) Examine the counterculture of the 1960s.
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Chapter 30: Uncertain Times, 1974-1992
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Q1) The end of the Cold War and the fall of Eastern European communism occurred during the presidency of
A)Jimmy Carter.
B)Ronald Reagan.
C)George Bush.
D)Bill Clinton.
E)Gerald Ford
Q2) The Reagan administration believed that democratic forces included almost any movement, no matter how autocratic, that was noncommunist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jimmy Carter appealed to voters because he was a
A)"born-again" Christian.
B)Washington outsider who was untainted by the political corruption of the Nixon era.
C)former governor with a southern small-town agricultural background.
D)retired naval officer
E)all of these choices
Q4) ____________________ was formed to lobby for Asian American interests.
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Chapter 31: Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the
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Q2) According to some estimates, in 2000, the number of people practicing ________________ surpassed the number of people practicing Judaism.
Q3) Filmmaker Woody Allen was influenced by European films.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By the late twentieth century, most Americans were likely to remain at the same job all of their career.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In 1975, the Federal Communication Commission ordered that the first sixty minutes of prime time must be ____________________ programming.
Q6) The largest private sector employer in the United States is
A)Microsoft.
B)Wal-Mart.
C)McDonald's.
D)General Motors.
E)IBM.
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Chapter 32: A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2014
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A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following were terrorist attacks directed at the United States by Islamic militants except
A)bombing of U.S. embassy in Kenya in 1998.
B)attack on the battleship, the Cole, in 2000.
C)World Trade Center bombing, 1993.
D)Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
E)bombing of U.S. embassy in Tanzania in 1998.
Q3) Shortly after September 11, 2001, President Bush announced he would wage a war against ____________________.
Q4) John McCain more successfully used social networking sites than Barack Obama.
A)True B)False
Q5) The "No Child Left Behind" program dealt with the issue of foster care. A)True B)False
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