History of the United States, Colonial to Present Exam Materials
Course Introduction
This course provides a comprehensive survey of the history of the United States from its colonial origins through the present day. Students will explore the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped the nation, including colonization, the American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction, industrialization, two World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and domestic and international challenges of the modern era. Emphasis will be placed on key historical events, influential figures, and the diverse experiences that have contributed to the countrys evolving identity. Through lectures, readings, and discussions, students will gain a deeper understanding of the forces that have defined the American experience across different periods.
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The Unfinished Nation 7th Edition by Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) The first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was
Answer: St.Augustine
Q2) In his first voyage in 1492,Christopher Columbus
A)sailed along the coast of present-day Virginia.
B)mistook Cuba for China.
C)was briefly captured by natives he encountered.
D)was forced to put down a mutiny on the Santa Maria.
E)crossed the Atlantic Ocean in six weeks.
Answer: B
Q3) Portuguese exploration of the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a faster sea route to East Asia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Some historians have suggested that European diseases virtually exterminated many native tribes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
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Q1) William Penn
A)was a man of great wealth who converted to Quakerism.
B)established a moderately successful but never cosmopolitan colony.
C)suppressed the local Indians in Pennsylvania with a strong military presence.
D)never visited Pennsylvania.
E)used unscrupulous and deceptive advertising to attract settlers.
Answer: A
Q2) The Mayflower Compact set forth the principles of the Puritan religion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The suppression of Bacon's rebellion helped spur
A)tobacco production.
B)slavery in Virginia.
C)European investment.
D)the triangular trade.
E)calls for independence from England.
Answer: B
Q4) The first truly marketable crop in Virginia was ________.
Answer: tobacco
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
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Q1) By 1700,English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery because
A)of a declining birthrate in England.
B)of worsening economic conditions in England.
C)indentured servants generally refused to work in the southern colonies.
D)the English government had come to discourage the practice of indenture.
E)colonial parliaments passed laws improving the status of indentured servants.
Answer: A
Q2) The wide availability of reading material in colonial America was the result of A)colonial laws that protected freedom of speech in the printed word.
B)high rates of men who attended college.
C)the Stamp Act of 1765.
D)the spread of printing technology.
E)high rates of male literacy.
Answer: D
Q3) Very little slave resistance took the form of open rebellion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition
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Q1) The Treaty of Utrecht (1713)signaled a rare French victory over the English.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1772 Samuel Adams proposed the creation of a "committee of ________" to publicize grievances against England.
Q3) More people were killed in the Boston Tea Party than in the Boston Massacre.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The character of the royal officials in America contributed to the overall looseness of the British imperial system.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Declaratory Act of 1766
A)caused renewed protests throughout the colonies.
B)was a sweeping assertion of Parliament's authority over the colonies.
C)threatened the colonies with military action should future protests develop.
D)was an attempt by outgoing minister George Grenville to save face.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q6) The British general responsible for the move on Lexington and Concord was General
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution
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Q1) The blunders of General ________ cost the British dearly in 1777.
Q2) ________ led a failed rebellion of New England farmers during the late1780s.
Q3) Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
Q4) The British commander in the Battle of Saratoga was ________.
Q5) In writing the Declaration of Independence,Jefferson borrowed from the contract theory of ________.
Q6) During the second phase (1776-78)of the American Revolution,British military efforts were hampered by
A)a series of tactical blunders and misfortunes.
B)a severe shortage of new soldiers coming from England.
C)an American blockade of British ships.
D)the American capture of the commanding British general.
E)American alliances with Native American tribes in the region.
Q7) Both Congress,under the Articles of Confederation,and the various state legislatures had the power to tax individual Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q8) As a result of the American Revolution,the ________ denomination was weakened in the colonies,because its followers practiced pacifism.
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) Jefferson referred to his election as the "________ of 1800."
Q2) The Constitution determined that the number of justices on the Supreme Court would be nine.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Under the new Constitution,federal judges were appointed by the president and confirmed by both houses of Congress.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Hamilton favored both a tariff on imports and a federal excise tax on alcoholic beverages.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The "XYZ Affair"
A)involved foreign interference in an American presidential election.
B)involved secret foreign treaties with nearby Indian nations.
C)increased tensions between the United States and Great Britain.
D)was prompted by a feud between John Adams and Alexander Hamilton.
E)led to an undeclared war between the United States and France.
Q6) Alexander Hamilton,James Madison,and John Jay were the authors of ________.
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian ERA
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Q1) In the War of 1812,Britain turned its full military attention to America after
A)Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
B)Napoleon's incarceration at Elba.
C)Napoleon's catastrophic campaign against Russia.
D)the American invasion of Canada.
E)the American raid and burning of York.
Q2) Jefferson as president was able to cut the size of government,but he was not able to reduce the national debt.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During his first term,President Thomas Jefferson
A)sought to create a tax on personal income.
B)restricted the sale of government lands to western settlers.
C)saw a doubling of the national debt.
D)eliminated all internal taxes.
E)drastically increased government spending.
Q4) Eli Whitney's ________ revolutionized the American South's economy.
Q5) President Jefferson responded to British and French violations of American neutral rights by securing passage of the ________.
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Q6) How did the Second Great Awakening compare with the First Great Awakening?
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism
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Q1) In McCullough v.Maryland (1819),the Supreme Court confirmed the A)right of the federal government to tax states.
B)right of states to tax the Bank of the United States.
C)"implied powers" of Congress.
D)right of states to prohibit the Bank of the United States.
E)right of states to abolish slavery within their borders.
Q2) After Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821,it
A)attempted to close its northern territories to the United States.
B)sought cooperative economic and military arrangements with England.
C)quickly opened its northern territories to trade with the United States.
D)began selling its northern territories to the United States.
E)began planning for war against the United States.
Q3) The Marshall Court strengthened the federal government at the expense of the states.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Federalist Party made a surprising comeback during the presidency of James Monroe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
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Q1) As president,Andrew Jackson's first political target was the Bank of the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Washington Star was the first of the new "penny press" newspapers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most successful of the "Five Civilized Tribes" when it came to resisting Jackson's removal policy was the ________.
Q4) In the 1830s,as a result of removal policies,the United States gained control of more than 100 million acres of Indian lands.
A)True
B)False
Q5) By 1828,in all but one state,presidential electors were chosen by
A)state legislatures.
B)popular vote.
C)lottery.
D)Congress.
E)state governors.
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution
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Q1) American factory workers in early nineteenth-century textile mills largely consisted of
A)families and rural,single women.
B)single men.
C)unskilled urban workers.
D)young immigrants.
E)slaves.
Q2) The automatic reaper was invented by ________.
Q3) Between 1840 and 1860,the South experienced a decline in its percentage of urban residents.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Public lectures were one of the most popular forms of entertainment in America prior to the Civil War.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The great majority of pre-Civil War immigrants came from Ireland and England.
A)True
B)False
Q6) By the mid-nineteenth century,the rail center of the West was ________.
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Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
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Q1) Most enslaved black couples married with formal wedding vows.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was
A)the Frederick Douglass road.
B)the underground railroad.
C)the Fugitive Slave Act.
D)Cumberland passage.
E)Second Middle Passage.
Q3) ________ led the only actual large-scale slave revolt in the United States in the nineteenth century.
Q4) In the first half of the nineteenth century,why did cotton become the major economic crop of the American South?
Q5) In the South,the most significant opposition to the slave system came from the poorest of southern whites.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The "peculiar institution" was ________.
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform
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Q1) Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem,which established him as a major literary figure,was
A)"The Raven."
B)"Moby Dick."
C)"Tamerlane."
D)"Walden."
E)"Leaves of Grass."
Q2) Henry David Thoreau favored the solitary life,but not civil disobedience.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The nineteenth-century reformer Horace Mann believed that education should promote
A)capitalism.
B)democracy.
C)racial equality.
D)economic equality.
E)Christianity.
Q4) Ralph Waldo Emerson was both a minister and a transcendentalist philosopher.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) Between 1840 and 1860,most migrants traveling west on the overland trails
A)experienced frequent Indian attacks that were a leading cause of death.
B)usually faced trips that lasted between two to three months.
C)rode in wagons much more than they walked on foot.
D)found the journey to be a very communal experience.
E)saw men generally working harder during the trip than women.
Q2) Abraham Lincoln believed that slavery was wrong,but he was not an abolitionist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) President Polk was willing to go to war over Oregon rather than accept a divide at the 49th parallel.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the characteristics one would expect of a group of migrants on the western overland trail.What would a typical journey be like?
Q5) Abolitionism and "free soil" were essentially the same thing.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Abraham Lincoln gained national recognition from his 1858 debates with
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Q7) What were the major consequences of the Mexican War?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) The first ironclad ships to engage in a naval battle were the Merrimac (also known as the Virginia)and the ________.
Q2) As commander in chief,Lincoln was given a fairly free hand by Congress in conducting the war as he saw fit.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Confiscation Act of 1861
A)saw the Confederate government claim the right to seize free blacks in the South.
B)gave Union troops the authority to seize Confederate property.
C)empowered banks in the Union to freeze the financial assets of all slaveholders.
D)declared that slaves used by Confederate states in the war effort were free.
E)abolished slavery in the District of Columbia and the western territories.
Q4) The Confederacy financed its war effort primarily through A)selling bonds.
B)printing money.
C)foreign loans.
D)an income tax.
E)seizure of northern assets.
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
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Q1) The Treaty of Washington was negotiated between the United States and ________.
Q2) Grant's response to bad economic times was to approve plans to increase the amount of money in circulation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Panic of 1873
A)began after the Southern crop-lien system collapsed.
B)saw Republicans call on Grant to go off the gold standard.
C)saw President Grant favor putting more paper currency into circulation.
D)began after revelations of corruption in the Grant administration.
E)was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.
Q4) The last federal troops were withdrawn from the South by President ________.
Q5) Even at the end of his life,Lincoln continued to insist that the Confederate government had no legal right to exist.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In 1896 the Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" in matters of race relations was constitutional in the case of ________.
Q7) Assess the presidency of Ulysses S.Grant.
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
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Q1) The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
A)resulted in the deportation of half of the Chinese in the United States.
B)was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
C)banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.
D)was only applied in California.
E)had little effect on the size of the Chinese population in America.
Q2) In the mid-nineteenth century,the Plains Indians were
A)usually able to unite against white aggression.
B)not as vulnerable to disease as eastern tribes.
C)among the least aggressive of all American Indians.
D)mostly sedentary farmers.
E)the most widespread Indian groups in the West.
Q3) In Owen Wister's novel,The Virginian (1902),the American cowboy was
A)castigated for his poor relations with Indians,Mexicans,and Chinese.
B)lamented as having lost his innocence and decency.
C)seen as fast disappearing,as urbanization spread west.
D)criticized for being too quick to use violence.
E)portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman.
Q4) The most widespread Indian groups in the West were the ________.
Q5) Compare the myths and the realities of the American cowboy.
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
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Q1) By 1900,some workers had the legal right to compensation for injuries suffered on the job.
A)True
B)False
Q2) By 1900,the average yearly income of American workers
A)was about $600.
B)allowed most workers to maintain a reasonably comfortable standard of living.
C)remained generally unaffected by economic boom-and-bust cycles.
D)both allowed most workers to maintain a reasonably comfortable standard of living and remained generally unaffected by economic boom-and-bust cycles.
E)None of these answers is correct.
Q3) Both the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor favored the concept of one big union.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Knights of Labor were followed by the American Federation of Labor as the most significant national labor union.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: The Age of the City
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Q1) The most powerful newspaper chain in the country was owned by ________.
Q2) The Chrysler Building in New York City is considered the first modern American skyscraper.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although the plight of poor children in cities often drew the most attention of late nineteenth-century reformers,little was done to improve the children's situations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compared with the first generation,second generation immigrants were more likely to
A)hold on to their old ethnic habits.
B)lose faith in the United States due to the hardships they experienced.
C)break from their traditional culture.
D)resist external social pressures to assimilate.
E)return to the Old World for good.
Q5) At its inception,the ________ controlled all American telephone service,eventually becoming one of the most powerful corporations in America.
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Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire
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Q1) In 1890,Congress passed the ________ Act almost without dissent.
Q2) What factors motivated the United States to adopt an expansionist view in international affairs in the 1890s?
Q3) The economic decline that followed the Panic of 1893 demonstrated the
A)degree to which the American economy had become interconnected.
B)need for a national stock market.
C)need for the enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
D)decline in importance of railroads over the previous decade.
E)staying power of many new,aggressive businesses.
Q4) The Republican Party was clearly the dominant party of the late nineteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The presidential election of 1900
A)pitted Theodore Roosevelt against William Jennings Bryan.
B)saw the Democrats take back the White House.
C)found the American public largely in favor of national colonialism.
D)saw many Americans express uncertainty over the morality of colonialism.
E)saw the Republicans win despite a growing economic depression.
Q6) ________ waged a "front-porch" campaign in 1896.
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Chapter 20: The Progressives
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Q1) Was progressivism motivated more out of selfish interests or altruistic desires? Explain your position.
Q2) Progressive reforms tended to increase voter turnout in presidential elections. A)True B)False
Q3) Social work and ________ houses provided two "appropriate" professional outlets for women of the progressive era.
Q4) The new middle class of the turn of the century placed a high value on moral values,but not on formal education.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Like the Socialist Party,the Industrial Workers of the World rejected political action in favor of strikes.
A)True B)False
Q6) Was Theodore Roosevelt more a reformer or a conservative?
Q7) Theodore Roosevelt was both a progressive reformer and decidedly conservative. A)True B)False
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Chapter 21: America and the Great War
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Q1) Marcus Garvey
A)encouraged African Americans to reject assimilation into white society.
B)argued that America,not Africa,was now the blacks' true home.
C)urged African Americans to move out of the South.
D)called on African Americans to reject capitalism.
E)saw his movement and influence decline in the early 1920s.
Q2) World War I involved many nations,but the chief rivalry was between ________ and Germany.
Q3) Most industrial laborers were required to work longer hours during World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During World War I,technologically-advanced submarines used engines powered by A)diesel.
B)gasoline.
C)steam.
D)electricity.
E)coal.
Q5) The Red Scare of 1919 was partly orchestrated by Attorney General ________.
Q6) During World War I,Denver journalist ________ led the Committee on Public Information.
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) The most prominent member of the cabinets of Harding and Coolidge was ________.
Q2) Most American industrial workers during the 1920s experienced all of the following EXCEPT
A)a rise in their standard of living.
B)income levels at the "minimum comfort level."
C)little control over their economic interests.
D)few opportunities to join a company union.
E)employers trying to keep their labor costs low.
Q3) F.Scott Fitzgerald attacked the American obsession with material success in his 1925 novel,________.
Q4) During the 1920s,wages for American workers
A)generally enabled a working-class family to thrive on a single income.
B)rose most quickly for unskilled workers.
C)generally ran well below the growth of the economy as a whole.
D)equaled or exceeded the rate of production growth.
E)generally decreased as the labor market became tighter.
Q5) The film,The Birth of a Nation,glorified the early Ku Klux Klan.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) The fledgling American ________ Union sided with defendant John Scopes in 1925.
Chapter 23: The Great Depression
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Q1) The Great Depression was caused by the stock market crash of October 1929.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1930s,Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People
A)claimed community togetherness was the best way to combat hard times.
B)argued the best way to end the Depression was for working-class men and women to run for office.
C)asserted that a strong faith in Christianity would best help one through hard times.
D)gave financial advice and offered tips when going to a job interview.
E)taught that individual initiative could help people to restore themselves financially.
Q3) In national politics,Franklin Roosevelt had generally avoided divisive cultural issues.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During the Great Depression,both the marriage rate and the divorce rate declined.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: The New Deal
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Q1) In response to economic indices in the summer of 1937,Franklin Roosevelt decided
A)that there should be a sharp increase in New Deal spending.
B)the federal government would never be able to end the Depression.
C)the federal work programs would have to be continued indefinitely.
D)that he should try to balance the federal budget.
E)that Social Security should be expanded to include agricultural and domestic laborers.
Q2) The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933
A)saw private farmers and business leaders dominate its planning process.
B)was the most controversial program of the early New Deal.
C)was one of the costliest failures of the Roosevelt administration.
D)was headed by former electricity magnate Samuel Insull.
E)was an experiment in regional planning by the federal government.
Q3) During the 1930s,the smaller steel companies were more willing to accommodate unions than were the large steel companies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Was Franklin Roosevelt a progressive president in the tradition of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson? What similarities and differences did he share with these two men?
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Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
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Q1) In 1937,President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech
A)called for further isolation from the nation's enemies.
B)warned Japan it faced a U.S.embargo if it continued to be aggressive.
C)challenged England and France to limit the aggression of Germany.
D)received a decidedly hostile response by the American people.
E)was given in response to the Japanese sinking of the Panay.
Q2) During the 1920s and 1930s,interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy
A)led the United States to give up its membership in the World Court.
B)reflected the sentiments of a majority of the American public.
C)led the U.S.Senate to assert that no single nation was a threat to world peace.
D)was strongly supported by President Franklin Roosevelt.
E)declined after the investigations chaired by Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota.
Q3) The secretary of state of the Harding administration was
A)Charles Evans Hughes.
B)Charles Dawes.
C)Henry Cabot Lodge.
D)Henry Stimson.
E)Cordell Hull.
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Chapter 26: America in a World at War
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Q1) Consider racial minorities and women in the United States during World War II.Which groups made notable gains from the war and which did not? Explain.
Q2) In August 1944,the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of A)Rome.
B)Warsaw.
C)Stockholm.
D)Paris.
E)Amsterdam.
Q3) During World War II,the regional impact of government spending was the greatest in the A)Northeast.
B)Midwest.
C)South. D)East.
E)West.
Q4) The ________ Project was a massive,yet secret,government scientific and technological effort to create an atomic bomb.
Q5) George Marshall placed General ________ in charge of the plan for the invasion of France in 1944.
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Chapter 27: The Cold War
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Q1) In early 1943 at the Casablanca Conference,
A)Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agreed the Axis powers must surrender unconditionally.
B)Joseph Stalin refused to attend.
C)Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to follow Stalin's strategy to defeat Germany.
D)Stalin threatened to make a separate peace with Germany.
E)Stalin argued against the Allies opening a second front in Western Europe.
Q2) Between 1947 and 1950,Marshall Plan aid
A)was offered to the Soviet Union.
B)failed to significantly revive European industrial production.
C)had little impact on communist influence within nations that accepted aid.
D)was opposed by many Republicans in Congress.
E)grew more controversial after a Soviet coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948.
Q3) General Douglas MacArthur pursued North Koreans beyond the 38th parallel in direct violation of President Truman's orders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) To what degree was communism a genuine threat to the interests and security of the United States in the early 1950s? Was the American reaction to this threat reasonable?
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Chapter 28: The Affluent Society
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Q1) The Supreme Court set no specific timetable for the desegregation of schools.
A)True
B)False
Q2) As president,Dwight Eisenhower eventually managed to balance the federal budget while making significant additions to the Social Security system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In what ways did television during the 1950s both encourage conformity and spark desires for rebellion and change?
Q4) Which of the following was NOT a factor in the rising poverty rates in inner cities during the 1950s?
A)large numbers of poor people migrating into these areas
B)increasing automation
C)a growth of unskilled industrial jobs in these areas
D)persistent racial discrimination
E)the movement of factories and mills to new locations
Q5) What factors account for the broad-based and rapid progress of science and technology following World War II? Why did this progress not occur sooner?
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Chapter 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism
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Q1) "Black power" moved the civil rights movement away from the goal of assimilation and created a schism within the movement.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1968,Richard Nixon won a strong mandate to lead the country.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the evolution of the civil rights movement.Did the federal government lead or follow in the movement? What forces most often initiated change? What divides could be found within the movement? Why did they exist?
Q4) One of the chief obstacles in John Kennedy's presidential bid in 1960 was his A)religion.
B)public image.
C)wealth.
D)womanizing.
E)lack of resources.
Q5) The radical philosophy within the civil rights movement known as "________" favored racial distinctiveness over assimilation.
Q6) The construction of the ________ in 1961 heightened East-West tension.
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Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority
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Q1) The Supreme Court case Engel v.Vitale (1962)
A)argued that limits on campaign funding violated the right to free speech.
B)sharply limited government curbs on pornography.
C)ruled that forced busing to integrate public schools was constitutional.
D)declared that the application procedure for federal jobs must be open to the public.
E)ruled prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
Q2) Richard Nixon was reelected in 1972 by a much greater margin than he had received in 1968.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The key evidence in the determination of President Richard Nixon's guilt or innocence in the Watergate scandal was
A)audio tape recordings made of most conversations in the Oval Office.
B)eyewitness testimony from Nixon confidants in the White House.
C)phone records kept by Nixon's personal secretary.
D)Nixon's personal diaries.
E)journals kept by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Q4) How do you explain the Watergate scandal and President Nixon's role in it?
Q5) What type of individual was attracted to the counterculture,and why?
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Chapter 31: From the Age of Limits to the Age of Reagan
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Q1) In the late 1980s,challenges to communist rule were the least successful in A)Poland.
B)China.
C)Romania.
D)Czechoslovakia.
E)Hungary.
Q2) What was the effect of "Reaganomics"? Was it a sound economic plan?
Q3) The United States did not participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Reagan administration accumulated more debt in eight years than the American government had accumulated in its entire history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Iran-contra scandal did serious damage to Reagan's presidency. A)True
B)False
Q6) Compare George Bush's handling of the first Gulf War with his son George W.Bush's handling of the second Gulf War.What are the main differences?
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Chapter 32: The Age of Globalization
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Q1) A large part of the Bush administration's election strategy in 2004 was to appeal to the large community of conservative,evangelical Christians and mobilize them to vote.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Many of the features in the operating system used for the first Apple computers were borrowed from Microsoft Windows.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the late 1980s,the spread of AIDS in the United States
A)remained largely confined to gay communities in large cities.
B)killed more than three million Americans.
C)infected more than ten million Americans.
D)began to level off and then decline.
E)was spreading most rapidly among heterosexuals.
Q4) Due to controversy,the federal government refused to appropriate any funds to the mapping of human genes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In 2008,Barack Obama won the election,defeating Republican nominee ________.
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