History of the United States Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the United States from its pre-colonial period to the present day. It examines major political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped the nation, including the founding of the colonies, the American Revolution, the Civil War and Reconstruction, industrialization, the two World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and recent events. Through critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will explore the diverse experiences of people in the United States and the evolving meaning of American identity, democracy, and citizenship.
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Q1) The treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish conquistadores can be described as
A) at times brutal and exploitative.
B) firm but fair.
C) unmotivated by greed.
D) scornful of intermarriage.
E) leaving little of Spanish culture.
Answer: A
Q2) The development of "three sister" farming on the southeast Atlantic seaboard
A) led to the dominance of the potato.
B) enabled the Anasazis to prosper.
C) ultimately failed to produce adequate amounts of food.
D) was attributed to three young women of the Cherokee peoples.
E) produced a rich diet that led to high population densities.
Answer: E
Q3) ____ India
Answer: 8
Q4) ____ Portugal
Answer: 4
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Q1) ____ Maryland
Answer: 8
Q2) sea dogs
Answer: Student answers will vary.
Q3) Identify the statement that is false.
A) The Powhatans were extremely resistant to European-borne maladies, unlike their other Indian counterparts.
B) The Powhatans, despite their apparent cohesiveness, lacked the unity with which to make effective opposition to the well-organized whites.
C) The Powhatans served no economic function for the Virginia colonists.
D) Once the English settlers began growing their own food crops, the Powhatans had no valuable commodities to offer them in commerce.
E) The Indian presence frustrated the colonists, they desperately wanted their land. Answer: A
Q4) surplus population
Answer: Student answers will vary.
Q5) ____ Chesapeake Bay
Answer: 9
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) ____ Boston
Answer: 5
Q2) Recently,historians have increasingly viewed the colonial period as one
A) in which the Puritans had been overlooked.
B) of contact and adaptation between European and native populations.
C) in which the settlement of the Caribbean has been stressed too much.
D) in which economic ambition was the main reason all colonists came.
E) All of these
Answer: B
Q3) ____ Massachusetts Bay
Answer: 5
Q4) The Puritans who founded the city of New Haven had a goal of
A) establishing it in tribute to Charles II.
B) creating a haven for Quakers and other religious refugees.
C) maintaining a democratic government controlled by its citizens.
D) becoming self-supporting and prosperous in the fishing and fur trades.
E) setting up an even closer church-state alliance than in Massachusetts.
Answer: E
Q5) ____ Pennsylvania
Answer: 1
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
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Q1) Which of the following are products of the American slave culture?
A) Jazz
B) The Christian belief in obedience
C) Several modern American dances
D) The development of an American form of Islam
E) A new language, Gullah
Q2) Assess the validity of the following statement,"democracy in church government led logically to democracy in political government."
Q3) The New England economy depended heavily on
A) slave labor.
B) the production of many staple crops.
C) fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce.
D) tobacco.
E) rice production.
Q4) slave codes
Q5) "witch hunting"
Q6) Explain the complex social structure that developed in the South during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Q7) Leisler's Rebellion
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Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of
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Q1) Anglicans
Q2) One feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was their
A) relatively equal wealth.
B) economic organization.
C) similar social structures.
D) rapidly growing populations.
E) support of religious freedom.
Q3) ____ Slaves
Q4) By the mid-eighteenth century,Britain's North American colonies were similar in which of the following ways?
A) Opportunities for social mobility
B) Basically Protestant in religion
C) Some measure of self-government
D) No ethnic or religious toleration
E) Basically English in language and custom
Q5) praying towns
Q6) Charles Wilson Peale
Q7) jayle birds
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Q1) Unlike the first three Anglo-French wars,the Seven Years' War
A) won the British territorial concessions.
B) united British colonists in strong support of the mother country.
C) was fought initially on the North American continent.
D) did not affect American colonists' attitudes toward England.
E) resulted in a stronger French presence in North America.
Q2) With the British and American victory in the Seven Years' War
A) the American colonies grew closer to Britain.
B) Americans now feared the Spanish.
C) a new spirit of independence arose, as the French threat disappeared.
D) the Indians were stopped from ever again launching a deadly attack against whites.
E) the British no longer retaliated against the Indians.
Q3) The coureurs de bois were
A) French soldiers.
B) French boatmen.
C) Catholic priests.
D) French farmers.
E) French fur trappers.
Q4) ____ Great Lakes
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) Which of the following is not a true statement about women's roles during the Revolution?
A) They ran businesses while the men fought.
B) Many were camp followers, who cooked, cleaned and sewed for the troops.
C) They received money and rations for services provided to troops.
D) Some dressed as men and served in battle.
E) Many women urged husbands and sons to stay home and safeguard their families and property.
Q2) The tax on tea was retained when the Townshend Acts were repealed because
A) Parliament believed the colonists would not object.
B) the money was needed to support troops.
C) it kept alive the principle of parliamentary taxation.
D) it was the only tax passed by the colonists.
E) colonial governors requested it.
Q3) boycott
Q4) British East India Company
Q5) Adam Smith
Q6) Boston Massacre
Q7) Navigation Acts
Q8) The Association
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Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) Charles Cornwallis
Q2) In late 1776 and early 1777,George Washington helped restore confidence in America's military by
A) defeating the Hessians at Trenton and the British at Princeton.
B) securing the support of France for the American war effort with a victory in New York City.
C) gaining a pay raise for American troops.
D) bringing in Alexander Hamilton as his aide.
E) providing adequate food and clothing for the soldiers.
Q3) When the Second Continental Congress met in 1775
A) its members felt a strong desire for independence.
B) it cut off communications with the British government.
C) it continued to stall on the creation of an army and navy.
D) there was no well-
E) the conservative element was weakened.
Q4) Account for the widespread and enthusiastic colonial reception of Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
Q5) ____ Bunker Hill
Q6) List the three most important battles of the Revolutionary War.Justify your selections.
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) "mobocracy"
Q2) Federalists
Q3) The fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention shared all of the following qualities except
A) they were well-to-do members of the professional class.
B) they were young.
C) they were liberal.
D) they were more interested in strengthening the young Republic and tapping Revolutionary idealism.
E) they wanted a firm, dignified and respected government.
Q4) consent of the governed
Q5) The Revolution spawned all of the following economic conditions except A) speculation and profiteering.
B) extensive borrowing by state governments that left them buried in debt.
C) runaway deflation.
D) the opening of new foreign markets.
E) many of those who were previously wealthy were left destitute.
Q6) antifederalists
Q7) Constitution of the United States
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
Q2) Henry Knox
Q3) In the election campaign of 1796,the Democratic-Republicans made their primary issue
A) the content of Washington's Farewell Address.
B) Washington's refusal to consult Congress before issuing the Neutrality Proclamation.
C) the terms of Jay's Treaty and the crushing of the Whiskey Rebellion.
D) the terms of the Pinckney Treaty.
E) Alexander Hamilton's idea for a national bank.
Q4) The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to
A) capture French and British spies.
B) control the Federalists.
C) silence and punish critics of the Federalists.
D) keep Thomas Jefferson from becoming president.
E) provide support for the Democratic-Republican party.
Q5) Talleyrand
Q6) Judiciary Act of 1789
Q7) XYZ affair
Q8) assumption
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Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian
Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the navy when the A) Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States.
B) U.S. Marine Corps was established.
C) mosquito fleet was defeated by the pirates at Tripoli.
D) army was disbanded.
E) British blockaded the east coast.
Q2) As president,Thomas Jefferson's stand on several political issues that he had previously championed A) remained unchanged.
B) was reversed.
C) grew even more rigid.
D) compelled him to repeal the Alien and Sedition Acts.
E) caused him to reject slavery.
Q3) The British policy of impressment was a kind of A) naval blockade.
B) economic boycott.
C) forced enlistment.
D) diplomatic pressure.
E) punishment for the United States.
Q4) William Clark
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the
Upsurge of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) Which do you think was the most significant event of the decade following the Treaty of Ghent: Panic of 1819,McCulloch v.Maryland,Florida Purchase Treaty,Missouri Compromise,or Monroe Doctrine? Justify your selection.
Q2) ____ Missouri Territory
Q3) All of the following were true of the American regular army on the eve of the War of 1812 except
A) they were ill-trained and ill-disciplined.
B) they were widely scattered.
C) their numbers were large enough that they did not have to rely on the militia.
D) most of the generals were leftovers from the Revolutionary War and lacked vigor and vision.
E) there was no burning national anger to unite them.
Q4) Treaty of 1818
Q5) To what extent is the Era of Good Feelings "something of a misnomer" for the decade following the War of 1812?
Q6) Dartmouth College v.Woodward
Q7) Tallmadge Amendment
Q8) Tariff of 1816
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13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) One of the main reasons Andrew Jackson decided to weaken the Bank of the United States after the 1832 election was
A) his fear that Nicholas Biddle might try to manipulate the bank to force its recharter.
B) his desire to halt the rising inflation rate that the bank had created before 1832.
C) his desire to fight the Specie Circular, which hurt the West.
D) that he lost money he had invested in it.
E) his desire to convince the Marshall court of its unconstitutionality.
Q2) It has been observed that "though Jackson was perhaps not himself a democrat,he was a democratic leader." Do you agree or disagree? Why?
Q3) The new two-party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s
A) divided the nation further.
B) was seen at the time as a weakening of democracy.
C) resulted in the Civil War.
D) fulfilled the wishes of the founding fathers.
E) became an important part of the nation's checks and balances.
Q4) To what extent did the tariff policy become an important national issue by 1832? Summarize the South's position on protective tariffs.
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Q1) When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s,they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they
A) preferred urban life.
B) were offered high-paying jobs.
C) were welcomed by the people living there.
D) were too poor to move west and buy land.
E) had experience in urban politics.
Q2) Boston Associates
Q3) Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants
A) were poor.
B) were thought to love alcohol.
C) were Roman Catholic.
D) frequently became police officers.
E) were slow to learn English.
Q4) Write your definition of revolution.Then use this definition to argue that the industrial revolution was or was not a revolutionary event.
Q5) factory system
Q6) Eli Whitney
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening
A) were academically distinguished institutions.
B) lacked much intellectual vitality.
C) eventually gained tax-supported status.
D) offered a new, nontraditional curriculum.
E) opened their doors to Catholic students.
Q2) Henry David Thoreau
Q3) Unitarians held the following beliefs except
A) the belief that God existed in only one person.
B) the denial of the divinity of Christ.
C) they stressed the essential goodness of human nature.
D) they believed in the possibility of salvation through good works.
E) they believed in a stern and Puritan type of God.
Q4) Early-nineteenth-century American educators included A) Horace Mann.
B) William H. McGuffey.
C) Noah Webster.
D) Emma Willard.
E) Mary Lyon.
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) All told,only about ____ of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family.
A) one fourth
B) one third
C) half
D) two thirds
E) three fourths
Q2) Cotton Kingdom
Q3) In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830,southerners
A) placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the Western world.
B) were in opposition to the North but on the side of the Western world.
C) failed to compare slaves with the northern factory worker.
D) allowed considerable dissent in the South.
E) aligned themselves with leading European intellectuals.
Q4) Describe the arguments and the ways in which the South reacted to antislavery arguments after the 1830s.
Q5) Gag Resolution
Q6) "positive good"
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Q7) To what extent were abolitionists extremists when they undertook to abolish slavery?
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q2) The earliest known use of the term Manifest Destiny was by A) John Tyler.
B) James K. Polk.
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
D) John L. O'Sullivan.
E) Mark Twain.
Q3) James K.Polk
Q4) Stephen W.Kearny
Q5) President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near A) San Francisco.
B) the Nueces River.
C) Santa Fe.
D) the Rio Grande.
E) San Antonio.
Q6) To what extent was the Mexican War inevitable? Was it necessary? Why or why not? What might either side have done to avoid war?
Q7) Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) William H.Seward
Q2) Matthew C.Perry
Q3) A southern route for the transcontinental railroad seemed the best because
A) northern areas were organized territories.
B) slave labor could be used to construct it.
C) the railroad would be easier to build in this area.
D) Mexican leader Santa Anna agreed to contribute money for the project.
E) it would firmly tie southern California to the Union.
Q4) The public liked popular sovereignty because it
A) stopped the spread of slavery.
B) fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination.
C) provided a national solution to the problem of slavery.
D) supported the Wilmot Proviso.
E) upheld the principles of white supremacy.
Q5) Write your definition of compromise.Then use this definition to argue that popular sovereignty was or was not a reasonable compromise between the sections on the slavery expansion issue.
Q6) Free Soil party
Q7) Zachary Taylor
Q8) Henry Clay
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) Rank the following in order of their importance to the coming of the Civil War: Kansas-Nebraska Act,Dred Scott decision,John Brown's raid,and Lincoln's election.Justify your ranking.
Q2)
Pottawatomie Creek massacre
Q3) Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel,Uncle Tom's Cabin
A) intended to show the cruelty of slavery.
B) was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
C) comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery.
D) received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read during the Civil War.
E) portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery.
Q4) Crittenden Compromise
Q5) The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of ____ in the territories.
A) abolitionism
B) free soil
C) popular sovereignty
D) slavery
E) cotton growing
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q1) Napoleon III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of
A) French neutrality.
B) the Rush-Bagot agreement.
C) Spanish sovereignty.
D) the Monroe Doctrine.
E) Pan-American treaties.
Q2) Napoleon III
Q3) Explain why Britain finally decided against intervention on behalf of the Confederacy.In what ways was Britain helpful to the South anyway?
Q4) During the Civil War,Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by A) the incompetence of Charles Francis Adams, the United States ambassador to London.
B) Britain's refusal to observe the Union's blockade of Southern ports.
C) the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ship.
D) Napoleon III's effort to place Maximilian on the Mexican throne.
E) British working-class support for the South.
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) The Union's defeat in battle at Bull Run in 1861 was better than a victory because
A) Ulysses S. Grant took command of the army immediately after the setback.
B) the defeat caused Northerners to face up to the reality of a long, difficult war.
C) "Stonewall" Jackson was killed.
D) it caused Lincoln to declare a war against slavery.
E) it allowed European powers the chance to intervene on behalf of the South.
Q2) ____ Antietam
Q3) Battle of Vicksburg
Q4) One consequence of General William T.Sherman's style of warfare was A) a longer war.
B) the loss of more lives.
C) fewer desertions on the Confederate side.
D) southern resignation to defeat.
E) a shorter war that saved lives.
Q5) Salmon P.Chase
Q6) George B.McClellan
Q7) John Wilkes Booth
Q8) Union party
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877
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Q2) What were the key elements of President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies that stirred objections from congressional Republicans? Why did congressional leaders so strongly object to those policies?
Q3) There are several examples in American history of rapid reconciliation with the defeated foe.Why didn't the South receive this sympathetic treatment in Reconstruction? Who or what do you fault for the harshness of Southern Reconstruction? Why?
Q4) To many Northerners,the Black Codes seemed to indicate that A) it would take some time to reconcile the South and the North.
B) the transition to black freedom would be difficult.
C) the Civil War had been worth the sacrifice.
D) presidential Reconstruction was working.
E) the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War.
Q5) Freedmen's Bureau
Q6) The text authors claim that the midterm elections of 1866 were "more crucial than some presidential elections." Do you agree? Why or why not?
Q7) Charles Sumner
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q1) One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was
A) the parties' differences over economic issues.
B) sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties.
C) religious conflict between Catholics and Lutherans.
D) differences over the issue of the civil service.
E) sectional tensions among the Northeast, Midwest, and South.
Q2) One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was
A) the rise of the American dollar against foreign currencies.
B) damage to the country's credit rating.
C) the return to the silver "Dollar of Our Daddies" as the dominant form of U.S. money.
D) the defeat of a Democratic House of Representatives in 1874.
E) a political turn to the Democrats and new Greenback Labor party.
Q3) During the mid to late nineteenth century,Chinese women
A) did not emigrate to the United States at all.
B) settled mostly on the east coast,
C) were a large percentage of the immigrants to the U.S.
D) were few in number, and most became prostitutes.
E) competed with Irish women for jobs in domestic service.
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) Which was most important to the rapid pace of American industrialization in the late nineteenth century: the abundance of raw materials,an integrated national market under the same governmental system,the organizational drive of American corporate leaders,or the creativity of American inventors? Defend your answer.
Q2) Terence Powderly
Q3) The greatest economic consequence of the transcontinental railroad network was that it
A) spread the U.S. population across the whole continent.
B) enabled people from farms and small towns to visit the big cities.
C) united the nation into a single, integrated national market.
D) made it possible for some immigrants to settle in the West.
E) developed a skilled industrial workforce.
Q4) Alexander Graham Bell
Q5) lockout
Q6) Business leaders of the late nineteenth century have been characterized both as greedy and unscrupulous robber barons and as great captains of industry whose entrepreneurial skill and tactics produced economic growth.Which view do you find more persuasive? Why?
Q7) American Tobacco Company
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q2) settlement house
Q3) Horatio Alger
Q4) "Richardsonian"
Q5) When liberal Protestantism attempted to accommodate religion to modern science,it also tended to
A) relegate religion to a private sphere of personal conduct and family life.
B) make Protestantism a powerful actor on the national political stage.
C) link religion to theories of racial superiority and imperialistic survival of the fittest.
D) try to prove that religion itself was rooted in scientific fact.
E) survive only in the universities and advanced intellectual circles.
Q6) Some historians have called pragmatism "America's only distinctive contribution to philosophy." In what way might it be true to say that pragmatism reflected unique qualities of American society and culture? How would pragmatists respond to the charge that theirs was an anti-intellectual philosophy?
Q7) Edward Bellamy
Q8) American Red Cross
Q9) Hebrew schools
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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural
Revolution,1865-1896
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Q2) Do you agree that the frontier was for Americans as much a symbol and a state of mind as it was an actual place? Did that symbol weaken with the closing of the frontier in 1890,or did it actually gain strength once the actual frontier was gone?
Q3) As president,William McKinley can best be described as
A) cautious and conservative.
B) a man of little ability.
C) an active reformer.
D) a person willing to go against the opinion of the majority.
E) a skillful negotiator.
Q4) Which of the following was not among the qualifications that helped William McKinley earn the Republican presidential nomination in 1896?
A) He came from the key electoral swing state of Ohio.
B) He had gained a national reputation by sponsoring the high McKinley Tariff Bill.
C) He was a likable Civil War veteran.
D) He was backed by the skilled political manager and fund raiser Mark Hanna.
E) He was an energetic and charismatic campaigner.
Q5) Helen Hunt Jackson
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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Q1) Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that
A) free trade was essential to a nation's economic health.
B) control of the sea was the key to world domination.
C) the United States should continue its policy of isolationism.
D) the United States should immediately build an isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
E) the United States should construct a fleet of battleships.
Q2) Platt Amendment
Q3) Assess Theodore Roosevelt's conduct of American foreign policy,especially in Latin America and East Asia.Did Roosevelt's vigorous assertion of American interests enhance the United States' role in these regions or create resentment of the United States as just another imperialistic great power?
Q4) The clash between Germany and America over the Samoan islands eventually resulted in
A) a small naval war between the two emerging powers.
B) a colonial division of the islands between Germany and the United States.
C) complete independence for all of Samoa.
D) the intervention of Japan to prevent a German-American war.
E) a new American doctrine opposing any colonialism in the Pacific.
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican
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Q1) Do you think that Theodore Roosevelt's claim that Taft had abandoned his policies was entirely fair? Why or why not?
Q2) The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was
A) the National Consumers League.
B) Hull House.
C) the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
D) the Progressive Party.
E) the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Q3) Louis D.Brandeis
Q4) Eighteenth Amendment
Q5) President Taft intervened militarily in ____ to ease disorders that threatened American investments there.
A) Central America
B) Manchuria
C) the Mediterranean
D) the Caribbean
E) the Philippines
Q6) General Federation of Women's Clubs
Q7) Lochner v.New York
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q1) Before his first term ended,Woodrow Wilson had militarily intervened in or purchased all of the following countries except A) Haiti.
B) the Dominican Republic.
C) the Virgin Islands.
D) Cuba.
E) Mexico.
Q2) Louis D.Brandeis
Q3) As World War I began in Europe,the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungary as leaders of the ____,while Russia and France were among the ____.
A) Central Powers; Holy Alliance
B) Central Powers; Triple Alliance
C) Allies; Central Powers
D) Triple Alliance; Central Powers
E) Central Powers; Allies
Q4) Assess Wilson's conduct of foreign policy from 1914 to 1917.Do you think that he could have pursued a different course that would have kept the United States out of the war? Should he have? Why or why not?
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) During World I,civil liberties in America were
A) threatened by President Wilson but protected by the courts.
B) limited, but no one was actually imprisoned for his or her convictions.
C) violated mostly in the western United States.
D) protected for everyone except German Americans.
E) severely damaged by the pressures for loyalty and conformity.
Q2) irreconcilables
Q3) Two constitutional amendments,adopted in part because of World War I,were the Eighteenth,which dealt with ____,and the Nineteenth,whose subject was ____.
A) prohibition; an income tax
B) direct election of senators; woman suffrage
C) prohibition; woman suffrage
D) an income tax; direct election of senators
E) women suffrage; prohibition
Q4) Treaty of Versailles
Q5) Herbert Hoover
Q6) "peace without victory"
Q7) "politics is adjourned"
Q8) Eighteenth Amendment
Q9) William D.Haywood
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Chapter 31: American Life in the "Roaring
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Q1) Car advertisements reached out to women in all of the following ways except
A) showing them cars were respectable for women.
B) illustrating that families could afford one car for wives and another for husbands.
C) linking modern, independent women to automobiles.
D) noting that cars enabled women to better fulfill their roles as household managers.
E) demonstrating that women could indeed learn to drive.
Q2) United Negro Improvement Association
Q3) During the 1920s,the new system of buying on credit resulted in all of the following except
A) it transformed once frugal Americans into consumers of cars, radios and more/
B) it led to the slogan of "possess today and pay tomorrow."
C) it stimulated economic growth.
D) it created massive amounts of consumer debt
E) it led to huge defaults on monies owed.
Q4) Lindbergh Law
Q5) Zora Neale Hurston
Q6) Volstead Act
Q7) Charles Lindbergh
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932
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Q1) During the 1920s,the Supreme Court
A) often ruled against progressive legislation.
B) rigorously upheld the antitrust laws.
C) generally promoted government regulation of the economy.
D) staunchly defended the rights of organized labor.
E) upheld laws providing special protection for women.
Q2) After the initial shock of the Harding scandals,many Americans reacted by
A) demanding that all those involved be sent to prison.
B) excusing some of the wrongdoers on the grounds that "they had gotten away with it."
C) demanding the impeachment of the president.
D) suggesting that Harding resign the presidency so that Calvin Coolidge could take control.
E) calling for a thorough Congressional investigation.
Q3) Many historians now believe that Herbert Hoover has been unfairly maligned as the villain of the Great Depression.What blame,if any,does Hoover deserve for the economic collapse and the suffering of the public? Why does the text state that Hoover was caught "on the horns of a cruel dilemma"?
Q4) Douglas MacArthur
Q5) Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939
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Q2) Before he was elected president in 1932,Franklin Roosevelt had already
A) served as governor of New York.
B) run for vice president of the United States.
C) been assistant secretary of the navy.
D) been the American ambassador to Britain.
E) been a United States senator.
Q3) Congress of Industrial Organizations
Q4) The Federal Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Commission aimed to A) halt the sale of stocks on margin (i.e. with borrowed funds).
B) force stockbrokers to register with the federal government.
C) prevent interlocking directorates and business pyramiding schemes.
D) provide full disclosure of information and prevent insider trading and other fraudulent practices.
E) enable the Chicago Board of Trade to compete with the New York Stock Exchange.
Q5) Frances Perkins
Q6) Harold Ickes
Q7) Securities and Exchange Commission
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q2) One internationalist action by Franklin D.Roosevelt in his first term in office was
A) the formal recognition of the Soviet Union.
B) joining the League of Nations.
C) establishing military bases in China.
D) his support of the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
E) his commitment to Philippine independence.
Q3) Benito Mussolini
Q4) appeasement
Q5) Do you think the argument that "one should not change horses in the middle of a stream" is sufficient to justify Franklin Roosevelt's breaking the two-term tradition in 1940? Do you think anyone should be allowed to serve more than two terms in the presidency? Why or why not?
Q6) Cordell Hull
Q7) America First Committee
Q8) Most Americans believed in 1940-1941 that war,if it came,would come in the Atlantic with Hitler's Germany.Instead,it came in the Pacific with Japan.Why were Americans so surprised by the Japanese attack?
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Q1) Most of the money raised to finance World War II came through A) tariff collections.
B) excise taxes on luxury goods.
C) raising income taxes.
D) voluntary contributions.
E) borrowing.
Q2) Thomas E.Dewey
Q3) WAVEs
Q4) Casablanca Conference
Q5) Congress of Racial Equality
Q6) The first naval battle in history in which all the fighting was done by carrier-based aircraft was the Battle of A) Leyte Gulf.
B) the Java Sea.
C) the Coral Sea.
D) Midway.
E) Iwo Jima.
Q7) Battle of Okinawa
Q8) Navajo "code talkers"
Q9) "Rosie the Riveter"
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Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins,1945-1952
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A) The Federal Bureau of Investigation successfully prevented the Soviets from stealing American atomic secrets.
B) Two American citizens, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed as Soviet spies.
C) The House Un-American Activities Committee successfully exposed the State Department's Alger Hiss as a Communist agent.
D) Conservative local politicians used communism to attack changes in sexual and cultural values.
E) Teachers and other employees in many states were forced to sign loyalty oaths.
Q2) Identify the factors that produced the anticommunist witch hunt after World War II.List some of its most important short- and long-term consequences.
Q3) thirty-eighth parallel
Q4) Why were so many Americans anxious about the economic future of the nation at the conclusion of World War II? Why did these fears prove groundless?
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Q1) The Supreme Court began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s because A) the Court was the only branch of government with the constitutional authority to do so.
B) the courts were dominated by New Deal liberals.
C) President Eisenhower had requested the Court's assistance.
D) Congress and the presidency had largely abdicated their responsibilities by keeping hands off the issue.
E) the Constitution clearly prohibited any segregation.
Q2) "massive retaliation"
Q3) Assess the diplomatic and military policies of John Foster Dulles.Do you think that they were realistic? Why or why not?
Q4) "Rocket fever"
Q5) Some of the better-known American poets in the post-World War II era
A) actually produced second-rate verse.
B) consisted mainly of those who wrote before the war.
C) ended their lives through suicide.
D) left the country to live in Paris.
E) turned to nature for subject matter.
Q6) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
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Q2) Voters supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their A) loyalty to the Kennedy legacy.
B) faith in the Great Society promises.
C) fear of the Republican nominee, Barry Goldwater.
D) trust in Johnson's Vietnam policy.
E) All of these
Q3) Eugene McCarthy
Q4) Freedom Rides
Q5) American military forces entered Vietnam in order to A) try to drive the communists out of North Vietnam.
B) help to stage a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem.
C) prevent Ngo Dinh Diem's regime from falling to the communists.
D) establish defensive perimeters around Saigon and other Vietnamese cities.
E) promote democratic reforms in South Vietnam.
Q6) Would the outcome of the 1968 election have been substantially different if Senator Robert Kennedy had not been assassinated? Would Kennedy have been more effective than Hubert Humphrey in overcoming the deep Democratic divisions of that year?
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Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980
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Q1) The ____ Amendment ____ the voting age to ____.
A) Twenty-Sixth; raised; twenty-one
B) Twenty-Fourth; lowered; eighteen
C) Twenty-Fifth; raised; nineteen
D) Twenty-Sixth; lowered; eighteen
E) Twenty-Sixth; lowered; sixteen
Q2) To what extent were the social and economic problems of the 1970s a result of failed American policies and actions of the 1960s? Which of the transformations that affected America in the 1970s would likely have happened under any circumstances?
Q3) The Helsinki accords,signed by Gerald Ford and leaders of thirty-four other nations,
A) legitimated Soviet-dictated boundaries in Eastern Europe, while spawning human rights efforts there.
B) rejected the Soviet-directed boundary of Poland.
C) proved to many Americans that détente was still a two-way street.
D) was condemned by West Germany as meaningless.
E) were strongly opposed by the new Polish pope, John Paul II.
Q4) Griswold v.Connecticut
Q5) National Organization for Women (NOW)
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A) Divorce
B) Pornography
C) Homosexuality
D) Abortion
E) Affirmative action
Q2) ____ Iran
Q3) Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF)
Q4) ____ Jordan
Q5) Jesse Jackson
Q6) Ronald Reagan
Q7) What were the successes and failures of Ronald Reagan's supply-side economics (Reaganomics)?
Q8) The Iran-Contra investigations revealed Ronald Reagan as a president who A) was an intellectual giant.
B) napped through cabinet meetings.
C) was losing his popularity.
D) paid too much attention to detail.
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Q2) H.Ross Perot
Q3) President Clinton's primary political legacy was that he
A) revived the vigorous liberal traditions of the Democratic party.
B) established a firm direction for American foreign policy after the Cold War.
C) consolidated the Reagan-Bush revolution by encouraging reduced expectations of government.
D) restored faith in elected officials if not in big government.
E) turned the Democratic party away from his historic commitments to racial and social justice.
Q4) What were the primary domestic policy goals of the Clinton presidency? Did Clinton's policies owe more to his claim to be a new Democrat,or was he still fundamentally in tune with the liberal heritage of the Democratic party?
Q5) Brady Bill
Q6) What were the essential components of George W.Bush's conservative domestic policies? How were they related to the Bush administration's foreign policy?
Q7) George H.W.Bush
Q8) Abu Ghraib
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Q1) Account for the rise of minority groups in American society since World War II.Do you think that this rise has been a healthy development? Why or why not?
Q2) In what ways has "the promise of American life" regarding liberty,equality,and democracy been fulfilled for most U.S.citizens,and in what ways does that promise remain an incomplete task to be pursued?
Q3) Jackson Pollock
Q4) Which of the following was not among prominent American playwrights or musical theater creators in the late twentieth century?
A) Eve Ensler
B) Nilo Cruz
C) Tony Kushner
D) Jackson Pollock
E) David Hwang
Q5) How has American literature,music,and art fared in the era of television and pop culture?
Q6) Randolph Bourne
Q7) What were the costs and benefits of the new information age economy?
Q8) Eero Saarinen
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