History of the United States Exam Questions
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History of the United States explores the political, social, economic, and cultural development of the United States from its colonial origins through the present day. This course examines key events, movements, and figures in American history, including colonization, the American Revolution, the Civil War, industrialization, the World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary issues. Emphasis is placed on understanding how diverse groups and ideas have shaped the nations identity, values, and institutions, as well as how the United States has interacted with the broader world.
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) Describe the role that disease played in the conquest of American natives.
Answer: Disease played a significant role in the conquest of American natives by European colonizers. The introduction of new diseases, such as smallpox, measles, and influenza, to which the native populations had no immunity, resulted in devastating epidemics that decimated their numbers. This weakened their ability to resist European incursions and conquest, making it easier for colonizers to establish control over their lands and resources. In many cases, the spread of disease was unintentional, as it was often brought by European explorers and settlers who had unknowingly contracted the diseases themselves. However, some instances also involved deliberate attempts to use disease as a weapon of conquest. Overall, the impact of disease on the indigenous populations was catastrophic and played a significant role in the colonization and conquest of the Americas.
Q2) On his first voyage, Columbus:
A) explored a number of Caribbean islands
B) landed on the mainland of North America
C) realized he had discovered a new world
D) expressed his kind intentions toward the Indians
E) ensured that he would be wealthy for life
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Englands Colonies
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Q1) By the early eighteenth century, the English colonies in North America: A) extended beyond the Appalachians
B) had eliminated their French and Spanish rivals
C) were the most populous and prosperous on the continent
D) were on the verge of independence from England
E) remained tiny outposts of civilization
Answer: C
Q2) The man who became head of the Virginia Company of London in 1618 and instituted a series of reforms to save the colony was:
A) John Rolfe
B) Sir Edwin Sandys
C) John Smith
D) Peter Stuyvesant
E) Sir Thomas Gates
Answer: B
Q3) Delaware was originally part of Pennsylvania.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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Q1) Which church dominated the Chesapeake region by 1700?
A) Anglican
B) Quaker
C) Puritan
D) Baptist
E) Presbyterian
Answer: A
Q2) John Locke
A)gave the sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
B)urged people to pursue salvation without ministers
C)urged his parishioners to experience a "new birth"
D)challenged biblical notions through science
E)former slave who became a major Virginia landowner
F)author of the Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack
G)was a newspaper editor tried for libel
H)developed indigo as an exotic staple
I)advocate of "natural law" and "natural rights"
J)confessed to witchcraft in Salem
Answer: I
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Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Q1) Which of the following did the French settle first?
A) Mobile
B) New Orleans
C) Detroit
D) St. Louis
E) Quebec
Q2) George Grenville continued the policy of "salutary neglect."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Edmund Andros
A)was a British general in the French and Indian War
B)surrendered Fort Necessity to the French
C)wrote Common Sense
D)architect of the Albany Plan of Union
E)warned citizens of Lexington of a British military advance
F)wrote Two Treatises on Government
G)was a British war minister during the French and Indian War
H)organized the Sons of Liberty
I)proposed the Stamp Act
J)was the governor of the Dominion of New England
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1783
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Q1) Discuss the validity of the following assertion: "Without the cooperation of the French, American victory in the Revolution would not have been possible."
Q2) Nathanael Greene
A)author of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
B)wrote The American Crisis
C)surrendered his army to Washington at Yorktown
D)American commander in the South known as the "fighting Quaker"
E)was a brutal British leader in the South
F)major American peace negotiator
G)arrogant British general defeated at Saratoga
H)promised American slaves their freedom if they would join the British war effort
I)fought against Indians in Kentucky
J)ended Benedict Arnold's plot, hanged as a spy
Q3) When the British attacked New York in late August 1776:
A) Washington ambushed and routed them
B) Washington met them with a larger, more experienced force
C) Washington learned the superiority of the militia to regular troops
D) the American army was fortunate to escape
E) the Americans received French reinforcements just in time
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Chapter 6: Strengthening the New Nation
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Q1) Patrick Henry
A)was the oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
B)issued a neutrality proclamation in 1793 in response to pressure to enter European conflicts
C)drafted the land ordinance of 1784
D)diplomat who sought to undermine American policy relative to the French Revolution
E)briefly represented New York at the Constitutional Convention
F)claimed to "smell a rat" at the Constitutional Convention
G)defined the United States through his tenure as chief justice of the Supreme Court
H)arrived in Philadelphia having spent months preparing for the convention
I)led American troops at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
J)negotiated the extremely popular treaty with Spain
Q2) Examine George Washington's motives in declaring that the United States would remain neutral in the conflict between England and France.
Q3) Discuss the conflict between Federalists and anti-Federalists in the writing and ratification of the Constitution.
Q4) Describe the system of checks and balances in the Constitution.
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Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800-1815
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Q1) Thomas Jefferson believed that a large federal debt would:
A) mean high taxes and public corruption
B) be a national "blessing"
C) help bankers and investors in the United States make money from the federal government
D) be easily paid off in fifty years
E) cause another revolution
Q2) Thomas Jefferson
A)appointed justice of the peace in the District of Columbia
B)elected president in 1804
C)negotiated the Louisiana Purchase
D)was a naval hero against the Barbary pirates
E)was a war hawk from Kentucky
F)saw the British attack of Fort McHenry from Baltimore Harbor
G)became vice president in 1801
H)was chief justice
I)was an American naval hero in the War of 1812
J)explored the Louisiana Purchase and Far West
Q3) Thomas Jefferson's decision to enact the embargo is one of the most criticized moments in American history. Did he make the right decision?
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Q1) Commonwealth v. Hunt:
A) ruled that it was legal to force members of labor unions to work unpaid overtime
B) declared that forming a trade union was not illegal
C) failed to win Supreme Court approval for mandatory union membership
D) applied to labor organizing on the factory floor
E) made the sabotage of equipment by striking workers a federal offense
Q2) The Germans who came to the United States:
A) were overwhelmingly Catholic
B) were poor and uneducated
C) settled mainly in rural areas
D) were highly individualistic
E) for religious reasons, did not drink beer
Q3) The cotton gin:
A) made possible efficient separation of seeds from fiber
B) was an engine that manufactured cloth
C) made the South the wealthiest part of the country
D) had no significant effect on the North's economy
E) resulted from a government bounty paid to its inventor
Q4) Examine the impact the War of 1812 had on American industrial development.
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Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828
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Q1) Detail the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Discuss the various obstacles that needed to be solved in order to complete the deal.
Q2) What led to the development of the Monroe Doctrine, and how did President Monroe transmit his ideas to the American people?
Q3) In what ways might the foreign policy of this period be called nationalistic?
Q4) John Q. Adams
A)was a nationalist chief justice
B)was an advocate of compromise as an effective political tool
C)won the second most popular votes in the 1824 presidential election
D)was president at the end of the War of 1812
E)wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest
F)introduced amendment to ban slavery from Missouri
G)led the war against the Seminoles in Florida
H)was the presidential candidate in 1824 from Georgia
I)presided over the "Era of Good Feelings"
J)was the Massachusetts senator who favored a protective tariff in 1828
Q5) Although there was much resistance to the First Bank of the United States, by the end of the War of 1812, there was significant support for chartering a successor bank. Examine this development.
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Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
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Q1) The Tariff of 1828 proved to be the impetus behind the entire nullification controversy. Examine the process that brought this about.
Q2) The Independent Treasury Act provoked opposition from:
A) Whigs and conservative Democrats
B) National Republicans and Whigs
C) moderate Democrats and Whigs
D) liberal Democrats and Whigs
E) Van Buren Democrats
Q3) The compromise tariff that ended the nullification crisis was authored by:
A) Martin Van Buren
B) Thomas Hart Benton
C) Henry Clay
D) John C. Calhoun
E) Daniel Webster
Q4) Jackson's inauguration was so raucous that he was spirited away from the festivities for his own safety.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did Jackson's early life shape his development into adulthood?
Q6) Describe the new party system that emerged in the 1830s.
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The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860
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Q1) Some free blacks were:
A) eligible to vote
B) immigrants from the Caribbean
C) local political leaders
D) people of mixed ancestry called mulattoes
E) considered equal to whites
Q2) Trace the development of black society in the Old South. What were the different groups that comprised black society? What distinguished them from each other, and what tied them together?
Q3) The Old Southwest:
A) included Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
B) attracted thousands of settlers in the 1820s and 1830s with its low land prices and suitability for cotton production
C) attracted nearly twice as many female as male settlers in the early years
D) soon boasted the nation's highest standards of public education
E) was a promised land for slaves because of superior work conditions
Q4) Agricultural diversity in the Old South was practically nonexistent.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What roles did religion, folklore, and family life play in the lives of slaves?
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Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860
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Q1) Margaret Fuller edited the Dial, a transcendentalist journal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Prison reformers of the early 1800s saw a major objective of the penitentiary as:
A) religious conversion
B) rehabilitation
C) corporal punishment
D) providing prisoners an education
E) patriotic indoctrination
Q3) Mother Ann Lee was:
A) a "free love" advocate
B) an early feminist
C) the organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention
D) the founder of the Shakers
E) the leader of the New Harmony community
Q4) The intellectual defenses of slavery in the South admitted that the institution offered no benefits to blacks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Western Expansion, 1830-1848
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Q1) James K. Polk won the 1844 election without a majority of the popular vote.
A)True
B)False
Q2) As president, William Henry Harrison:
A) merely followed the orders of Henry Clay
B) tried to slow American migration to the West
C) was able to fulfill most of the Whig economic platform
D) brought a completely different background to office than Andrew Jackson
E) died after only a month in office
Q3) Support for the Mexican-American War was strongest in New England.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Many of the Plains Indian societies encountered by Americans migrating westward:
A) exhibited remarkable similarities to New England society
B) knew no warfare until the coming of the white man
C) were largely homogeneous and devoid of any substantive differences among them
D) were horse-borne nomads
E) had already become deeply rooted in Christianity
Q5) Discuss the various Indian cultures throughout the West prior to the Civil War.
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Q6) Trace the development of the Oregon Country prior to the Mexican-American War.
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860
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Q1) The Crittenden Compromise proposed to:
A) outlaw slavery in the United States after 1865
B) guarantee continuance of slavery in the states where it then existed
C) guarantee that all new territories would be open to slavery
D) give slaves full representation rather than allow them to count for only three fifths of A person
E) provide a federal slave code for the western territories
Q2) Discuss the California gold rush and the mining frontier. How did these pioneers treat Mexicans and Indians as they settled in the West?
Q3) What position did both the Democrats and Whigs support in the 1852 presidential election?
A) a ban on the expansion of slavery into the territories
B) support of the Compromise of 1850
C) women's suffrage
D) repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act
E) use of the popular vote rather than Electoral College to determine the election's winner
Q4) Detail the Wilmot Proviso. What impact did it have on the debate over slavery?
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Q1) Alexander Stephens
A)was Lincoln's second vice president
B)was killed at Chancellorsville by his own men
C)had his division destroyed at the Battle of Gettysburg
D)was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans
E)marched through Georgia living off the land while destroying plantations, crops, and railroad lines
F)devised the Union's "Anaconda Plan"
G)was the 1864 Democratic presidential candidate
H)was the vice president of the Confederacy
I)was the Union admiral who captured Mobile, Alabama
J)was the president of the Confederacy
Q2) List and describe briefly the reasons why the North won the Civil War. What were the North's strengths and advantages?
Q3) What was the military strategy of each side at the start of the Civil War? How and why did it change as the war continued?
Q4) Discuss the role black soldiers played in the Civil War. How widespread was their use, and how were they received by their fellow soldiers?
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Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Q1) What were the major problems facing the nation in April 1865? What factors stood in the way of a solution to those problems?
Q2) Describe the reign of white terror during Reconstruction and how Congress reacted to the violence.
Q3) What problems did blacks in the South face after emancipation? What attempts did the government make to solve these problems?
Q4) Under Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction:
A) loyal governments appeared in five states, but Congress refused to recognize them
B) loyal governments were recognized by Congress in three southern states
C) 10 percent of elected officials in a state had to be black
D) 10 percent of the 1860 voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union
E) leading Confederates would be sent to prison
Q5) During Reconstruction, African Americans :
A) passively awaited developments
B) attempted to establish schools
C) normally joined integrated churches
D) terrorized their former masters
E) refused to work for wages
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Q1) The Foran Act made it illegal for federal or state government workers to join labor unions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Great Railroad Strike of 1877:
A) was led by Samuel Gompers
B) won higher wages for railroad workers
C) did not have the support of the public at first, but as the strike (and its violence) spread, so did public sympathy for the strikers
D) ended when the workers, who lacked organized bargaining power, returned to work
E) began when Irish workers refused to work alongside Chinese
Q3) Which of the following statements about the Pinkertons is true?
A) They were a detective agency.
B) They relied on Chinese labor to fill their ranks.
C) They were funded by the government.
D) They were hired to end the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
E) They worked against and infiltrated the Mafia.
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Chapter 18: The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
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Q1) Why was hydraulic mining so damaging to the environment?
A) It used up what little water resources existed in the West.
B) It entailed the removal of entire mountain ranges, which killed wildlife and changed the climate.
C) It caused tons of dirt and debris to clog rivers, kill fish, and pollute downstream farmland.
D) It caused the migration of wildlife like raccoons, bears, and deer into nearby big cities.
E) This is a trick question. Hydraulic mining caused no significant environmental damage.
Q2) The number of cotton mills in the South more than doubled between 1880 and 1900.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the African American experience during the latter part of the nineteenth century? How did that experience vary depending on the region?
Q4) In the crop-lien system, farmers could grow little besides cotton, tobacco, or some other staple crop.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900
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Q1) The main idea of reform Darwinism was that:
A) humans, made in the image of God, should not be included among the animals when discussing Darwinism
B) government should not interfere with business
C) cooperation, not competition, would best promote progress
D) man continued to evolve according to Darwin's principles of natural selection
E) for society to truly reform, any "imitation" of welfare must cease
Q2) "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" This statement was made by:
A) William McKinley
B) William Jennings Bryan
C) Grover Cleveland
D) Thomas E. Watson
E) William Henry Harrison
Q3) Saloons were the poor man's social clubs during the late nineteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By 1920, more than half the U.S. population was urban.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Emilio Aguinaldo:
A) was the Filipino rebel leader
B) led the Spanish forces at San Juan Hill
C) was installed as Cuba's governor in 1898
D) was the martyred leader of the Cuban rebellion
E) became the face of resistance in Samoa
Q2) John Hay
A)was secretary of state; called Spanish-American War "a splendid little war"
B)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1900
C)wrote Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis
D)negotiated an agreement with Japan concerning the future of Korea
E)was elected vice president in 1900
F)owned the New York Journal
G)proposed returning Queen Liliuokalani to Hawaiian throne
H)wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History
I)acquired Alaska for the United States
J)captured Manila Bay
Q3) Why did President Theodore Roosevelt feel compelled to mediate a reduction of tension in Europe, and how did the president show the world, literally, that America had become a world power?
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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
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Q1) Louis D. Brandeis
A)was the original "efficiency expert"
B)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1904
C)wrote The Jungle
D)was a Socialist party presidential candidate multiple times
E)was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1912
F)influenced New Nationalism with The Promise of American Life
G)wrote Congressional Government
H)wrote articles for McClure's
I)served on the Ohio Supreme Court
J)was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court
Q2) Ida M. Tarbell is best known for her investigation of:
A) Standard Oil
B) McClure's
C) J.P. Morgan Bank
D) Congress
E) poverty in America
Q3) "From its beginning to its end, the progressive movement was, more than anything else, paradoxical." What evidence could be used to support this statement?
Q4) Describe the five major themes of progressive reform.
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Chapter 22: America and the Great War, 1914-1920
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Q1) Who said, after the sinking of the Lusitania, "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight"?
A) Charles Evans Hughes
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) John Pershing
E) Alvin York
Q2) Eugene V. Debs
A)was Massachusetts governor at the time of the Boston police strike
B)was the U.S. attorney general that led the Red Scare
C)was Wilson's first secretary of state
D)was Wilson's second secretary of state
E)was the leading reservationist concerning the League of Nations
F)headed the Food Administration during World War I
G)headed the War Industries Board
H)was the Republican presidential candidate in 1916
I)was a World War I general
J)was jailed for encouraging draft resistance
Q3) Discuss the various initial American reactions to the start of World War I.
Q4) Describe the economic mobilization on the American home front.
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Chapter 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
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Q1) The "House That Ruth Built" is known as:
A) Wrigley Field
B) Yankee Stadium
C) Red Sox Field
D) Tiger Stadium
E) Ebbets Field
Q2) The novels of Ernest Hemingway:
A) portrayed utopian communities in a socialist society
B) attacked the corruption of machine politics in the large cities
C) traced the philosophical connections between twentieth-century America and eighteenth-century Britain
D) described the frenetic, hard-drinking lifestyle and the cult of robust masculinity that Hemingway himself epitomized
E) documented "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history"
Q3) Examine and evaluate the characteristics of the African American life in the 1920s.
Q4) Discuss the meaning and significance of the Harlem Renaissance.
Q5) The success of mass production made mass consumption less important than ever.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: The Reactionary Twenties
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Q1) Part of the reason for the stock market crash was:
A) the high rate of deflation in the 1920s
B) the tax policies of the 1920s that hurt the wealthy, who might otherwise have bought more stocks
C) the buying of great amounts of stock on margin
D) the low tariff, which allowed imports to corner several important American markets
E) the remarkably poor returns on government bonds in 1929
Q2) Discuss how corruption during the Harding administration got so widespread. Survey the various scandals and show the effects they had on the administration.
Q3) In the 1920s, farm prices:
A) were subsidized by the federal government
B) stayed at their high wartime levels
C) stayed at their low wartime levels
D) fell sharply
E) rose sharply
Q4) "Parity," as used in this chapter, refers to farm prices.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Q1) By 1935, the National Recovery Administration had become unpopular.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The fair practices codes of the NRA did all of the following EXCEPT:
A) prohibit child labor
B) establish minimum wages of $13 per week
C) set a forty-hour workweek
D) break up large corporations
E) establish minimum wages of $12 per week in the South
Q3) The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through:
A) cutbacks in production
B) intensive farming
C) a government takeover of the commodity trade in Chicago
D) state and federal subsidies
E) marketing quotas
Q4) How did the nation's perceptions of the role of government-its powers and responsibilities-change in the 1930s?
Q5) Describe the impact the Great Depression had on popular culture in America.
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Q6) How did the political pressure, and opposing views shape New Deal policies?
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Chapter 26: The Second World War, 1933-1945
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Q1) Henry L. Stimson
A)American admiral in the Pacific
B)Republican appointed secretary of war in 1940
C)Democratic presidential candidate in 1940
D)elected vice president in 1944
E)directed the construction of atomic bombs
F)was in charge of all U.S. forces in east Asia
G)lost the presidential election in 1940
H)drew up the Atlantic Charter with an American president
I)senator who led the committee that coined term "merchants of death"
J)lost the presidential election in 1944
Q2) During the presidential election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt became the first president to win a third term.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the agreements made during the war that shaped the postwar world. In your view, did Roosevelt "sell out" to the Soviets?
Q4) During World War II, presidential authority expanded significantly.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 27: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952
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Q1) The conventional, or "orthodox," view of cold war history holds whom or what most responsible for beginning this conflict?
A) Truman and his aggressive policies
B) American economic imperialism
C) Stalin's quest for world domination
D) mistakes and overreactions by both the United States and the Soviet Union
E) the collapse of British and French power at the end of World War II
Q2) What did Truman mean by a Fair Deal? How did it compare to FDR's New Deal?
Q3) George F. Kennan
A)wrote influential article on cold war policy in Foreign Affairs
B)formed a new Progressive party
C)was the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948
D)was convicted in 1950 of lying about espionage
E)was the Republican presidential candidate in 1948
F)gave civil rights speech at 1948 Democratic convention
G)was removed from military command in 1951
H)was a senator from Wisconsin
I)was the secretary of state in 1947
J)led UN forces in Korea after April 1951
Q4) Trace the major developments in the cold war from 1945 to 1948.
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Chapter 28: Cold War America, 1950-1959
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Q1) Harry Byrd
A)wrote Invisible Man
B)wrote The Affluent Society
C)advocated "massive resistance" to integration
D)challenged bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama
E)wrote The Crack in the Picture Window
F)was a U-2 spy-plane pilot
G)proclaimed the creation of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam
H)was a suburban home builder
I)was an Arkansas governor
J)was a Supreme Court chief justice
Q2) Trace the rise of youth culture in the 1950s.
Q3) The best salesman of this gospel of reassuring "good news" was the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During the 1950s, the black population in the North decreased as a result of the Great Migration.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 29: A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968
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Q1) Nikita Khrushchev was Soviet premier while Kennedy was president.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following are true of the 1968 presidential election EXCEPT:
A) Richard Nixon won a very close popular vote victory
B) George Wallace appealed to social conservatives, even outside the South
C) Nixon made a remarkable comeback from earlier political defeats
D) Wallace made one of the strongest third-party showings in history
E) Hubert Humphrey lost because he refused to alter Johnson's Vietnam policies
Q3) The Viet Cong were the rebel army in South Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Tonkin Gulf resolution:
A) was in response to a Viet Cong attack upon an American military base
B) deeply divided Congress
C) was used by Johnson as a substitute for a declaration of war
D) authorized American naval aggression off the coast of North Vietnam
E) led Johnson to de-escalate the Vietnam War
Q5) Discuss, in detail, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "militant nonviolence." How did this philosophy inspire others to challenge segregation in the South?
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Chapter 30: Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) In 1968, students managed to shut down Columbia University.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Nixon's southern strategy involved winning southern support by:
A) capitalizing on their skepticism of federal social welfare programs
B) stepping up the military effort in Vietnam
C) expressing sympathy toward fundamentalist Christians
D) making southerners dominant in his cabinet
E) increasing federal support of the South's economy
Q3) Hispanic was originally a term for any immigrant in Chicago.
A)True
B)False
Q4) To punish the United States for supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC):
A) expelled the United States from membership
B) flooded the American market with cheap petroleum to drive American oil producers out of business
C) threatened to cut off oil shipments to the United States
D) nationalized American oil companies in their countries
E) announced it would deal exclusively with the Soviet Union
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Q1) Reagan's experience as an actor:
A) was invaluable in a television age
B) was irrelevant once he entered politics
C) had been limited to a few performances on radio
D) helped him master policy details
E) caused conservative Christians to view him with suspicion given the immorality of Hollywood
Q2) The biggest domestic problem facing the Bush administration was the national debt.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What were the main foreign policy achievements of the Carter administration? Where did Carter fail?
Q4) Ronald Reagan viewed the Soviet Union as:
A) a close and trusted ally
B) militarily weak
C) a source of global stability
D) an evil empire
E) capable of becoming more democratic while remaining Communist
Q5) What was America's role in world affairs during the Reagan and Bush years?
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Chapter 32: Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present
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Q1) President Bush's response to the financial crisis was to:
A) state publicly that nothing could be done until the markets corrected themselves
B) support a federal bailout of the banking industry
C) put the unemployed to work building roads and bridges
D) say he had lost faith in the free-enterprise system
E) blame it on Americans being greedy and not saving
Q2) Osama bin Laden was all of the following EXCEPT:
A) a wealthy Saudi
B) leader of al Qaeda
C) founder and leader of the Taliban
D) a Muslim extremist
E) a fanatical enemy of the United States
Q3) The issue that dominated the last couple of months of the 2008 campaign was:
A) health care
B) the economic crisis
C) the war on terror
D) Iraq
E) illegal immigration
Q4) What factors might account for the Republican gains in the 1994 elections?
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