History of the United States from 1865 Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth examination of the history of the United States from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to the present day. It explores key themes and events including Reconstruction, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of the United States as a global power, the impacts of world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, and contemporary social and political developments. Students will analyze primary and secondary sources to understand the complex social, economic, and political changes that have shaped modern America. The course emphasizes the experiences and contributions of diverse groups and encourages critical thinking about the nation's evolving identity.
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American Pageant Volume 2 16th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Chapter 1: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) The political controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated
A) the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress concerning the political conditions and terms of Reconstruction.
B) the close ties that were developing between President Lincoln and the Democrats over Reconstruction issues.
C) President Lincoln's desire for a harsh Reconstruction plan.
D) that a Congressional majority believed that the South had never legally left the Union.
E) the Republicans' division about whether readmitting the Confederate states to the Union was wise, regardless of the stringent readmission conditions specified in the Wade-Davis legislation.
Answer: A
Q2) Hiram Revels
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 2: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896
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Q1) Which of the following internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States?
A) The disintegration of the Chinese Empire
B) The seizure of farmland by landlords
C) The intrusion of European powers
D) Internal political turmoil
E) All of these choices are correct.
Answer: E
Q2) Despite the lack of national political issues, Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like A) imperialism and foreign missions.
B) prohibition and education.
C) race relations and racial justice in the South.
D) sexual morality and women's rights.
E) treatment of criminal prisoners and the mentally ill.
Answer: B
Q3) Farmers' Alliance
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Chapter 3: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
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Q1) The greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post-Civil War years was
A) agriculture.
B) mining.
C) the steel industry.
D) the railroad network
E) None of these choices are correct
Answer: D
Q2) The only transcontinental railroad built without government aid was the A) New York Central.
B) Northern Pacific.
C) Union Pacific.
D) Central Pacific Railroad.
E) Great Northern.
Answer: E
Q3) consumer goods
Answer: Answers will vary.
Q4) trust
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 4: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
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Q1) Progress and Poverty
Q2) The new, research-oriented modern American university tended to
A) focus primarily on theory rather than practical subjects.
B) give a new emphasis to the importance of religion and cultural tradition.
C) take the lead in movements of social and political reform.
D) challenge Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution and natural selection.
E) de-emphasize religious and moral instruction in favor of practical subjects and professional specialization.
Q3) The American Protective Association
A) preached the social gospel that churches were obligated to protect New Immigrants. B) was led for many years by Florence Kelley and Jane Addams.
C) supported immigration restrictions.
D) established settlement houses in several major cities in order to aid New Immigrants. E) opposed immigration restrictions.
Q4) Stephen Crane
Q5) Dwight Lyman Moody
Q6) Carrie Chapman Catt
Q7) social gospel
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Q1) If you had lived in the 1880s as a white farmer on the Great Plains, what would you have proposed as a solution to the Indian problem? What would have been your view on concentration, the Dawes Severalty Act, and the savagery of Indian warfare?
Q2) During the 1892 presidential election, large numbers of southern white farmers refused to desert the Democratic Party and support the Populist Party because A) they did not think the Populists represented their political interests.
B) they were not experiencing the same hard times as Midwestern farmers.
C) the history of racial division in the region made it hard to cooperate with blacks.
D) they believed that too many Populists were former Republicans.
E) they could not accept the Populists' call for government ownership of the railroads, telegraph, and telephones.
Q3) George A. Custer
Q4) Gold Standard Act
Q5) Why did free silver become the key issue of the farmers' revolt? What other issues were important to them? Explain why Populism came down to a single-issue movement by 1896 and how this fixation may have harmed their cause.
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Chapter 6: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909
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Q1) Was the Spanish-American War really necessary? List the alternatives to war available to McKinley in 1898 and explain why he rejected them in favor of a war policy.
Q2) Josiah Strong
Q3) Write a thumbnail sketch of Theodore Roosevelt. Consider both the key characteristics of his personality and his style of leadership. In what ways did he make his own personality essential to his political and international goals?
Q4) Was there any shift in American foreign policy between President McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, the vice president who succeeded him after McKinley's assassination? If so, what was it? In what area, if any, did Roosevelt most clearly depart from McKinley's policies?
Q5) The near-war between the United States and Britain over the Venezuela boundary crisis ultimately resulted in
A) a brief war between Venezuela and British Guiana.
B) British concession of the disputed territory to Venezuela.
C) stationing United States marines along the disputed border.
D) a growing diplomatic reconciliation between the two English-speaking countries.
E) a naval arms race between the United States and Britain.
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Chapter 7: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
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Q1) According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy's ills was
A) technical and scientific expertise.
B) a third political party.
C) socialism.
D) a more conservative government.
E) more democracy.
Q2) Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Q3) 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
Q4) William Jennings Bryan
Q5) Hiram Johnson
Q6) Gifford Pinchot
Q7) The Theory of the Leisure Class
Q8) Women's Christian Temperance Union Page 9
Q9) Frances Willard
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Chapter 8: Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War,
1913-1920
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Q1) Besides prohibiting anticompetitive business practices, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act broke new ground by
A) exempting labor unions and agricultural cooperatives from antitrust prosecution.
B) exempting organized major-league baseball from antitrust prosecution.
C) prohibiting colleges and universities from cooperating to establish tuition and fees.
D) permitting American businesses to form monopolies when operating overseas.
E) creating a federal incorporation law for large businesses.
Q2) Henry Cabot Lodge
Q3) Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy included all of the following except A) faith in the masses.
B) a belief that compromise was necessary to be an effective leader.
C) a belief that the president should provide leadership for Congress.
D) a belief that the president should appeal over the heads of legislators to the sovereign people.
E) a belief in the central importance of morality of politics.
Q4) Charles Evans Hughes
Q5) William Jennings Bryan
Q6) ____ Locate the North Sea.
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Chapter 9: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
1920 1929
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Q1) national origins quota system
Q2) Do you think that the 1920s should be most noted as a decade of anxiety and intolerance or a decade of revolutionarycultural innovation, excess, and liberation? What were the deepest political, economic, and social forces shaping American culture in this period? How did theses influential forces also shape how particular groups of Americans viewed themselves and their respective places in American society?
Q3) The cultural offerings of radio programs and motion picturesin the 1920s
A) were less popular than had been anticipated.
B) contributed to the standardization of American life.
C) affirmed and supported the rich diversity of traditional Old Country cultures and values.
D) were for the most part too expensive for ordinary working families.
E) strengthened American family life.
Q4) Ernest Hemingway
Q5) nativist
Q6) Charles Lindbergh
Q7) Edith Wharton
Q8) Sinclair Lewis
Q9) red scare Page 12
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Chapter 10: The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920 1932
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Q1) In the 1920s, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, while serving Presidents Harding and Coolidge, encouraged the creation of trade associations to
A) force compliance with the existing antitrust laws.
B) encourage business competition.
C) promote the standardization of products.
D) help big business weaken the ability of organized labor to unionize and bargain effectively for wage and benefits.
E) circumvent the antitrust laws.
Q2) Calvin Coolidge
Q3) One exception to President Warren G. Harding's policy of isolationism involved the Middle East, where the United States sought to
A) support a homeland for Jews in Israel.
B) prevent the League of Nations from establishing British and French protectorates in the region.
C) stop the Soviet Union from dominating the area.
D) secure oil-drilling concessions for American companies.
E) curb the rise of Arab nationalism.
Q4) Herbert Hoover
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Chapter 11: The Great Depression and the New Deal
1933 1939
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Q1) What was the greatest threat to the stability of American society in the 1930s? Was there ever any serious threat that the United States could have turned away from democracy as many other nations did during the Depression?
Q2) Public Works Administration
Q3) Harry Hopkins
Q4) "a switch in time saves nine"
Q5) Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to
A) Oklahoma.
B) Arizona.
C) Nevada.
D) Oregon.
E) California.
Q6) Alfred M. Landon
Q7) Agricultural Adjustment Act
Q8) What motivated President Roosevelt's Court-packing plan in early 1937? Why did Roosevelt's Court-packing plan produce such vocal opposition even among many of his political allies? Why do the authors of the text assert that "FDR lost both the Court battle and the war," despite the fact that the Supreme Court changed course later in 1937 and began to uphold the constitutionality of challenged New Deal legislation? Page 15
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Chapter 12: Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
1933 1941
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Q1) Explain what the text authors mean by their remark that in the 1930s, "Congress was one war too late with its [neutrality] legislation." Do you agree with the text's authors harsh critique of the goals and consequences of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937? Cite specific historical examples from events in the 1930s, such as the Spanish Civil War and the growing expansionist gains of Nazi Germany before World War II, to defend your view.
Q2) Those opposed to the Lend-Lease program, such as members of America First Committee,were primarily motivated by a fear that
A) the countries borrowing funds of America to purchase arms and material would default on their debt.
B) America's strict neutrality in the European war had been breached.
C) Lend-Lease would eventually draw the nation into the war itself.
D) the program would become rife with corruption and cronyism.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Q3) Good Neighbor policy
Q4) War Refugee Board
Q5) the Holocaust
Q6) Atlantic Charter
Q7) Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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Chapter 13: America in World War II 1941 1945
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Q1) Joseph Stalin
Q2) Potsdam Conference
Q3) 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.
Q4) The spending of enormous sums on the original atomic bomb project was spurred by the belief that
A) a nuclear weapon was the only way to win the war.
B) the Germans might acquire and use such a weapon first against the Allies.
C) the Japanese were at work on an atomic bomb project of their own.
D) scientists like Albert Einstein might be lost to the war effort.
E) the American public would not tolerate the casualties that would result from a land invasion of Japan.
Q5) SPARs (U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve)
Q6) Harry S Truman
Q7) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Q8) island-hopping strategy
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Chapter 14: The Cold War Begins 1945-1952
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Q1) George C. Marshall
Q2) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Q3) ____ Lithuania
Q4) Point Four
Q5) How did the rise of the suburbs affect American family life, community life, and race relations? Were these specific effects on American family life, community life, and race relations healthy or unhealthy for America in the long term? Defend you views with specific examples.
Q6) The huge postwar baby boom reached its peak in the
A) late 1940s.
B) early 1950s.
C) late 1950s.
D) mid-1960s.
E) early 1970s.
Q7) One striking consequence of the postwar economic boom was
A) the continued exclusion of most women from the workplace.
B) the growing split between urban and rural America.
C) the growing concentration of wealth at the top of society.
D) a vast expansion of the homeowning middle class.
E) the growth of blue-collar employment.
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Chapter 15: American Zenith 1952-1963
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Q1) Peace Corps
Q2) Sweatt v. Painter
Q3) Oral Roberts
Q4) Ngo Dinh Diem
Q5) Richard Nixon
Q6) As the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu was about to fall to Ho Chi Minh's communist forces in 1954, President Eisenhower
A) agreed to send small military units to aid the French.
B) relied on the advice of Vice President Nixon and Secretary of State Dulles.
C) sought a compromise settlement at Geneva.
D) refused to permit any American military involvement.
E) threatened nuclear attack on the Vietnamese communists.
Q7) Beat Generation
Q8) Berlin Wall
Q9) Suez crisis
Q10) An American Dilemma
Q11) abstract expressionism
Q12) Elvis Presley
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Q13) Apollo mission
Q14) Andy Warhol
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Chapter 16: The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973
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Q1) Vietnamization
Q2) George McGovern
Q3) Barry Goldwater
Q4) Assess President Nixon's strategy of Vietnamization. Do you think that it was the best way to end the war? Why or why not?
Q5) By 1972, public schools in the South were
A) integrated at higher rates than schools in the North.
B) integrated at lower rates than schools in the North.
C) taught primarily by teachers trained in northern colleges.
D) continuing to close their doors rather than admit blacks to all-white schools.
E) the final hold-outs against efforts at racial equality.
Q6) Do you agree that the political protests in the United States and in Western Europe were partly fueled by the baby boom population bulge and the economic affluence of the times? Would there have been rebellions in the United States and in Western Europe even if the Vietnam War had not occurred?
Q7) Eugene McCarthy
Q8) Silent Spring
Q9) counterculture
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Chapter 17: Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980
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Q1) Why was affirmative action such a racial hot button in the 1970s?
Q2) The effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Milliken v. Bradley, which held that integration did not have to take place across school district lines, was to
A) encourage voluntary busing programs.
B) cause Congress to pass laws equalizing school funding in different districts.
C) turn public attention to eliminating segregated housing patterns.
D) reinforce the division between poorer, minority inner city schools and nearly all-white suburbs.
E) end school busing programs in favor of the neighborhood school.
Q3) John Dean III
Q4) Helsinki accords
Q5) Explain why Jimmy Carter began his presidency with such great popularity and why, by the end of his term, he was widely unpopular. To what degree was the loss of popularity his fault and to what degree was it the result of forces beyond his control?
Q6) 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?
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Chapter 18: The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992
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Q1) Nelson Mandela
Q2) In contrast to the Old Right, many New Right activists of the 1980s were most concerned about
A) cultural and social issues.
B) laissez-faire economics.
C) foreign policy.
D) the environment.
E) health care.
Q3) Edward Kennedy
Q4) What were Ronald Reagan's goals as he entered the presidency in 1981? How successful was he in implementing them? In what ways did he fail to achieve his goals? Why?
Q5) The Americans With Disabilities Act
A) passed only when Congress overrode President George H. W. Bush's veto.
B) prohibited discrimination against 43 million citizens facing mental or physical challenges.
C) required the government to hire disabled Americans.
D) provided scholarships and student loans to people with physical or mental disabilities.
E) None of these choices are correct.
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Chapter 19: America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,
1992-2000
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Q1) Why have so many attainments in American culture in recent decades come from minorities and immigrants? Is it fair to speak of "minority literature" or "minority art," or is such work simply excellent American art that constitutes part of the American tradition?
Q2) What were the greatest successes of the American economy in the 1990s? What role did Clinton's international trade agreements play in the expanding prosperity of the period? Why was the process of economic globalization often controversial?
Q3) The razor-thin 2000 presidential election was finally settled by
A) a vote by states in the House of Representatives.
B) the Florida Supreme Court determining that George W. Bush had won Florida's electoral votes.
C) a complete recount of Florida's votes that gave a majority there to George W. Bush.
D) a federal commission that awarded Florida's electoral votes to George W. Bush.
E) the Supreme Court's ruling ending a recount of Florida's votes and declaring George W. Bush the winner of Florida's electoral votes and, thus, giving an Electoral College majority to George W. Bush.
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Q1) John McCain
Q2) "asymmetrical warfare"
Q3) In the September 11 terrorist attacks on America
A) one thousand people died when New York skyscrapers were hit.
B) heroic passengers forced one of the hijacked planes to crash in a field rather than hit targeted buildings.
C) questions about Bush's legitimacy as president further escalated.
D) Americans were angered by the president's initial response.
E) it took months before the group responsible for the attacks was identified.
Q4) George W. Bush
Q5) Taliban
Q6) Among Bush's advisers who pushed most strongly for the invasion of Iraq were
A) Secretary of State Colin Powell and the State Department.
B) Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and the Central Intelligence Agency.
C) former President George H.W. Bush and the foreign policy realists.
D) Vice President Richard Cheney and administration neoconservatives.
E) former Bush administration National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.
Q7) Saddam Hussein
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