History of the United States from 1865 Final
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Course Introduction
This course explores the history of the United States from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to the present day. Through an examination of major political, social, economic, and cultural developments, students will analyze the impacts of Reconstruction, industrialization, urbanization, and immigration, as well as the evolving roles of race, gender, and class in American society. The course also covers key events such as the Progressive Era, World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, and contemporary issues, encouraging students to engage with primary sources and scholarly debates to understand the forces that have shaped modern America.
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Liberty Equality Power A History of the American People Volume 2 Since 1863 7th Edition by John
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Chapter 1: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 embodied a true revolution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The term "bayonet rule" refers to
A)the use of threats and intimidation to prevent blacks from voting.
B)a requirement that all U.S.Army officers carry a bayonet while on guard duty.
C)the use of federal troops to support Republican state governments and black rights in the South.
D)civil rights leaders' call for mass arrests of Ku Klux Klan members.
E)the methods used by white southerners to regain control of their state governments. Answer: C
Q3) Freed slaves expected ____________________ acres of land. Answer: 40
Q4) Andrew Johnson privately characterized his meeting with Frederick Douglass in hateful and racist language.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: A Transformed Nation: The West and the New
South, 1865-1900
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Q1) Most of the New South's iron and steel industry was concentrated in A)central Georgia.
B)northern Alabama.
C)southern Mississippi.
D)eastern Tennessee.
E)Texas
Answer: B
Q2) To ensure the construction of the railroads that would connect the West to the rest of the United States,the federal government passed ______________________,which provided loans and land subsidies to two railroad companies.
Answer: the Pacific Railroad Bill
Q3) Which of the following best describes the Mugwumps,Stalwarts,and Half-Breeds?
A)They were conflicting groups within the Democratic Party.
B)Both the Mugwumps and Half-Breeds supported reforms while the Stalwarts opposed reform.
C)Only the Stalwarts advocated civil-service reform.
D)All three groups favored extension of the spoils system.
E)They were three fledging political parties who supported "clean" politics.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
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Q1) Ironically,labor was prevented from organizing because of the government's use of the
A)Interstate Commerce clause.
B)Jim Crow laws.
C)Sherman Antitrust Act.
D)Voting Rights Act.
E)Fourteenth Amendment.
Answer: C
Q2) The Sherman Antitrust Act was first used against labor unions during the ____________________.
Answer: Pullman strike
Q3) William Jennings Bryan was the first presidential candidate of the Populist Party.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) African American women were not part of the club movement.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920
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Q1) cosmopolitanism
Q2) The "white city" drew on ____________________ and ____________________ ancient civilizations.
Q3) The structure of the Columbia Exposition reinforced a racial hierarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By 1900,the average work week in American industry was fifty hours.
A)True
B)False
Q5) All of the following were characteristics of urban life in the late nineteenth century except
A)city governments provided clean water largely for the middle and upper classes.
B)most working class city dwellers lived in overcrowded,unsanitary,disease-ridden tenements.
C)ethnic minorities maintained their communal identity by establishing churches and fraternal societies.
D)social classes and ethnic groups mixed freely in city housing areas.
E)many working class families lacked running water.
Q6) Israel Zangwill's most well known play was ____________________.
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Chapter 5: Progressivism, 1900-1917
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Q1) Debate among the presidential candidates in 1912 focused on A)women's suffrage.
B)foreign policy.
C)civil rights.
D)the trusts.
E)the railroads.
Q2) Woodrow Wilson was all of the following except
A)the first southerner elected president since the Civil War.
B)a professional educator with a Ph.D.in political science.
C)a deeply religious progressive who believed in peaceful,orderly reform.
D)a Democrat
E)a firm believer in racial equality.
Q3) Wilson did not feel that the tariff issue was a significant one.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Theodore Roosevelt unveiled his New Nationalism at ____________________.
Q5) Woodrow Wilson mounted an aggressive antitrust campaign after assuming the presidency.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q1) The United States secured the right to build the Panama Canal by dealing with the A)director of the French company from which it bought rights to the canal.
B)newly elected government of Panama.
C)government of Colombia.
D)French government.
E)United Nations.
Q2) Few American men volunteered for war with Spain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Queen Liliuokalani
Q4) "Yellow journalism" or the "yellow press"
A)featured shocking and sensational stories designed to appeal to a mass audience.
B)was rejected by leading newspapermen such as Joseph Pulitzer.
C)focused American attention away from the Cuban rebellion at the end of the nineteenth century.
D)disappeared after 1900 because of the increased intelligence and sophistication of the reading public.
E)refers to the use of comic strips.
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Chapter 7: War and Society, 1914-1920
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Q1) Russia remained in the First World War until the 1918 armistice.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Immigrant Restriction Act
Q3) The organization founded by Marcus Garvey that called for black nationalism was the "Universal ______________________________."
Q4) After a black teenager was killed by whites for coming too close to a whites-only beach,deadly race riots broke out in the city of ____________________.
Q5) The nation that took responsibility for the war was A)Italy.
B)France.
C)Germany.
D)United States.
E)Austria Hungary.
Q6) Belgium was a member of the Triple Entente.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Palmer raids
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Q8) Discuss the social climate in post World War I America.
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Chapter 8: The 1920s
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Q1) flappers
Q2) When President Harding died in office,he had been publicly disgraced by the scandals of his administration.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Robert LaFollette ran for president in 1924 as the candidate of the ____________________ Party.
Q4) Mexican migration to California was marked by
A)a large number of musicians and artists arriving in Los Angeles.
B)the lack of good paying jobs for them.
C)the flowering of Mexican American culture.
D)rising hostility against them.
E)all of these choices.
Q5) The pseudoscience known as ____________________ contended that nations could improve their population by expanding stronger racial strains and shrinking weaker ones.
Q6) The book that portrayed Jesus as the consummate business executive was titled
Q7) people's capitalism
Q8) ____________________ wrote The Great Gatsby.
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Chapter 9: The Great Depression and the New Deal
1929-1939
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Q1) All of the following are reasons why the Great Depression occurred except A)the stock market crashed.
B)there was too much government spending for poor workers.
C)there was poor decision making by the Federal Reserve.
D)there was an ill-advised tariff that took effect in 1930.
E)wealth and income were unequally distributed.
Q2) Herbert Hoover was anxious to engage the government in providing relief to the poor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Examine Herbert Hoover's attempts to resolve the economic depression.
Q4) "court-packing"
Q5) The Roosevelt administration tried to reinstate the National Recovery Administration after the Supreme Court declared its codes unconstitutional.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Social Security Act
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Q7) In 1935 some members of the AFL left and created a new organization the
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Chapter 10: America During the Second World War
1939-1945
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Q1) Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the committee to draft the "Universal ______________________________" adopted by the United Nations in 1948.
Q2) The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S.history.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The ____________________ would have boosted U.S.immigration quotas to allow for the entry of 20,000 Jewish children otherwise slated for Hitler's concentration camps.
Q4) Japanese internment was not controversial.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The American economy underwent a transformation during the years of the Second World War.Explore this transformation and examine its long-range effects on American society.
Q6) The ____________________ tried to sway Congress and the American people in an isolationist direction.
Q7) internment
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Chapter 11: The Age of Containment 1946-1953
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Q1) The Taft-Hartley Act
A)enacted the highest tariff in U.S.history.
B)negated many union gains from the New Deal years.
C)implemented the first peacetime draft in U.S.history.
D)required strict loyalty oaths from all Americans.
E)imposed the first income tax.
Q2) A planned protest by union leader A.Philip Randolph pushed President Truman to sign an order desegregating the military.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following were characteristics of the suburbs except they
A)offered privacy,playgrounds,and built-in appliances
B)increased property ownership and symbolized the crusade against communism
C)served as model communities for racial integration.
D)benefited from federal loan policies and tax breaks
E)represented an optimistic spirit and confidence in the future.
Q4) A new economic theory for judging the prosperity of the nation by totaling the monetary value of all the goods and services produced in a year is called
Q5) Examine the success of Truman's Fair Deal.
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Chapter 12: America at Midcentury 1953-1963
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Q1) Operation Wetback
Q2) Mexican agricultural workers brought legally into the United States under short-term contracts were called ____________________.
Q3) The so-called ____________________ theory claimed that the loss of Southeast Asia to Communist aggression would endanger the security and stability of Europe.
Q4) Religious groups denounced rock music as a communist plot to corrupt America's youth.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Dwight D.Eisenhower was reluctant to use the power of the Federal government to address the issue of racial discrimination.
A)True
B)False
Q6) the sit-in movement
Q7) Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade was discredited in televised hearings after he had speculated about subversives in the ____________________.
Q8) Explore the emergence and growth of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
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Chapter 13: America During a Divisive War 1963-1974
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Q1) The FAP program was created under which of the following presidents?
A)Nixon
B)Johnson
C)Kennedy
D)Ford
E)Carter
Q2) Which of the following was not part of the Great Society agenda?
A)Medicare
B)Medicaid
C)Department of Housing and Urban Development
D)Community Action Program
E)Peace Corps
Q3) The replacement of U.S.ground forces by South Vietnamese troops in the early 1970s was referred to officially as the ____________________ of the war.
Q4) Examine the implications of the Watergate scandal and the Nixon presidency on American society.
Q5) Richard Nixon clearly won the election of ____________________.
Q6) Examine the counterculture of the 1960s.
Q7) Rachel Carson
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Chapter 14: Uncertain Times 1974-1992
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Q1) "Hispanic" is a term that simply means Mexican American.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Between 1970 and 1980,the number of African American families with an annual income of less than $15,000 had ____________________.
Q3) The Democratic opponent to George Bush in the 1988 presidential election was
A)Jesse Jackson.
B)Michael Dukakis.
C)Edward Kennedy.
D)Walter Mondale.
E)Ted Kennedy.
Q4) Between 1970 and 1990,the number of African American families living in the middle-class had ____________________.
Q5) Which of the following was an issue among the Asian American community?
A)government funding for projects for their communities
B)veteran benefits for members of their community
C)wages for new arrivals
D)educational programs in college
E)all of these choices
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Chapter 15: Economic, social, and Cultural Change in the
Late 20th Century
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Q1) Following Mexico City,the largest number of Mexicans live in
Q2) Population growth in the Sunbelt was partly the result of A)strong labor unions that attracted workers.
B)the emergence of high-tech weapons and aerospace industries in the South and the West.
C)the availability of cheap land in California and Texas.
D)a decrease in immigration.
E)all of these choices
Q3) Filmmaker Woody Allen was influenced by European films.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon in A)1968.
B)1969.
C)1970.
D)1971.
E)1972.
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Q5) Explore the economic changes that transformed American life in the 1990s.
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Chapter 16: A Time of Hope and Fear 1993-2014
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Q1) subprime mortgages
Q2) The Bush administration chose to ignore the FISA of 1978 in regards to the issue of A)torture.
B)domestic wiretaps.
C)prisoner detainees.
D)coal emissions.
E)strip mining.
Q3) Mexico paid back a controversial $20 billion loan from the Clinton administration within a year with $1 billion in interest.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During the Clinton presidency,unemployment dropped below ____________________ percent.
Q5) Discuss major economic changes since 2000 and their impact on politics.
Q6) Environmentalists in the 2000s argued that hazardous waste problems had a potentially greater impact on poor communities.
A)True B)False
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