History of the United States II Exam Bank
Course Introduction
History of the United States II explores the social, political, economic, and cultural developments in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course examines major events such as Reconstruction, industrialization, the rise of the U.S. as a world power, the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and recent developments in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will gain insight into the diverse experiences of Americans and the forces that have shaped the nations modern identity.
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AMERICA A Narrative History 10th Edition by David
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) The brutal and exploitative systems that the Spanish implemented in the New World were largely the work of Bartolomé de Las Casas.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The primary objective of the thousands of priests in New Spain was to:
A) bless marriages
B) establish towns
C) educate Spanish colonists
D) serve as government officials
E) convert the Indians
Answer: E
Q3) John Cabot's crossing of the Atlantic in 1497 resulted in his:
A) sighting of the Pacific
B) sailing around the tip of South America
C) discovery of a shortcut to China
D) exploration of Florida
E) making landfall in present-day Canada
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Englands Colonies
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Q1) In 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia Company, and Virginia:
A) was merged with New England
B) no longer existed
C) became a royal colony
D) lost all its funding
E) was given to the king's brother, the Duke of York
Answer: C
Q2) Maryland sought to learn from the mistakes of Jamestown by:
A) focusing all of its energies on tobacco
B) instituting an official religion
C) promoting unlimited pursuit of wealth
D) encouraging widespread settlement
E) recruiting a more committed group of colonists
Answer: E
Q3) One in six captives died during the Middle Passage.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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Q1) The covenant theory from which the Puritans drew their ideas contained:
A) the justification for New England's strict theocracy
B) the notion that the king replaced God as the head of the government of the people
C) the notion that men were capable of governing themselves well because they had been absolved of all sin when they entered the church
D) a fundamental belief in democracy
E) certain kernels of democracy in both church and state
Answer: E
Q2) Enlightenment thinkers such as Isaac Newton stressed the:
A) value of traditional religion
B) virtue of divine right monarchy
C) ability of reason to discover the laws of the universe
D) superiority of art over science
E) presence of God in nature
Answer: C
Q3) Most colonists strongly believed in the inferiority of women.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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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) The Glorious Revolution was bloodier (in terms of battle deaths) than the English Civil War.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Navigation Act of 1660 specified "enumerated" goods that:
A) Americans were not allowed to export
B) could only be purchased with gold or silver
C) would not be taxed once imported into the mother country
D) could only be shipped to England or its colonies
E) could be sold at discount prices
Q4) The Gaspée incident involved the burning of a church in Boston by British soldiers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1783
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Q1) With the end of the war, many Americans viewed the United States as a:
A) nation with a special destiny
B) future imperial power
C) temporary expedient until it could reunite with Britain
D) North American extension of Europe
E) leader in science and technological innovation
Q2) Discuss Lord Dunmore's proclamation and how it impacted the colonists.
Q3) During the Revolution, Loyalists came exclusively from the elite ranks of society.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In what ways were the campaigns in the North different from those in the South?
Q5) Americans won a tremendous victory in October 1777 with the surrender at Saratoga of:
A) Lord Cornwallis
B) Banastre Tarleton
C) Johnny Burgoyne
D) Benedict Arnold
E) Lord Howe
Q6) Explain why 1777 has been referred to as the "year of setbacks" for the British.
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Chapter 6: Strengthening the New Nation
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Q1) Examine George Washington's motives in declaring that the United States would remain neutral in the conflict between England and France.
Q2) On the question of women's rights, the proposed Constitution:
A) denied the vote to females
B) was surprisingly progressive for its time
C) defined women as the property of their husbands
D) accepted the advice of prominent women
E) said nothing
Q3) Madison's Virginia Plan:
A) would create a president for life
B) would create a two-house Congress
C) was most favored by the small states
D) would simply amend the Articles of Confederation
E) would abolish the state governments
Q4) One serious economic problem under the Articles of Confederation was:
A) a scarcity of good farmland
B) shortage of "hard money"
C) the impossibility of obtaining credit
D) excessively high income taxes
E) low wages caused by an oversupply of labor
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Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800-1815
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Q1) Why did the United States go to war with Britain in 1812? Which groups of people supported and opposed the war? Why?
Q2) Led by John Randolph of Roanoke, the Old Republicans became outspoken critics of Jefferson during his second term. Examine their criticisms and their vision for America.
Q3) Jefferson's inauguration was notable for:
A) its sharp partisan tone
B) the impassioned delivery of his speech
C) its being the first in Washington, D.C.
D) the luxurious surroundings
E) its immediate call to arms
Q4) Once in office, Jefferson set out to dismantle Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
A)True
B)False
Q5) During Thomas Jefferson's presidency, the national debt grew much larger. A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain the Treaty of Ghent and the end of the War of 1812.
Q7) What were the short-term and long-term results of the War of 1812?
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Chapter 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850
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Q1) The New England textile industry's use of water power:
A) dramatically altered the region's ecology
B) made its products more expensive
C) was never a source of controversy
D) largely ended by 1850 as factories switched to steam power
E) dried up some rivers completely
Q2) The largest group of immigrants living in America in 1860 was:
A) British
B) Chinese
C) Irish
D) Scandinavian
E) German
Q3) By 1860, what had become the largest city, as its population surpassed 1 million?
A) Boston
B) Philadelphia
C) Baltimore
D) New Orleans
E) New York
Q4) Discuss the communications revolution and its impact on advancing the nation.
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Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828
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Q1) The Monroe Doctrine was part of President Monroe's annual message to Congress.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The phrase "Era of Good Feelings" resulted from President Monroe's tour of:
A) New England
B) Canada
C) the West
D) Pennsylvania
E) the Deep South
Q3) James Monroe
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
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Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
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Q1) The Indian Removal Act of 1830:
A) allowed Indians who wished to become American citizens to remain on their homeland
B) became law after Congress overrode Jackson's veto
C) proposed moving Indian tribes to areas west of the Mississippi River
D) contained loopholes designed to exclude peaceful Indians from removal
E) showed Jackson's willingness to pursue policies that might hurt his popularity
Q2) In his fight against Jackson to save the B.U.S., Biddle:
A) initiated a national financial crisis
B) appealed to Jackson directly to change his impression of the bank
C) agreed to accept state currency
D) set up "pet banks" on behalf of the Jackson administration
E) nearly destroyed the Democratic party
Q3) The Cherokee Indians were forced westward on the route that came to be known as the Trail of Tears.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did Jackson's early life shape his development into adulthood?
Q5) Describe the new party system that emerged in the 1830s.
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Chapter 11: The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860
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Q1) The slave population in the South showed no significant growth between 1790 and 1830.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Nat Turner
A)plotted a slave revolt near Richmond in 1800
B)was hanged for killing her master when defending herself against a sexual assault
C)ran away from slavery in Maryland and became an outspoken critic of the institution
D)plantation mistress who was a critic of the plantation system
E)led a successful slave revolt on Saint-Domingue
F)allegedly plotted slave rebellion in South Carolina
G)free black man kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South
H)led the largest slave revolt in American history just north of New Orleans
I)author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
J)led a slave revolt in 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia
Q3) Men on the southern frontier generally avoided alcohol, gambling, or fighting.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860
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Q1) All of the following are true about Sojourner Truth, EXCEPT that she:
A) had been born a slave
B) spoke for women's rights and abolition
C) changed her name (from Isabella) after a mystical conversation with God
D) killed her master to escape from slavery
E) was born in New York in the late 1790s
Q2) Frederick Douglass was a black abolitionist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT true of Charles Finney?
A) He generated 100,000 conversions.
B) He was active in New York's burned-over district.
C) He emphasized both good faith and good works.
D) He rejected the doctrine of predestination.
E) He was an active Universalist preacher.
Q4) Describe the southern defense of slavery before and after 1830.
Q5) A Treatise on Domestic Economy argued that men and women should share equally in completing the work of the household's domestic sphere.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Western Expansion, 1830-1848
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Q1) William Henry Harrison
A)was the young congressman who argued that Polk had maneuvered the Mexicans into attacking
B)led American forces at Veracruz
C)was elected vice president in 1840
D)was one of the defenders at the Alamo
E)was the American who captured San Diego and Los Angeles
F)was the secretary of state who negotiated the treaty resolving the boundary between the northeastern United States and British Canada
G)was known as "the Pathfinder"
H)died after one month in office
I)was president of the Republic of Texas
J)was known as "Young Hickory"
Q2) President Tyler infuriated Henry Clay by vetoing his bill in support of:
A) Texas annexation
B) higher tariffs
C) Indian removal
D) pensions for veterans
E) a new national bank
Q3) Discuss the causes and consequences of the Mexican-American war.
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860
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Q1) Roger B. Taney
A)was a candidate for the presidency in the 1860 election
B)led Pottawatomie Massacre
C)elected president of the Confederate States of America
D)died in July 1850
E)caned Charles Sumner
F)the "Little Giant" who succeeded in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed by breaking it into separate proposals
G)argued that Congress needed to protect the right of slave owners to take their property into the territories
H)was the chief justice for Dred Scott case
I)was the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate
J)was the president who supported the Compromise of 1850
Q2) The idea of popular sovereignty:
A) solved the controversy over slavery's extension
B) would allow people in the territories to decide whether or not to permit slavery
C) guaranteed slavery would spread westward
D) allowed Oregon to enter the Union as a slave state
E) was adopted by the Whigs in the 1848 election
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes the Civil War at the end of 1862?
A) Union troops had a definite edge in the East.
B) Union troops had a definite edge in the West.
C) After the decisive victories at Fredericksburg and Antietam, Union officers anticipated A quick end to the war.
D) The war in the East was a virtual deadlock.
E) The recruitment of black troops had given the North a huge advantage.
Q2) Every state that had legal slavery seceded.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What effect did the Union naval blockade of southern ports have on the Confederacy?
A) It did not have much effect, since commerce continued mostly unmolested.
B) It quickly choked off southern commercial activity.
C) It inspired dramatic southern economic growth since the South was forced to become self-sufficient.
D) Food prices declined as the economy slowed.
E) It prompted Britain to offer diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy.
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Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Q1) After the House of Representatives impeached President Johnson, the Senate failed to convict him by just one vote.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why was Johnson picked as Lincoln's running mate in 1864?
A) They were both lifelong Republicans.
B) They held identical political positions.
C) They agreed on the need for strict terms to readmit southern states into the Union.
D) As a gesture of unity, they combined to create a National Union ticket.
E) Johnson and Lincoln had already served together in the Illinois state government.
Q3) Why did service in the Union army or navy benefit many freedmen?
A) It offered training on how to kill former Confederates.
B) It instilled a respect for the former Confederacy.
C) It opened a secret supply of weapons for planned rebellions.
D) It provided training in leadership and alerted them to new opportunities in economic advancement and civic leadership.
E) It offered a quicker avenue to true racial equality.
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1860-1900
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Q1) Industrialization transformed not only the economy and the workplace, but also the nation's:
A) social life
B) political life
C) status in the world
D) religious life
E) rural life
Q2) Like the AFL, the Knights of Labor admitted only skilled workers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the growth of radicalism in America's unions after the Civil War. What were the driving forces pulling the unions to the left, and how successful were they? What forces limited radicalism's success in the American political context?
Q4) The Workingmen's Party of California:
A) was the political wing of the National Labor Union
B) was based on anti-Chinese sentiment
C) campaigned (unsuccessfully) for restrictions on Mexican immigration
D) ended when the 1877 railroad strike ushered in better working conditions
E) folded when Grant sent the military to occupy the mines
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Chapter 18: The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
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Q1) The average annual income of white southerners was double that of Americans outside the South.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The major champion of the New South gospel was:
A) J. L. M. Curry
B) Henry W. Grady
C) John Ruffin Green
D) Edmund Ruffin
E) C. Vann Woodward
Q3) Cattle drives:
A) delivered herds to the slaughterhouses in Chicago
B) were conducted by cowboys, twenty-five percent of whom were African Americans
C) typically started from ranches in Kansas and Oklahoma
D) caused the extinction of Texas longhorns
E) almost always began in Montana and ended in Texas
Q4) The Mississippi Plan led in stripping blacks of their voting rights.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the role of women in the New West.
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Chapter 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900
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Q1) Tenement housing gave city dwellers substantially healthier and more comfortable living conditions.
A)True
B)False
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) Discuss the most serious public health challenges the urban population faced, how those challenges were addressed, and how effective the solutions were.
Q4) Realists' emphasis on closely observing everyday life grew out of:
A) transcendentalism
B) reform Darwinism
C) social Darwinism
D) socialism
E) the scientific spirit
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Chapter 20: Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913
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Q1) One reason the United States went to war against Spain was that:
A) the leaders of the Democratic party pushed for war
B) Cuban cigar manufacturers in Florida insisted that war was necessary to protect their markets
C) there was strong support among the American people for going to war
D) the shipping profiteers in New England believed their prosperity depended on war
E) Theodore Roosevelt insisted his Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine demanded war
Q2) Western imperialism in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT:
A) an ongoing quest for markets
B) notions of racial superiority
C) the desire to Christianize Africa and Asia
D) an ongoing quest for raw materials
E) the fear that Bolshevik ideas might advance around the globe
Q3) Describe the steps leading to America's war with Spain in 1898. Was war justified?
Q4) A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
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Q1) The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:
A) converting Americans to socialism
B) exposing social problems to the public
C) increasing the circulation of sensationalist newspapers
D) proposing detailed legislation
E) destroying the Republican party
Q2) Federal money for farm demonstration agents was approved in the Adamson Act.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Of the following, who eventually became chief justice of the Supreme Court?
A) William Jennings Bryan
B) Herbert Croly
C) Louis Brandeis
D) William Howard Taft
E) Gifford Pinchot
Q4) "From its beginning to its end, the progressive movement was, more than anything else, paradoxical." What evidence could be used to support this statement?
Q5) Describe the five major themes of progressive reform.
Q6) In what ways was the election of 1912 significant?
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Q7) Who were the muckrakers, and what impact did they have on American society?
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22: America and the Great War, 1914-1920
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Q1) On November 9, 1918, the German republic was proclaimed after:
A) the Battle of Verdun
B) Germany surrendered to U.S. forces
C) Adolf Hitler took power
D) the German Kaiser resigned
E) a great victory at Belleau Wood
Q2) President Wilson's secretary of state resigned in 1915:
A) in protest of Wilson's pro-Britain stance
B) because he discovered that the Lusitania had carried a cargo of arms and ammunition
C) because he disapproved of Wilson's conciliatory stance toward Germany
D) because Wilson refused to sign the Arabic Pledge
E) because he had plans to run for president in 1916
Q3) When news of the European war first reached the United States:
A) President Wilson immediately called on Congress to build up America's military strength
B) most old-line Americans were sympathetic to the Central Powers
C) Irish Americans leaned toward support for the Allies
D) Wilson ensured that they would help provide supplies to the Allies
E) Pershing was already on his way with 15,000 troops
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Chapter 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
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Q1) Describe the defensive temper of the 1920s. What factors contributed to it?
Q2) Harold Edward "Red" Grange
A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
C)wrote Three Lives
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)was the NAACP field secretary
F)was a silent film star
G)denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)was the leader of Negro nationalism
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight
Q3) The consumer culture generated bewildering changes in everyday life.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Albert Einstein was a member of Al Capone's gang in Chicago.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define what the phrase "The Modernist Revolt" means.
Q6) Describe the influence of modernism in literature.
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Chapter 24: The Reactionary Twenties
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Q1) Trace the rise of Calvin Coolidge to the presidency of the United States.
Q2) In the 1920s, many investors bought stocks on margin-that is, with borrowed funds. A)True
B)False
Q3) Coolidge's administration was marked by:
A) a continuation of the post-World War I economic slump
B) continued tax breaks for the lower and middle classes at the expense of the upper class
C) prosperity
D) the creation of the Internal Revenue and Tariff Commission, which drastically reformed taxation formulas and duty lists
E) a slow economic downturn
Q4) How might the decade of the 1920s be called "the decade of prosperity"?
Q5) One major cause of the Depression was that workers' wages were too high. A)True B)False
Q6) What had the progressivism of the prewar period turned into by the 1920s? What factors led to this transformation?
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Q1) In 1932, how many people were unemployed in America?
A) 25 million
B) 35 million
C) 15 million
D) 40 million
E) 50 million
Q2) This organization sought to set workplace standards, such as child labor restrictions:
A) Agricultural Adjustment Act
B) Federal Emergency Relief Association
C) National Recovery Association
D) Works Progress Administration
E) Civilian Conservation Corps
Q3) The Bonus Expeditionary Force was organized to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Although the New Deal programs helped ease the devastation wrought by the Depression, some widespread human suffering continued. Discuss this suffering and the hardships Americans still faced.
Q5) 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) The Nye Committee:
A) investigated and criticized the role that bankers and munitions makers played in America's entry into World War I
B) recommended that Europeans appease Hitler by allowing him to annex Czechoslovakia
C) compiled an official list of America's international obligations under existing treaties
D) praised the role that bankers and munitions makers played in applying their resources to protect national security
E) encouraged greater U.S. involvement in international affairs to stop the spread of fascism
Q2) America's "good neighbor" policy:
A) promoted free trade among the United States, Canada, and Mexico
B) promised aggressive military actions against any "bad neighbors" in the Western Hemisphere
C) supported the idea of nonintervention in Latin America
D) eliminated all military and other examples of an official U.S. presence in Latin America
E) negotiated an end to the war between Canada and Mexico
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Q1) Alger Hiss
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
Q2) The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to:
A) arrange a summit conference with Stalin
B) order the resumption of the military draft
C) order the development of a hydrogen bomb
D) see the folly of the nuclear arms race
E) arm American submarines with nuclear missiles
Q3) Harry Truman was born and raised in Missouri.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 28: Cold War America, 1950-1959
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Q1) Show briefly how playwrights, novelists, painters, and the Beats reacted to the corporate life.
Q2) The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was:
A) Arthur Miller
B) William Styron
C) Ralph Ellison
D) John Updike
E) James Jones
Q3) The GI Bill of Rights provided financial assistance for home loans and college expenses.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Adlai E. Stevenson was:
A) a senator revealed by Joseph McCarthy to be a Communist
B) secretary of state for most of Eisenhower's presidency
C) Eisenhower's opponent for president in both 1952 and 1956
D) appointed by Eisenhower to be chief justice of the Supreme Court
E) a leader unusually skilled in communicating with common people
Q5) Describe the major trends in American foreign policy in the 1950s.
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Chapter 29: A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968
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Q1) What were the main domestic achievements of the New Frontier and the Great Society? Which accomplished more? Why?
Q2) Hubert Humphrey was Lyndon Johnson's running mate in the presidential race of 1964.
A)True
B)False
Q3) George Wallace
A)was a segregationist Alabama governor
B)won California's Democratic primary in 1968
C)was the first black student at the University of Mississippi
D)was the Birmingham police commissioner
E)won Arizona in 1964 presidential race
F)wrote The Other America
G)was elected vice president in 1960
H)was secretary of state
I)was an American army commander in Vietnam
J)became major spokesman for Black Muslim movement
Q4) Describe the major trends in the cold war in the 1960s.
Q5) Compare the philosophies and styles of Martin Luther King Jr. and the leaders of the black power movement.
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Chapter 30: Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) The figure who most influenced Nixon's foreign policy was:
A) General Alexander Haig
B) Robert McNamara
C) Henry Kissinger
D) William Rogers
E) Bob Haldeman
Q2) Describe the gains made by women and ethnic minorities in the 1960s and early 1970s. In each case, what accounted for the gains?
Q3) Cesar Chavez served in the army during WWII.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Within days of the U.S. withdrawal, the cease-fire in Vietnam collapsed.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The term Hispanic referred to:
A) an increasing opposition of Latin Americans to the Vietnam War
B) Mexican American opposition to illegal immigration
C) efforts of Latin Americans to make Spanish the national language
D) growing political assertiveness among Mexican Americans
E) the New Left's major influence upon young Mexicans
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Chapter 31: Conservative Revival, 1977-1990
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Q1) The reform-minded Soviet premier who emerged in the mid-1980s was:
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Vladimir Putin
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Boris Yeltsin
E) Leonid Brezhnev
Q2) The collapse of stock prices that occurred on "Black Monday" (October 19, 1987):
A) caused a depression
B) continued for years
C) affected only the United States
D) caused Reagan to further reduce taxes
E) in percentage terms, was the worst in American history
Q3) Democratic candidate Walter Mondale most seriously damaged his presidential prospects when he:
A) picked a woman as a running mate
B) promised to raise taxes
C) described Reagan as a lunatic and a liar
D) appeared to be soft on communism
E) criticized Reagan's handling of the economy
Q4) Describe and illustrate the main features of Reaganomics.
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Chapter 32: Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present
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Q1) Describe the new patterns of immigration to the United States. What might account for this?
Q2) The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did all of the following EXCEPT:
A) paralyze the United States in fear and disunity
B) kill about 3,000 people
C) include the Pentagon as a target
D) destroy the twin towers of the World Trade Center
E) turn the lower end of Manhattan into a hellish scene
Q3) Detail Operation Iraqi Freedom. Include the reasons given for the invasion and the status of the war as described in chapter 32.
Q4) One legislative victory for President Clinton came when Congress approved NAFTA. A)True B)False
Q5) Discuss the issue of increasing polarization in American politics. How has President Obama tried to lessen the tension, and has he been successful?
Q6) What factors accounted for the public's view of the Bush presidency by the time of the 2008 election?
Q7) Explain the historic victory of Barack Obama in 2008.
Q8) Briefly assess Clinton's achievements in domestic policy.
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