History of the United States II Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
History of the United States II explores the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the present day. The course examines key events and trends such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration, the rise of American imperialism, the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and recent transformations in technology and society. Students will engage with primary sources and historical interpretations to deepen their understanding of how historical forces have shaped modern America and its role in the world.
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The American Pageant 15th Edition by
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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings,33,000 BCE-1769 CE
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Q1) The crop that became the staple of life in Mexico and South America was
A) wheat.
B) potatoes.
C) tobacco.
D) corn.
E) beans.
Answer: D
Q2) The institution of encomienda allowed the
A) native people to enslave members of other tribes.
B) Europeans to marry Native Americans.
C) European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them.
D) governments of Europe to abolish the practice of Indian slavery and to establish African slavery.
E) Europeans to establish an economy based on capitalism.
Answer: C
Q3) ____ South America
Answer: 1
Q4) ____ India
Answer: 8
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Q1) ____ Savannah
Answer: 14
Q2) Identify the statement that is false.
A) England took little interest in establishing its own overseas colonies in the first half of the 16th century.
B) English society was disrupted by religious conflict when King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s.
C) The Protestant Reformation resulted in years of a seesaw of the balance of power between Catholics and Protestants throughout England.
D) Spain and England were long-time and bitter enemies in the first half of the 16th century.
E) When Elizabeth ascended to the English throne in 1558, the rivalry with Spain intensified.
Answer: D
Q3) ____ Maryland
Answer: 8
Q4) ____ North Carolina
Answer: 3
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) King James I opposed the Separatists who wanted to break away entirely from the Church of England because he
A) realized that if his subjects could defy him as their spiritual leader, they could defy him as their political leader.
B) strongly believed in the concept of "visible saints."
C) never understood the political implications of their actions.
D) believed that they were turning their backs on the true Calvinist faith.
E) was a strong Catholic and the Separatists' doctrine went counter to the strict interpretation of the Bible.
Answer: A
Q2) After the Pequot War,Puritan efforts to convert Indians to Christianity can best be described as
A) vigorous but unsuccessful.
B) more zealous than those made by Catholics, but still unsuccessful.
C) filling "praying towns" with hundreds of Indians.
D) feeble, not equaling that of the Spanish or the French.
E) very successful.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
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Q1) The population of the Chesapeake colonies,throughout the first half of the seventeenth century,was notable for its
A) fast growth rate.
B) scarcity of women.
C) low death rate.
D) stable family life.
E) large percentage of middle-aged men.
Q2) English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called A) headrights.
B) burgesses.
C) indentured servants.
D) slaves.
E) birds of passage.
Q3) Write your definition of racism.Then use this definition to argue that the origin of slavery in colonial America was or was not primarily the result of English racism.
Q4) William Bradford
Q5) family stability
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5: Colonial Society on the Eve of
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Q1) ____ Rum
Q2) By the mid-1700s,the number of poor people in the American colonies
A) became greater than in all of Europe.
B) had increased to the point of overpopulation.
C) had begun to decline from seventeenth-century levels.
D) remained tiny compared with the number in England.
E) was about one-third of the population.
Q3) John Singleton Copley
Q4) taverns
Q5) old and new lights
Q6) One of the surest avenues to speedy wealth in the American colonies was
A) commercial ventures.
B) a plantation.
C) fishing.
D) manufacturing.
E) selling slaves.
Q7) John Peter Zenger
Q8) ____ Sugar and molasses
Q9) Arminians Page 7
Q10) Molasses Act
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Chapter 6: The Duel for North America,1608-1763
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Q1) War of Jenkin's Ear
Q2) ____ New Orleans
Q3) With the defeat of Chief Pontiac and his alliance,the British decided to
A) stabilize Indian-white relations.
B) let the colonists assume financial responsibility for defending themselves.
C) remove troops stationed in the colonies.
D) enlist the aid of France to halt the Indian menace.
E) open land west of the Appalachian mountains to settlement.
Q4) New England colonists were outraged when British diplomats returned ____ to France in 1748.
A) Hudson Bay
B) Acadia
C) Louisbourg
D) Newfoundland
E) Nova Scotia
Q5) Huguenots
Q6) ____ Hudson Bay
Q7) The Seven Years' War has been called the "Great War for Empire." Assess the validity of the claim.
Q8) Benjamin Franklin
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) Unlike the ____ Act,the ____ Act and the ____ Act were both indirect taxes on trade goods arriving in American ports.
A) Townshend, Stamp, Sugar
B) Stamp, Sugar, Townshend
C) Stamp, Quartering, Townshend
D) Declaratory, Stamp, Sugar
E) Quartering, Stamp, Sugar
Q2) The American colonial exponents of republicanism argued that a just society depends on
A) a powerful central government.
B) a weak army.
C) a strong aristocratic tradition.
D) support for hierarchical institutions.
E) a willingness to subordinate private interests to the common good.
Q3) Before 1763,the Navigation Laws
A) were enforced heavily in the American colonies and were very effective.
B) hurt Great Britain more than the American colonies.
C) were a great burden to only India.
D) discouraged smuggling by American colonial merchants.
E) were only loosely enforced in the American colonies.
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Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) The Treaty of Fort Stanwix,the first treaty between the United States and an Indian nation,resulted in
A) the ceding of most of the Iroquois' land.
B) an end to the practice of scalping.
C) the slowing of the westward movement of pioneers.
D) the renunciation by the Oneidas and the Tuscaroras of their support for the British.
E) turning over the hair buyers for prosecution.
Q2) Declaration of Independence
Q3) Some Indian nations joined the British during the Revolutionary War because
A) the British threatened them with destruction if they did not help.
B) they believed that a British victory would restrain American expansion into the West.
C) the British hired them as mercenaries.
D) they were bound by treaties.
E) they believed that the British would restore them to their original territorial possessions.
Q4) Charles Cornwallis
Q5) Benedict Arnold
Q6) Battle of Yorktown
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) James Madison
Q2) Under the Constitution,the president of the United States was to be elected by a majority vote of the
A) general public.
B) Senate.
C) Electoral College.
D) House of Representatives.
E) state legislatures.
Q3) Alexander Hamilton
Q4) As a means of ensuring that legislators stay in touch with the mood of the people,state constitutions
A) were rewritten once every ten years.
B) were rewritten once every five years.
C) required yearly visits to the homes of their constituents.
D) stipulated that ordinary legislation could override the constitution.
E) required the annual election of legislators.
Q5) "three-fifths compromise"
Q6) republican motherhood
Q7) ratification
Q8) nonimportation agreements
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) Jefferson's argument against the constitutionality of a Bank of the United States were based on the strict construction principles,especially embodied in the
A) Articles of Confederation.
B) "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution.
C) Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
D) Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
E) restrictions on Congress's power in Article I, section 10 of the Constitution.
Q2) All of the following are guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights except A) the right to vote for all citizens.
B) freedom of speech.
C) freedom of religion.
D) freedom of the press.
E) right to a trial by a jury.
Q3) In which party,Federalist or Democratic-Republican,would you have been most comfortable? Why?
Q4) Describe what you think would be Hamilton's assessment of government in the United States today.Describe what you think Jefferson's assessment would be.
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Chapter 11:
The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) William Clark
Q2) To guard American shores,Thomas Jefferson
A) built a fleet of frigates.
B) constructed coastal fortifications.
C) constructed two hundred tiny gunboats.
D) signed a peace treaty with Great Britain.
E) enlisted the aid of France.
Q3) Set the historical context of the following quote,"It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...." Which principle does this establish? Has this principle had any impact in our current political and legal context? How so? Do you agree with the principle or not? Why or why not?
Q4) James Madison
Q5) Thomas Jefferson's presidency was characterized by his A) unswerving conformity to Republican party principles.
B) rigid attention to formal protocol at White House gatherings.
C) moderation in the administration of public policy.
D) ruthless use of the patronage power to appoint Republicans to federal offices.
E) inability to get legislation passed by Congress.
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) By 1814,the British strategy included all of the following except
A) invading New York.
B) invading the Chesapeake Bay area.
C) invading the Delaware and Hudson Valleys.
D) blockading the Atlantic coast.
E) invading New Orleans and the Mississippi Valley.
Q2) Regarding opposition to the War of 1812,the authors remark that "profits dull patriotism." Is this a fair explanation of antiwar sentiment in 1812-1815? Why or why not?
Q3) Which do you think was the major cause of the War of 1812: western war hawk territorial expansion,British violations of American neutrality rights on the high seas,or the urge to uphold national honor and pride? Justify your selection.
Q4) ____ Lake Champlain
Q5) protective tariff
Q6) Henry Clay
Q7) Era of Good Feelings
Q8) ____ Oregon County
Q9) ____ Erie Canal
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Q1) Tariff of Abominations
Q2) Black Hawk
Q3) Writing about his observations of America and Americans as he traveled across the United States,the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville was most struck by
A) the comparative wealth of Americans versus Europeans.
B) the general equality of condition among the people.
C) the low voter turn-outs.
D) the ugliness of political campaigns.
E) None of these
Q4) The Force Bill of 1833 provided that the
A) Congress could use the military for Indian removal.
B) Congress would employ the navy to stop smuggling.
C) President could use the army to collect excise taxes.
D) military could force citizens to track down runaway slaves.
E) President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties.
Q5) Denmark Vesey
Q6) Martin Van Buren
Q7) South Carolina Exposition
Q8) National Republicans
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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860
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Q1) Tammany Hall
Q2) When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s,they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they
A) preferred urban life.
B) were offered high-paying jobs.
C) were welcomed by the people living there.
D) were too poor to move west and buy land.
E) had experience in urban politics.
Q3) Kentucky bluegrass
Q4) ____ Lake Erie
Q5) Ecological imperialism can best be described as
A) the efforts of white settlers to take land from Native Americans.
B) the aggressive exploitation of the West's bounty.
C) humans' domination over the animal kingdom.
D) the spread of technology and industry.
E) the practice of using spectacular natural settings as symbols of America.
Q6) Know Nothing Party
Q7) Compare and contrast the economic development of the Northeast with that of the South.What were some of the reasons that caused those differences in development?
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) Washington Irving
Q2) New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of A) prison and asylum reform.
B) the peace movement.
C) the temperance movement.
D) abolitionism.
E) women's education.
Q3) All of the following contributed to the appeal of the Second Great Awakening to women except
A) it offered women an active role in bringing their husbands and families back to God.
B) it encouraged women to leave home and travel with the evangelical movement.
C) it provided a springboard for them to turn their attention to reforming society.
D) it preached a gospel of female spiritual worth.
E) it allayed women's concerns about the expanding market economy.
Q4) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Q5) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Q6) What do you consider the single most worthwhile reform movement of the early nineteenth century? Why?
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) By 1860,life for slaves was most difficult in the
A) Atlantic states of North and South Carolina.
B) Deep South states of Georgia and Florida.
C) territories of Kansas, Nebraska, and New Mexico.
D) upper South states of Virginia and Maryland.
E) newer states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Q2) By 1860,three-quarters of all southern whites did not own slaves,but instead
A) lived and worked in the emerging cities of the South.
B) eked out a living in the mountains and backcountry raising corn and hogs.
C) owned small farms where they and their families raised cotton.
D) farmed a mixture of wheat, tobacco and cotton.
E) None of these
Q3) Regarding work assignments,slaves were
A) given some of the most dangerous jobs.
B) sometimes spared dangerous work.
C) given the same jobs as Irish laborers.
D) usually given skilled rather than menial jobs.
E) generally supervised in small groups.
Q4) Liberty party
Q5) mulatto population
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) In the presidential election of 1844,the Whig candidate,Henry Clay
A) opposed the annexation of Texas.
B) called for immediate annexation of Texas.
C) favored both the postponing and the annexation of Texas.
D) ignored the issue of the annexation of Texas.
E) favored dividing Texas into several states.
Q2) To what extent was the Mexican War a limited war?
Q3) During an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain
A) the United States stayed neutral in word and action.
B) the United States imprisoned several American violators of neutrality.
C) America was unlawfully invaded by the British.
D) Canada warned the United States to stay out of the conflict.
E) the U.S. government plotted to annex Canada.
Q4) Bear Flag revolt
Q5) The Aroostook War was
A) a short-lived insurrection in British Canada.
B) a battle between Native Americans and settlers in northern Maine.
C) a full-scale war between Britain and the United States.
D) a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada
E) a dispute over fishing rights between Britain and the United States.
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) ____ Nashville
Q2) Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new Pacific Coast territories from breaking away from United States control was to
A) allow slavery in these areas.
B) build a canal across Central America.
C) grant the territories quick statehood.
D) construct a transcontinental railroad.
E) establish large naval bases in San Diego and Seattle.
Q3) Many Northern states passed personal liberty laws in response to the Compromise of 1850 that
A) offered asylum to slaves fleeing the District of Columbia.
B) set up state-sponsored stations on the Underground Railroad.
C) prohibited their citizens from identifying runaway slaves.
D) guaranteed personal liberty to all runaway slaves.
E) interfered with federal enforcement of the fugitive slave laws.
Q4) "fire eaters"
Q5) James Gadsden
Q6) Do you believe that there is a higher law than the Constitution? What is it? Why is this concept "dangerous to republican government"?
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) The authors argue that despite Lincoln's election in 1860,the South "was not badly off." What do they mean? Why,in spite of this,did southern states secede?
Q2) Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel,Uncle Tom's Cabin
A) intended to show the cruelty of slavery.
B) was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
C) comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery.
D) received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read during the Civil War.
E) portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery.
Q3) James Buchanan
Q4) James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856 because he
A) campaigned against the policy of popular sovereignty.
B) had gained fame as a western explorer and soldier.
C) controlled the key swing state of Pennsylvania.
D) had extensive administrative and foreign policy experience.
E) could distance himself and the Democrats from the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Q5) Hinton R.Helper
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South,1861-1865
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Q2) Draft Riots
Q3) Despite the war,300,000 people migrated to the West,lured mainly by
A) the prospect of free land under the Homestead Act.
B) the ability to push Indians off their land without government interference.
C) the opportunity to flee from federal draft laws.
D) the hope of fleeing slavery.
E) None of these
Q4) Johnny Reb tended to be all of the following except
A) jocular.
B) emotional.
C) religious.
D) detached personally from the war.
E) bred to fight.
Q5) "Johnny Reb"
Q6) Assess the validity of the following statement,"The South's devotion to states' rights was a major reason for its failure to win the Civil War."
Q7) Jefferson Davis
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) List the three most significant immediate consequences of the Civil War.Justify your selection and indicate which one consequence you think was the most important and why.
Q2) Thirteenth Amendment
Q3) Peninsula Campaign
Q4) Which of the following do you think was the most significant battle of the Civil War: Antietam,Gettysburg,or Vicksburg? Why?
Q5) ____ Richmond
Q6) The supreme test of American democracy in the nineteenth century was A) the Revolution.
B) surviving the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
C) helping Britain to pass the Reform Bill of 1867.
D) the War of 1812.
E) the Civil War.
Q7) Historians usually rank the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln,as the greatest of American presidents.Do you agree? Why or why not?
Q8) To what extent did the Civil War slow the United States Industrial Revolution,or did it help usher in modern America?
Q9) Battle of Chancellorsville
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877
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Q1) Congress objected to the readmission of Southern states to the Union under Johnson's plan because
A) the states had adopted Black Codes that limited the civil rights of freed slaves.
B) the states had been readmitted without consultation with Congress.
C) many former Confederates were elected to high political office in those states.
D) it feared that the restored South would be stronger than ever in national politics.
E) they feared that the South would just secede again if it didn't get its way.
Q2) In President Andrew Johnson's view,the Freedmen's Bureau was
A) a flawed but necessary agency.
B) acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.
C) a tolerable compromise with the radical Congress.
D) a potential source of Republican patronage jobs.
E) a meddlesome agency that should be killed.
Q3) Some historians have argued that Reconstruction was a total failure,while others have seen it as laying the foundation for future American progress in race relations and civil rights.What arguments can be made for each position? Which is more persuasive?
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Chapter 23: 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
Q2) The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
A) a renewal of the Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the South.
B) the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South.
C) the election of a Democrat to the presidency.
D) Republican support for an inflationary silver-money policy.
E) a plan to build the first transcontinental railroad.
Q3) Farmers' Alliance
Q4) Compromise of 1877
Q5) "Rum,Romanism,and Rebellion"
Q6) William McKinley
Q7) Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) horizontal integration
Q2) Cornelius Vanderbilt
Q3) In the textiles mills of the industrializing South,all of the following are true statements except
A) rural black and white southerners landed plumb jobs in the new mills.
B) entire families worked long hours in the mills.
C) most workers were paid half the rate received by northern workers for the same tasks.
D) payment was typically made in credit to the company store.
E) workers were called "hillbillies" or "lintheads" by employers.
Q4) Pullman Palace Cars
Q5) trust
Q6) New York Central Railroad
Q7) Why did labor unions find it difficult to organize industrial workers in the late nineteenth century?
Q8) Social Darwinism
Q9) American capitalist businessmen usually justified their wealth on the basis of the "survival of the fittest." Yet in practice,most of them disliked business competition and sought to create effective monopolies.Why?
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q1) Carrie Chapman Catt
Q2) In the course of the late nineteenth century
A) the birthrate increased.
B) the divorce rate fell.
C) family size gradually declined.
D) people tended to marry at an earlier age.
E) children were seen as a greater economic asset.
Q3) Florence Kelley
Q4) Carrie Nation
Q5) Victoria Woodhull
Q6) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Q7) The public library movement across America was greatly aided by the generous financial support from
A) the federal government's Morrill Act.
B) Andrew Carnegie.
C) John D. Rockefeller.
D) local "friends of the library."
E) women's organizations.
Q8) Dwight Lyman Moody
Q9) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural
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Q1) The root cause of the American farmers' problems after 1880 was
A) urban growth.
B) foreign competition.
C) the declining number of farms and farmers.
D) the shortage of farm machinery.
E) low prices and a deflated currency.
Q2) Labor unions,Populists,and debtors saw in the brutal Pullman episode
A) proof of an alliance between big business, the federal government, and the courts against working people.
B) a strategy by which united working-class action could succeed.
C) the need for a socialist party in the United States.
D) the potential of the federal government as a counterweight to big business.
E) the crucial role of middle-class public opinion in labor conflicts.
Q3) Political historians often argue that the election of 1896 was a watershed election that marked the beginning of the fourth party system.Explain why this is so,and how American politics from 1865 to 1896 differed from the political situation that developed after the election of 1896.
Q4) Jacob S.Coxey
Q5) Sooner State
Q6) "Gold Bugs"
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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A) refused to accept any indemnity for the losses that it incurred while putting down this uprising.
B) sent more American missionaries to China.
C) sent money but no troops to help a multinational contingent to crush the uprising.
D) became an East Asian power.
E) abandoned its general principles of nonentanglement and noninvolvement in overseas conflict.
Q2) Regarding the presidency,Teddy Roosevelt believed that A) it was crucial to work with Congress.
B) the checks and balances among the three branches of government were essential to American government.
C) the president could take any action not specifically prohibited by the laws and the Constitution.
D) the president should state principles but real power should be held by the Cabinet.
E) the president should never appeal to public opinion.
Q3) George Dewey
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A) dissolving B) ignoring C) regulating D) collusion with E) monitoring
Q2) Muller v.Oregon
Q3) Eugene V.Debs
Q4) initiative
Q5) U.S.Forest Service
Q6) Eighteenth Amendment
Q7) Why did feminists,and middle-class women generally,play such a prominent role in the progressive movement? Were feminist and progressive goals essentially identical,or were there areas where the two movements differed?
Q8) Victor L.Berger
Q9) General Federation of Women's Clubs
Q10) "rule of reason" Page 37
Q12) National Consumers League
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q1) The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to
A) issue paper money and increase or decrease the amount of money in circulation by altering interest rates.
B) close weak banks.
C) take the U.S. dollar off the gold standard.
D) collect income taxes directly from employees' paychecks.
E) guarantee individual banking deposits against bank failures.
Q2) Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's fundamental approach to American foreign policy?
A) Imperialistic
B) Moralistic
C) Realistic
D) Balance-of-power
E) Isolationist
Q3) Assess America's policy of neutrality at the outset of World War I.Consider both Wilson's policies in regard to Britain and Germany and the sentiments of the American public.Were we "neutral in thought as well as deed"? Explain.
Q4) Underwood Tariff Bill
Q5) Tampico incident
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when A) the Zimmermann note was intercepted and made public.
B) Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic.
C) news was received that a revolutionary movement had overthrown the czarist regime in Russia.
D) Germany rejected Wilson's Fourteen Points for peace.
E) it appeared that the German army would take Paris.
Q2) The enormous nationwide steel strike of 1919 resulted in A) the eight-hour workday.
B) a takeover of the steelworkers' union by American Communists.
C) somewhat higher wages but no recognition of the steel union.
D) a grievous setback for labor that crippled the union movement for a decade.
E) general strikes of all workers that essentially shut down Seattle and Pittsburgh.
Q3) collective security
Q4) National Woman's party
Q5) League of Nations
Q6) Chateau-Thierry
Q7) Liberty Loans
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Q1) One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was
A) ethnic diversity.
B) the lack of a reform impulse in America.
C) the generally fair treatment that workers received from their employers.
D) the hostility of the Catholic Church to social reform.
E) the growing Communist influence in the labor movement.
Q2) During the red scare
A) hundreds of immigrant radicals were deported from the United States.
B) many states passed laws making it a crime to advocate violence.
C) labor union membership nearly doubled.
D) several lawfully elected Socialists were denied their seats in the New York State legislature.
E) the United States threatened war against the revolutionary Soviet Union.
Q3) D.W.Griffiths
Q4) How did the rise of the mass media and marketing affect the kind of people Americans admired and imitated?
Q5) progressive education
Q6) Bolshevik revolution
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932
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Q2) In the Adkins case,the Supreme Court ruled that
A) federal child labor laws were unconstitutional.
B) women had the right to sue for equal pay for equal work.
C) anti-union "right to work" laws were constitutional.
D) women were no longer entitled to special protection in the workplace because they now had the vote.
E) federal maternity benefits designed for women did not constitute unequal treatment.
Q3) Calvin Coolidge
Q4) President Hoover's public image was severely damaged by his
A) decision to abandon the principle of rugged individualism.
B) construction of Hoovervilles for the homeless.
C) agreement to provide a federal dole to the unemployed.
D) refusal to do anything to try to solve the Great Depression.
E) use of harsh military force to disperse the Bonus Army from Washington.
Q5) Herbert Hoover
Q6) "Ohio Gang"
Q7) Charles Dawes
Q8) Harry M.Daugherty
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939
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Q2) List the major factors that brought a close to the New Deal in the late 1930s.Separate the list into those that President Roosevelt had some control over and those that he did not.Explain how the combination of these factors ended the New Deal.
Q3) 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?
Q4) George W.Norris
Q5) All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s except A) dry-farming techniques.
B) drought.
C) farmers' failure to use steam tractors and other modern equipment.
D) the cultivation of marginal farmlands on the Great Plains.
E) soil erosion.
Q6) John L.Lewis
Q7) Liberty League
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Q1) The surprise Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was
A) Wendell L. Willkie.
B) Robert A. Taft.
C) Thomas E. Dewey.
D) Alfred E. Landon.
E) Charles A. Lindbergh.
Q2) "merchants of death"
Q3) Spanish Civil War
Q4) Franklin Roosevelt's sensational Quarantine Speech in 1937 resulted in
A) a belief in Europe that America would stop fascist aggression.
B) a wave of protest by isolationists.
C) support from both Democratic and Republican leaders.
D) a slowing of Japanese aggression in China.
E) a modification of the Neutrality Acts.
Q5) Good Neighbor policy
Q6) Rome-Berlin axis
Q7) At what point do you think American entry into the war in Europe became inevitable? Explain.
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Chapter 35: America in World War II,1941-1945
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A) the possibility of a successful invasion across the English Channel.
B) that German U-boat would destroy Allied shipping.
C) the defeatism of pro-fascist elements within upper-class British society.
D) that General Rommel would conquer Egypt and the Suez Canal.
E) that the American-British-Soviet alliance would collapse.
Q2) Japanese Americans were placed in concentration camps during World War II
A) due to numerous acts of sabotage.
B) in retaliation for the placement of Americans in concentration camps by the Japanese.
C) as a result of anti-Japanese prejudice and fear.
D) because many were loyal to Japan.
E) All of these
Q3) Henry Stimson
Q4) Harry S Truman
Q5) "Rosie the Riveter"
Q6) Summarize the grand strategy of the Big Three allies in World War II.What aspects of that strategy became controversial? Why?
Q7) Dwight D.Eisenhower
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Q3) President Truman's Marshall Plan called for
A) military supplies for Britain and France.
B) substantial financial assistance to rebuild Western Europe.
C) economic aid for Japan.
D) foreign aid for Third World countries to resist communism.
E) an alliance to contain the Soviet Union.
Q4) Benjamin Spock
Q5) American membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization did all of the following for the country except
A) strengthen the containment of the Soviet Union.
B) help reintegrate Germany into the European family.
C) reduce our defense expenditures, since we would get help from other countries.
D) reassure Europeans that the United States would not abandon them.
E) strike a major blow to American isolationists.
Q6) ____ Czechoslovakia
Q7) Do you think that the Nazi and Japanese leaders should have been tried for war crimes even though their crimes were not clearly
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A) anticommunist agent who is forced to live underground.
B) World War II bomber pilot who is ignored upon his return home.
C) victim of nuclear testing who is dying of radiation.
D) father who is disrespected by his family.
E) African American whose supposed supporters are unable to see him as a real man.
Q2) During his second term,President Eisenhower
A) no longer trusted his vice president, Richard Nixon, to lend assistance.
B) hoped that he would be able to win a third term.
C) took a more active personal role in governing.
D) believed that the civil rights movement needed his personal involvement if it were to succeed.
E) recognized that only he had the experience to deal with the Soviets.
Q3) "spirit of Camp David"
Q4) Rosa Parks
Q5) Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Q6) How were Latin American radicals like Fidel Castro able to charge the United States with hypocrisy in its conduct of foreign policy in the region?
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Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968
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Q2) After the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964,the chief goal of the black civil rights movement in the South became to
A) secure the right to vote.
B) end discrimination in housing.
C) gain equality in education.
D) prohibit racial discrimination in employment.
E) integrate private social clubs and organizations.
Q3) John F.Kennedy
Q4) Stokely Carmichael
Q5) Which of the 1960s liberation movements were most significant and enduring? How did African Americans,young whites,Hispanics,workers,women,and gays each experience the sixties differently?
Q6) "rights revolution"
Q7) Peace Corps
Q8) Bay of Pigs
Q9) Cuban missile crisis
Q10) Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980
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Q2) What was the essential goal of the Nixon-Kissinger policy of détente with the Soviet Union and China? Did the policy achieve its essential goals?
Q3) Spiro Agnew
Q4) Richard Nixon
Q5) Iranian hostage crisis
Q6) Offer your considered judgment of Richard Nixon as president,taking into account his personal qualities,domestic program,and foreign policies.If he had not harbored such bitter personal resentments,could he have come a great president? Why or why not?
Q7) To control creeping inflation in the early 1970s,President Richard Nixon
A) imposed a ninety-day wage and price freeze.
B) put the United States back on the gold standard.
C) sought a system of international currency stabilization.
D) lowered Social Security payments.
E) pressured the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates.
Q8) National Organization for Women (NOW)
Q9) Title IX
Q10) détente
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Q5) Agree or disagree with the following statement: George H.W.Bush's administration was essentially the Reagan administration's third term in its policies and goals.Why or why not?
Q6) Why,after the crushing defeat of its candidate in 1964,was the conservative right in America able to achieve a landslide victory for Ronald Reagan in 1980? Was this victory the result of a difference between Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan or of changes that had occurred in America and the world in the intervening sixteen years? Explain.
Q7) Describe President Reagan's approach to foreign affairs.Was it effective? Why or why not?
Q8) The New Right movement that helped to elect Ronald Reagan was spearheaded by A) fiscal conservatives.
B) evangelical Christians.
C) gold-standard advocates.
D) midwesterners.
E) neoconservatives.
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Q4) Brady Bill
Q5) World Trade Center
Q6) After ousting Saddam Hussein from power,the U.S.military in Iraq was faced with
A) the abuse of American prisoners by the remnants of Hussein's army.
B) a warm reception from the Iraqi people.
C) a confident new democratic Iraq.
D) an invasion of Iraq by militant Arab states.
E) violent resistance from Iraqi insurgents and foreign militants drawn to the country.
Q7) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Q8) William Rehnquist
Q9) Donald Rumsfeld
Q10) ____ Syria
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Chapter 42: The American People Face a New Century
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Q2) Major advances in genetic and stem-cell research led to all the following except
A) the cloning of human beings.
B) the prospect of major new medical therapies.
C) the prospect of large profits for bioengineering companies.
D) concern about the ethical implications of cloning and the destruction of embryos.
E) the development of new high-yield crops.
Q3) What were the greatest achievements of Big Science in the post-World War II era? What issues and problems emerged with the close relationship among the federal government,defense industries,and American research universities?
Q4) The post-World War II rise of Big Science was characterized by
A) an emphasis on the ethical implications of scientific research.
B) large expenditures on failed research initiatives.
C) a close alliance of the federal government, defense-oriented industries, and American research universities.
D) an emphasis on individual scientific genius and entrepreneurship.
E) a belief that knowledge should be advanced without government involvement and interference.
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