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Course Introduction
This course offers an extensive overview of the history of the United States from its pre-Columbian roots to the present day. Students will explore key events, movements, and figures that have shaped the nation, including indigenous cultures, colonization, the American Revolution, the Civil War, industrialization, social reforms, global conflicts, and contemporary developments. Emphasis is placed on the diverse experiences of Americans, the evolution of democracy, and the interplay of social, political, and economic forces throughout US history. Through critical analysis of primary sources and historical interpretations, students will gain a deeper understanding of the nation's past and its impact on the modern world.
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The American Pageant 15th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Q1) The Great Ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because
A) it exposed a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America.
B) the glacial withdrawal allowed migration from South America.
C) the glacial withdrawal formed freshwater lakes that supported life.
D) when it ended, European migration to the west became possible.
E) it prevented the migration of dangerous animals from the Bering isthmus.
Answer: A
Q2) Europeans wanted to discover a new,shorter route to eastern Asia in order to A) break the hold that Muslim merchants had on trade with Asia.
B) reduce the price of goods from Asia.
C) gain more profits for themselves.
D) reduce the time it took to transport goods.
E) All of these
Answer: E
Q3) ____ Asia
Answer: 9
Q4) ____ India
Answer: 8
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Q1) Identify the statement that is false.
A) England's victory over the Spanish Armada helped ensure England's naval dominance in the North Atlantic.
B) England never experienced any religious unity or stability as it continued to have years and years of bloody warfare over religious radicalism.
C) England's victory over the Spanish Armada started England on its way to becoming master of the world oceans.
D) England had a strong, unified national state under a popular monarch.
E) England had a strong vibrant sense of nationalism and national destiny.
Answer: B
Q2) Two major exports of the Carolinas were
A) rice and Indian slaves.
B) sugar and corn.
C) tobacco and furs.
D) black slaves and cotton.
E) sugar and cotton.
Answer: A
Q3) ____ Virginia
Answer: 2
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) Roger Williams got into trouble with Massachusetts Bay authorities because he
A) questioned the legality of the Massachusetts Bay charter.
B) advocated Roman Catholicism.
C) claimed that the colony's civil government should not regulate religious behavior.
D) claimed to have had a direct revelation from God.
E) wanted to leave the colony.
Answer: A,C
Q2) Which of these is NOT a true statement about the fate of Anne Hutchinson?
A) She was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her beliefs.
B) She was pregnant when she headed with her family for Rhode Island.
C) She and most of her family members were killed by Indians in New York.
D) John Winthrop saw "God's hand" in her fate.
E) She preached to fellow residents of Salem.
Answer: E
Q3) ____ Philadelphia
Answer: 7
Q4) ____ Delaware
Answer: 10
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies,those in New England
A) had a more diversified economy.
B) expanded westward in a less orderly fashion.
C) had a more ethnically mixed population.
D) were more oriented toward the individual than toward community interests.
E) followed the land use pattern established by the local Indians.
Q2) The physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in
A) Maryland.
B) Virginia.
C) South Carolina.
D) Massachusetts.
E) Pennsylvania.
Q3) At the bottom of the social class in the South were the
A) landless farmers.
B) indentured servants.
C) small farmers.
D) slaves.
E) tenant farmers.
Q4) conversions
Q5) William Bradford
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Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) Jonathan Edwards
Q2) In colonial New England,education was primarily
A) for boys.
B) designed to promote good citizenship.
C) intended for religious instruction.
D) provided to foster independent thinking and aesthetic appreciation.
E) a blessing, even for the poor.
Q3) With regard to governmental authority,the Scots-Irish colonists
A) showed remarkable willingness to follow authority.
B) supported only Britain.
C) cherished no love for the British or any other government.
D) stated a preference for Catholic authority.
E) established good relations with local Indians.
Q4) Summarize the key features of the American population in the early eighteenth century.Consider its sources,size,location,diversity,and mobility.
Q5) Benjamin Franklin
Q6) What were the short-term and long-term consequences of the American colonists seeking foreign markets for their exports?
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Q7) Scots-Irish
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Chapter 6: The Duel for North America,1608-1763
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Q1) Which of these statements does NOT describe relations between British and colonial troops during the Seven Years' War?
A) The British looked down on the colonists as amateurish and contemptible.
B) The colonists considered themselves to be on the cutting edge of British civilization.
C) The British were dismayed by American shippers trafficking goods to enemy ports of the Spanish and French.
D) All colonists freely donated money and men to the cause.
E) the British refused to recognize any American militia commission above the rank of captain.
Q2) War of Jenkin's Ear
Q3) Chief Pontiac decided to try to drive the British out of the Ohio Valley because
A) the British were weak as a result of the Seven Years' War.
B) the British had deliberately infected Indians with smallpox.
C) of the Proclamation of 1763.
D) the Indians were in a precarious position.
E) the French government had promised to help.
Q4) Albany Congress
Q5) Fort Duquesne
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty
Q2) Navigation Acts
Q3) The radical whigs feared
A) too much democracy.
B) a written constitution.
C) the arbitrary power of the monarchy.
D) a too powerful parliament.
E) republicanism.
Q4) In some ways,the Navigation Laws and mercantilist system were a burden to certain colonists because
A) northern merchants derived greater benefit from the system than did southern planters.
B) those colonists were heavily taxed to help provide financing for the Royal Navy, which protected colonial and British trade.
C) they stifled economic initiative.
D) Britain had the only European empire based on mercantilist principles.
E) they gave greater benefits to slaveholders.
Q5) George Grenville
Q6) Board of Trade
Q7) boycott
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8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) Bunker Hill
Q2) ____ Albany
Q3) John Burgoyne
Q4) Hessians
Q5) The commander of French troops in America was
A) Rochambeau.
B) Lafayette.
C) de Grasse.
D) Burgoyne.
E) Howe.
Q6) ____ Saratoga
Q7) The colonists delayed declaring their independence until July 4,1776,for all of the following reasons except
A) lack of military victories.
B) support for the tradition of loyalty to the empire.
C) the realization that the colonies were not united.
D) fear of British military reprisals.
E) a continued belief that America was part of the transatlantic community.
Q8) Comte de Rochambeau
Q9) ____ Newport
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) consent of the governed
Q2) Alexander Hamilton
Q3) The federalists believe that the sovereignty of the people resided in which branch of the central government?
A) Executive
B) Legislative
C) Judicial
D) None of these
E) All of these
Q4) Continental army officers attempting to form the Society of the Cincinnati
A) were brought to trial for trying to sabotage the civil government.
B) were ridiculed for their lordly pretensions.
C) were trying to force the Congress to pay them their pensions.
D) reflected the Revolutionary War generation's spirit of equality.
E) represented the best of the officer corps.
Q5) sovereignty
Q6) Shays's Rebellion
Q7) nonimportation agreements
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) One of George Washington's major contributions as president was
A) keeping the nation out of foreign wars.
B) the signing of Jay's Treaty.
C) his advice against forming permanent alliances with foreign nations.
D) securing a pledge from Britain to stop arming Indians on the western lands.
E) establishing the political party system.
Q2) Thomas Jefferson appealed to all of the following groups except A) small shopkeepers.
B) the underprivileged.
C) the middle class.
D) the upper class.
E) artisans.
Q3) Judiciary Act of 1789
Q4) Alexander Hamilton
Q5) excise tax
Q6) John Adams called his peaceful resolution of the problems with France in 1800 "the most splendid diamond in my crown." Why did he think so? Was his pride justified? Why or why not?
Q7) Which sectional and economic groups generally supported the Federalists and which the Democratic-Republicans? Why?
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Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) Louisiana Purchase Treaty
Q2) Sally Hemings
Q3) One of the greatest problems that John Adams and the Federalists faced in the election of 1800 was
A) Adams's efforts to get America involved in a war with France.
B) increased public debt brought on by war preparations.
C) Adams's refusal to take the country to war against France.
D) Alexander Hamilton's support of Adams.
E) the stories circulating about Adams's relationship with a slave woman.
Q4) ____ Oregon Country
Q5) In the 1800 election,Thomas Jefferson won the state of New York because
A) of a reaction against Alexander Hamilton, Jefferson's enemy.
B) Aaron Burr used his influence to turn the state to Jefferson.
C) of the high taxes passed by the Adams administration.
D) Napoleon promised to sell the Louisiana Territory only to Jefferson.
E) Jefferson had a natural appeal for New York's urban ethnic voters.
Q6) economic coercion
Q7) Judiciary Act of 1789
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) sectionalism
Q2) John Marshall's rulings almost single-handedly shaped Constitutional interpretation in the direction of
A) strict adherence to the letter of the Constitution.
B) upholding individual liberties.
C) preserving the balance of power between Congress and the president.
D) nationalistic centralism and conservatism.
E) states' rights over the federal government.
Q3) Why was the West the region most seized with the spirit of nationalism following the War of 1812?
Q4) The Panic of 1819
A) created a setback for postwar nationalism.
B) was particularly damaging to the West.
C) led to the Land Act of 1820.
D) resulted in legislation against imprisonment for debt in many states.
E) saw the election of a Whig president in 1820.
Q5) Thomas Macdonough
Q6) nonintervention
Q7) Florida Purchase Treaty of 1819
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) Nicholas Biddle
Q2) John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except
A) his strong nationalistic ideology.
B) his support for elitist proposals like a national university.
C) his personal coldness and tactlessness with people.
D) the charges of "corrupt bargain" hanging over his presidency.
E) his encouragement of his supporters to "sling mud" at Jackson.
Q3) John Quincy Adams,elected president in 1825,was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed ____ to become ____.
A) John C. Calhoun, vice president
B) William Crawford, chief justice of the United States
C) Henry Clay, secretary of state
D) Daniel Webster, secretary of state
E) John Eaton, secretary of the navy
Q4) independent treasury
Q5) Write your definition of a great president.Then use this definition to argue that Andrew Jackson was or was not a great president.
Q6) ____ Goliad
Q7) nullification
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Q1) In the case of Commonwealth v.Hunt,the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that A) corporations were unconstitutional.
B) labor unions were not illegal conspiracies.
C) labor strikes were illegal by violating the Fair Labor Acts.
D) the Boston Associates' employment of young women in their factories was inhumane.
E) the state could regulate factory wages and working conditions.
Q2) All of the following are true statements about German immigrants except A) they typically settled in Northeast coastal cities.
B) they tended to be better educated than mainstream Americans.
C) they supported public schools, the arts, and music.
D) they championed freedom and fought to end slavery.
E) they settled in compact colonies to preserve their language and culture.
Q3) The text's authors claim that on the eve of the Civil War,"a truly continental economy had emerged ...[in which] the principle of division of labor ...applied on a national scale." Briefly explain the operation of this national economy and its political implications.
Q4) What traits,fostered by America's early-nineteenth-century frontier experience,are less than admirable? Why did they become American traits?
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) Peter Cartwright
Q2) Shakers
Q3) Two areas where women in the nineteenth century were widely thought to be superior to men were
A) physical strength and mental vigor.
B) moral sensibility and artistic refinement.
C) political ability and organizational shrewdness.
D) sexual appetite and physical desire.
E) economic competitiveness and capacity for education.
Q4) William Miller
Q5) In early-nineteenth-century America,
A) the lines between male and female roles in society were becoming blurred. B) women could not vote.
C) married women could not retain ownership of their property.
D) women were growing less aware of themselves as individuals and as one another's sisters.
E) women turned away from patriarchal religion.
Q6) Millerites
Q7) James Russell Lowell
Q8) American Temperance Society
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as
A) supporting their right to full citizenship.
B) disliking the race but liking individual blacks.
C) advocating black movement into the new territories.
D) politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.
E) disliking the individuals but liking the race.
Q2) Most white southerners were
A) planter aristocrats.
B) small slaveowners.
C) merchants and artisans.
D) "poor white trash."
E) subsistence farmers.
Q3) Before the Civil War,free blacks
A) were far more numerous in the North than in the South.
B) were often the mulatto offspring of white fathers and black mothers.
C) were often forbidden basic civil rights.
D) found their greatest friends and sympathizers in poor Irish immigrants.
E) were disliked in the North as well as the South.
Q4) It has been argued that both Britain and the North were tied to the South with "cotton threads." Explain.
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) All of the following were legacies of the U.S.war with Mexico,except
A) Mexicans have never forgotten that the U.S. tore away about half of their country.
B) the war resulted in a negative turning point in U.S. relations with Latin America.
C) it reinvigorated the slavery issue and debates about extending slavery.
D) Latin America solidified their friendly relations with the U.S.
E) roughly 13,000 American soldiers died, mostly from disease.
Q2) Winfield Scott
Q3) President John Tyler vetoed the Whig congress's proposal to A) end the independent treasury system.
B) create a new national bank.
C) distribute public land sales revenue to the states.
D) annex Texas.
E) solve the Maine boundary dispute.
Q4) joint resolution
Q5) Oregon fever
Q6) Bear Flag revolt
Q7) Tariff of 1842
Q8) James K.Polk
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) The primary objective of Manifest Destiny expansionists in the 1850s was A) Panama.
B) Nicaragua.
C) Cuba.
D) Hawaii.
E) the Dominican Republic.
Q2) The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning
A) slavery in the District of Columbia.
B) slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories.
C) the new Fugitive Slave Law.
D) settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute.
E) continuation of the interstate slave trade.
Q3) In the debates of 1850,Senator William H.Seward,as a representative of the northern Young Guard,argued that
A) the Constitution must be obeyed.
B) John C. Calhoun's compromise plan must be adopted to preserve the Union.
C) Christian legislators must obey God's moral law.
D) compromise must be achieved to preserve the Union.
E) African Americans should be granted their own territory.
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) To what extent was the Crittenden Compromise a way to avoid Civil War? What modifications might have made it more attractive to both Lincoln and the South?
Q2) The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of ____ in the territories.
A) abolitionism
B) free soil
C) popular sovereignty
D) slavery
E) cotton growing
Q3) As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
A) Lincoln was elected to the Senate.
B) Lincoln's national stature was diminished.
C) Douglas increased his chances of winning the presidency.
D) Illinois rejected the concept of popular sovereignty.
E) Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate.
Q4) What were the implications of the Dred Scott decision for
a.the status of free blacks in the United States?
b.the concept of popular sovereignty?
c.the future of slavery in America?
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q1) The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its A) military leadership.
B) navy.
C) slave population.
D) economy.
E) political system.
Q2) During the Civil War,Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by A) the incompetence of Charles Francis Adams, the United States ambassador to London.
B) Britain's refusal to observe the Union's blockade of Southern ports.
C) the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ship.
D) Napoleon III's effort to place Maximilian on the Mexican throne.
E) British working-class support for the South.
Q3) Explain why Britain finally decided against intervention on behalf of the Confederacy.In what ways was Britain helpful to the South anyway?
Q4) William H.Seward
Q5) National Banking Act
Q6) Butternut Region
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the
A) Union victory over the Confederates at Gettysburg.
B) surrender terms of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.
C) Emancipation Proclamation.
D) statutes of the individual states.
E) Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Q2) The Man Without a Country
Q3) William T.Sherman
Q4) After the Peninsula Campaign,Union strategy included all of the following except
A) cutting the Confederacy in half by seizing the Mississippi River.
B) marching through Georgia and then the Carolinas.
C) blockading the Confederacy's coastline.
D) liberating the slaves to undermine the southern economy.
E) striking deep into the Confederacy via the Appalachian Mountain chain.
Q5) ____ Montgomery
Q6) Gettysburg Address
Q7) Salmon P.Chase
Q8) ____ Vicksburg
Q9) John Wilkes Booth
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Q1) For congressional Republicans,one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states' quick restoration to the Union was that
A) with the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics.
B) pro-Union southern politicians would be weak and inexperienced.
C) the majority white South might be represented by black Congressmen.
D) a high tariff might be reinstituted.
E) slavery might be re-established.
Q2) Assess the achievements and shortcomings of "radical" regimes in the South.What did they do that is worth admiring and worth condemning? What else might they have done to better achieve their goals?
Q3) From 1878 to 1880,some twenty-five thousand blacks from Louisiana,Texas,and Mississippi were known as the Exodusters; they were
A) black church leaders who linked emancipation to the Book of Exodus.
B) black migrants from the South to Northern cities.
C) black freedman who left the South to seek opportunity in Kansas.
D) a political organization developed by the freedmen.
E) black homesteaders in Oklahoma and Kansas who eventually fled the dust bowl.
Q4) Charles Sumner
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q2) The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
A) civil-service reform.
B) the big trust question.
C) the currency question.
D) foreign policy.
E) tariff policy.
Q3) Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader
A) Tom Watson.
B) William Jennings Bryan.
C) William McKinley.
D) J. Pierpont Morgan.
E) Adlai E. Stevenson.
Q4) contraction
Q5) "Rum,Romanism,and Rebellion"
Q6) spoils system
Q7) Tom Watson
Q8) Jim Crow
Q9) Bland-Allison Act
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) lockout
Q2) The first transcontinental railroad was completed by the construction efforts of which of the following railroads?
A) Union Pacific
B) Northern Pacific
C) Central Pacific
D) Southern Pacific
E) Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
Q3) Leland Stanford
Q4) yellow dog contract
Q5) All of the following were important factors in post-Civil War industrial expansion except
A) a large pool of unskilled labor.
B) an abundance of natural resources.
C) American ingenuity and inventiveness.
D) immigration restrictions.
E) a political climate favoring business.
Q6) rebate
Q7) Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Q8) Gibson Girl
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q1) The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was the
A) development of the skyscraper.
B) availability of industrial jobs.
C) compact nature of those large communities.
D) advent of new housing structures known as dumbbell tenements.
E) lure of cultural excitement.
Q2) Which post-Civil War writers best reflected the social concerns of the new urban age? Which writers reflected a nostalgic interest in the American or European past? Which tendency do you admire most,and why?
Q3) National Consumers League
Q4) Sears/Montgomery Ward
Q5) World's Columbian Exposition
Q6) liberal Protestantism
Q7) Why did sensational journalism and scandal-mongering expand,even as Americans' levels of education and cultural achievement increased?
Q8) Theodore Dreiser
Q9) Henry James
Q10) The Education of Henry Adams
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Revolution,1865-1896
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Q1) One key to the Republican victory in the 1896 presidential election was
A) McKinley's ability to create divisions between western and southern farmers.
B) the huge financial and propaganda effort of Mark Hanna and the Republicans.
C) McKinley's ability to make the tariff issue more important than free silver.
D) the wide travel and numerous speeches made by William McKinley.
E) the ability of Republicans to disrupt the solid South.
Q2) Factors eventually leading to the defeat of the Plains Indians included
A) the arrival of the railroads in the West.
B) disease.
C) near-extermination of the buffalo.
D) warfare with the U.S. army.
E) extinction of Indian religious beliefs.
Q3) The wild frontier towns where the three major cattle trails from Texas ended were
A) Kansas City, Kansas; Pueblo, Colorado; and Laramie, Wyoming.
B) Tulsa, Oklahoma; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Denver, Colorado.
C) Topeka, Kansas; Omaha, Nebraska; and Casper, Wyoming.
D) Abilene, Kansas; Ogalalla, Nebraska; and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
E) Atchison, Kansas; Greeley, Colorado; and Bozeman, Montana.
Q4) Bonanza farms
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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Q2) Explain the rationale for President Cleveland's refusal to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.Could Hawaii have remained independent under either native Hawaiian rule or white planter rule? Why or why not?
Q3) America's initial Open Door policy was essentially an argument to promote
A) free trade in China.
B) equal spheres of influence in China.
C) military protection for the Chinese emperor.
D) exclusive trade concessions for the U.S. in Shanghai.
E) the principle of self-determination.
Q4) ____ Either one of the two nations whose boundary dispute in 1895 nearly involved the United States in war.
Q5) Assess Theodore Roosevelt's conduct of American foreign policy,especially in Latin America and East Asia.Did Roosevelt's vigorous assertion of American interests enhance the United States' role in these regions or create resentment of the United States as just another imperialistic great power?
Q6) Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Q7) Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Q8) "twisting the lion's tail"
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican
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A) American workers' refusal to see themselves as a separate class.
B) the western frontier provided a safety valve that allowed workers to leave oppressive employers.
C) law and government policy prevented workers from uniting and protesting.
D) workers' remarkably high standard of living.
E) workers had full political economy long before the forces of industrialization developed.
Q2) Eugene V.Debs
Q3) 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?
Q4) Thorstein Veblen
Q5) The Call of the Wild
Q6) William Jennings Bryan
Q7) Florence Kelley
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q2) Unlike Theodore Roosevelt,Woodrow Wilson tended to
A) favor progressive reform.
B) lack the common touch.
C) find it difficult to compromise.
D) believe that the president should defer to congressional leadership.
E) be uninterested in ideas.
Q3) The 1912 presidential election was notable because
A) it gave the voters a clear choice of political and economic philosophies.
B) personalities were the only issue of the campaign.
C) it was the first time women had the right to vote.
D) the Democratic party had split.
E) the fourth-party Socialists had a serious chance to win.
Q4) German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships without warning
A) when the United States entered the war.
B) in retaliation for the British naval blockade of Germany.
C) in an effort to keep the United States out of the war.
D) because international law now allowed this new style of warfare.
E) in a last-ditch effort to win the war.
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) self-determination
Q2) Women's Bureau
Q3) Women's participation in the war effort contributed greatly to the fact that they
A) became a large, permanent part of the American workforce.
B) finally received the right to vote.
C) were allowed to join the air force.
D) organized the National Women's party.
E) All of these
Q4) Georges Clemenceau
Q5) The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces engaged were
A) Ypres and the Ardennes Forest.
B) Verdun and the Somme.
C) Gallipoli and Locarno.
D) Jutland and Trafalgar.
E) St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Q6) collective security
Q7) Eugene V.Debs
Q8) "peace without victory"
Q9) George Creel
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Chapter 31: American Life in the "Roaring
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Q2) Jazz music was developed by A) Latinos.
B) Caribbean immigrants.
C) Caucasian impresarios.
D) American teenagers.
E) American blacks.
Q3) To justify their new sexual frankness,many Americans pointed to
A) increased consumption of alcohol.
B) the decline of fundamentalism.
C) the rise of the women's movement.
D) the theories of Sigmund Freud.
E) the influence of erotically explicit movies.
Q4) Fundamentalists
Q5) Claude McKay
Q6) George H.Ruth
Q7) F.Scott Fitzgerald
Q8) The Weary Blues
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Q10) The Man Nobody Knows
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932
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Q1) America's major foreign-policy problem in the 1920s was addressed by the Dawes Plan,which
A) ended the big-stick policy of armed intervention in Central America and the Caribbean.
B) established a ratio of allowable naval strength between the United States, Britain, and Japan.
C) condemned the Japanese aggression against Manchuria.
D) aimed to prevent German re-armament.
E) provided a solution to the tangle of war-debt and war-reparations payments.
Q2) When elected to the presidency in 1928,Herbert Hoover
A) was militantly antilabor and against big government.
B) brought little administrative talent or experience to the job.
C) understood that his major challenge was to find a solution to the Great Depression.
D) combined small-town values with wide experience in modern corporate America.
E) had been a successful governor of California.
Q3) Calvin Coolidge
Q4) Teapot Dome
Q5) Charles Dawes
Q6) Stimson doctrine
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Q2) Franklin Roosevelt's qualities as a leader included
A) pugnaciousness and eagerness to take on controversy.
B) poor public speaking ability.
C) optimism.
D) personal charm and persuasiveness.
E) willingness to experiment.
Q3) President Roosevelt's Court-packing scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make the Supreme Court
A) more conservative.
B) more independent of Congress.
C) more sympathetic to New Deal programs.
D) less burdened with appellate cases.
E) more respectful of the Constitution's original intent.
Q4) Keynesianism
Q5) Mary McLeod Bethune
Q6) Charles Coughlin
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q1) To what extent did American diplomacy and economic policy provoke war with Japan? What might the United States have done to delay or even prevent war with Japan? Why wasn't that done?
Q2) Those opposed to the Lend-Lease program,such as members of Massachusetts' Woman's Political Club,feared that
A) the lending countries would default on their debt.
B) it was in violation of America's strict neutrality.
C) it would eventually draw the nation into the war itself.
D) All of these
E) None of these
Q3) Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to A) revoke all the neutrality laws.
B) expand naval patrols in the Atlantic.
C) enact a new neutrality law enabling the Allies to buy American war materials on a cash-and-carry basis.
D) call for the quarantining of aggressor nations.
E) pass a conscription law.
Q4) Rome-Berlin axis
Q5) Nazi party
Q6) Battle of Britain
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Chapter 35: America in World War II,1941-1945
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Q1) In sharp contrast to World War I,during World War II,the United States was
A) ready to use conscription if necessary to raise an army.
B) forced to sacrifice civilian economic well-being for the military effort.
C) weakened by constant isolationist criticism of the war effort.
D) nearly unanimous in support of the war.
E) actually invaded by enemy forces.
Q2) flying "over the hump"
Q3) In what ways did the United States emerge from World War II fundamentally changed? Consider national power,economic health,race,and gender relations.
Q4) second front
Q5) "Rosie the Riveter"
Q6) World War II is sometimes called "the good war." Is this a legitimate designation? What features of the war most obviously make it seem good? What aspects of the war were morally troubling?
Q7) Casablanca Conference
Q8) Congress of Racial Equality
Q9) Douglas MacArthur
Q10) Guadalcanal
Q11) Battle of the Bulge
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Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins,1945-1952
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Q3) The continued growth of the suburbs led to
A) increased school integration.
B) better entertainment opportunities in the cities.
C) an increase in urban poverty.
D) a decrease in urban crime.
E) more efficient transportation.
Q4) Republicans used the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war to claim that A) China now posed a greater threat to the United States than the Soviet Union. B) the United States should force a showdown with China over Korea.
C) Japan should be given access to nuclear weapons as soon as possible.
D) pro-Communist elements in the Truman administration had prevented Jiang Jieshi from winning.
E) East Asia should be given a lesser priority in American policy than Europe.
Q5) Frostbelt
Q6) Should the victory of the Communists in the Chinese civil war in 1949 be judged as a failure of American foreign policy? Why or why not?
Q7) Benjamin Spock
Q8) Nuremberg trials
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Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960
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Q1) In the epochal 1954 decision in Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka,the Supreme Court
A) declared that the concept of "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional.
B) upheld its earlier decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
C) rejected desegregation.
D) supported the "Declaration of Constitutional Principles" issued by Congress.
E) ordered immediate and total integration of all American schools.
Q2) The Lonely Crowd
Q3) John F.Kennedy
Q4) Martin Luther King,Jr.
Q5) Swedish writer Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma essentially argued that A) altering racial segregation would create great problems for America's neighborhoods and schools.
B) the divisions over race might well lead to a new North-South conflict.
C) the civil rights movement was bound to overturn segregation.
D) the United States would become a more and more racist society.
E) America's racial segregation was a hypocritical contradiction of its democratic ideals.
Q6) Rosa Parks
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Q1) At the time of his death,President John Kennedy's civil rights bill
A) had been passed, much to the satisfaction of African Americans.
B) had been passed, but greatly weakened by amendments.
C) was still bogged down in Congress.
D) was on the desk waiting to be signed into law.
E) was locked in a filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
Q2) Stokely Carmichael
Q3) When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba,President Kennedy ordered
A) the installation of nuclear weapons in Turkey.
B) surgical air strikes against the missile sites.
C) the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
D) resumption of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
E) a naval quarantine of that island.
Q4) Curtis LeMay
Q5) Do you think that President Kennedy promised more as a candidate than he delivered as president? Focus on his domestic reform proposals and be specific.What did he promise,and what did he accomplish?
Q6) Tet offensive
Q7) Viet Cong
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Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980
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Q1) The Helsinki accords,signed by Gerald Ford and leaders of thirty-four other nations,
A) legitimated Soviet-dictated boundaries in Eastern Europe, while spawning human rights efforts there.
B) rejected the Soviet-directed boundary of Poland.
C) proved to many Americans that détente was still a two-way street.
D) was condemned by West Germany as meaningless.
E) were strongly opposed by the new Polish pope, John Paul II.
Q2) What were the major disagreements between liberal second wave feminists and more radical feminists? What principles and achievements united them?
Q3) Vietnamization
Q4) The top-secret Pentagon Papers,leaked and published in 1971
A) revealed President Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal.
B) documented the North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
C) exposed President Nixon's secret bombing war of Cambodia.
D) was the first the American public knew of the Nixon Doctrine.
E) exposed the deception that had led the United States into the Vietnam War.
Q5) Wounded Knee
Q6) Roe v.Wade
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Q2) One of the more disturbing trends that became apparent in the 1990s was
A) a movement toward more equitable income distribution.
B) a decline in median household incomes and a squeeze on the middle class.
C) an increasing number of working class Americans now moving into the middle class.
D) a dramatic drop in home ownership and mortgage lending.
E) the solidification of the welfare state.
Q3) Glasnost
Q4) Before being elected president,Ronald Reagan's experience in elected public office had been as
A) senator from California.
B) governor of California.
C) Orange County, California, supervisor.
D) governor of Nevada.
E) Washington lobbyist for General Electric.
Q5) Norman Podhoretz
Q6) Argue for and against: Ronald Reagan's ability to negotiate successful arms agreements with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev could not have happened if he had not been so aggressively anti-Soviet in his first term.
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Q2) H.Ross Perot
Q3) In the beginning of the Clinton administration,First Lady Hillary Clinton was heavily criticized for
A) taking too large a role in managing her husband's administration.
B) considering running for office in her own right.
C) not publicly criticizing her husband's sexual affairs.
D) developing an excessively complex health care plan that was quickly dropped by Congress.
E) advocating too strongly for the role of women in the administration.
Q4) How did the Bush administration respond at home and abroad to the terrorist attacks of 2001? Which elements of its response were met with general approval,and which caused heightened political controversy?
Q5) William Rehnquist
Q6) ____ Iraq
Q7) ____ Jordan
Q8) New Democrats
Q9) John McCain
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Q1) Is the change in America's place in the world caused by the attacks of September 11,2001,likely to increase our international involvement and leadership,or to make America more fearful and inclined to unilateral actions?
Q2) Mexican American mutual aid societies or Mutualistas provided
A) a way for money to be transferred to relatives back in Mexico.
B) recreation, aid for the sick and disabled, and defense against discrimination.
C) a political alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties.
D) artistic, intellectual, and religious outlets for the immigrant community.
E) a way to maintain Mexican citizenship within the United States.
Q3) blogosphere
Q4) Jonas Salk
Q5) All of the following proved to be characteristics of the new information age economy except
A) instant global communications.
B) high-tech computer and media businesses.
C) the decline of traditional occupations mediating between products and clients.
D) an end to the boom-and-bust capitalist business cycle.
E) outsourcing of white collar American jobs to Third World countries.
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