Introduction to American Studies Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Introduction to American Studies explores the diverse cultures, histories, and social dynamics that shape the United States, examining key themes such as identity, race, class, gender, and national myths. Students engage with a range of interdisciplinary materials literature, film, art, music, and historical documents to analyze how American experiences and values have been constructed and contested over time. The course encourages critical thinking about the roots and complexities of American society, while considering how cultural narratives influence both the nation and its global perception.
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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings,33,000
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Q1) ____ England
Answer: 5
Q2) Columbus called the native people in the "New World" Indians because
A) that was what they called themselves.
B) he believed that he had skirted the rim of the "Indies."
C) it was a form of the Spanish word for heathen.
D) the Vikings had first called them by that name.
E) the Spanish often used this generic word, which meant "outsider" or "non-Spanish."
Answer: B
Q3) The stage was set for a cataclysmic shift in the course of history when
A) Europeans increasingly demanded less expensive goods from Asia.
B) Africa was established as a source of slave labor.
C) the Portuguese demonstrated the feasibility of long-range ocean navigation.
D) the Renaissance nurtured a spirit of optimism and adventure.
E) All of these
Answer: E
Q4) ____ North America
Answer: 2
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Q1) Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A)Reformation,(B)founding of Jamestown colony,(C)Restoration,(D)defeat of the Spanish Armada,and (E)colony of Georgia founded.
A) A, B, C, D, E
B) C, A, D, B, E
C) D, A, B, C, E
D) A, D, B, C, E
E) E, D, A, C, B
Answer: D
Q2) The colony of Georgia was founded
A) by a joint-stock company.
B) as a defensive buffer against Spain for the valuable Carolinas. C) by eight proprietors chosen by Charles II.
D) in the seventeenth century.
E) to supply New England with much-needed African slaves.
Answer: B
Q3) ____ North Carolina
Answer: 3
Q4) Jamestown
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) The middle colonies were notable for their
A) lack of good river transportation.
B) unusual degree of democratic control.
C) lack of industry.
D) status as the least "American" of the colonies.
E) established churches.
Answer: B
Q2) Factors leading to the first major European migration include
A) a population explosion.
B) economic depression.
C) better quality oceangoing vessels.
D) religious repression.
E) the use of African slaves.
Answer: A,B,D
Q3) ____ Boston
Answer: 5
Q4) ____ Philadelphia
Answer: 7
Q5) ____ Connecticut River
Answer: 3
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) indentured servitude
Q2) Bacon's Rebellion
Q3) William Berkeley
Q4) 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.
Q5) Assess the validity of the following statement,"slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,but by the end of the seventeenth century,it was clear that racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system."
Q6) Whether slave or free,North or South,which of the following was universally true about men and women?
A) Women cooked, cleaned and cared for children.
B) Women were the primary farmers.
C) Men cleared the land and planted the crops.
D) Children gathered berries.
E) Children helped with all chores and picked up an education when possible.
Q7) slave codes
Q8) jeremiads
Q9) freedom dues
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Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of
Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) What proportion of the British merchant marine fleet was American built?
A) One-fourth
B) One-third
C) Two-thirds
D) Three-fifths
E) None
Q2) English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because
A) they were concerned about the eternal souls of the colonists.
B) the church would act as a major prop for royal authority.
C) such an action would restore enthusiasm for religion.
D) the American colonists supported such a move.
E) such an action brought in more money to England.
Q3) John Peter Zenger
Q4) old and new lights
Q5) naval stores
Q6) praying towns
Q7) heresies
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Q9) Regulator movement
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Q1) War of Jenkin's Ear
Q2) Why did the Ohio Valley become the arena of conflict between the French and British in America?
Q3) In the colonial wars before 1754,Americans
A) functioned as a unified fighting force.
B) received more support from France than Britain.
C) demonstrated an astonishing lack of unity.
D) were not involved in combat.
E) rarely involved Indians in the fighting.
Q4) During the early settlement of Quebec,French-Indian relations
A) proved to be friendly and peaceful.
B) led to France's lasting alliance with the Iroquois.
C) were marked by tension and violence with the Hurons.
D) meant an alliance with the Hurons that inspired the lasting hatred of the Iroquois.
E) angered the British.
Q5) Samuel de Champlain
Q6) Iroquois
Q7) Benjamin Franklin
Q8) George Washington
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) admiralty courts
Q2) List the following in order of their importance to colonial protest: pamphlets,boycotts,mob action,and committees of correspondence.Justify your ranking.
Q3) Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A)clash at Lexington and Concord,(B)meeting of the First Continental Congress,(C)Quebec Act,and (D)Boston Tea Party.
A) C, D, A, B
B) B, A, C, D
C) D, C, B, A
D) A, B, D, C
E) A, D, C, B
Q4) As a result of Parliament's rejection of the petitions of the Continental Congress
A) Americans reluctantly obeyed the British laws.
B) fighting and bloodshed took place, and war began.
C) Sam Adams and John Hancock were arrested.
D) America sent new petitions to Parliament.
E) Ben Franklin returned to the colonies since his efforts failed.
Q5) The Association
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Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) ____ Albany
Q2) Horatio Gates
Q3) ____ Yorktown
Q4) Thomas Paine's pamphlet,Common Sense
A) was published before any fighting took place between the colonists and the British.
B) remained unpopular for several years before being accepted by the public.
C) called for American independence and the creation of a democratic republic.
D) called on the British people to overthrow the king.
E) led to Paine's eventual arrest and imprisonment in America.
Q5) Bunker Hill
Q6) Patriots/Whigs
Q7) 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.
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) The new Constitution established the idea that the only legitimate government was one based on
A) a strong central government.
B) an unwritten constitution.
C) the authority of the state.
D) control by wealthier people.
E) the consent of the governed.
Q2) Adopted almost a decade before the federal constitution,the ____ constitution remains the longest-lived in the world.
A) Massachusetts
B) Virginia
C) Maryland
D) Rhode Island
E) Connecticut
Q3) The Second Continental Congress of Revolutionary days
A) operated with strong constitutional authority.
B) still did not comprise representatives from all thirteen states.
C) took away the sovereignty of the states.
D) was little more than a conference of ambassadors with very limited power.
E) did little of lasting value.
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) The Treaty of Greenville signed in August with the Miami Confederation resulted in all of the following except
A) giving to the United States vast tracts of land in the Old Northwest.
B) the Indians receiving a $20,000 lump sum payment.
C) an annual annuity of $9,000 to the Indians.
D) the right of the Indians to hunt the land they had ceded.
E) the establishment of an equal relationship with the Indians.
Q2) How would you have voted on funding,assumption,the National Bank,and protective tariffs in Hamilton's program? Explain why you would advocate strict or loose constructionism.
Q3) Hamilton expected that the revenue to pay the interest on the national debt would come from
A) sales taxes and licensing fees.
B) customs duties and excise tax.
C) income and property taxes.
D) western land sales and foreign loans.
E) foreign aid.
Q4) ____ Old Northwest
Q5) What was the relationship between the French Revolution and American domestic politics in the 1790s?
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Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian
Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) ____ Louisiana Purchase of 1803
Q2) Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision was to
A) purchase Louisiana from France.
B) send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean.
C) drive the British out of the northwest forts.
D) purchase Florida from Spain.
E) form an alliance with Spain.
Q3) After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel,Aaron Burr
A) fled to France.
B) fled to England.
C) was arrested and found guilty of murder.
D) was arrested and found innocent of murder.
E) plotted to divide the United States.
Q4) Albert Gallatin
Q5) William Clark
Q6) Macon's Bill No.2
Q7) Toussaint L'Ouverture
Q8) "midnight judges"
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) Russo-American Treaty of 1824
Q2) The delegates of the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions that included a call for
A) a Constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress before war was declared.
B) New England's secession from the Union.
C) a separate peace treaty between New England and the British.
D) the dissolution of the Federalist party.
E) war with England.
Q3) 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.
Q4) Hartford Convention
Q5) Washington Irving
Q6) Treaty of 1818
Q7) ____ Lake of the Woods
Q8) ____ Missouri Territory Page 17
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) William Henry Harrison,the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840,was
A) a true "common man."
B) a very effective chief executive.
C) made to look like a poor western farmer.
D) born in a log cabin.
E) the first military officer to become president.
Q2) The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for
A) South Carolina.
B) Andrew Jackson and the Union.
C) states' rights.
D) neither Andrew Jackson nor the nullifiers.
E) the industrialists.
Q3) In the 1820s and 1830s,the two issues that greatly raised the political stakes were
A) westward expansion and Indian removal.
B) the end of property qualifications for voting and political conventions.
C) the admission of Texas and Oregon to the Union.
D) hard money and banking regulation.
E) slavery and economic distress.
Q4) John C.Calhoun
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Q1) market revolution
Q2) ____ Lake Huron
Q3) Explain the impact of the market revolution on American workers,including women.
Q4) Carl Schurz
Q5) ____ Erie Canal
Q6) What traits,fostered by America's early-nineteenth-century frontier experience,are less than admirable? Why did they become American traits?
Q7) 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.
Q8) ecological imperialism
Q9) ____ Ohio and Erie Canal
Q10) Pony Express
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) John J.Audubon
Q2) Declaration of Sentiments
Q3) Noah Webster's dictionary
A) had little impact until the twentieth century.
B) helped to standardize the American language.
C) was used to educate nineteenth-century slaves.
D) came to the United States from Britain in the 1800s.
E) gave legitimacy to American slang.
Q4) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Q5) American Temperance Society
Q6) Explain why the Mormons became a target for religious intolerance in America.
Q7) Church attendance was still a regular ritual for ____ of the 23 million Americans in 1850.
A) one-third
B) one-half
C) three-fourths
D) less than one-fourth
E) two-thirds
Q8) Washington Irving
Q9) Noah Webster
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) The profitable southern slave system
A) hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole.
B) saw many slaves moving to the upper South.
C) led to the textile industry's development in the South first.
D) relied almost totally on importing slaves to meet the unquenchable demand for labor.
E) enabled the South to afford economic and educational progress.
Q2) By 1860,slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the
A) border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland.
B) Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
C) old South states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
D) new Southwest states of Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.
E) mountain regions of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
Q3) Elijah P.Lovejoy
Q4) Describe the arguments and the ways in which the South reacted to antislavery arguments after the 1830s.
Q5) Harriet Beecher Stowe
Q6) abolitionism
Q7) Theodore Dwight Weld
Q8) Nat Turner
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) 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.
Q2) List the following items in order of their importance as contributors to American expansion to the Pacific: land hunger,trade opportunities,suspicion of British intentions,and Manifest Destiny.Justify your ranking and explain how each item contributed to territorial expansion.
Q3) Points of controversy between the United States and Mexico in 1845-1846 included
A) damage claims by American citizens against the Mexican government.
B) the immigration of Mormons into Mexican territory.
C) exclusion of Mexico from the Oregon boundary settlement.
D) the refusal of the Mexican government to receive Polk's envoy, John Slidell.
E) American annexation of Texas.
Q4) Oregon fever
Q5) joint resolution
Q6) Caroline
Q7) Hudson's Bay Company
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) In 1850,the South was deeply worried because
A) the Underground Railroad was carrying away hundreds of slaves each year.
B) the price of cotton was low.
C) the Supreme Court had a northern majority.
D) California sought admission as a free state.
E) U.S. presidents were favoring the North.
Q2) The event that threatened to destroy the longstanding balance of free and slave states in the United States Senate was the
A) passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
B) potential admission of Oregon as a free state.
C) attempt to acquire Cuba as a slave state.
D) proposed building of a southern transcontinental railroad.
E) discovery of gold in California and its bid for statehood.
Q3) Of those people going to California during the gold rush
A) the majority had come from foreign nations.
B) slaves constituted a sizable minority.
C) the majority gained considerable financial rewards.
D) most were interested in free-soil farming.
E) a distressingly high proportion were lawless men.
Q4) Lewis Cass
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry,the South concluded that
A) the raid was an isolated incident.
B) the U.S. army could not protect slavery.
C) Brown should be put in an insane asylum.
D) Brown had been attempting to defend his right to own slaves.
E) the North was dominated by "Brown-loving" Republicans.
Q2) The Lecompton Constitution was written so that Kansas
A) could enter the Union as either a slave state or a free state.
B) would hold a popular referendum on slavery after admission to the Union.
C) would permit temporary residents like the abolitionists and border ruffians to vote.
D) would allow slavery but prohibit the slave trade.
E) would continue to permit slavery in some form.
Q3) John Brown
Q4) The 1860 Republican party platform favored
A) the abolition of slavery.
B) protective tariffs.
C) construction of a transcontinental railroad.
D) free homesteads.
E) non-extension of slavery.
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q2) The European great powers welcomed a civil war in the United States for all of the following reasons except
A) war would weaken the power of the United States in the western hemisphere.
B) a divided America would likely put a halt to European immigration.
C) they could play the two nations off against one another in a game of balance of power.
D) their existing colonies would be safe against further American expansion.
E) they might more readily seize new colonial territory in the Americas.
Q3) All of the following are true statements about the federal conscription (draft)law except
A) it allowed draftees to hire substitutes
B) its provisions were unfair to the poor.
C) it was passed despite a healthy rate of volunteers.
D) men could pay $300 to purchase an exemption.
E) it inspired resentment and riots.
Q4) Confederacy
Q5) King Cotton
Q6) Fort Sumter
Q7) "Billy Yank"
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) After assuming command of the Army of the Potomac,General George McClellan made the mistake of
A) taking too many risks.
B) relying on Lincoln's military judgment.
C) being unconcerned about the morale of his troops.
D) not drilling his troops enough to prepare them for battle.
E) consistently believing that the enemy outnumbered him.
Q2) ____ Vicksburg
Q3) Battle of Chancellorsville
Q4) Battle of Vicksburg
Q5) One of the key developments enabling the Union to stop the Confederate thrust into the North at Antietam was
A) Europe's refusal to help the South before the battle.
B) the Union's discovery of Robert E. Lee's battle plans.
C) Lincoln's removal of General McClellan from his command.
D) the use of the new repeating rifle for the first time.
E) the death of Stonewall Jackson during the battle.
Q6) Copperheads
Q7) George Pickett
Q8) Union party
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877
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Q1) Oliver O.Howard
Q2) Political corruption during Reconstruction was
A) primarily the fault of white carpetbaggers and scalawags.
B) located in the North.
C) common in both North and South.
D) present in all Southern states except South Carolina and Louisiana.
E) almost entirely conducted by blacks.
Q3) Radical Republicans have been both credited with having high ideals and accused of crass partisanship as motives for their Reconstruction policies.Which argument do you find more persuasive? Why?
Q4) It has been wryly observed that "the North won the Civil War,but the South won Reconstruction." Interpret this statement and assess its truth.
Q5) As a politician,Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as a(n)
A) supporter of the planter aristocrats.
B) opponent of slavery.
C) inspiring and calmly eloquent speaker.
D) champion of the poor whites.
E) secret Confederate sympathizer.
Q6) Ku Klux Klan
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q1) Thomas Reed
Q2) Despite the lack of national political issues,Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like
A) imperialism and foreign missions.
B) prohibition and education.
C) race relations and racial justice in the South.
D) sexual morality and women's rights.
E) the phrase "In God We Trust" on American currency.
Q3) Horatio Seymour
Q4) Why was there such a notable lowering of ethical standards in American politics and business following the high idealism of the Civil War?
Q5) soft/cheap money
Q6) Roscoe Conkling
Q7) 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.
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) Railroading in the late nineteenth century provided a significant stimulus to
A) agriculture.
B) urbanization.
C) feminism.
D) immigration.
E) industrialization.
Q2) Compare and contrast the methods used by late-nineteenth-century corporations to control competition especially the pool,trust,interlocking directorate,and vertical integration.
Q3) Jay Gould
Q4) Which of the following was not among the technologies invented or improved by Thomas A.Edison?
A) The electric light bulb
B) The phonograph
C) The mimeograph
D) The electric dynamo
E) The motion picture
Q5) Charles Darwin
Q6) Mesabi Range
Q7) Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Q1) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Q2) As a leader of the African American community,Booker T.Washington
A) helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
B) advocated social equality.
C) discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut.
D) promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation.
E) promoted black political activism.
Q3) The tremendously rapid growth of American cities in the post-Civil War decades was
A) uniquely American.
B) fueled by an agricultural system suffering from poor production levels.
C) attributable to the closing of the frontier.
D) a trend that affected Europe as well.
E) a result of natural reproduction.
Q4) Tuskegee Institute
Q5) Women's Christian Temperance Union
Q6) John L.Sullivan
Q7) Louis Sullivan
Q8) "America letters"
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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural
Revolution,1865-1896
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Q1) The 1896 presidential election marked the last time that
A) rural America would defeat urban America.
B) the South remained solid for the Democratic party.
C) a third-party candidate had a serious chance at the White House.
D) factory workers would favor inflation.
E) a serious effort to win the White House would be made with mostly agrarian votes.
Q2) William J.Fetterman
Q3) What is the safety-valve theory? Do you find it plausible? Why or why not?
Q4) Western cities like Denver and San Francisco did serve as a major safety valve by providing
A) a home for new immigrants.
B) recreational activities for its inhabitants.
C) a home for economically struggling farmers, miners, and easterners.
D) None of these
E) All of these
Q5) Coin's Financial School
Q6) Ghost Dance
Q7) Dingley Tariff bill
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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Q2) The American war against the Philippine insurrectionists promoting Philippine independence
A) was won with fewer casualties than the war in Cuba.
B) was remarkable for its avoidance of civilian casualties.
C) resulted in torture and atrocities committed by both sides.
D) was waged in accord with traditional American ideals.
E) was highly popular in the United States.
Q3) President McKinley justified American acquisition of the Philippines primarily by emphasizing that
A) the Filipinos wanted to be annexed by the United States.
B) the electoral success of the Republican party depended on their acquisition.
C) the United States would gain key naval bases there.
D) the Philippines were spoils of war and America's by right of conquest.
E) there was no acceptable alternative to their acquisition.
Q4) Henry Cabot Lodge
Q5) Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Q6) Teller Amendment
Q7) The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Q8) Pearl Harbor
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and
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A) the initiative, referendum, and recall.
B) the Australian secret ballot.
C) woman suffrage.
D) direct election of senators.
E) eliminating political parties.
Q2) referendum
Q3) President Taft stirred the anger of many progressives when he
A) signed the reactionary Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill.
B) broke with his original political mentor, former President Theodore Roosevelt.
C) fired forest conservationist Gifford Pinchot from his administration.
D) proved less aggressive at trust busting than Theodore Roosevelt.
E) aligned himself with Republican senatorial reactionaries.
Q4) General Federation of Women's Clubs
Q5) The Shame of the Cities
Q6) William Howard Taft
Q7) Jane Addams
Q8) Lillian Wald
Q9) preservationism
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q1) The flood of progressive legislation during Wilson's first term included laws to A) provide disability assistance to civil-service workers.
B) establish the eight-hour day for interstate railroad workers.
C) end discrimination against black employees of the federal government.
D) provide credit and low-interest loans to farmers.
E) establish decent treatment and a living wage on American merchant ships.
Q2) John J.Pershing
Q3) Underwood Tariff Bill
Q4) Workingmen's Compensation Act
Q5) Federal Trade Commission Act
Q6) 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.
Q7) Francisco Villa
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Q8) ____ The nation where an assassination ignited World War I.
Q10) Victoriano Huerta
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) 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.
Q2) The Germans gained an immense military advantage in the first months of 1918 because
A) they had discovered how to use the tank and poison gas effectively.
B) the Austrian army was able to switch from the Italian front to the western front.
C) the Bolsheviks took Russia out of the war allowing German troops to move to the western front.
D) they had seized the two key strategic points of Verdun and Ypres.
E) their brilliant generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff has taken effective control of the German government.
Q3) Warren G.Harding
Q4) Henry Cabot Lodge
Q5) Women's Bureau
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Chapter 31: American Life in the "Roaring
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Q1) The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against A) capitalism.
B) new immigration laws passed in 1924.
C) the nativist movements that had their origins in the 1850s.
D) race riots.
E) the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.
Q2) The Sound and the Fury
Q3) Fordism
Q4) The prosperity that developed in the 1920s
A) was accompanied by a cloud of consumer debt.
B) led to a growing level of savings by the American public.
C) enabled labor unions to gain strength.
D) was concentrated primarily in heavy industry.
E) closed the gap between rich and poor.
Q5) cultural pluralism
Q6) "Jelly Roll" Morton
Q7) Fundamentalists
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932
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Q1) The Federal Farm Board,created by the Agricultural Marketing Act,lent money to farmers primarily to help them to
A) organize producers' cooperatives.
B) learn a new and more profitable trade.
C) open new land to cultivation.
D) purchase expensive new farm machinery.
E) take land out of production.
Q2) Historians have not looked too kindly on the presidents of the 1920s,usually judging them as mediocre.Do you agree with this evaluation of their performance? Explain.
Q3) Warren G.Harding
Q4) Douglas MacArthur
Q5) The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact
A) formally ended World War I for the United States, which had refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
B) set a schedule for German payment of war reparations.
C) established a battleship ratio for the leading naval powers.
D) condemned Japan for its unprovoked attack on Manchuria.
E) officially outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry and conflict.
Q6) Dawes Plan
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Q1) What was the greatest threat to the stability of American society in the 1930s? Was there ever any serious threat that the United States could have turned away from democracy as many other nations did during the Depression?
Q2) Prominent female social scientists of the 1930s,like Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead,brought widespread contributions to the field of
A) economics.
B) political science.
C) psychology.
D) sociology.
E) anthropology.
Q3) Franklin Roosevelt's ____ contributed the most to his development of compassion and strength of will.
A) education
B) domestic conflicts with Eleanor Roosevelt
C) family ties with Teddy Roosevelt
D) affliction with infantile paralysis
E) service in World War I
Q4) Roosevelt coalition
Q5) Securities and Exchange Commission
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q2) ____ The nation that,when invaded in 1939,touched off the formal onset of World War II.
Q3) By 1940,a strong majority of American public opinion had come to favor
A) the America First position.
B) active participation in the war.
C) permitting U.S. volunteers to fight in Britain.
D) shipping Britain everything except military weapons.
E) providing Britain with "all aid short of war."
Q4) Battle of Britain
Q5) ____ The nation that was sacrificed at the Munich Conference by the Allied nations to achieve "peace in our time."
Q6) Which of the following nations was not conquered by Hitler's Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?
A) Norway
B) The Netherlands
C) France
D) Poland
E) Finland
Q7) Francisco Franco
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Chapter 35: America in World War II,1941-1945
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A) A group of highly effective military and political leaders
B) An enormously effective effort in producing weapons and supplies
C) A higher percentage of military casualties than any other Allied nation
D) The preservation of the American homeland against invasion or destruction from the air
E) The maintenance and reaffirmation of the strength of American democracy
Q2) The spending of enormous sums on the original atomic bomb project was spurred by the belief that
A) a nuclear weapon was the only way to win the war.
B) the Germans might acquire such a weapon first.
C) the Japanese were at work on an atomic bomb project of their own.
D) scientists like Albert Einstein might be lost to the war effort.
E) the American public would not tolerate the casualties that would result from a land invasion of Japan.
Q3) What are the arguments for and against the Japanese American relocation camps used in World War II? Do you agree with the text authors that these camps were "unnecessary and unfair"? Why or why not?
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Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins,1945-1952
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Q1) President Truman's domestic legislative plan was dubbed the A) Square Deal.
B) New Deal.
C) Fair Deal.
D) Redeal.
E) New Frontier.
Q2) ____ Albania
Q3) National Security Act
Q4) 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.
Q5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Q6) Berlin airlift
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Q8) Benjamin Spock
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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) Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the
A) isolationists.
B) liberal Republicans.
C) hard-line anticommunists.
D) moderate Republicans.
E) southern Republicans.
Q3) Brown v.Board of Education
Q4) Billy Graham
Q5) McCarthyism
Q6) "cult of domesticity"
Q7) Betty Friedan
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Q1) The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized
A) the still-troubled racial situation in the South.
B) the rise of the Black Muslim movement in Los Angeles.
C) a more militant and confrontational phase of the civil rights movement.
D) the power of Martin Luther King in the black community.
E) the ineffectiveness of the Voting Rights Act.
Q2) With the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A) the United States declared war on Vietnam.
B) Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam.
C) the military was given the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons.
D) Congress maintained its war-declaring power.
E) the goals of American military involvement in Vietnam were clear.
Q3) The common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the
A) Civil Rights Act of 1964.
B) Voting Rights Act of 1965.
C) Twenty-Fourth Amendment.
D) War on Poverty.
E) Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
Q4) Charles de Gaulle
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Q2) How did the Vietnam War end? Why did it end this way? In what way had the United States "in the technical sense ...not lost the war" but "lost more than a war"?
Q3) In 1973,the American public was shocked to learn that
A) some American soldiers had committed massacres in Vietnam.
B) the Vietnamese peace agreement would not last.
C) the U.S. Air Force had been secretly bombing Cambodia since 1969.
D) President Nixon had prepared plans to invade North Vietnam.
E) the United States was threatening to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Q4) To what extent were America's troubles in the 1970s an aftermath of the Vietnam War?
Q5) During hearings in 1974,the House Judiciary Committee adopted impeachment articles charging President Nixon with
A) accepting bribes.
B) obstruction of the administration of justice.
C) abusing the powers of his office.
D) contempt of Congress.
E) breaking and entering.
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A) hiring Iranian militants to fight for the Contra cause in Central America.
B) selling arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and using the profits to illegally fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
C) selling arms to both sides in the Iran-Iraq War.
D) secretly recognizing the Iranian regime while claiming to be boycotting it.
E) using both Iranian and Nicaraguan Contra agents to help free American hostages in Lebanon.
Q2) To President Reagan,"the focus of evil in the modern world" was
A) anti-American terrorists.
B) the federal bureaucracy.
C) political liberalism.
D) the Soviet Union.
E) Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Q3) Operation Desert Storm
Q4) ____ Iraq
Q5) ethnic cleansing
Q6) Sandra Day O'Connor
Q7) Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF)
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Q2) ____ Syria
Q3) After they gained control of both houses of Congress in the 1994 mid-term elections,the Republicans
A) successfully pushed through their Contract with America.
B) overreached with conservative policies that bred a backlash favoring President Clinton.
C) worked to keep the federal government running despite a confrontation with President Clinton.
D) modified their more radical conservative ideas to take account of political reality.
E) failed to achieve even one of their political goals.
Q4) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Q5) Whitewater
Q6) George W.Bush
Q7) Given that traditional political party organizations had seriously weakened,what explains the fierce partisan conflict between Republicans and Democrats in the 1990s? Was the conflict really rooted in different ideologies and views of government or more in the clash of colorful personalities like Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich?
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A) were not allowed to seek advancement.
B) had not yet obtained executive experience.
C) did not have the same educational levels as men.
D) were not protected as workers by the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
E) bore more of the burdens of parenthood than men.
Q2) Among the biggest trends for white collar workers in the twenty-first century is A) the continued outsourcing of financial service and engineering jobs to other countries.
B) declining salary rates across the board.
C) increased opportunities to relocate internationally.
D) jobs requiring a higher level of education than in the past.
E) work days that have inched up from eight to ten or even twelve hours a day.
Q3) Information Age
Q4) Eero Saarinen
Q5) 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?
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