Modern American History
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Course Introduction
Modern American History examines the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. This course explores significant events and movements such as the Progressive Era reforms, both World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, and recent developments in American society and politics. Students will analyze how historical forces have shaped contemporary America, considering issues of race, gender, immigration, foreign policy, and technological change. The course encourages critical thinking through discussions of primary sources, historiographical debates, and the ongoing evolution of American identity.
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The Unfinished Nation A Concise History of the American People 8th Edition by Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures Key
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Q1) Which statement regarding the economic theory of mercantilism is FALSE?
A) Its principles spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
B) It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
C) It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
D) It presumed that the world's wealth was finite.
E) It increased competition among nations.
Answer: B
Q2) England's first experience with colonization came in A) Africa.
B) Canada.
C) Ireland.
D) North America.
E) the Caribbean.
Answer: C
Q3) The early Spanish settlers were successful at establishing plantations,but not at finding gold or silver.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands Key
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Q1) The rebellion led by Jacob Leisler took place in A) New Jersey.
B) Connecticut.
C) Massachusetts.
D) Rhode Island.
E) New York.
Answer: E
Q2) Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams were both executed for their dissent on the major tenets of Puritanism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) King Charles I's treatment of Puritans could be characterized as A) unlikely to involve imprisonment for religious beliefs.
B) relatively tolerant.
C) more likely to advance Puritan thought in England.
D) governed by economic motives.
E) extremely hostile.
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America Key
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Q1) The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region
A) went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles.
B) often saw production not meet demand.
C) saw prices rise steadily throughout the period.
D) saw planters cut back on production as a way of raising prices.
E) was concentrated on many small farms with few slaves.
Answer: A
Q2) In the mid-1600s,New England Puritan ministers began preaching against the decline of
A) freedom.
B) tolerance.
C) piety.
D) community.
E) family.
Answer: C
Q3) Seventeenth-century colonial plantations were actually relatively small estates.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Key
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Q1) During the first half of the eighteenth century,England's administration of the colonies A) was decentralized and inefficient.
B) began to assert greater authority over newspapers and public expression.
C) was notable for its strict enforcement of trade policies.
D) was primarily concerned with checking the growth of New France.
E) sought new means to tax American merchants.
Q2) What new policies affecting the colonies did Parliament adopt following the French and Indian War,and why did it adopt those policies?
Q3) In 1770,the Townshend Duties were ended by
A) Lord Chatham.
B) Lord North.
C) George III.
D) the Marquis of Rockingham.
E) Charles Townshend.
Q4) Massachusetts's extensive tavern system contributed to the colony's revolutionary activity.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the origins of the American Revolution.
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution Key
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Q1) Regarding the status of women,the effect of the American Revolution
A) generally weakened the position of women in society.
B) was to dismantle the patriarchal legal system.
C) was minimal and short-term.
D) was to end the traditional cultural concepts of the female role in society.
E) led some women to question their position in society.
Q2) Which statement about slavery in America in the 1780s is true?
A) Virginia passed a law forbidding the manumission of slaves.
B) Many southern states prohibited the importation of slaves from abroad.
C) Most whites believed blacks should be integrated into American society as equals.
D) The strongest forces against slavery were found in the western colonies.
E) In no state was it illegal.
Q3) Which of the following nations remained America's most important ally during the American Revolution?
A) the Netherlands
B) Spain
C) Portugal
D) France
E) Canada
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Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Key
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Q1) Who described the election of 1800 as the "Revolution of 1800"?
A) George Washington
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) James Madison
D) John Adams
E) Alexander Hamilton
Q2) A number of major compromises were made at the Philadelphia convention.Discuss three of them in detail.
Q3) During the 1790s,regional support in the United States for Federalists was greatest in the
A) Southwest.
B) mid-Atlantic region.
C) rural Far West.
D) Northeast.
E) rural Deep South.
Q4) The new Constitution made no reference to political parties.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why did states that initially opposed the proposed Constitution of 1787 ultimately ratify it?
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era Key
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Q1) John Marshall was a Federalist who served during several Republican administrations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1814,the British
A) seized Washington and set fire to the White House.
B) repulsed the United States from Florida.
C) took control of the Ohio Valley.
D) forced the surrender of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.
E) established naval supremacy on the Atlantic Ocean.
Q3) Tecumseh
A) had a brother known as "the Shooting Star."
B) experienced a mystical awakening in the process of recovering from alcoholism.
C) fought against William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
D) encouraged Indian assimilation into the United States to save their lives.
E) believed the only effective means to resist white settlers was Indian tribal unity.
Q4) What was the core message of the Second Great Awakening? How did the movement affect race relations in the United States?
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Key
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Q1) ,the Marshall Court affirmed federal authority over
A) the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase.
B) all American Indian tribes.
C) both American Indian tribes and the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase.
D) individual states.
E) both individual states and all American Indian tribes.
Q2) The so-called "corrupt bargain" of 1824 involved
A) the sale of public land to supporters of the Monroe administration.
B) federal funds for internal improvements to certain states in exchange for electoral votes.
C) political payoffs and bribery involving the Treasury Department.
D) a political deal to determine the outcome of the presidential election.
E) illegal contracts between the State Department and private corporations.
Q3) Describe the "era of good feelings" and explain how it eventually faded.
Q4) How did the War of 1812 affect industry in the United States,and how did American industry evolve in the aftermath of the war?
Q5) Was the "corrupt bargain" of 1824 really corrupt? Explain.
Q6) What rulings by the Marshall Court enhanced its own power and that of the federal government?
Q7) What effect did the Marshall Court have on the legal status of Indian tribes?
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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America Key
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Q1) In the Black Hawk War,white forces attacked Indians as they surrendered and retreated.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What proved to be a serious liability to Henry Clay's presidential ambitions?
A) his close connection with the Bank of the United States
B) his identification with the West
C) his program for internal improvements
D) his reliance on the wealthy for political support
E) his public drunkenness
Q3) In the years after the War of 1812,support for the idea of political parties was greatest in
A) New Jersey.
B) New York.
C) Rhode Island.
D) Virginia.
E) Pennsylvania.
Q4) In Cherokee Nation v.Georgia,the Supreme Court ruled against the Indian tribe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution Key
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Q1) In the 1840s,John Deere introduced significant improvements to the A) reaper.
B) thresher.
C) cotton gin.
D) plow.
E) tractor.
Q2) Until the Civil War,newspapers relied on mail transported by train for the exchange of news.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By 1860,over half of the manufacturing establishments in the United States were located west of the Mississippi River.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The early union movement among skilled artisans
A) attempted to create one collective national trade union.
B) was weakened by the Panic of 1837.
C) welcomed working women as members.
D) was generally supported by state governments.
E) was strengthened by the influx of immigrant laborers.
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Chapter 11: Cotton,Slavery,and the Old South Key
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Q1) Describe the distinguishing class features of the people who were known as "planters," "plain folk," "hill people," or "crackers."
Q2) The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT
A) a shortage of labor.
B) the profitability of cotton.
C) cultural values.
D) the humid climate.
E) little access to liquid capital.
Q3) The southern planter class exercised power far in excess of its numbers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During the first half of the nineteenth century,the "cotton kingdom"
A) still had not adopted the cotton gin, despite the time and resources that could be saved.
B) did not rely on large numbers of slaves imported directly from Africa.
C) was the dominant source of the income of the lower South.
D) saw wealthy planters outnumber small planters.
E) was already losing ground to other staples, such as rice and tobacco.
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform Key
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Q1) The American Colonization Society helped to transport blacks from the United States to
A) Angola.
B) Canada.
C) the Caribbean.
D) Liberia.
E) England.
Q2) By the 1850s,the principle of tax-supported elementary schools had been established in every state.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The writings of Edgar Allan Poe were
A) mostly ignored during his lifetime.
B) largely focused on southern society.
C) primarily sad and macabre.
D) completely ignored in Europe after his death.
E) acclaimed by many American writers in his time.
Q4) How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?
Q5) Describe the essential tenets of the transcendentalist philosophy.
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Key
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Q1) When President Polk received the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,he
A) faced criticism for failing to acquire all of Mexico.
B) angrily claimed that Trist had violated his instructions.
C) became concerned about the expansion of slavery into the new territories.
D) readily accepted the treaty.
E) made plans for a military occupation of Mexico City.
Q2) What were the major consequences of the Mexican War?
Q3) The Dred Scott decision represented a stunning defeat for the pro-slavery movement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why were the Democratic presidents of the 1850s so ineffectual?
Q5) As president,James K.Polk
A) refused the Texas claim to territory that included much of modern New Mexico.
B) sought war with Britain to resolve the Oregon dispute.
C) convinced the British government to divide Oregon at the 54°40 parallel.
D) None of these answers is correct.
E) won congressional approval for the annexation of Texas.
Q6) Could the Civil War have been avoided?
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Q7) Describe the territorial gains made by the United States between 1830 and 1860.
Chapter 14: The Civil War Key
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Q1) Which of the following statements about George B.McClellan is FALSE?
A)He ran against Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1864.
B)He was found to have,in Lincoln's opinion,a wholly inadequate grasp of strategy,acting too slow for Lincoln's tastes.
C)He was eventually replaced by General Henry W.Halleck.
D)He originally served as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
E)He served briefly as chief of staff but returned to the field in March 1862.
Q2) On April 14,1861,Fort Sumter surrendered after
A) the Union commanding officer, Robert Anderson, was killed.
B) President Lincoln chose to not resupply the fort.
C) the fort's commander decided to join the Confederacy.
D) Confederate forces bombarded it for two days.
E) Southern soldiers occupied the fort.
Q3) A major federal victory occurred in April 1862 when Union troops captured the city of A) New Orleans.
B) Charleston.
C) Vicksburg.
D) Chattanooga.
E) Mobile.
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South Key
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Q1) The elections of 1876 saw
A) the Supreme Court decide the presidential election.
B) Ulysses Grant make an unsuccessful bid for an unprecedented third term.
C) the governor of New York become president.
D) the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.
E) a Democrat become president for the first time since the Civil War.
Q2) The Freedmen's Bureau
A) was created to operate for only five years.
B) pushed for voting rights for former male slaves.
C) created millions of federal public works jobs for former slaves.
D) gave forty acres of land and a mule to millions of Southern blacks.
E) distributed food to millions of former slaves.
Q3) As president,Andrew Johnson
A) offered some form of amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.
B) long delayed presenting his own plans for Reconstruction.
C) proposed delaying the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
D) quickly sided with the Radical Republicans.
E) argued the South should be readmitted to the Union without conditions.
Q4) Why did the elections of 1866 empower Radical Republicans?
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West Key
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Q1) Chinese tongs were
A) community officials.
B) indentured servants.
C) secret societies.
D) prostitutes.
E) merchants.
Q2) From the time of initial colonial contact to the close of the nineteenth century,the relationship between Native Americans and white Americans was marked by a high degree of violence by whites toward Natives.What were the popular ideas and cultural beliefs found in white American society that motivated this violence?
Q3) The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was against A) the railroads.
B) state governments.
C) eastern manufacturers.
D) the banks.
E) crop speculators.
Q4) How did Native Americans respond to federal government policies-and to military actions against them?
Q5) In what ways did the American West not conform to its popular image?
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Key
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Q1) Eugene V.Debs played a leading role in what labor event?
A) Railroad strike of 1877
B) Haymarket Square riot
C) Pullman strike
D) Homestead strike
E) All these answers are correct.
Q2) At its height in 1886,the Knights of Labor were led by
A) John Peter Altgeld.
B) Eugene V. Debs.
C) Uriah S. Stephens.
D) Henry Clay Frick.
E) Terence V. Powderly.
Q3) Prior to the Civil War,the steel industry in the United States
A) resulted in the construction of large commercial ocean freighters.
B) barely developed at all.
C) largely replaced the iron industry.
D) boomed as a result of the expanding U.S. Navy.
E) emerged as an important supplier for railroad construction.
Q4) Why were railroads such an important factor in the growth of industrial strength in America?
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Chapter 18: The Age of the City Key
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Q1) Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from A) scientists.
B) theologians.
C) educators.
D) All these answers are correct.
E) both theologians and educators.
Q2) In the late nineteenth century,the Tammany Hall political machine
A) All these answers are correct.
B) operated out of Chicago.
C) was one of the few machines that did not engage in graft and corruption.
D) saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison.
E) operated out of Chicago and saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison.
Q3) Between 1890 and 1910,incomes in the United States
A) grew more unequal, while the middle class shrunk.
B) declined for most unskilled workers.
C) increased for white Americans, but decreased for most other ethnic groups.
D) remained the same for most Americans.
E) rose for almost all Americans.
Q4) How did high culture and popular culture differ at the turn of the century?
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Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire Key
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Q1) American interest in a war with Cuba was spurred by the 1895 death of Valeriano Weyler,head of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the late nineteenth century,as veterans of the Civil War retired,
A) the federal government gave pensions to both Union and Confederate veterans.
B) they were forced to do without military pensions of any kind.
C) a majority of the black and white male population in the North received federal pensions.
D) the federal government created a pension system for all retired Americans.
E) they were paid pensions by individual states, but not by the federal government.
Q3) In 1892,the People's Party called for
A) the federal government to purchase surplus crops.
B) government subsidies of water for agricultural use.
C) a flat income tax for all rural businesses.
D) a government network of crop warehouses.
E) government subsidies of wheat, corn, and cotton.
Q4) What was the "silver question" in the 1890s,and why was it such a prominent issue?
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Chapter 20: The Progressives Key
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Q1) In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,the "Social Gospel" was
A) first described by Andrew Carnegie.
B) a belief that God had chosen the rich to be rich and the poor to be poor.
C) chiefly concerned with redeeming the nation's cities.
D) intended to offer spiritual, not material, assistance to the poor.
E) a reform movement guided by the American Catholic Church.
Q2) In his political program known as the "New Freedom," Woodrow Wilson believed trusts
A) should have the right to expand.
B) should exist only if they recognized laborers right to organize.
C) should exist only if they benefited the middle class.
D) needed to be tightly regulated by the federal government.
E) should be destroyed.
Q3) The 1916 Keating-Owen Act was the first federal law regulating
A) information about contraceptives.
B) tenant agriculture.
C) industrial safety.
D) the garment industry.
E) child labor.
Q4) In what ways was the Progressive Era not progressive?
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Q1) Assess President Woodrow Wilson's efforts at the Paris Peace Conference by noting both the historical praise and historical criticism made of him.
Q2) Immediately following World War I,the American economy
A) was marked by a continuing labor shortage.
B) boomed for many months.
C) fell into a protracted recession.
D) saw prices plunge.
E) fell into a deflationary spiral.
Q3) How had the technology of warfare changed between the American Civil War and World War I? What effects did these changes have on tactics and strategy?
Q4) In early 1915,virtually the entire European continent was at war after the assassination of an Austrian archduke provided the spark to hostilities on the continent. A)True
B)False
Q5) Would the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt be effective today?
Q6) Assess the changes in U.S.foreign policy between 1898 and 1919.Where had American interests changed,and where did they remain the same?
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Q1) The National Origins Act of 1924
A) was designed to alter the sources but not the overall number of immigrants.
B) included a quota system for the first time.
C) set a rigid limit of 150,000 immigrants a year.
D) discriminated against northwestern Europeans.
E) entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the United States.
Q2) In the 1920s,the idea of agricultural "parity" was
A) to equalize the average farmer income with the average industrial worker income. B) strongly opposed by Congress.
C) to match crop production with demand.
D) invalidated by the passage of the McNary-Haugen Bill.
E) to ensure farmers would at least financially break even.
Q3) In what ways were working Americans of the 1920s better off? How were they worse off?
Q4) Who were the prominent American writers in the 1920s? Why did a number of these writers express negative views of society?
Q5) Why was American economic production and growth so successful during the 1920s? What were its strengths and weaknesses?
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Q1) In 1928,Herbert Hoover predicted an end to poverty in America was near.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After 1929,in the face of the worsening global economic crisis,the United States
A) forgave the debts owed by European nations to America.
B) demanded immediate payment of all debts owed by European nations to America.
C) forgave the debts owed by former allies during the War, and reduced the debts of other nations.
D) refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed by European nations to America.
E) reduced the debts owed by European nations to America.
Q3) Prior to 1932,Franklin Roosevelt had never held elective office.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Following the "great crash," the Federal Reserve system lowered interest rates in an effort to revive the American economy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why was Franklin Roosevelt elected president in 1932? What was his campaign platform?
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Q1) What major programs did the Roosevelt administration establish in its first term of office? Which programs were considered the most successful,even if they did little to change the overall economic situation of the country?
Q2) The Works Progress Administration of 1935
A) was much larger than previous programs of its kind.
B) displayed very little flexibility or imagination.
C) provided mostly "make-work" jobs to the unemployed.
D) gave federal relief money to those deemed "unemployable."
E) was under the direction of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins.
Q3) In the American West,New Deal programs
A) drew considerable opposition for their environmentalist bias.
B) disproportionately benefited the region, with more funding than any other part of the country.
C) focused on the few large cities.
D) were limited and had a minimal impact on life.
E) led to a change in existing racial relations.
Q4) Describe the differences in the arguments of right-leaning New Deal critics with those critics from the political left.
Q5) How did New Deal programs evolve between 1933 and 1935?
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Q1) The Kellogg-Briand Pact declared war illegal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) )In 1941,the Atlantic Charter
A)was signed in Washington,D.C.
B)was completed by senior military officials in the United States and England.
C)saw the United States and England claim to share common principles.
D)gave American merchant ships the authority to fire on German submarines.
E)saw President Roosevelt agree to an eventual invasion of Europe to drive out the Nazis.
Q3) During the 1920s,the United States played a more active role in global politics than it ever had in its history.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How might the Roosevelt administration be labeled isolationist? How and why might it be labeled internationalist?
Q5) What were the weaknesses of U.S.foreign policy during the 1920s?
Q6) What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Hoover administration's foreign policy?
Q7) Describe American foreign policy objectives with Europe during the 1920s.
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Q1) In June 1942,the United States gained control of the central Pacific with the Battle of Midway.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the key technological developments by the Allies during World War II.Why were the Allies able to quickly move ahead of Germany and Japan in this area?
Q3) The U.S.government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust
A) only after the war was over.
B) prior to World War II beginning in Europe.
C) before the U.S. had entered the war.
D) only in the last year of the war.
E) as early as 1942.
Q4) African Americans' strategy for social and economic improvement during World War II was to gain favor with the Roosevelt administration rather than make demands of it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What steps did the federal government take to mobilize the nation for World War II?
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Q1) The Soviet Union was invited to participate in the Marshall Plan.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Yalta accords were less a settlement of postwar issues than a set of loose principles.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To what degree was communism a genuine threat to the interests and security of the United States in the early 1950s? Was the American reaction to this threat reasonable?
Q4) How and why did President Truman alter Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union?
Q5) At the time that he became president,Harry Truman shared former President Roosevelt's faith that Stalin would be reasonable and flexible.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the Marshall Plan and assess its importance in the postwar world.
Q7) What was President Truman's "Fair Deal," and to what degree was it successful?
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Q8) Why did communism cause such fear in the United States in the postwar period?
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Q1) The correct chronological order for developments in electronic technology,from earliest to latest,is
A) integrated circuit, transistor, vacuum tube.
B) vacuum tube, integrated circuit, transistor.
C) transistor, integrated circuit, vacuum tube.
D) vacuum tube, transistor, integrated circuit.
E) transistor, vacuum tube, integrated circuit.
Q2) The first large-scale use of the pesticide DDT was to improve American crop production.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Eisenhower administration was eager to join the battle over desegregation in Little Rock,Arkansas.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Eisenhower administration is responsible for the largest public works project in American history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How do you account for the rise of the civil rights movement?
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A) college students.
B) the urban poor.
C) rural blacks.
D) Republicans.
E) Catholics.
Q2) In 1961,President John Kennedy saw legislative success in
A) a major tax increase.
B) a reduction of Social Security.
C) a major civil rights bill.
D) tariff reductions.
E) improved Soviet-American relations.
Q3) All of the following statements regarding the 1968 Tet offensive are true EXCEPT that it
A) suggested to the American public something of the brutality of the fighting in Vietnam.
B) saw the communists fighting on the grounds of the American embassy in Saigon.
C) involved the fall of Saigon to the communists.
D) began on a Vietnamese holiday.
E) saw American troops inflict enormous casualties on the communists.
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Q1) The Free Speech Movement was born on a college campus.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1973,Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned because
A) of his involvement in the Watergate break-in.
B) of his refusal to testify against Richard Nixon.
C) of his involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
D) None of these answers is correct.
E) evidence surfaced that he had accepted bribes.
Q3) What were the major Supreme Court rulings during the late 1950s and 1960s? What are the arguments of the supporters and critics of these rulings?
Q4) In 1972,the Equal Rights Amendment
A) had been promoted since the 1920s by some feminists.
B) was strongly opposed by some women.
C) All these answers are correct.
D) seemed almost certain to be ratified.
E) was passed by Congress and submitted to the states for ratification.
Q5) What type of individual was attracted to the counterculture,and why?
Q6) How do you explain the Watergate scandal and President Nixon's role in it?
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Q7) Was the new youth culture truly a "revolution" in America? What were its limits?
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A)True
B)False
Q2) In the late 1970s,the "Christian right"
A) opposed the intertwining of religion and politics.
B) were losing ground as a political force.
C) feared aggressive American military actions.
D) were alarmed by many Supreme Court rulings.
E) supported the goals of feminism.
Q3) The American public came to regard Gerald Ford as being as untrustworthy as Richard Nixon.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The 1981 tax cuts were the largest to that point in American history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Under President Carter,unemployment declined but inflation soared.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Evaluate the Bush administration's rationale and handling of the Iraq War.How does it compare to the first Bush administration's handling of the 1991 Gulf War? What would you have done differently?
Q2) Which of the following was true of poor inner-city African Americans in the first decade of the twenty-first century?
A) In 2010, only 35 percent of black children lived with both their parents.
B) The number of black children living with both their parents had been steadily declining since before the 1970s.
C) Sixty percent of young, inner-city blacks were unemployed in 2006.
D) All these answers are correct.
E) In 2006, less than half of inner-city blacks completed high school.
Q3) Soon after the September 2001 attacks,it became unquestionably clear that Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq was sheltering and supporting Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda organization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How has the Internet changed American society and the American economy? Do you believe these changes are permanent?
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