Modern American History
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Modern American History explores the major events, movements, and transformations in the United States from the late 19th century to the present. The course examines significant political, social, economic, and cultural developments, including industrialization, the emergence of the U.S. as a world power, the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, and recent trends in American society. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, students gain an understanding of how historical forces have shaped contemporary America and develop critical thinking skills to evaluate the nations ongoing challenges and achievements.
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The Unfinished Nation 7th Edition by Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) Portuguese exploration of the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a faster sea route to East Asia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) On his second voyage,Columbus established a short-lived settlement on an island that he named ________.
Answer: Hispaniola
Q3) In contrast with the European tradition,African families tended to be matrilineal.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) An important consequence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was that A)France came to dominate Spain.
B)Catholicism was swept from western Europe.
C)England found the seas more open to their control.
D)the Reformation extended into Spain.
E)Spain was forced to relinquish its New World empire.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
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Q1) During its first year in North America,the Plymouth colony
A)survived in large part due to assistance from Indians.
B)grew rich from the surrounding productive farmlands.
C)carried out warfare that wiped out much of the local Indian population.
D)saw two-thirds of its population die.
E)established critically important trade routes with Jamestown to the south.
Answer: A
Q2) The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689
A)saw an English king,James II,flee to the European continent.
B)enhanced the influence of Catholicism in England.
C)helped put in place the Dominion of New England.
D)kept the English crown among Englishmen.
E)had no effect on colonial governments.
Answer: A
Q3) During its early years,the Pennsylvania colony often faced financial ruin.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The most cosmopolitan of all the English colonies was ________.
Answer: Pennsylvania
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
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Q1) Parliament passed the Iron Act in 1750 to encourage colonial production of iron.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) By 1775,the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over
A)one million.
B)two million.
C)four million.
D)six million.
E)eight million.
Answer: B
Q3) Jeremiads refers to
A)a measurement of wealth.
B)community experiments.
C)sermons.
D)witchcraft.
E)town meetings.
Answer: C
Q4) Most women who entered into the medical profession did so as ________. Answer: midwives
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition
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Q1) Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing a series of laws called the ________ Acts.
Q2) British victory in the French and Indian War
A)convinced many Indian tribes to cease in their struggle against European expansion.
B)had disastrous effects on the future of North American Indians.
C)was cheered,among Indians,only by the Iroquois Confederacy.
D)led to an improvement in relations between Indians and English colonists.
E)encouraged Indian tribes to join the Iroquois Confederacy.
Q3) The Stamp Act of 1765
A)established a royal postal system between the American colonies and England.
B)required colonists to pay taxes on most printed documents.
C)replaced the Sugar Act of 1764.
D)proved to be ineffective,as most colonies refused to accept it.
E)cost the British government much more money than it made in revenues.
Q4) The legislation confirming parliamentary authority over the colonies was called the ________ Act.
Q5) What were the policy differences between Britain's Navigation Acts (mid-1600s)and the various acts passed after 1763?
Q6) The Virginian who took the lead in protesting the Stamp Act was ________.
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution
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Q1) Why was pressure building for a new constitution during the second half of the 1780s?
Q2) Some women joined their male relatives in the camps of the Patriot armies during the Revolutionary War.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each side in fighting the Revolutionary War.
Q4) Published in January 1776,Common Sense was written by
A)Thomas Jefferson.
B)Thomas Paine.
C)James Madison.
D)Ben Franklin.
E)James Otis.
Q5) As a result of the American Revolution,the ________ denomination was weakened in the colonies,because its followers practiced pacifism.
Q6) The American diplomat who negotiated the French-American alliance of 1778 was ________.
Q7) The British commander forced to surrender at Yorktown was ________.
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) What was the long-term significance of the elections in 1800?
Q2) In what ways was the Adams administration an expression of the Federalist philosophy? In what ways was it not?
Q3) The election of 1796 saw
A)a Federalist president and a Republican vice president take office.
B)the Republicans win the presidency for the first time.
C)the House of Representatives determine the presidential victor.
D)the Federalists reach their height of power and unity.
E)John Adams become president on the Republican ticket.
Q4) Under the "checks and balances" system of the Constitution of 1787,federal judges
A)were appointed by Congress.
B)served for life.
C)were elected by state legislatures.
D)could not reverse state court rulings.
E)served at the pleasure of the executive.
Q5) The Twelfth Amendment called for members of the electoral college to vote separately for president and vice president.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian ERA
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Q1) ________ presided over the treason trial of Aaron Burr.
Q2) The invention of the cotton gin in the late eighteenth century
A)allowed for the introduction of cotton in southern coastal states. B)had a profound effect on the textile industry in New England.
C)reduced the total number of slaves in the American South.
D)led to a great increase in the production of long-staple cotton.
E)None of these answers is correct.
Q3) Was Thomas Jefferson more successful in the domestic or foreign policy arena? Explain.
Q4) The terms of the Louisiana Purchase were made without the prior approval of either the president or Congress.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The first American medical school was established at A)Harvard.
B)William and Mary.
C)the University of North Carolina.
D)the University of Pennsylvania.
E)Columbia.
Q6) The Lewis and Clark expedition was aided by the Indian woman ________.
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism
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Q1) Pre-Civil War explorers called the Great Plains the ________.
Q2) What was the long-term significance of the Monroe Doctrine?
Q3) The Federalist Party made a surprising comeback during the presidency of James Monroe.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What effect did the Marshall Court have on the legal status of Indian tribes?
Q5) As President,James Monroe acted to preserve the "Virginia Dynasty."
A)True
B)False
Q6) According to the rulings of the Marshall Court,Indian tribes were deemed to be ________ entities.
Q7) In the presidential election of 1824,
A)Andrew Jackson received the most electoral votes and became president.
B)John Q.Adams received the second-most electoral votes and became president.
C)Henry Clay received the fourth-most electoral votes and became president.
D)William Crawford received the most electoral votes,but died before a president was chosen.
E)None of these answers is correct.
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Q8) Was the "corrupt bargain" of 1824 really corrupt? Explain.
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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
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Q1) As president,Andrew Jackson believed the power of the federal government
A)should be reduced.
B)should be expanded.
C)was supreme over individual states.
D)should be expanded and was supreme over individual states.
E)should be reduced and yet was supreme over individual states.
Q2) John C.Calhoun's most powerful rival within the Jackson administration was ________.
Q3) In the early nineteenth century,many whites viewed Indians as "noble savages."
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Whig Party was the first national political party.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The results of the election of 1832 could be interpreted as a defeat for both Henry Clay and Nicholas Biddle.
A)True B)False
Q6) Characterize the presidency of Martin Van Buren.
Q7) In the election of 1832,Andrew Jackson was opposed by ________.
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution
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Q1) In the 1840s,the dominant immigrant group in New England textile mills was the A)Irish.
B)Germans.
C)English.
D)Italians.
E)Chinese.
Q2) The fastest-growing group in America prior to the Civil War was the working poor. A)True B)False
Q3) By the 1840s,much of American grain production had become mechanized. A)True B)False
Q4) In the pre-Civil War period,turnpikes were regarded as an improvement over canals as a means of transportation.
A)True B)False
Q5) The recruitment of young women to work and live in a factory setting was called the ________ or Waltham system.
Q6) The most popular playwright in America in the 1830s was ________.
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Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
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Q1) Rice and sugar production in the antebellum South
A)had short growing seasons.
B)were concentrated in a relatively small geographic area.
C)had difficulty sustaining profits for growers.
D)was in considerable decline by the 1850s.
E)threatened to overwhelm cotton production in the lower South.
Q2) Compare and contrast the working and living conditions of black southern slaves to the lives of white northern factory workers during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE?
A)Some urban slaves were skilled trade workers.
B)Urban slaves were prohibited from having contact with free blacks.
C)Urban slaves were less supervised than rural slaves.
D)Urban slaves had little working competition from European immigrants.
E)The line between slavery and freedom in cities was less distinct.
Q4) In the mid-nineteenth century,slavery in the Western world existed only in the United States,Brazil,Cuba,and ________.
Q5) What obstacles to industrialization existed in the South during the nineteenth century?
Q6) It was said that the South "grew,but it did not ________."
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform
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Q1) How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?
Q2) By the 1840s,Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott sought to apply the equality of treatment they received in the abolition movement to all aspects of female life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the 1840s,abolitionists in the United States constituted
A)a small percentage of the national population.
B)approximately one-quarter of the national population.
C)the majority of the population in the North.
D)the largest reform movement in the nation.
E)approximately one-third of the national population.
Q4) Prior to 1860,public education in the United States
A)did not exist.
B)gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
C)was legally denied for all non-whites.
D)was funded by the federal government.
E)emphasized independence and creativity.
Q5) Describe the essential tenets of the transcendentalist philosophy.
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) Assess and rate the presidency of James K.Polk.
Q2) The United States went to war with Mexico in 1846 without a formal declaration of war.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The political party that came into being largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the
A)Republican Party.
B)Know-Nothings.
C)Populist Party.
D)Abolitionist Party.
E)Jayhawk Party.
Q4) The 1853 Gadsden Purchase
A)temporarily calmed the rivalry between North and South.
B)was made with England.
C)advanced the interests of southern railroads.
D)fulfilled the treaty ending the Mexican War.
E)cost the United States government $25 million.
Q5) Mexican residents of Texas were known as ________.
Q6) Why was the Compromise of 1850 written? How did it affect national politics?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) Why was the death toll in the Civil War so tremendous?
Q2) At the start of the Civil War,
A)the South had a massive reserve of cash.
B)the South had more combat-age males.
C)the South had more and better railroads.
D)the North was unified by a commitment to end slavery.
E)the North had a much more substantial economy.
Q3) Black fighting men captured by the Confederates were treated the same as white prisoners of war.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By the end of 1862,Union forces
A)had made considerable progress in the West.
B)were having little success in the East.
C)had closed the mouth of the Mississippi to Confederate trade.
D)had both made considerable progress in the West,and closed the mouth of the Mississippi to Confederate trade.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q5) What advantages and disadvantages did each side have when the Civil War began?
Q6) The ________ Infantry was the best known of the black Union regiments.
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
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Q1) Lincoln wanted ex-Confederate states admitted to the Union when ________ percent of a state's white voters took a loyalty oath.
Q2) Advocates of the "New South"
A)opposed using Northern capital.
B)discouraged white women from working outside of the home.
C)promoted Southern industry and railroad development.
D)challenged the assumptions of white supremacy.
E)in fact advocated a return to the plantation system of the antebellum South.
Q3) Enemies of President Grant and "Grantism" were called ________ Republicans.
Q4) Booker T.Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self-improvement before political rights.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why did the elections of 1866 empower Radical Republicans?
Q6) As sharecroppers,the black labor force in the South worked hours that were just as long as had been the case under slavery.
A)True
B)False
Q7) How did the assassination of Abraham Lincoln affect Reconstruction?
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
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Q1) A Paiute prophet named Wovoka was responsible for the "________."
Q2) By the end of the nineteenth century,the American West was firmly tied to the increasingly powerful industrial economy of the East.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the 1850s,the United States policy of "concentration" for Indians
A)set the basis for Indian policy for the rest of the century.
B)affirmed and continued the previous federal treatment of Indians.
C)had many benefits for both whites and Indians.
D)reduced conflicts between whites and Indians.
E)assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.
Q4) Hamlin Garland wrote novels celebrating the hope and spirit of the American West. A)True B)False
Q5) During the latter half of the nineteenth century,the structure of the cattle industry became increasingly corporate.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
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Q1) According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in The Gospel of Wealth, A)successful businessmen had every right to live as they pleased.
B)only pious Americans would prosper.
C)it was the "Christian duty" of every American to become wealthy.
D)the rich had great responsibilities to society.
E)the wealthy had earned their money through God's blessing alone.
Q2) The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman,owner of the company,
A)ordered rail workers to move into company-owned housing.
B)referred to workers as his "children."
C)cut wages by 25 percent due to a slumping economy.
D)refused to implement an eight-hour work day.
E)began hiring African American workers in his factories.
Q3) Both the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor favored the concept of one big union.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Henry George expounded on the virtues of his "________" in a book titled Progress and Poverty.
Q5) In the late nineteenth century,what benefits did the growth of corporate industrialism offer to the American working class?
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Chapter 18: The Age of the City
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Q1) Which of the following innovations did NOT occur in consumer goods in the late nineteenth century?
A)the emergence of ready-made clothing
B)the formation of credit card companies
C)the ability to refrigerate foods artificially
D)the opening of large department stores
E)the development and mass production of tin cans
Q2) The new consumer economy appealed to women as consumers and hired women as sales clerks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The ________ school of artists was among the first in America to appreciate expressionism and abstraction.
Q4) The most profound intellectual development of the late nineteenth century was the widespread acceptance of the theory of ________.
Q5) The first American subway system came into use in Boston in 1897.
A)True B)False
Q6) Discuss the efforts to restrict immigration in the late nineteenth century.
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Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire
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Q1) During the late nineteenth century,the supply of money did not keep pace with economic progress.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Between 1898 and 1902,what evidence suggests that United States was not yet ready to be a leading world power?
Q3) Theodore Roosevelt's famous charge in the battle of San Juan Hill
A)has been considered bold and reckless.
B)was a minor part of the battle.
C)actually took place on Kettle Hill.
D)resulted in nearly a hundred Americans dead or wounded.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q4) In the late nineteenth century,the issue of primary interest to the Republican Party was
A)restricting immigration.
B)reducing taxation.
C)a prohibition on alcohol.
D)supporting public education.
E)supporting high tariffs.
Q5) Congress established the ________ to regulate railroad rates.
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Chapter 20: The Progressives
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Q1) In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,
A)New York state banned factories from employing women under the age of sixteen.
B)factories taller than ten stories could only use the upper floors as storage of materials.
C)few true reforms of industry were made.
D)strict regulations were imposed on factory owners.
E)Tammany Democrats attempted to thwart the New York state commission examining the fire.
Q2) During the progressive era,significant voting rights for women were first won in A)the mid-Atlantic states.
B)the South.
C)New England.
D)the Midwest.
E)the Far West.
Q3) By the beginning of World War I,the nativist tide in America had peaked and was falling.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which president,Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson,was the more successful in domestic policy?
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Chapter 21: America and the Great War
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Q1) The Espionage Act and the Sedition Act made criticism of the government a crime.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Between 1914 and 1916,the United States gradually transformed itself from a neutral country into an arsenal of the Allies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The American response to the war in Europe was to accept the British blockade of Germany and continue trading with Great Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q4) President Harding helped put World War I hysteria behind the country by pardoning
Q5) The United Negro Improvement Association was led by ________.
Q6) In 1918,more than 1,500 people were arrested for criticizing the government.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Trace the course of government efforts to create domestic support of the war.To what degree were these efforts justified by the war?
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) The National Origins Act of 1924
A)entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the United States.
B)discriminated against northwestern Europeans.
C)was designed to alter the sources but not the overall number of immigrants.
D)included a quota system for the first time.
E)set a rigid limit of 150,000 immigrants a year.
Q2) Calvin Coolidge
A)claimed that Theodore Roosevelt was his political role model.
B)believed the federal government should actively promote the social welfare of Americans.
C)lost his party's bid for another nomination in the election of 1928.
D)had no political experience prior to becoming vice president in 1920.
E)was less active a president than Warren Harding.
Q3) When prohibition went into effect in 1920,it had the support of not only most middle-class Americans,but most progressives as well.
A)True
B)False
Q4) F.Scott Fitzgerald attacked the American obsession with material success in his 1925 novel,________.
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Chapter 23: The Great Depression
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Q1) As the Depression began,more than half of all black Americans still lived in the South.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Many Americans angry at their government began calling shanty towns built by the unemployed on the outskirts of cities "________."
Q3) In the 1930s,the largest Japanese- and Chinese-American populations were found in
A)Oregon.
B)Arizona.
C)Washington.
D)Hawaii.
E)California.
Q4) In the 1930s,the director Frank Capra typically displayed in his films
A)a populist admiration for ordinary Americans.
B)the cultural backwardness of small towns in America.
C)praise for the "rugged individualism" of American business.
D)the grasping materialism of most Americans.
E)a harsh critique of the heartlessness of capitalism.
Q5) The driving ideology behind the antifascist Popular Front was ________.
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Chapter 24: The New Deal
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Q1) The ________ Plan represented a pre-Social Security Act scheme to provide for federal pensions for senior citizens.
Q2) What did the New Deal accomplish in the 1930s? What did it not accomplish? Why did it fail to end the Depression?
Q3) President Roosevelt was dissatisfied with the National Labor Relations Act,but he did sign it.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The "Second New Deal" was launched in response to A)the growth of popular protests across the nation.
B)the persistence of the Great Depression.
C)growing political pressures.
D)both the persistence of the Great Depression and growing political pressures.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q5) Discuss the fundamental shift that took place in the 1930s regarding the role of the federal government to help people in economic hardship.How would you assess this shift? Has it been useful or not? How does it relate to you personally today?
Q6) The commissioner of Indian affairs in the 1930s was ________.
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Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
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Q1) The America First Committee
A)was a powerful lobby against U.S.involvement in the war.
B)was opposed by both major political parties.
C)called for increased U.S.assistance to England without any actual intervention.
D)was made up largely of Democrats who favored diplomacy to end the war.
E)tried and failed to enlist the support of Charles Lindbergh.
Q2) Explain the evolution of American diplomacy toward Japan between 1921 and 1941.
Q3) In August 1941,Roosevelt and Churchill met off the coast of Newfoundland to agree to the ________.
Q4) By the mid-1940s,Germany had defeated
A)Norway.
B)Denmark.
C)France.
D)the Netherlands.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q5) In what ways did the Hoover administration continue past foreign policy? In what way did the administration break from the past?
Q6) The sinking of the ________ in the fall of 1941 led Congress to arm American merchant ships.
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Chapter 26: America in a World at War
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Q1) The Allied invasion of Sicily led to the collapse of the Mussolini government.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was followed by the firebombing of Tokyo.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During World War II,Congress abolished the
A)Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
B)Works Progress Administration (WPA).
C)Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
D)CCC and WPA.
E)WPA and FDIC.
Q4) By the end of 1942,Allied technology had caught up with Germany and Japan.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In 1943,President Roosevelt publicly suggested that "Dr.New Deal," as he called it,had served its purpose and should give way to "Dr.________."
Q6) The first important Allied victory against Japan was during the Battle of ________.
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A)Charles de Gaulle.
B)Winston Churchill.
C)Franklin Roosevelt.
D)Mao Zedong.
E)Harry Truman.
Q2) When he ran for president in 1952,Dwight Eisenhower refused to speak out against Senator Joseph McCarthy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 1951,General ________ was relieved of his command by President Truman.
Q4) Domestic American opposition to the Marshall Plan virtually ended with the communist coup in ________.
Q5) What role did wartime diplomacy,personalities,and tensions play in the coming of the Cold War?
Q6) Beginning in 1947,the House ________ Committee instituted a serious investigation of internal subversion.
Q7) Alger Hiss was in part convicted by Whittaker Chambers' "________ papers."
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Q2) In 1946,Dr.Benjamin Spock's best-selling Baby and Child Care contended that A)fathers needed to spend as much time as mothers in the care and raising of their children.
B)mothers should stay at home with their children.
C)families should not have more than three children.
D)the ages of children in a family should not be spaced out more than five years. E)children should not be breast-fed or allowed to sleep with their parents.
Q3) Between 1945 and 1959,the United States policy in the Middle East saw the A)Eisenhower administration assist in the construction of the Aswan Dam.
B)Truman administration refuse to recognize the state of Israel.
C)President Eisenhower seek to end the rule of Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser during the Suez crisis.
D)CIA engineer a coup that brought the shah of Iran to power.
E)U.S.refuse to join in a UN resolution denouncing British and French actions during the Suez crisis.
Q4) The rapid decline in authority for Senator Joseph McCarthy came with the televised ________-McCarthy hearings.
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Chapter 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism
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A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1963,civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered the same day
A)a black church was bombed in Birmingham,Alabama.
B)a federal court ruled James Meredith could attend the University of Mississippi.
C)Martin Luther King Jr.gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
D)George Wallace tried to prevent black students from enrolling in the University of Alabama.
E)Attorney General Robert Kennedy mandated the integration of bus and train stations.
Q3) The Johnson administration's Office of Economic Opportunity
A)eliminated poverty in many regions of the nation.
B)called for the relocation of many of the nation's urban poor.
C)was criticized for its absence of minority appointments.
D)included a controversial community action program.
E)spent less than $500 million in its first two years of existence.
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Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority
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Q2) Shortly after the last Americans had left,both South Vietnam and Cambodia came under the control of brutal and repressive governments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 1964,a dispute broke out at the University of California at Berkeley over
A)the cost of tuition and student housing.
B)the military draft.
C)the rights of students to engage in free speech.
D)corporate influence on the university's military research projects.
E)the question of graduate student unionization.
Q4) Conservative Americans,by and large,supported the decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The 1973 ________ War demonstrated American dependence on Arab oil.
Q6) In 1968,American soldiers massacred more than 100 South Vietnamese civilians near the village of ________.
Q7) The beginning of the gay liberation movement was marked by the ________ of 1969.
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Chapter 31: From the Age of Limits to the Age of Reagan
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A)True
B)False
Q2) The assumption that the woes of the American economy are the result of excessive taxation is the basis of "Reaganomics," also known as supply-side economics,or ________ economics by its critics.
Q3) What were the assets and liabilities faced by Gerald Ford's presidency?
Q4) President Ronald Reagan responded to the fiscal debt crisis by cutting spending programs intended to help poor Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why did communist governments rapidly collapse throughout Europe during the late 1980s and early 1990s?
Q6) ________ was the third party candidate in 1992 whose candidacy tapped popular resentment of the federal bureaucracy.
Q7) The 1981 tax cuts were the largest to that point in American history.
A)True
B)False
Q8) What were President Carter's major political successes and failures?
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Chapter 32: The Age of Globalization
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A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1998,the federal budget
A)set a record for deficit spending.
B)was one-third smaller than it had been six years earlier.
C)saw its first surplus in thirty years.
D)had paid off the national debt.
E)had cut military spending in half from its Cold War peak.
Q3) Despite winning the popular vote,Barack Obama narrowly won the election because of the closeness of the electoral vote.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What accounted for the high degree of public support for President Clinton? Why did scandals and the impeachment trial fail to erode his support?
Q5) Was Bill Clinton a Democrat in the New Deal tradition,or the Great Society tradition,or something else?
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