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Modern World History explores the key events, movements, and transformations that have shaped the world from the late 18th century to the present day. The course examines the causes and consequences of significant developments such as the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, world wars, decolonization, globalization, and technological advancements. Students will analyze the interplay of political, economic, social, and cultural forces that have influenced societies across continents. Emphasis is placed on understanding how historical contexts have contributed to present-day global issues, fostering critical thinking through primary source analysis, comparative perspectives, and discussions on the interconnectedness of the modern world.
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HIST 3 3rd Edition by Kevin M. Schultz
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Chapter 1: Three Societies on the Verge of Contact
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Q1) The Omaha and the Iroquois were two of the tribes living on the Great Plains.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The Olmec people of Mexico are important because
A) they were masters of rice production and cultivation.
B) their society was known for its sophisticated mound-building.
C) they were the first to abandon the tribal practice of human sacrifice.
D) they established networks of trade based on fishing.
E) they were a precursor to the many maize-based societies that would later develop in North America.
Answer: E
Q3) Among the North American tribes,when two tribes went to war,the captors usually took the men of the opposing tribe as slaves.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Contact and Settlement, 1492-1660
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Q1) Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach India via the shorter,eastern route because
A) Spain, the country he sailed for, was determined to beat the Portuguese.
B) the Portuguese had spent a great deal of time along the southern coast of Africa and were most familiar with the coastline.
C) he made a successful turn along the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and then headed north, which got him to India before others.
D) Columbus was still trying to reach India by going west.
E) he had been promised great wealth by the king of Portugal if he was first.
Answer: C
Q2) The major conflict between the colonists and a local Indian tribe in the 1630s that previewed future conflicts was known as the
A) Powhatan Conflict.
B) Jamestown Massacre.
C) Pequot War.
D) Roanoke War.
E) Wampanoag War.
Answer: C
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3: Expansion and Its Costs, 1660-1700
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Q1) What initially went wrong in Carolina?
A) The colony's earliest settlers clashed with the new English proprietors over self-rule.
B) The English noblemen who settled there expected that their vast land tracts would be enough to make them rich.
C) The region's climate was hot and humid and tobacco did not grow well there.
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.
Answer: D
Q2) By the early 1700s,it had become clear in the British colonies that
A) slavery would remain important to all thirteen colonies.
B) the colonies were becoming so crowded that more lands would be needed.
C) the residents of most colonies had come to trust the native tribes living near them.
D) something would have to be done to block French expansionism.
E) the colonists and the native peoples would not be able to live together peaceably.
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763
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Q1) The Negro Act,which consolidated South Carolina's slave codes into one comprehensive law,was passed in response to
A) the Stono Rebellion.
B) Nat Turner's Rebellion.
C) Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion.
D) the Gullah Uprising.
E) Bacon's Rebellion.
Q2) As a result of the Great Awakening,the Baptists
A) lost large numbers of the faithful to the newer religious sects.
B) saw their numbers and influence grow considerably in the Chesapeake.
C) founded Brown College.
D) established their first churches in the colonies.
E) became the strongest sect in New England.
Q3) Which of these countries was <i>not</i> a major source of immigration to the Middle Colonies from 1700-1760?
A) Ireland
B) Scotland
C) the Netherlands
D) England
E) Germany
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Chapter 5: Toward Revolution, 1763-1775
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Q1) As opposition in the colonies mounted to England's various acts and policies,which of the following groups remained mostly supportive of the Crown?
A) artisans
B) wealthy
C) merchants
D) free blacks
E) rural Cheseapeake residents
Q2) Most of Britain's population felt that the colonists' complaints were unfair,since they too,had heavy tax burdens and little say in the government.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Gaspée incident involved an English naval vessel set upon in Boston Harbor by angry colonists who did not think the British navy should be wasting time on chasing down smugglers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the reasons for the Boston Tea Party,describe the actions of those involved,and enumerate Parliament's response.
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Chapter 6: The Revolution
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Q1) At the time of the Revolutionary War,the most powerful Indian tribes who were in contact with the colonists lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The significance of Thomas Paine's pamphlet,<i>Common Sense</i>,was that it
A) served as a draft for what would become the Declaration of Independence.
B) moved large numbers of people to support independence by making republican ideals accessible to mainstream colonists.
C) argued that America was already independent; the final break was just a formality.
D) provided a clear system of government for the new nation.
E) included a vision of equality that was radical for its time - including the eventual abolition of slavery.
Q3) One of General Washington's strategies for winning the war was to wear down the British army by moving around the countryside so much that they could not fight effectively.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789
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Q1) All of the following is true about the Bill of Rights,<i>except</i>
A) Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York had all agreed to ratify the Constitution on the condition that Congress draft amendments to protect individual freedom from encroachment by the federal government.
B) Many of the protections that Congress contemplated were borrowed from the various state constitutions.
C) Of the twelve proposed amendments, ten passed.
D) The first amendment to pass was stipulated compensation for congressmen.
E) Congress began the task of crafting the Bill of Rights even before the Constitution was fully ratified.
Q2) What were the major problems the country faced under the Articles of Confederation? Why was it impossible to "fix" these problems?
Q3) The only large state to ratify the Constitution by the end of 1788 was Virginia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain how the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 organized the division of lands in the new territories.
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Q1) The first Congress elected in 1788 passed legislation concerning all of the following pressing tasks, <i>except</i>
A) setting up a system of federal courts.
B) securing the Bill of Rights that had been promised during the ratification period.
C) establishing the executive department.
D) banning the direct importation of African slaves.
E) raising revenues.
Q2) Jefferson's resignation as Secretary of State was a sign of
A) his growing distrust of President Washington.
B) his desire to return to his plantation and focus on increasing profits there.
C) his hatred of Alexander Hamilton.
D) his opposition to Washington's neutrality and Jefferson's perceived loss of influence in foreign policy with the president.
E) his fear that news about his relationship with slave Sally Hemings could bring scandal and shame to Washington's presidency.
Q3) Discuss the presidency of George Washington.What challenges did the first president of the United States face,both nationally and in the conduct of his office?
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Chapter 9: Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1814
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Q1) Which of the following is <i>not</i> a true statement about the Louisiana Purchase?
A) Jefferson initially set out to buy just New Orleans.
B) Napoleon agreed to sell the land because France desperately needed the money.
C) Jefferson paid $5 million for the land all the way to the Rocky Mountains.
D) The U.S. gained an additional 830,000 square miles in the deal with France.
E) The land was occupied and claimed by various Native American tribes.
Q2) When Napoleon offered to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States for $15 million,President Jefferson had a problem,because
A) the United States was still in debt and did not have that much cash on hand.
B) he believed the Constitution had to be followed strictly, and it did not state that the president could purchase new lands.
C) he was worried about what would happen there regarding slavery.
D) he detested having to agree with the Federalists that the purchase was a good one.
E) he wanted America to remain mostly agricultural, and he didn't know what the land was like there.
Q3) Explain Jeffersonian Democracy,and evaluate how successful Thomas Jefferson was in practicing that concept.
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Chapter 10: The Market Revolution
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Q1) All of the following are true about 19th century railroads, <i>except</i>
A) Rail transportation had a number of significant advantages over canal travel.
B) Trains traveled significantly faster than mules.
C) Railroads had become the cornerstone of the American transportation revolution of the 1840s and 1850s.
D) Railroads crisscrossed the South far more densely than in the North.
E) By the 1860s, more than 30,000 miles of track ran through the country.
Q2) As the Market Revolution progressed,Americans found that their role in the economy changed so that they were now
A) attaining complete self-sufficiency.
B) shipping more of what they made abroad rather than selling it domestically.
C) learning how the American System really operated.
D) becoming consumers as well as producers.
E) making more money than they could spend.
Q3) Explain how and why life in America's cities changed as a result of the Market Revolution and the increasing industrialization and urbanization of the country.
Q4) List and discuss the most important transportation improvements that took place in the first half of the 1800s.Which was most important? Why?
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Chapter 11: Politics of the Market Revolution
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Q1) Which act authorized the president to use the U.S.army and navy to put down insurrections?
A) Nullification Act
B) Non-Secession Bill
C) Insurrection Act
D) Anti-Insurrection Act
E) Force Bill
Q2) Andrew Jackson was the first president to
A) live in the White House without a First Lady.
B) have been a lawyer.
C) fight a duel while he was president.
D) be born outside New England or Virginia.
E) have no children.
Q3) The concern expressed about protecting the rights of a minority in a government generally based on majority rule found in the <i>South Carolina Exposition and Protest</i> written by John C.Calhoun mirrored a similar concern expressed in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions written by Thomas Jefferson.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the differences between the Whigs and the Democrats.
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Q1) Which of the following is <i>not</i> true about leisure in antebellum urban America?
A) Professional sports like horse-racing and boxing attracted large crowds.
B) Towns routinely constructed theaters early in their development where they featured Shakespeare plays, among others.
C) Residents gathered and socialized in small taverns.
D) Men and women mixed and mingled in urban theaters.
E) Minstrel shows, which ridiculed African Americans, were a form of rural comedy theater performed predominately in the South.
Q2) On plantations,owners usually preferred to have the slave quarters fairly close to the main house so they could keep a watchful eye on their slaves.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The actions slaves most often took to retaliate against the slave system would today be called passive resistance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe ways in which whites' defense of slavery changed over time.
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Chapter 13: The Continued Move West
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Q1) America's "mountain men" became so well-known that their lives became entwined with the folklore of the nation,making them often seem to have been "bigger than life."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mountain men
A) worked as miners.
B) knew how to farm the steep slopes of the Sierra Nevada and Northern Rocky Mountains.
C) used mountain meadows for grazing cattle.
D) were notorious for highway robbery of western settlers.
E) worked as trappers, explorers, and scouts for the U.S. Army.
Q3) Discuss the changes in the territorial boundaries of the United States.Why and how did these changes occur?
Q4) Manifest destiny reflected a much older American belief that God meant for them to dominate the North American continent,bringing civilization to that great land.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did Americans manage to wrest tribal lands away from the Plains Indians?
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Chapter 14: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) During the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858,Abraham Lincoln articulated his position on slavery,which was that
A) he did not seek to end slavery in the South, but did not want it extended to the West.
B) slavery was an evil institution and he wanted to see it come to a swift end.
C) slavery had no place in the North, but was vital to the agricultural development of the South and West.
D) the Fugitive Slave Law should be repealed since it infringed on northern states' rights. E) he favored popular sovereignty in matters regarding slavery.
Q2) Senator David Wilmot proposed that slavery be kept out of the new territories the country might acquire so that small farmers would have the chance to get in on the opportunities there.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which three national events in the 1850s catapulted the nation into the Civil War? Do you think the war could have been prevented otherwise? Explain.
Q4) How and when was the Know-Nothing Party established? For what purpose?
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Chapter 15: The Civil War
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Q1) For women,the Civil War meant all of the following <i>except</i>
A) an opportunity to revolutionize the nursing profession.
B) advances in women's suffrage during and after the war.
C) some women defied gender roles and served as spies and soldiers for the army on both sides.
D) a chance to fill previously male positions in munitions plants and government offices.
E) loss of male providers.
Q2) Which of the following was not a border state that had remained in the Union but nonetheless still retained slavery?
A) Missouri
B) Kentucky
C) Maryland
D) Delaware
E) Tennessee
Q3) Discuss the challenges the Union and the Confederacy faced on their homefronts.
Q4) The first battle of the Civil War took place at Manassas Junction near Washington,D.C.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) The absence of Southerners in Congress after the Civil War enabled northern politicians to pass legislation southerners had long resisted in all of the following areas <i>except</i>
A) internal improvements.
B) outlawing of slavery.
C) expanding the development of the Market Revolution.
D) laying the groundwork for the nation's industrial revolution.
E) passing sweeping statutory voting rights protections for African Americans across the United States, including the South.
Q2) The Fifteenth Amendment
A) prohibited any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
B) was initiated by the moderates in Congress who wanted to get the issue settled quickly.
C) was designed to protect the rights of black males and immigrant, non-citizen males.
D) was ratified and adopted in 1867, before any of the southern states returned to Congress.
E) specifically denied women the right to vote.
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Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) Which of the following men is <i>incorrectly </i>paired with his technological development?
A) Thomas Edison - incandescent light bulb
B) Elisha Otis - elevator
C) Andrew Carnegie - steel for skyscrapers
D) J. Pierpont Morgan - streetcar
E) Alexander Graham Bell - telephone
Q2) The first transcontinental railroad was completed in A) 1859.
B) 1864.
C) 1869.
D) 1873.
E) 1877.
Q3) As the Industrial Revolution progressed in America,all of the following occurred <i>except</i>
A) Cities grew rapidly.
B) People moved from farms to cities.
C) Immigration became less important to America.
D) Large-scale corporate firms dominated the American economy.
E) Family businesses became less important to America's economy.
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Chapter
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Q1) The silver discovery at Leadville,Colorado led to very few opportunities for the individual prospector,and the same was true of the gold strike at Cripple Creek fourteen years later.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The term "Gilded Age" was coined by
A) Mark Twain.
B) Andrew Carnegie.
C) Charles Darwin.
D) Herbert Spencer.
E) William M. Tweed.
Q3) What was the myth of the "Lost Cause"? Why did some southerners find it necessary to develop such a myth?
Q4) Between 1880 and 1920,approximately ____ people came to America from other countries.
A) 500,000
B) 5 million
C) 25 million
D) 10 million
E) 1 million
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Chapter 19: The Progressive Era
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Q1) Muckrakers were investigative writers who exposed
A) financially dishonest corporations.
B) political corruption in city machines.
C) unsafe working conditions in factories.
D) unsavory practices by meatpackers.
E) All of these choices.
Q2) Hull House was founded by
A) Jane Addams.
B) Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
C) Margaret Sanger.
D) Alice Paul.
E) Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Q3) The woman who dedicated herself to educating women about birth control was A) Margaret Sanger.
B) Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
C) Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
D) Jane Addams.
E) Alice Paul.
Q4) Explain the principles of scientific management.Whose interests did it serve? What,do you think,was the workers' reaction to scientific management?
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Chapter 20: Becoming a World Power
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Q1) The first country in which the United States wanted to build a canal across Central America was Colombia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The United States became a principle player in the post-World War I League of Nations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of these events finally pushed the United States to enter World War I?
A) The Zimmerman note
B) Anti-German sentiment in America
C) Germany's push toward Russia
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.
Q4) The Treaty of Versailles included all of the following, <i>except</i>
A) German reparations.
B) Germany's admission of guilt.
C) self-determination for nationalities.
D) an end to British and French colonial rule in Africa and Asia.
E) the League of Nations.
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Chapter 21: Prosperity and Change in the Twenties
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Q1) The Sacco and Vanzetti trial,conviction,appeals,and executions highlighted for many observers
A) the hypocrisy of Americans.
B) the public's fears of foreigners and Communists.
C) the flaws in the American justice system.
D) the intensity with which the American public followed lurid news stories.
E) what was certainly a case of innocent men sent to their deaths on flimsy evidence.
Q2) The consumer economy of the United States looked very good during the 1920s,as evidenced by the fact that
A) unemployment was just below 10 percent on average.
B) per capita incomes in the United States grew by about 10 percent during the decade.
C) most people enjoyed rising wages and rising standards of living.
D) one out of every two privately owned cars in the world belonged to Americans.
E) industries in America produced 8 percent more during the Twenties than in the years just prior to the war.
Q3) Who were some of the artists and writers who became expatriates in Europe during the 1920s? What were their reasons for leaving?
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Chapter 22: The Great Depression and the New Deal
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Q1) Woody Guthrie's song "This Land is Your Land" is about the suffering of America's farmers during the Depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following are true statements about Roosevelt's attempts to "pack the court" <i>except</i>
A) He thought the Supreme Court reflected Republican attitudes and threatened the New Deal.
B) He wanted to pass laws that would let him appoint up to six new justices and force others to retire by age 75.
C) It cost FDR some support from those fearful of the growth of the federal government.
D) Roosevelt's enemies in Congress were quick to vote on the court plan in the hopes of discrediting the president.
E) The plan caused one judge to change his rulings in New Deal cases.
Q3) What were the major agencies involved in relief efforts during the early period of the New Deal? How effective were they? What were some of their major accomplishments?
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B)False
Q2) What were the actions of Joseph Stalin that demonstrated his distrust of the West in regard to his country's communist government? What was the most ironic outcome of Stalin's manipulations?
Q3) One of the major social and economic changes resulting from the war was that by 1945 female employment outside the home had increased by more than 50 percent,to 20 million.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Just under 1.5 million southerners,most of them African Americans,left the segregated South during World War II,despite the fact that jobs were available in southern defense industries.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the Double V campaign of African Americans during World War II.What motivated black Americans to commit themselves to this campaign?
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Chapter 24: Cold War America
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Q1) Truman's 21-point Fair Deal suffered many obstacles,not the least of which was the president's relative unpopularity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Emmitt Till was the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In what ways did the race for space contribute to the Cold War between the two superpowers?
Q4) Which of these organizations was <i>not</i> created under the National Security Act of 1947?
A) Central Intelligence Agency
B) National Security Council
C) Federal Bureau of Investigation
D) Department of Defense
E) United States Air Force
Q5) What triggered the Cold War? What prevented it from turning "hot"? In hindsight,did the United States and the Soviet Union have reason to mistrust each other?
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Q1) The Tonkin Gulf Resolution gave President Johnson specific permission to A) invade North Vietnam.
B) declare war on North Vietnam.
C) do whatever was necessary to take care of the situation in South Vietnam.
D) assist the South Vietnamese people in overthrowing their government and installing a new leader.
E) All of these choices.
Q2) Which program was <i>not</i> developed through passage of the Economic Opportunity Act?
A) VISTA
B) Peace Corps
C) Work-training programs
D) Job Corps
E) Head Start
Q3) When James Meredith sought to enroll as the first African American student in the history of the University of Mississippi,he was met with such strong resistance that President Kennedy had to send in federal troops to assure his safety.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: The Age of Fracture: the 1970s
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Q1) Which is true of affirmative action?
A) Companies found it fairly easy to follow the affirmative action guidelines of hiring a certain percentage of minorities.
B) Nixon tried but failed to cause a breakup of the Democratic coalition of blacks and whites that had been forged during the New Deal years.
C) Many of the nation's universities adopted affirmative action policies only after lengthy court battles.
D) In the 1978 case <i>Regents of the University of California Bakke v.</i> , the Supreme Court upheld the legality of affirmative action but denied the right of an entity to use exact quotas to achieve the goal of equality.
E) Programs of affirmative action were generally developed at the state level, since the federal government could not create a one-size-fits-all policy.
Q2) How did America's involvement with Israel lead to the oil embargo of 1973? What were the results of the embargo in the United States?
Q3) How did the evangelical movement,the growing fundamentalist aspect of religion,and the case of Roe v.Wade change the American cultural landscape?
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Chapter 27: Reagans America
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A) A CIA plot designed to undermine the Soviet Union
B) Eastern European independence movement of 1989
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Widespread poverty
E) The American policy of containment in conjunction with the arms race
Q2) All of the following are true statements about the Savings and Loan crisis <i>except</i>
A) It was caused by allowing S&Ls to invest in risky ventures such as shady real estate deals.
B) One of the biggest S&L failures was investing in large companies that used the money to buy up weaker competitors.
C) It led to layoffs and heavy corporate debt.
D) Millions of Americans lost all their savings.
E) President Bush created a plan to resolve the crisis - at a taxpayer cost of $500 million.
Q3) Discuss the rationale for Reagan's supply-side economics.
Q4) What social effects did Reagan's economic policy have on Americans?
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Chapter 28: America in the Information Age
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Q1) In the 2000 presidential election,
A) over sixty percent of eligible voters participated.
B) only forty percent of eligible voters voted.
C) George Bush eventually was named the winner, with only three electoral votes separating him and Al Gore.
D) it could be argued that most voters were voting against either George W. Bush or Al Gore, rather than for either of them.
E) most people polled said that they were disgusted with politics in general.
Q2) One of the issues that was most contentious during the culture wars of the 1990s was
A) legalization of drugs.
B) multicultural education.
C) prostitution.
D) Rock'n Roll.
E) interracial marriage.
Q3) What is the purpose of NAFTA? What is the purpose of the WTO? How successful have those two institutions been?
Q4) What kinds of fields would be included under the term "information technologies"? Why is this term so important to us today?
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Chapter 29: Globalization and Its Discontents
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Q1) According to the USA PATRIOT Act
A) those spying on the U.S. government will be considered enemies of the state and sentenced to life in prison.
B) the federal government no longer needs a warrant to monitor libraries, banks, bookstores and homes for suspected terrorists.
C) all men must register for the draft upon turning 18 or forfeit federal student aid for college.
D) federal employees are required to take loyalty oaths.
E) the federal government can deport anyone suspected of terrorist associations.
Q2) How did Hurricane Katrina reinforce Americans' beliefs that the federal government was inept?
Q3) Abu Ghraib refers to
A) a naval base in Cuba where U.S. houses prisoners.
B) a battle during the Iraq war.
C) the location where Osama bin Laden hid out in Afghanistan.
D) an Iraqi prison where U.S. soldiers tortured and humiliated prisoners of war.
E) None of these choices.
Q4) Discuss the problems and challenges Barack Obama faced in office.
Q5) What were George W.Bush's avowed goals in invading Iraq?
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