Course Introduction
Post-Civil War U.S. History
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Post-Civil War U.S. History explores the political, economic, and social transformation of the United States following the end of the Civil War in 1865. The course covers key themes such as Reconstruction, the rise of industrialization, the development of the Jim Crow South, westward expansion, the impact of immigration and urbanization, and the emergence of the U.S. as a global power. Students will critically analyze the challenges of reunification, the ongoing struggles for civil rights, shifting cultural identities, and the significant changes in American society through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The course emphasizes primary sources, historical debates, and the complexity of progress and resistance in shaping modern America.
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American Pageant Volume 2 16th Edition by
David M. Kennedy
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Chapter 1: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) In the postwar South
A) the economy and social structure was utterly devastated.
B) the emancipation of slaves had surprisingly little economic consequence.
C) the much-feared inflation never materialized.
D) industry and transportation were damaged, but Southern agriculture continued to flourish.
E) poorer whites benefited from the end of plantation slavery.
Answer: A
Q2) Congressional Reconstruction hoped to provide and enforce basic rights and protection for the former slaves in the South through the A) Military Reconstruction Act.
B) Fifteenth Amendment
C) Freedmen's Bureau Act.
D) Fourteenth Amendment.
E) Force Acts.
Answer: A, B, C, D, E
Q3) Hiram Revels
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 2: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896
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Q1) The conservative white Bourbon Democrats of the South largely succeeded in crushing the Populist revolt by
A) demonstrating that Populist economic policies would harm Southern cotton interests.
B) adopting some of the Populist economic policies to appeal to poor white farmers and their economic interests.
C) bribing the Populist leadership to betray the rank and file.
D) persuading black farmers that the Populists really did not have their interests at heart. E) appealing to poor white farmers' antiblack racial feelings against their economic interests.
Answer: E
Q2) The Liberal Republican movement favored
A) an end to military Reconstruction in the South.
B) civil-service reform.
C) cheap money.
D) denying Ulysses S. Grant a second term as president.
E) a two-term limit on the presidency.
Answer: A, B, D
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Chapter 3: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
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Q1) The first major product of the oil industry was
A) kerosene.
B) gasoline.
C) propane.
D) natural gas.
E) heating oil.
Answer: A
Q2) The factors promoting the growth of manufacturing in post-Civil War America included
A) plentiful cheap labor.
B) available investment capital.
C) abundant natural resources.
D) effective government planning.
E) massive immigration.
Answer: A, B, C, E
Q3) consumer goods
Answer: Answers will vary.
Q4) trust
Answer: Answers will vary.
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4: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
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Q1) Match each of these late-nineteenth-century writers with the theme of his work.
A.Lewis Wallace
B.Horatio Alger
C.Henry James
D.William Dean Howells
1)Success and honor as the products of honesty and hard work
2)Anti-Darwinism support for the Holy Scriptures
3)Contemporary social problems like divorce, labor strikes, and socialism
4)Psychological realism and the dilemmas of sophisticated women.
A) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
B) A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4
C) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
D) A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
E) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
Q2) The Morrill Act of 1862
A) established black colleges like Spelman.
B) established women's colleges like Smith.
C) established the modern American research university.
D) mandated racial integration in public schools.
E) granted public lands to states to support higher education.
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Chapter 5: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896
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Q1) A major problem faced by settlers on the Great Plains in the 1870s was
A) the high price of land.
B) the low market value of grain.
C) the scarcity of water.
D) overcrowding.
E) the opposition of miners.
Q2) All of the following are true statements about Indians who ended up on reservations in the 1870s and 1880s except
A) they were fed meagerly by the U.S. government and not annihilated by the U.S. Army.
B) they were forced to eke out an existence.
C) they became wards of the U.S. government.
D) they felt protected and well-provided for by the U.S. government.
E) many died from diseases.
Q3) Farmers' Alliance
Q4) safety-valve theory
Q5) Helen Hunt Jackson
Q6) Sitting Bull
Q7) Nez Percé
Q8) A Century of Dishonor Page 7
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Chapter 6: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909
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Q1) The most successful American military action during the Spanish-American War was largely due to
A) the incompetence of Spanish military forces.
B) effective collaboration between U.S. forces and Cuban and Filipino rebels.
C) the strategic skill of U.S. military leadership.
D) the efficient logistical support for U.S. forces provided by the War Department.
E) effective use of the new steel navy.
Q2) McKinley Tariff
Q3) A primary reason that the British submitted their border dispute with Venezuela to arbitration was
A) that growing tensions with Germany made Britain reluctant to engage in conflict with the United States.
B) that they expected the Monroe Doctrine to be ruled invalid.
C) that they did not want to become involved in a dangerous war in South America.
D) the fear that Britain would lose a shooting war with Venezuela.
E) that they accepted America's complete domination of Latin America.
Q4) Pan-American Conference
Q5) Richard Olney
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Chapter 7: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
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Q1) Do you think that Theodore Roosevelt's claim that Taft had abandoned his policies was entirely fair? Why or why not?
Q2) John Muir
Q3) The third-party Progressive Republican presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
A) featured the support of prominent women progressives and social reformers such as Jane Addams.
B) failed to endorse significant social justice causes such women's suffrage, minimum wage laws, and publicly supported health care.
C) assumed the animal symbol of the "bull moose" to represent the strength and aggressiveness of Roosevelt.
D) never developed a coherent political programmatic counterpart to Wilson's New Freedom campaign.
E) possessed such a limited progressive scope that it cannot be considered a harbinger of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and a vision for a comprehensive welfare state.
Q4) conservation
Q5) Ballinger-Pinchot affair
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Chapter 8: Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War,
1913-1920
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Q1) With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans
A) earnestly hoped to stay out of the war.
B) favored entering the war in support of the Allies.
C) supported the Central Powers.
D) wanted to form a military alliance of neutral nations.
E) favored U.S. mediation of the conflict.
Q2) President Wilson's Fourteen Points included
A) arms limitation.
B) self-determination.
C) maintaining great powers'spheres of influence.
D) freedom of the seas.
E) a permanent international organization.
Q3) Francisco (Pancho) Villa
Q4) Charles Evans Hughes
Q5) Clayton Act
Q6) Workingmen's Compensation Act
Q7) Fourteen Points
Q8) U-boats
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Chapter 9: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
1920 1929
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Q1) The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except
A) immigration restrictions against "non-native" Americans.
B) anti-Semitism.
C) opposition to prohibition.
D) repression of pacifists.
E) anti-Catholicism.
Q2) The first talkie motion picture was
A) The Great Train Robbery.
B) The Birth of a Nation.
C) The Wizard of Oz.
D) Gone With the Wind.
E) The Jazz Singer.
Q3) Which of the following was not among the industries that prospered mightily with widespread use of the automobile?
A) Rubber
B) Highway construction
C) Oil
D) Railroads
E) Glass
Q4) United Negro Improvement Association
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Chapter 10: The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920 1932
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Q1) Senator Robert La Follette's Progressive party advocated all of the following except A) government ownership of railroads.
B) relief for farmers.
C) opposition to antilabor injunctions.
D) opposition to monopolies.
E) increased power for the Supreme Court.
Q2) In 1924, the Democratic party convention defeated by only one vote a resolution condemning
A) the Ku Klux Klan.
B) immigration restrictions.
C) prohibition.
D) modern art.
E) Margaret Sanger's efforts to advance birth control for women.
Q3) What evidence indicated throughout the 1920s that the American economy was not as healthy as most American believed during the decade? Why weren't these weaknesses identified by political leaders, Wall Street finance professionals, and big businessmen? Why did the U.S. government fail to address these weaknesses once these economic shortcomings became apparent and were pointed out by European allies such as Great Britain and France?
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Chapter 11: The Great Depression and the New Deal
1933 1939
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Q1) List the major factors that brought a close to the New Deal in the late 1930s. Separate the list into those that President Roosevelt had some control over and those that he did not. Explain how the combination of these factors ended the New Deal.
Q2) "a switch in time saves nine"
Q3) Mary McLeod Bethune
Q4) Liberty League
Q5) In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by
A) nationalizing all banks and major industries.
B) mobilizing America's youth as in wartime.
C) returning to the traditional policies of laissez-faire capitalism.
D) continuing the policies already undertaken by President Hoover.
E) experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform.
Q6) Roosevelt (New Deal)coalition
Q7) Eleanor Roosevelt
Q8) Tennessee Valley Authority
Q9) Public Works Administration
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Chapter 12: Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
1933 1941
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Q1) It is a common observation that American foreign policy often reflects domestic politics. In what way did domestic considerations influence the Roosevelt administration's recognition of the Soviet Union, adoption of a Good Neighbor policy, and extension of independence to the Philippines?
Q2) After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk in the fall of 1941
A) Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act.
B) the U.S. Navy stopped escorting merchant vessels carrying lend-lease shipments.
C) Congress prohibited the arming of U.S. merchant vessels.
D) Congress forbade United States ships to enter combat zones.
E) Congress voted to weaken substantially the terms of the Neutrality Act of 1939 to permit armed merchant ship to deliver munitions to Britain.
Q3) America First Committee
Q4) ____ The only European nation to pay off its World War I debts to the United States, invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939-1940.
Q5) ____ The nation that, when invaded in 1939, touched off the formal onset of World War II.
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Chapter 13: America in World War II 1941 1945
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Q1) Should the Allied victory in World War II be seen as proof of the strength of democracy? Support your answer with specific evidence regarding the course and conduct of the war.
Q2) Arrange these wartime conferences in chronological order: (A) Potsdam, (B) Casablanca, and (C) Teheran.
A) A, B, C
B) C, B, A
C) B, C, A
D) B, A, C
E) A, C, B
Q3) Despite the demands of the wartime economy, inflation was kept well in check during the war by
A) directing production to whatever goods were in most demand.
B) prosecuting war profiteers and black marketers who tried to earn windfall profits.
C) voluntary wage and price controls agreed to by business and organized labor.
D) sharply constricting the flow of credit from the Federal Reserve Board.
E) federally imposed mandatory wage and price controls.
Q4) second front
Q5) Henry A. Wallace
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Chapter 14: The Cold War Begins 1945-1952
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Q1) ____ South Sakhalin Island
Q2) Among anticommunists, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was the A) most effective.
B) first Republican.
C) only true World War II hero.
D) one who most damaged free speech and fair play.
E) one who organized a national movement.
Q3) Explain the United States' tremendous success story in postwar Japan versus its failure in China. Who was responsible for the fall of China to the communists? Did American postwar foreign policy toward Nationalist China and its leader Jiang Jieshi play a crucial role in the fall of China? Alternatively, were the keys to the "loss of China" to be found in the shortcomings of the Nationalist government and the political and military strength of Mao Zedong and his communist armies?
Q4) Harry Truman possessed all of the following personal characteristics except A) patience and prudery.
B) few pretensions.
C) willingness to accept responsibility.
D) honesty.
E) courage.
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Chapter 15: American Zenith 1952-1963
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Q1) Ho Chi Minh
Q2) In response to a supposed Soviet threat to Middle Eastern oil, the American Central Intelligence Agency in 1953
A) began seeking alternative sources of energy.
B) staged a coup to overthrow the Iranian government and install Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi as dictator-like monarch.
C) engaged in sabotage against pro-Soviet governments in the region.
D) developed close cooperation with Israeli intelligence agencies.
E) gathered conclusive evidence of the Soviets' plans to control Egypt.
Q3) rock 'n' roll
Q4) Betty Friedan
Q5) During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would ____ to help to end the Korean War.
A) use atomic weapons
B) blockade the China coast and bomb Manchuria
C) open negotiations with Mao Zedong
D) order United Nations troops to invade North Korea
E) personally go to Korea
Q6) Josephine Baker
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Chapter 16: The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973
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Q1) The 1967 Six-Day War intensified the Arab-Israeli conflict by bringing into constant, direct conflict
A) Americans and Israelis.
B) Israel and Saudi Arabia.
C) Israel and the United States on the one hand and the Arabs and the Soviet Union on the other.
D) the Israeli government and Jewish settlers on the West Bank.
E) Israelis and Palestinians.
Q2) In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court upheld a married couple's right to use contraceptives based on
A) the necessary and proper clause of the Constitution.
B) the First Amendment.
C) a right to privacy.
D) Roe v. Wade.
E) the Fourteenth Amendment.
Q3) Explain how America's involvement in Vietnam "presented a grisly demonstration" of how "the doctrine of 'flexible response' ... contained lethal logic."
Q4) Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)
Q5) Michael Harrington
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Chapter 17: Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980
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Q1) Roe v. Wade(1973)
Q2) SALT II treaty
Q3) When the North Vietnamese launched a full-scale invasion of South Vietnam in 1975,
A) the United States provided even more military aid to South Vietnam.
B) the Chinese intervened to seek a neutral settlement.
C) the United States renewed bombing against North Vietnam.
D) all the South Vietnamese who supported the United States were trapped inside the country.
E) the South Vietnamese government quickly collapsed.
Q4) As part of the backlash against the women's movement, antifeminists blamed feminists for
A) rising rates of juvenile delinquency.
B) escalating divorce rates.
C) increased teen pregnancy.
D) rising incidences of violence against women.
E) changing sexual norms.
Q5) Was Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon justified? Why or why not? Did President Ford's pardon of Nixon cost Ford his opportunity to be elected in the presidential election of 1976 against Jimmy Carter?
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Chapter 18: The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992
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Q2) Solidarity Movement
Q3) ethnic cleansing
Q4) Democrats who opposed the reelection of President Carter complained that he
A) had failed to control double-digit inflation.
B) negotiated the Panama Canal Treaty.
C) had not aggressively pursued civil rights.
D) failed to rescue the hostages in Iran.
E) had removed regulatory controls from major industries.
Q5) Which of the following was not among the ways that the religious right of the 1980s imitated the tactics and approaches of the New Left of the 1960s?
A) "Making the personal political"
B) Practicing identity politics
C) Seizing control of colleges and universities
D) Using small groupsessions to raise consciousness
E) Engaging in tactics of street protest and civil disobedience
Q6) Argue for and against: Ronald Reagan's ability to negotiate successful arms agreements with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev could not have happened if he had not been so aggressively anti-Soviet in his first term.
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Chapter 19: America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,
1992-2000
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Q1) What steps did President Clinton take to successfully manage the economy in the 1990s? Why were his trade and tax policies so controversial?
Q2) Branch Davidians
Q3) Evaluate the debates over multiculturalism and the traditional melting pot of American national culture. Why have such controversies so often contributed to the culture wars? Is there a middle ground between a strong multiculturalism and the desire to hold onto shared American values and culture?
Q4) United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Q5) The rise of computer corporations like Microsoft and dot.com businesses signaled the advent of
A) industrial technology.
B) the global information age.
C) mass democracy.
D) entrepreneurial capitalism.
E) the speculative stock market.
Q6) Newt Gingrich
Q7) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Q8) Welfare Reform Bill
Q9) Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Q1) The "Tea Party" that emerged in the summer of 2009 was
A) comprised of people claiming to be angry about expanding government programs, influence and spending.
B) mobilized to end the war in Iraq.
C) started by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
D) mobilized to increase government spending to end the Great Recession.
E) supported by a combination of spending cuts and tax increases to close the federal budget deficit.
Q2) In June 2004, the United States handed over ____ to the new interim government of Iraq.
A) the Abu Ghraib prison
B) political power and limited sovereignty
C) former dictator Saddam Hussein
D) captured weapons of mass destruction
E) militant Islamic rebels and insurgents
Q3) Apple
Q4) Hurricane Katrina
Q5) Al Qaeda
Q6) Tea Party
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