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Course Introduction
This course explores the history of the United States from the end of the Civil War through to modern times, beginning with the era of Reconstruction and continuing into the 21st century. Covering key themes such as the transformation of the South, industrialization, urbanization, the rise and impact of social movements, and the evolving role of the United States on the global stage, students will examine the complex political, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped contemporary America. Through analysis of primary sources, critical events, and influential leaders, the course provides a comprehensive understanding of the forces that have driven change and continuity in American society over the last 150 years.
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Liberty Equality Power A History of the American People Volume 2 Since 1863 7th Edition by John
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Chapter 1: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) Ulysses S.Grant was guilty of
A)standing in the way of congressional Reconstruction.
B)participation in the "Whiskey Ring."
C)unwise appointments of public officials.
D)lying to Congress.
E)treason.
Answer: C
Q2) The dramatic rise in political corruption in the post-Civil War era was triggered by A)the expansion of government contracts and bureaucracy that created new opportunities for abuse.
B)relaxed standards and rules after years of wartime hardship.
C)rapid postwar economic growth.
D)the emergence of get-rich-quick schemes.
E)all of these choices.
Answer: E
Q3) The ____________________ Amendment gave blacks the right to vote.
Answer: Fifteenth
Q4) Roughly ____________________ percent of southern Republican voters were white.
Answer: 20
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Chapter 2: A Transformed Nation: The West and the New
South, 1865-1900
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Q1) All of the following statements regarding the Chinese in California are true except they
A)were overwhelmingly male.
B)were unable to develop communities owing to a shortage of women.
C)were actively recruited to come to the region as laborers.
D)were subject to the Foreign Miners' Tax.
E)referred to California as "Gold Mountain."
Answer: B
Q2) The cowboy tradition of rounding up and herding cattle arrived in the Americas with the earliest Spanish settlers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) In Williams v.Mississippi,the U.S.Supreme Court outlawed the use of literacy and property qualifications to limit voting rights.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
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Q1) The Grange was formed before the Knights of Labor.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The 1896 election was unexciting and attracted little voter interest.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Workmen's compensation did not appear in the United States until after World War II.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Which of the following events occurred first?
A)founding of Knights of Labor
B)Haymarket Square incident
C)founding of American Federation of Labor
D)Homestead strike
E)Depression of 1893
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920
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Q1) The black middle class of the nineteenth century went into decline as whites no longer wanted to employ blacks for services such as barbering or food preparation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) America's first illegal aliens were
A)Mexicans.
B)Puerto Ricans.
C)Italians.
D)Chinese and Japanese.
E)Canadians.
Q3) In the first two decades of the twentieth century,women's quest for equality with men
A)focused only on sexual freedom.
B)concentrated on education as the key to women's independence.
C)first used the term feminism to define their objectives and movement.
D)regarded workplace inequality the number one objective.
E)All of these choices.
Q4) walking cities
Q5) ____________________ was the first female movie sex symbol.
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Chapter 5: Progressivism, 1900-1917
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Q1) Women first began voting in the north.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ____________________ believed that African Americans who educated themselves would be accepted as equals by white Americans.
Q3) The Australian ballot predated the Progressive Era.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Progress toward racial equality was sluggish.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Theodore Roosevelt became President
A)after being elected on the Progressive Party ticket.
B)when President McKinley was shot.
C)as a result of a disputed election.
D)with a majority of the electoral vote but a minority of the popular vote.
E)through a Supreme Court decision.
Q6) ____________________ was a former major league baseball player who became the most theatrical evangelical preacher of his day.
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Chapter 6: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q1) When the United States annexed Puerto Rico,the intent was
A)to allow Puerto Ricans to govern themselves.
B)to encourage Puerto Rico to seek statehood.
C)to rule the island and its inhabitants.
D)to establish cooperative governance between the United States and Puerto Rico.
E)to pave the way for returning the island to Spanish rule.
Q2) The anti-imperialists were motivated purely by altruism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following motivated U.S.foreign policy from 1898 to 1917 except a
A)desire to promote goodwill and friendship with other nations.
B)belief in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race and its responsibility for uplifting inferior races.
C)need for new markets for American goods.
D)belief that the United States could and should become a world power.
E)desire to strengthen the navy.
Q4) American sugar plantation owners supported statehood for Hawaii.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Open Door notes
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Chapter 7: War and Society, 1914-1920
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Q1) The Lusitania ignored warnings that it was about to be torpedoed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Marcus Garvey was
A)Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state.
B)a strong supporter of integration.
C)the founder of a black separatist organization.
D)the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice.
E)a Republican opponent of the League of Nations.
Q3) By ____________________,the American economy was by far the world's strongest.
Q4) Marcus Garvey
Q5) Espionage,Sabotage,and Sedition Acts
Q6) Theodore Roosevelt hoped to achieve peace without victory.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Because of the military exercises practiced in the early part of the century,the U.S.military was well prepared to engage in the European conflict.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The 1920s
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Q1) The United States,Britain,Japan,France and Italy agreed to scrap more than two million tons of warships in the ____________________ Treaty.
Q2) League of Women Voters
Q3) Skilled industrial workers enjoyed higher wages and benefits in the production boom of the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ethnic associations,affiliations,and celebrations declined during the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________________ was the greatest black baseball player.
Q6) The decade following World War I was a period of tremendous growth and prosperity for the United States.It also was a period of contradiction and conflict as the forces of modernity confronted the power of tradition.Discuss the factors that gave rise to these conflicts and where they were most pronounced.In your opinion,did one tradition or modernity "win" over the other?
Q7) people's capitalism
Q8) Robert LaFollette ran for president in 1924 as the candidate of the ____________________ Party.
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Chapter 9: The Great Depression and the New Deal
1929-1939
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Q1) The union formed to organize the millions of nonunion employees into effective workers was the
A)Knights of Labor.
B)American Federation of Labor.
C)"wobblies."
D)National Labor Union.
E)Congress of Industrial Organization.
Q2) Contrast the responses of President Herbert Hoover to the Depression with those of his successor,Franklin D.Roosevelt.
Q3) The deepening inequality of income in the 1920s contributed to the Great Depression because
A)the rich spent a smaller proportion of their incomes on consumption than wage earners did.
B)the working class spent far less than the wealthy on consumer goods.
C)reduced tax rates meant the government had a smaller budget with which to invest in economic recovery.
D)the wealthy paid extremely high taxes,which hindered spending.
E)None of these choices.
Q4) Good Neighbor Policy
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Chapter 10: America During the Second World War
1939-1945
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Q1) In 1943,a race riot broke out in ____________________ after a conflict between black and white youth at an amusement park.
Q2) The 1944 conference that created the International Monetary Fund sought to create stability in the global monetary system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Hiroshima
Q4) Some 130,000 people of Japanese ancestry were interned in barbed-wired concentration camps during the war.
A)True
B)False
Q5) At the end of World War II,the U.S.refused to grant independence to the Philippines.
A)True
B)False
Q6) World War II concentrated power in the largest corporations.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Pearl Harbor
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Chapter 11: The Age of Containment 1946-1953
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Q1) The 1949 military and political alliance linking Western European nations with the United States was
A)NATO.
B)CENTO.
C)SEATO.
D)the Warsaw Pact.
E)the Marshall Plan.
Q2) Describe the Truman Doctrine and the policy of containment.Out of what assumptions about foreign policy did this strategy emerge,and what were its long-term implications?
Q3) The leader of the Screen Actors Guild who was also a secret informer for the FBI (known as agent T- 10)was ____________________.
Q4) The Dixiecrat Party episode of 1948 was a direct reaction to Harry Truman's stance on ____________________.
Q5) Examine the social changes that occurred in the aftermath of World War II that exemplified the prosperity and progress of the era.
Q6) When the Soviet Union cut off all access to West Berlin,the ___________________ delivered supplies that people there needed.
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Chapter 12: America at Midcentury 1953-1963
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Q1) Examine the impact of television on U.S.society in the 1950s and 1960s.
Q2) John F.Kennedy endorsed lower taxes as a means of stimulating economic growth.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Phyllis Schlafly's ____________________ became one of the leading manifestos of the Republican Party's right wing.
Q4) Dwight D.Eisenhower was reluctant to use the power of the Federal government to address the issue of racial discrimination.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the changing strategies that labor employed in their dealings with industry during the "affluent" 1950s.
Q6) The program that sent Americans overseas to work on developmental projects was the
A)Green Berets.
B)Peace Corps.
C)Green Peace.
D)Jobs Corps.
E)Volunteer Corps.
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Chapter 13: America During a Divisive War 1963-1974
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Q1) Black Power
Q2) Lyndon Johnson secured passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by
A)appealing to the public with a televised "fireside chat."
B)gaining support from leading Republicans in Congress.
C)persuading southern congressmen that segregation was morally wrong.
D)promising segregationists that enforcement of the law would be left entirely in the hands of state officials.
E)getting the support of the Supreme Court.
Q3) The primary reason for SALT I's negligible impact on the arms race was
A)widespread Soviet violations of the agreed upon limits.
B)widespread American violations of the agreed upon limits.
C)its failure to win public support in the U.S.and the Soviet Union.
D)widespread Soviet and American violations of the agreed upon limits.
E)its failure to limit the number of warheads that each missile could carry
Q4) Participatory democracy was the goal of the leftist
Q5) The riot in Watts did not result in a loss of life.
A)True
B)False
Q6) By 1971,unemployment topped ____________________ percent.
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Chapter 14: Uncertain Times 1974-1992
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Q1) George Bush's vice president was Dan Quayle.
A)True
B)False
Q2) James Schlesinger served as Jimmy Carter's head of the Department of A)the interior.
B)state.
C)agriculture.
D)energy.
E)treasury.
Q3) Explore the rise of the "new right." What was its focus? How did it help shape the political landscape?
Q4) None of the major participants in the Iran-Contra affair were punished for their crimes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The space-based defense system promoted by Ronald Reagan,which supposedly would stop incoming missiles,was popularly dubbed ____________________.
Q6) In 1968,Indian activists created ____________________ which used confrontational tactics.
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Chapter 15: Economic, social, and Cultural Change in the
Late 20th Century
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Q1) Between 1991 and 2004,there was a resurgence in the number of Americans who belonged to a union.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to some estimates,in 2000,the number of people practicing ________________ surpassed the number of people practicing Judaism.
Q3) In the early 21st century,13 percent of the U.S.workforce was unionized; in the 1950s this figure was
A)80 percent.
B)64 percent.
C)43 percent.
D)30 percent.
E)18 percent.
Q4) "narrowcasting"
Q5) During the 1970s and 1980s,the number of immigrants arriving from Europe exceeded the number arriving from Asia and Latin America.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 16: A Time of Hope and Fear 1993-2014
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Q1) In foreign policy,President Bill Clinton
A)continued a trade embargo against Vietnam.
B)expanded international markets and lowered trade barriers in Asia and North America.
C)offered nuclear weapons to South Korea as a deterrent to North Korean aggression.
D)established friendly relations with Cuba.
E)broke off relations with Israel.
Q2) The Bush administration chose to ignore the FISA of 1978 in regards to the issue of A)torture.
B)domestic wiretaps.
C)prisoner detainees.
D)coal emissions.
E)strip mining.
Q3) The Tea Party movement
Q4) The special prosecutor who discovered Bill Clinton had an affair with a White House intern was ____________________.
Q5) Barack Obama's campaign slogan was Hope and ____________________.
Q6) ____________________.com is a site that allows people to post video online.
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