Reconstruction to Present Solved Exam Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the history of the United States from the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War through to the present day. Students will examine key themes such as the transformation of the American social, political, and economic landscape; the struggles over civil rights and citizenship; industrialization and its consequences; the rise of the U.S. as a global power; and significant domestic and international events that have shaped modern America. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will gain a deeper understanding of the complexities and diverse experiences that have defined the nation over the past century and a half.
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Chapter 1: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) Ulysses S.Grant depended on this group for his presidential victory in 1868.
A)northern Democrats
B)southern Democrats
C)African Americans
D)National Union Party members
E)immigrants from Europe.
Answer: C
Q2) Moderate Republicans believed that black men should participate to some degree in the reconstruction process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The main issue addressed by the 15th Amendment was A)housing.
B)lynching.
C)segregation.
D)civil rights.
E)voting.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: A Transformed Nation: The West and the New
South, 1865-1900
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Q1) According to Frederick Jackson Turner,American character and culture were primarily influenced by
A)the Spanish and the French traditions.
B)the development of civilized cities and towns.
C)the spread of the plantation system.
D)the existence of the frontier and the westward movement.
E)war.
Answer: D
Q2) In the Sand Creek massacre half of the Indians killed were women and children.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Souls of Black Folk was written by ____________________.
Answer: W.E.B.Du Bois
Q4) Mugwumps,Stalwarts,and Half-Breeds were divisions within the ____________________ Party.
Answer: Republican
Q5) The Foreign Miners Tax of 1850 effectively forced ____________________ out of the California gold fields.
Answer: Mexican Americans
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
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Q1) In the 1920s,few Americans could afford automobiles.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The book Work was written by ____________________ and focused on female workers.
Answer: Louisa May Alcott
Q3) The Haymarket Square incident united the country.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The Supreme Court ruled in the 1880s that states could not regulate interstate railroad traffic rates.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) Founded in 1867,the Patrons of Husbandry was also known as the ____________________.
Answer: Grange
Q6) Industrial titans were called ____________________.
Answer: robber barons
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Chapter 4: Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920
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Q1) Explore the causes and patterns of immigration during the period 1890-1920.
Q2) Discuss the changing views of the role of women in U.S.society and the emergence of the women's rights movement in the period 1900 to 1920.
Q3) Many "new" immigrants rose to the prosperous ranks of skilled labor.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Urban elites were drawn to architecture that had ____________________ influences.
Q5) The "old" and "new" immigrants had nothing in common.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Israel Zangwill's most well known play was ____________________.
Q7) ____________________ was the term used by women who desired full equality with men.
Q8) The quintessential force in late-nineteenth-century city government was A)city hall.
B)the political machine.
C)the political party.
D)the mayor.
E)the wealthy private citizen.
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Chapter 5: Progressivism, 1900-1917
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Q1) Theodore Roosevelt's concern for the environment is best described as preservationist.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) The Australian ballot predated the Progressive Era.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Progressive Era president who managed to pass a tariff-reduction bill was ____________________.
Q5) Describe municipal political reform,noting key features of the two main plans.
Q6) muckraker
Q7) Most Progressives were ____________________ class.
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Q8) The device for removing public officials from office who had betrayed the public trust was called the _________________.
Chapter 6: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q1) Explain the factors that led to the U.S.involvement in Cuba and the decision to declare war on Spain.
Q2) Every presidential administration from the 1880s on committed itself to a "big navy" policy.
A)True B)False
Q3) Woodrow Wilson expressed no interest in Mexican political affairs. A)True B)False
Q4) The dependence of Cuba's ____________________ industry on the U.S.market helped win acceptance of the Platt Amendment
Q5) What arguments did anti-imperialists offer in opposition to U.S.involvement in the Philippines? What distinguished anti-imperialists from one another?
Q6) Explain the "frontier thesis." How was it significant?
Q7) "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" was written by
Q8) Few American men volunteered for war with Spain. A)True B)False
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Chapter 7: War and Society, 1914-1920
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Q1) Which of the following groups entered the labor force in large numbers during the war?
A)Mexicans,white southerners,and European immigrants
B)African Americans,Mexicans,and children
C)African Americans,white southerners,Mexicans,and women
D)European immigrants,African Americans,and women
E)Irish,German and Italian immigrants
Q2) Marcus Garvey
Q3) Theodore Roosevelt hoped to achieve peace without victory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.Why was it significant?
Q5) The Palmer raids confirmed the depth of the radical threat to American society.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Belgium was a member of the Triple Entente.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The fear of communism in the US and of groups plotting against the US after World War I is known as the ____________________.
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Chapter 8: The 1920s
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Q1) The results of the Lynds' survey indicated that even working-class families could afford many luxuries.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The term "flapper" referred to
A)women who joined the air force during the war.
B)modern,single,women who smoked and wore short dresses.
C)women who supported Prohibition by attacking saloons and saloonkeepers.
D)feminists who organized political and action groups.
E)women who publicly debated the merits of the League of Nations.
Q3) The ____________________ Pact outlawed war as a tool of national policy.
Q4) Women with ambition generally sought work as all of the following except A)social workers.
B)teachers.
C)librarians.
D)nurses.
E)department store clerks
Q5) Dawes Plan
Q6) The unemployment rate between 1922 and 1929 never rose above ____________________ percent.
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Chapter 9: The Great Depression and the New Deal
1929-1939
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Q1) What was the term for makeshift towns built around the United States during the Depression as shelters for the homeless?
A)"Shantytowns."
B)"Hoovervilles."
C)"Cardboard villages."
D)"Hobovilles."
E)"Roosevelt villages."
Q2) The National Recovery Administration had the power to force adherence to its codes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Approximately ____________________ Mexican immigrants returned to Mexico during the Great Depression.
Q4) From 1929 to 1932,industrial production fell by
A)10 percent.
B)25 percent.
C)50 percent.
D)75 percent.
E)90 percent.
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Q5) ____________________ was the first female cabinet member in U.S.history.
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Chapter 10: America During the Second World War
1939-1945
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Q1) Pearl Harbor
Q2) The 1941 law known as the ________________ authorized the U.S.to loan,rather than sell,munitions to the Allies.
Q3) The sinking of the U.S.destroyer ____________________ led Congress to repeal the Neutrality Act.
Q4) American foreign policy in the early and mid-1930s was basically
A)interventionist.
B)expansionist.
C)isolationist.
D)jingoistic.
E)militaristic.
Q5) By V-J Day,government spending had reached ____________________ billion.
Q6) For the Japanese,the attack on Pearl Harbor was an act of desperation.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Zoot suits were flamboyant fashions worn by women.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Age of Containment 1946-1953
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Q1) By 1951 ____________________ of the American budget went to military spending.
Q2) Describe the relationship between the rise of suburbia and the climate of the cold war.
Q3) The labor strikes that prevailed at the end of World War II began to subside when
A)Unions were able to negotiate better wages and conditions.
B)President Truman threatened to seize the mines and railroads that had been shut down by strikes.
C)Truman sent in troops to quell a strike in the Midwest.
D)the CIO expelled several of its more radical affiliates.
E)All of these choices.
Q4) Truman's Fair Deal attempted to regulate farm prices.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
A)established a European free-trade zone.
B)continued the traditional U.S.policy of nonentanglement.
C)delivered economic aid to the Soviet Union.
D)called for preemptive wars against likely aggressors.
E)considered an attack on one member nation an attack on all members.
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Chapter 12: America at Midcentury 1953-1963
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Q1) the sit-in movement
Q2) 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.
Q3) Highway Act of 1956
Q4) The Chief Justice who wrote the decision in Brown v.Board of Education was A)Warren Burger.
B)Earl Warren.
C)Louis Brandeis.
D)Felix Frankfurter.
E)William Howard Taft.
Q5) U.S.prestige in the Middle East benefited from the Suez Canal crisis.
A)True
B)False
Q6) "domino theory"
Q7) Examine the 1960 election and the "New Frontier."
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Chapter 13: America During a Divisive War 1963-1974
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Q1) Civil Rights leaders had a different vision than Johnson for the types of antipoverty programs needed in poor urban areas.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 included new provisions that
A)guaranteed the right to vote to black Americans.
B)guaranteed the right to vote to women.
C)proposed federal remedies for fighting job discrimination.
D)protected women in the workplace.
E)reinforced states rights.
Q3) The charismatic black Muslim leader who challenged the nonviolent approach of Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr.was
A)Elijah Muhammad.
B)Malcolm X.
C)Stokely Carmichael.
D)Louis Farrakhan.
E)Jesse Jackson.
Q4) Barry Goldwater
Q5) The "Pentagon Papers" were leaked to the press by ____________________.
Q6) Malcolm X
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Chapter 14: Uncertain Times 1974-1992
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Q1) George Bush's campaign faltered during the election of 1992 because
A)Bush did not have a clear,consistent vision of foreign and domestic policy.
B)the Democrats attacked him as an enemy of "family values."
C)his appearance on MTV shocked conservative voters.
D)white southern Protestants overwhelmingly supported the Democratic ticket.
E)the Democratically controlled Congress took credit for the economic prosperity.
Q2) During George Bush's presidency,
A)the federal deficit continued to increase.
B)the Soviet Union was abolished.
C)the United States invaded Panama.
D)the Persian Gulf War was fought.
E)all of these choices
Q3) The New Right
Q4) Camp David Peace Talks of 1978
Q5) President George H.Bush opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Operation Desert Shield
Q7) The Iranian shah was overthrown in ____________________.
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Chapter 15: Economic, social, and Cultural Change in the
Late 20th Century
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Q1) In 1986,the space program was stalled for years by the explosion of the shuttle
Q2) The first astronaut to walk on the moon was ____________________.
Q3) Since 1990,the percentage of African Americans has
A)increased in rural areas.
B)decreased in suburbs and increased in urban centers.
C)decreased in both suburbs and urban centers.
D)increased in both suburbs and urban centers.
E)increased in suburbs and declined in urban centers.
Q4) By 2000,more than 40 percent of corporate profits came from the financial services sector.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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.
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Chapter 16: A Time of Hope and Fear 1993-2014
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Q1) In 2005,an official U.S.government report concluded that,in 2003,Iraq did not have nuclear weapons but did possess biological weapons when the U.S.invaded.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the increasing polarization of American politics in the 2000s.How would you characterize this polarization? What do you see as its roots and as the differences between various sides?
Q3) After making Clinton a center issue in the 1998 election,congressional Republicans
A)gained ten seats.
B)lost ten seats.
C)gained five seats.
D)lost five seats.
E)gained fifteen seats.
Q4) Bill Clinton sent U.S.troops to intervene in a civil war in Rwanda.
A)True
B)False
Q5) housing bubble
Q6) Bush v.Gore
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