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Chapter 1: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) The Fourteenth Amendment dealt only with awarding the franchise to African Americans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Blacks held office in many states throughout the South in numbers far exceeding their proportion of the population.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Tenure of Office Act
A)angered congressmen by limiting their terms to two years.
B)stated that a president could only hold office while in good standing.
C)required Senate approval before the president could remove a cabinet member.
D)was designed to implement the spoils system.
E)limited the president to two terms in office.
Answer: C
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) Fredrick Jackson Turner's thesis included an early call for environmental protection of the west.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The first immigration restriction legislation in the U.S.was directed toward
A)Chinese migration.
B)Irish migration.
C)Japanese migration.
D)German migration.
E)Italian migration.
Answer: A
Q3) In the 1880s,James B.Duke industrialized the ____ industry.
A)cotton
B)coffee
C)mining
D)tobacco
E)meatpacking
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
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Q1) Which union was hurt irrevocably by the Haymarket Square protest?
A)Congress of Industrial Organizations
B)National Labor Union
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)American Federation of Labor
E)Knights of Labor
Answer: E
Q2) One leading painter of American Impressionism was William Merrit ____________________.
Answer: Chase
Q3) The leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union,the largest women's social organization of the late nineteenth century,was
A)Mary Lease.
B)Frances Willard.
C)Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
D)Jane Croly.
E)Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Answer: B
Q4) The ____________________ was young,athletic and self confident. Answer: New Woman
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Chapter 4: Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920
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Q1) It is estimated that the proportion of women having sex before marriage rose from 10 percent to ____________________ percent in the generation that was coming of age between 1910 and 1920.
Q2) Efforts to improve the lives of city dwellers included all of the following except.
A)transportation improvements.
B)advancements in water systems.
C)construction of nickelodeons and amusement parks.
D)building of libraries and museums.
E)creation of urban public parks.
Q3) Describe the rise of corrupt party machines and organized crime in urban America.
Q4) The structure of the Columbia Exposition reinforced a racial hierarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Coney Island offered commercial amusements in a setting in which social mores were decidedly loosened.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ____________________ was the first female movie sex symbol.
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Chapter 5: Progressivism, 1900-1917
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Q1) Socialism
A)never developed support in the United States.
B)was a European movement that had no relevance to American society and politics.
C)had a substantial and significant impact on Progressivism.
D)attracted only college-educated intellectuals.
E)was eliminated in America before the turn of the century.
Q2) Woodrow Wilson was all of the following except
A)the first southerner elected president since the Civil War.
B)a professional educator with a Ph.D.in political science.
C)a deeply religious progressive who believed in peaceful,orderly reform.
D)a Democrat
E)a firm believer in racial equality.
Q3) All of the following bills passed during Wilson's first term except
A)the Kern-McGillicuddy Act (worker compensation for Federal employees).
B)the Adamson Act (8-hour work day).
C)the Hepburn Act (railroad regulation).
D)the Keating-Owen Act (child labor regulations).
E)Federal Reserve Act (creating a national banking system).
Q4) women's clubs
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Chapter 6: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q1) Some of Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy initiatives were founded on the claim of Anglo-Saxon superiority.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The United States secured the right to build the Panama Canal by dealing with the A)director of the French company from which it bought rights to the canal.
B)newly elected government of Panama.
C)government of Colombia.
D)French government.
E)United Nations.
Q3) Theodore Roosevelt believed that all nations had the right to sovereignty and self-rule.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most influential American imperialist was ____________________.
Q5) Panama's 1903 revolution against Colombia was a spontaneous event in which the United States played absolutely no role.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: War and Society, 1914-1920
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Q1) While on a speaking tour to gain public support for the Treaty of Versailles,Wilson suffered a(n)____________________.
Q2) The Eighteenth Amendment
A)gave women the right to vote.
B)was the most important reform of Woodrow Wilson's administration. C)was partially an expression of anti-immigrant feelings stimulated by the war. D)was the only amendment passed by the Progressives. E)was not ratified for more than decade after it was passed by Congress.
Q3) Woodrow Wilson justified U.S.entry into World War I by claiming it was a fight to make the "world safe for democracy." Despite this lofty claim,many Americans both during and after the war were victims of repression perpetrated by both the government and private citizens.Describe instances of repression during and after the war and discuss the consequences of this intolerance.How do you explain the contradictions?
Q4) ____________________ and ____________________ were two Italian-born anarchists convicted of first degree murder and executed,although the evidence against them was weak and their trial tainted by prejudice because of their nationality and political beliefs.
Q5) Marcus Garvey
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Chapter 8: The 1920s
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Q1) The following early supporters of Prohibition later withdrew their support except
A)rural white Protestants
B)feminists
C)progressive reformers
D)middle class urbanites
E)None of these choices.
Q2) In the Teapot Dome scandal,
A)Harding's secretary of the interior took bribes and awarded fraudulent leases to oil companies.
B)Harding's head of the Veterans' Bureau saved the government millions of dollars
C)Harding's cabinet members enforced the Prohibition laws.
D)Harding's surgeon general misdiagnosed a heart attack and caused the death of the president.
E)the President engaged in an affair with a young office worker.
Q3) Herbert Hoover believed that the government should not play a significant role in economic development.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Great Depression and the New Deal
1929-1939
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Q1) Examine popular critics of the New Deal.What were their criticisms and their alternatives to FDR's programs?
Q2) The ____________________ Corporation would make loans to ailing banks and to corporations willing to build low-cost housing,bridges,and other public works.
Q3) In 1932,the so-called Bonus Army
A)campaigned for the reelection of Herbert Hoover.
B)rioted and threatened to attack the White House.
C)petitioned Congress for early payment of their World War I veteran benefits.
D)was recommissioned as a special unit: the U.S.Army.
E)failed to make any impact on public opinion.
Q4) What was Herbert Hoover's position on the question of relief?
A)it was the responsibility of the federal government to provide economic security for U.S.citizens.
B)a military draft could provide work for the unemployed.
C)it would destroy their desire to work and undermine their self-worth.
D)all homeless immigrants should be deported.
E)only the urban unemployed should receive relief.
Q5) Approximately ____________________ Mexican immigrants returned to Mexico during the Great Depression.
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Chapter 10: America During the Second World War
1939-1945
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Q1) ____________________ led a Senate investigation that supported claims that bankers and arms manufacturers had maneuvered the nation into the First World War.
Q2) In 1936 Germany violated the 1919 Treaty of Versailles by militarizing the Rhineland.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When he became President,Harry Truman
A)was well prepared for the office because he had been among Roosevelt's closest advisors.
B)had been a leading critic of Roosevelt's policies for fighting the war.
C)had been vice president for three terms.
D)prided himself on his ties to America's business leaders.
E)was poorly prepared for the office,having seldom met with Roosevelt or been included in the decision-making process
Q4) Roughly 25,000 Native Americans served in the armed forces in World War II. A)True
B)False
Q5) The Republican presidential candidate who ran against Roosevelt in 1944 was
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Chapter 11: The Age of Containment 1946-1953
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Q1) In the presidential campaign of 1948,candidate Henry Wallace criticized President Truman for
A)his militant containment policies toward the Soviet Union.
B)his plans to integrate the military.
C)failing to win the war in Korea.
D)losing China to communism.
E)being a communist.
Q2) MacArthur and Truman were in complete agreement regarding Korea. A)True
B)False
Q3) Harry Truman vetoed the McCarran-Walter Act but Congress overrode his veto. A)True
B)False
Q4) Direct military aid to Latin American governments began in 1950 as part of Truman's containment initiatives.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In 1952 Dwight Eisenhower won a narrow electoral victory. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: America at Midcentury 1953-1963
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Q1) Sputnik led to reconsideration of the American educational system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The government effort to return illegal Mexican immigrants to Mexico was known as Operation
A)Return.
B)Rio Grande.
C)Wetback.
D)Red,White,and Blue.
E)Bracero.
Q3) "domino theory"
Q4) military-industrial complex
Q5) By 1967,almost ____________________ of the nation's Native Americans were living in relocation cities.
Q6) Highway Act of 1956
Q7) The ____________________ emerged in South Vietnam to oppose the government of Ngo Dinh Diem.
Q8) Network television was dominated by NBC,CBS,and ABC. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: America During a Divisive War 1963-1974
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Q1) The Pentagon Papers were highly critical of which of the following?
A)Medicare
B)American involvement in Vietnam
C)The investigation of the JFK assassination
D)Head Start Program
E)Federal government's response to antiwar protesters
Q2) During the presidential campaign of 1964,____________________ suggested using tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
Q3) Despite promises to the contrary,Gerald Ford ultimately _____________________ Nixon for his role in Watergate.
Q4) The protests at Kent State University and Jackson State College were touched off by the expansion of the war in Southeast Asia into Cambodia.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The "Pentagon Papers" were leaked to the press by ____________________.
Q7) Malcolm X
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Chapter 14: Uncertain Times 1974-1992
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Q1) Iranian militants who held 66 Americans hostage demanded the United States stop its support of Israel for in exchange for their release.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Rush Limbaugh's radio program was part of the New Right.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When he ran for president in 1976,Jimmy Carter asked voters,"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
A)True
B)False
Q4) In December 1989,U.S.forces entered what Latin American nation in order to arrest its president?
A)Honduras
B)Panama
C)Nicaragua
D)Guatemala
E)Mexico
Q5) "Operation Just Cause" involved a U.S.invasion of ____________________.
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Chapter 15: Economic, social, and Cultural Change in the
Late 20th Century
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Q1) The practice of buying consumer products over the Internet is known as ____________________.
Q2) In recent years political power has shifted as
A)Southern states lost congressional seats.
B)the West lost electoral votes.
C)Northeastern states lost congressional seats.
D)Northeastern states gained electoral votes.
E)voter registration has been reduced.
Q3) Jobs in the expanding service sector tend to be high paying.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Because of its controversy,the Human Genome Project was ended in 1999.
A)True
B)False
Q5) By 2000,about ____________________ of all Miamians were of Cuban descent.
Q6) The remote control for television were first available in the ____________________ decade.
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Q7) Describe the nature of,and the reasons for,the major demographic and geographic shifts that occurred in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Chapter 16: A Time of Hope and Fear 1993-2014
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Q1) How did groups who were sympathetic to immigration issues counter the efforts of the anti-immigration movement?
A)they rallied immigrant populations via radio and Spanish-language publications.
B)they staged work-stoppages.
C)they organized street demonstrations.
D)they used research to counter claims that undocumented workers took jobs away from legal Americans.
E)all of these choices.
Q2) Bill Clinton sent U.S.troops to intervene in a civil war in Rwanda.
A)True
B)False
Q3) From the 1990s on,Americans seem very interested in court cases.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The White House intern who had an affair with Bill Clinton was
Q5) The Tea Party movement
Q6) World Trade Organization (WTO)
Q7) Bush v.Gore
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