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This course offers a comprehensive overview of the major developments in American history from pre-colonial times to the present. Students will explore significant political, social, economic, and cultural events that have shaped the United States, including colonization, revolution, the formation of the Constitution, territorial expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction, industrialization, world conflicts, civil rights movements, and recent trends. Through analysis of primary sources and historical interpretations, the course encourages critical thinking about the diverse experiences and forces that continue to influence American society.
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AMERICA A Narrative History 10th Edition by
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) Which of the following animals were NOT found in the New World before the Europeans arrived?
A) flying squirrels and catfish
B) bison and opossums
C) sheep and pigs
D) turkeys and llamas
E) rattlesnakes and iguanas
Answer: C
Q2) The Spanish Empire began a precipitous decline because:
A) its citizens failed to pay taxes
B) it focused on the well-being of natives
C) it could never compete militarily with England
D) it became overly dependent on extraction of wealth
E) the Roman Catholic Church required the nation to adhere to a vow of poverty
Answer: D
Q3) Pueblos were communities built by the Aztecs on cliff sides.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Englands Colonies
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Q1) The first Jews in the colonies:
A) were wealthy
B) soon became very numerous
C) arrived in New Netherland
D) found quick acceptance from Christians
E) migrated to Massachusetts
Answer: C
Q2) Peter Stuyvesant was the defiant governor of Rhode Island.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which is true of English society by the early 1600s?
A) The right to trial by jury had yet to be established.
B) There was a growing population of beggars and vagabonds.
C) There were no limits on the power of the monarch.
D) Titled nobles dominated the House of Commons.
E) There were no significant class distinctions.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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Q1) Legally speaking, slaves were:
A) contracted workers
B) property
C) unfree laborers
D) necessary for economic success
E) largely Christian
Answer: B
Q2) The most important crop in the Virginia colony was tobacco.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following was true of New England in the seventeenth century?
A) Residents were required to be members of the Puritan church.
B) Residents were intensely loyal to the wishes of the king and Parliament.
C) Church and state were separated in all New England colonies.
D) Considerable cultural and racial open-mindedness was practiced.
E) It was more governed by religious concerns than the middle and southern colonies.
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Q1) The French and Indian War was triggered by:
A) conflicting French and English claims to the Ohio Valley
B) religious tension between French Catholics and English Protestants
C) the expansionist policies of Louis XIV
D) French anger over English restrictions on trade and shipping
E) the desire of both sides to pull their economies out of depression
Q2) At the Albany Congress:
A) Americans seriously discussed independence for the first time
B) colonists criticized plans for war against France
C) Benjamin Franklin and others drafted a plan for a united colonial government
D) delegates rejected the idea of seeking Indian allies against the French
E) the English and the French tried to negotiate a peace settlement
Q3) Although the Seven Years' War has often been called a world war, there was very little international conflict.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Like his grandfather and great-grandfather, George III cared little about England.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1783
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Q1) During the war, Iroquois tribes such as the Mohawks helped the Americans fight against the British.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Benjamin Franklin
A)author of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
B)wrote The American Crisis
C)surrendered his army to Washington at Yorktown
D)American commander in the South known as the "fighting Quaker"
E)was a brutal British leader in the South
F)major American peace negotiator
G)arrogant British general defeated at Saratoga
H)promised American slaves their freedom if they would join the British war effort
I)fought against Indians in Kentucky
J)ended Benedict Arnold's plot, hanged as a spy
Q3) Describe the preparations, strength, and experience of the American and British armies during the American Revolution.
Q4) Trace the negotiations and details of the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
Q5) Discuss Lord Dunmore's proclamation and how it impacted the colonists.
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Chapter 6: Strengthening the New Nation
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Q1) The 640-acre sections created by the Land Ordinance of 1785:
A) would be given to settlers for free
B) raised enough money to pay the national debt
C) would be reserved for veterans of the Revolution
D) would be sold by local banks
E) were part of six-square-mile townships
Q2) John Marshall
A)was the oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
B)issued a neutrality proclamation in 1793 in response to pressure to enter European conflicts
C)drafted the land ordinance of 1784
D)diplomat who sought to undermine American policy relative to the French Revolution
E)briefly represented New York at the Constitutional Convention
F)claimed to "smell a rat" at the Constitutional Convention
G)defined the United States through his tenure as chief justice of the Supreme Court
H)arrived in Philadelphia having spent months preparing for the convention
I)led American troops at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
J)negotiated the extremely popular treaty with Spain
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Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800-1815
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Q1) What were the short-term and long-term results of the War of 1812?
Q2) Meriwether Lewis
A)appointed justice of the peace in the District of Columbia
B)elected president in 1804
C)negotiated the Louisiana Purchase
D)was a naval hero against the Barbary pirates
E)was a war hawk from Kentucky
F)saw the British attack of Fort McHenry from Baltimore Harbor
G)became vice president in 1801
H)was chief justice
I)was an American naval hero in the War of 1812
J)explored the Louisiana Purchase and Far West
Q3) Which of the following was NOT true of impressment?
A) It only impacted a few dozen Americans.
B) Speaking English was often enough evidence to have a sailor impressed.
C) The British Navy was the most egregious offender.
D) American merchant ships attracted deserted British sailors.
E) Impressment was technically legal in international courts.
Q4) "The War of 1812 was an unnecessary conflict that solved nothing and brought no benefit to either side." Discuss the validity of this assertion.
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Chapter 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850
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Q1) Steamboats:
A) were commercially profitable by the 1790s
B) generally had at least twelve-foot drafts
C) brought cheaper and faster two-way traffic to the Mississippi Valley
D) were usually built of steel
E) soon made railroads obsolete
Q2) Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin on a plantation in Georgia.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following were true of the trains in use by the 1850s EXCEPT:
A) they were much faster than stagecoaches and steamboats
B) they spurred iron production
C) they reduced transportation costs
D) they encouraged further expansion of farming
E) they could only operate on flat terrain
Q4) The American party was based on nativism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Trace the impact that industrialization had on the environment.
Q6) Examine the impact the War of 1812 had on American industrial development.
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Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828
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Q1) Which of the following opposed a national bank in 1816?
A) John C. Calhoun
B) Daniel Webster
C) Henry Clay
D) James Madison
E) John Quincy Adams
Q2) The 1824 election was ultimately decided by:
A) the Electoral College
B) popular vote
C) a Supreme Court ruling
D) the House of Representatives
E) the stance of the candidates on the major issues
Q3) In the presidential election of 1828:
A) John C. Calhoun won the South but lost in New England
B) John C. Calhoun won New England but lost in the South
C) most of Andrew Jackson's support was in New England
D) Adams won all of New England except for one of Maine's nine electoral votes
E) Jackson carried every state
Q4) Examine the factors contributing to the rise of Jacksonian democracy.
Q5) In what ways might the foreign policy of this period be called nationalistic?
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Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
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Q1) Examine the role of violence in Andrew Jackson's life and how he incorporated that into his presidency.
Q2) Trace the rift between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun. Be sure to include both policy and personal differences that strained their relationship.
Q3) The Tariff of 1828 proved to be the impetus behind the entire nullification controversy. Examine the process that brought this about.
Q4) Andrew Jackson was the most politically involved president up to that point in history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) After his reelection, Jackson moved to destroy the Bank of the United States by:
A) firing its director
B) withdrawing its federal deposits
C) getting the Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional
D) selling its stock to private investors
E) opening new state banks
Q6) The Eaton affair divided Jackson's cabinet. Discuss the events in question, paying particular attention to Jackson's handling of them.
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Chapter 11: The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860
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Q1) The South was overwhelmingly Catholic.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Free blacks in the South:
A) sometimes owned slaves
B) were always of mixed race
C) enjoyed full legal equality
D) outnumbered slaves
E) mostly emigrated to Africa
Q3) Free blacks were usually wealthy and highly educated.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Falling crop prices and soil exhaustion spurred many residents from the Carolinas and Virginia to migrate to the Old Southwest.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the concept of honor in the Old South and what role, if any, violence played in everyday society.
Q6) What roles did religion, folklore, and family life play in the lives of slaves?
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Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860
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Q1) The burned-over district was:
A) the southern frontier
B) the coastal areas of the Carolinas
C) western New York
D) the Appalachian region
E) the Mississippi Valley
Q2) Joseph Smith:
A) started the Unitarian church in Utah
B) was a great revivalist preacher from New England
C) founded the Mormon Church in western New York
D) claimed to be God's only prophet
E) was a "circuit rider" preacher from the South
Q3) Most of the utopian communities of the early nineteenth century:
A) received funding from the government
B) saw their ideas quickly become accepted by the public
C) were established inside major cities
D) quickly became failures
E) were led by religious extremists
Q4) Discuss the concept of Deism and its influence on the development of American society.
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Chapter 13: Western Expansion, 1830-1848
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Q1) The Donner party became stranded on the Oregon Trail mainly because:
A) of the succession of their own mistakes and poor decisions
B) they became caught in the crossfire of the Mexican war for independence
C) their party was too small to survive the journey
D) a broken compass led them astray
E) of annihilation by the Indians
Q2) John Charles Frémont
A)was the young congressman who argued that Polk had maneuvered the Mexicans into attacking
B)led American forces at Veracruz
C)was elected vice president in 1840
D)was one of the defenders at the Alamo
E)was the American who captured San Diego and Los Angeles
F)was the secretary of state who negotiated the treaty resolving the boundary between the northeastern United States and British Canada
G)was known as "the Pathfinder"
H)died after one month in office
I)was president of the Republic of Texas
J)was known as "Young Hickory"
Q3) Discuss the causes and consequences of the Mexican-American war.
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860
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Q1) Martin Van Buren
A)was a candidate for the presidency in the 1860 election
B)led Pottawatomie Massacre
C)elected president of the Confederate States of America
D)died in July 1850
E)caned Charles Sumner
F)the "Little Giant" who succeeded in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed by breaking it into separate proposals
G)argued that Congress needed to protect the right of slave owners to take their property into the territories
H)was the chief justice for Dred Scott case
I)was the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate
J)was the president who supported the Compromise of 1850
Q2) The 1848 presidential election:
A) was won by Zachary Taylor
B) was won by Lewis Cass
C) was won by Van Buren
D) was decided in the House of Representatives
E) broke up the Whig party
Q3) Detail the Wilmot Proviso. What impact did it have on the debate over slavery?
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Chapter 15: The War of the Union, 1861-1865
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Q1) Lincoln replaced McClellan as Union commander because McClellan was overly aggressive.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss how the Civil War was "the most traumatic event in American history."
Q3) What was the military strategy of each side at the start of the Civil War? How and why did it change as the war continued?
Q4) Union forces suffered defeat at Shiloh due to Grant's heavy drinking.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Draftees on either side who chose not to serve had which one of the following legal options?
A) They could hire a substitute.
B) They could leave the country.
C) They could volunteer for community service instead.
D) They could claim insanity.
E) They could claim to be a pacifist.
Q6) Discuss the issue of conscription. How did the North and the South implement it?
Q7) Why did the South lose the war? What were its weaknesses and disadvantages?
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Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Q1) The Radical Republicans understood that essential to maintaining Republican control of the federal government was:
A) a quick restoration of the Union
B) continued military occupation of the South
C) close cooperation with President Johnson
D) pardons for ex-Confederates
E) the right of ex-slaves to vote
Q2) The "black codes" enacted by southern legislatures:
A) were accepted by Congress
B) showed the South's spirit of conciliation
C) tried to restore white supremacy
D) proved the success of Johnson's Reconstruction plan
E) forbade blacks to marry
Q3) Ulysses S. Grant:
A) was elected president in 1868 despite the heavily black Democratic vote
B) brought confidence and honesty to a national government torn by Reconstruction
C) brought little political experience and judgment to the presidency
D) pushed for civil service reform throughout his presidency
E) was nominated by both major parties in the 1868 election
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1860-1900
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Q1) Violence erupted at Homestead Steel in 1892 when:
A) Andrew Carnegie announced the plant's sale to J. P. Morgan
B) Henry Frick tried to break a strike by bringing in Pinkertons
C) police attempted to break up a protest meeting
D) Andrew Carnegie tried to replace one union with another one
E) Andrew Carnegie fired Frick
Q2) Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first:
A) reflected the growing membership of agricultural workers
B) grew rapidly
C) was primarily African American
D) reflected the growing membership of the unskilled worker
E) grew slowly
Q3) What were the major technological advancements of the post-Civil War era? How did these advancements contribute to the expansion of America's Industrial Revolution?
Q4) Mother Jones was especially determined to end the exploitation of children in the workplace.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
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Q1) How did the nature of mining change in the second half of the nineteenth century, and what impact did these changes have on the environment?
Q2) The number of cotton mills in the South more than doubled between 1880 and 1900.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As railroads brought piles of lumber to the West:
A) the lumber industry experienced a shortage of lumber in the East
B) farmers protested this development
C) local lumber companies protested
D) farmers could upgrade their houses
E) Indians protested the arrival of this commodity
Q4) The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged the development of thriving western farms.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Redeemers were all of the following EXCEPT:
A) conservative
B) pro-business
C) members of the Republican party
D) white politicians
E) members of the Democratic party
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Chapter 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900
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Q1) One major task in big cities was disposing of horse waste.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Stalwarts:
A) were led by Roscoe Conkling
B) generally favored a lenient southern policy
C) were a faction in the Democratic party
D) were also known as the Half-Breeds
E) had opposed Ulysses S. Grant
Q3) Realists' emphasis on closely observing everyday life grew out of:
A) transcendentalism
B) reform Darwinism
C) social Darwinism
D) socialism
E) the scientific spirit
Q4) The Grange was the leading farm organization through the 1890s.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe politics in the Gilded Age. What were the main issues? What factors influenced voters to be either Republican or Democrat?
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Chapter 20: Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913
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Q1) Who was president when the United States acquired the right to build a canal across Panama?
A) Grover Cleveland
B) William Jennings Bryan
C) William McKinley
D) Woodrow Wilson
E) Theodore Roosevelt
Q2) In 1878, the Samoans signed a treaty with the United States giving the United States:
A) total control of the Samoan Islands
B) fifty-percent control of the Samoan Islands
C) a naval base at Pago Pago
D) a thirty-year lease on Pago Pago
E) all of Samoa, including Wake Island
Q3) William Randolph Hearst's efforts to manipulate public opinion during the Spanish-American War came to be called "yellow journalism."
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the Open Door policy, and how did it come about?
Q5) How did Hawaii become part of the United States?
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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
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Q1) Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT:
A) the initiative
B) the referendum
C) the party primary
D) the poll tax
E) the popular election of senators
Q2) Which of the progressive presidents was the most progressive? Which was the least progressive? Explain.
Q3) Discuss the issue of conservation and what President Theodore Roosevelt did to promote this important issue.
Q4) In what ways was the election of 1912 significant?
Q5) WCTU:
A) was the first radio station in America
B) stood for Women's Christian Temperance Union
C) was the radio station Roosevelt made famous while president
D) stood for Western Colorado Teamsters Union
E) was the abbreviation of Western Connecticut University, where Wilson got his start as a professor
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Chapter 22: America and the Great War, 1914-1920
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Q1) During the presidential election of 1916, the Republicans :
A) nominated Theodore Roosevelt
B) lost by a small margin
C) nominated Woodrow Wilson
D) won by a large margin
E) blew their chances when they did not allow the progressives to support Hughes
Q2) The 1919 police strike in Boston:
A) began when several officers protested their long hours and small pay by calling in sick
B) was settled when both sides agreed to submit to an arbitration panel
C) inadvertently launched a presidential career
D) launched the career of J. Edgar Hoover
E) led to the deaths of hundreds of illegal immigrants
Q3) All of these took place in 1917 EXCEPT:
A) the East St. Louis riots
B) the Bolshevik Revolution
C) the Espionage Act
D) the U.S. enters World War I
E) the Paris Peace Conference
Q4) Trace America's attempt at neutrality prior to its entry into World War I.
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Chapter 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
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Q1) What were the political and cultural manifestations of a new sense of identity among blacks in the 1920s?
Q2) After encountering strong resistance, Mabel Puffer and Arthur Hazzard:
A) were married in New Hampshire
B) were married in New York
C) were married in Canada
D) were never allowed to marry
E) were really not engaged to be married
Q3) In 1920, how many cars were registered in the United States?
A) 4 million
B) 6 million
C) 8 million
D) 10 million
E) 11 million
Q4) Flappers was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the meaning and significance of the Harlem Renaissance.
Q6) Examine and evaluate the characteristics of the African American life in the 1920s.
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Chapter 24: The Reactionary Twenties
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Q1) Herbert Hoover
A)was the secretary of the Treasury
B)was Harding's secretary of state
C)was the secretary of the interior
D)was the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan
E)died in 1923
F)wrote American Individualism
G)was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1920
H)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928
I)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924
J)was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1924
Q2) Discuss how corruption during the Harding administration got so widespread. Survey the various scandals and show the effects they had on the administration.
Q3) How many members did the Ku Klux Klan allegedly have at its peak?
A) as many as 10 million
B) as many as 6 million
C) as many as 8 million
D) as many as 4 million
E) as many as 11 million
Q4) Trace the rise of Calvin Coolidge to the presidency of the United States.
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Q1) The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to:
A) train young men for the Army Corps of Engineers
B) provide work relief for young men
C) give young women an opportunity to earn money for higher education
D) promote conservation practices by the general public
E) build environmental education projects at the first national parks
Q2) In early 1937, FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by:
A) requiring justices to retire at age 70
B) adding up to six additional members
C) removing justices appointed by previous presidents
D) making justices regularly run for election
E) requiring Senate confirmation hearings
Q3) Franklin Roosevelt made black civil rights a major priority, ordering that New Deal programs not practice racial discrimination.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Early in his presidency, Roosevelt ended Prohibition.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did the political pressure, and opposing views shape New Deal policies?
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Chapter 26: The Second World War, 1933-1945
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Q1) Discuss the Japanese invasion into China during the 1930s. How did this aggression impact the future of peace in the world?
Q2) From late 1941 into early 1942, World War II in the Pacific included:
A) a succession of Japanese victories that saw numerous Allied outposts fall
B) a string of American victories that put Japan on the defensive
C) the Japanese in the Philippines surrendering to General Douglas MacArthur
D) the Japanese invading and capturing Australia
E) China finally surrendering to Japan
Q3) Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was only one part of a larger offensive launched into Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s?
A) Both had established communist forms of government.
B) Both had thriving liberal democracies.
C) Both had strong monarchies.
D) Both had established fascist forms of government.
E) Both went to war with the United States.
Q5) Describe the Atlantic Charter and explain its significance.
Q6) Why did America drop the atomic bomb on Japan? Was the action justified?
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27: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952
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Q1) Why did Truman win the presidential election of 1948? Why was his victory considered a major upset?
Q2) Douglas MacArthur
A)wrote influential article on cold war policy in Foreign Affairs
B)formed a new Progressive party
C)was the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948
D)was convicted in 1950 of lying about espionage
E)was the Republican presidential candidate in 1948
F)gave civil rights speech at 1948 Democratic convention
G)was removed from military command in 1951
H)was a senator from Wisconsin
I)was the secretary of state in 1947
J)led UN forces in Korea after April 1951
Q3) One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:
A) end it brought to the Depression
B) racist nature of the enemies of the United States
C) number of northerners it inspired to move to the South
D) lessons in equality American soldiers learned from Europeans
E) greater number of people receiving higher education
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Chapter 28: Cold War America, 1950-1959
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Q1) Trace the development of U.S.-Middle East relations during the Eisenhower administration.
Q2) Due to the overall prosperity of the decade, blacks were able to close the income gap with whites by the end of the 1950s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Beats took their name because of their pervasive sense that society had beaten them, or triumphed over their spirits.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:
A) the Democratic party
B) the U.S. Army
C) Ivy League colleges
D) the Eisenhower administration
E) the media
Q5) Show briefly how playwrights, novelists, painters, and the Beats reacted to the corporate life.
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Chapter 29: A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968
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Q1) During the 1964 campaign, Republican nominee Barry Goldwater:
A) promised to manage New Deal programs more effectively than Democrats had
B) said he would use diplomacy to settle the conflict in Vietnam
C) offered a sharply conservative alternative to Johnson's policies
D) endorsed Johnson's achievements on civil rights
E) represented Eisenhower-style "moderate Republicanism"
Q2) The legislation passed by Congress at Johnson's urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Medicare
B) funds for urban renewal and public housing
C) anti-poverty aid to Appalachia
D) government guarantee of full employment
E) massive federal aid to education
Q3) In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:
A) required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights
B) made abortion legal
C) banned prayer in public schools
D) protected job rights for homosexuals
E) gave police more power to search without a warrant
Q4) Describe the major trends in the cold war in the 1960s.
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Chapter 30: Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s:
A) was dominated by the Weathermen
B) was a leading proponent of the sexual revolution
C) was the youth wing of the Democratic party
D) looked to the Socialists and Communists of the Depression era for inspiration
E) challenged established authority in favor of "participatory democracy"
Q2) Senator George McGovern of South Dakota:
A) was the democratic nominee for president in 1972
B) resigned from the Senate
C) ran for governor in South Dakota
D) was Nixon's secretary of defense
E) led U.S. troops in Vietnam
Q3) Discuss the various aspects of President Nixon's Vietnam policy. How was Nixon's policy different from those of his predecessors?
Q4) Nixon's Watergate-related resignation came with the revelation that he had:
A) burned his tapes of White House conversations
B) lied to the Senate's Ervin committee
C) authorized the use of dirty tricks against Democratic campaigns
D) ordered a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in
E) ordered the IRS to harass his political enemies
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Q1) Walter Mondale
A)championed women's roles as wives and mothers
B)was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1980
C)led the Moral Majority
D)was the former governor of California
E)was budget director in the Reagan administration
F)was the main actor in the Iran-Contra affair
G)was a Supreme Court justice
H)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988
I)was a vice-presidential candidate in 1984
J)said, "[My opponent] will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."
Q2) A change in the cold war climate was indicated in 1988 when the Soviets began withdrawing their troops from:
A) Ukraine
B) Cuba
C) Eastern Europe
D) Turkey
E) Afghanistan
Q3) Describe and illustrate the main features of Reaganomics.
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Chapter 32: Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present
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Q1) Bush won a second term in 2004 by defeating:
A) Al Gore
B) John Edwards
C) Howard Dean
D) John Kerry
E) Hillary Clinton
Q2) By 2015, the largest number of legal immigrants to the United States came from:
A) Canada
B) Mexico
C) India
D) Korea
E) Nigeria
Q3) Discuss the issue of global terrorism. How has this affected all aspects of American society?
Q4) The major purpose of the passage of NAFTA was to:
A) give Clinton an easy political victory
B) protect American industries such as steel and textiles
C) reward Clinton's supporters in organized labor
D) promote freer trade with Canada and Mexico
E) send American jobs overseas
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