U.S. History I Solved Exam Questions
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U.S. History I explores the foundations and development of the United States from pre-Columbian times through the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877. The course examines significant political, social, economic, and cultural events, including the colonial period, the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, westward expansion, slavery, the Civil War, and the challenges of Reconstruction. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, students gain a deeper understanding of the people, ideas, and conflicts that shaped early American society and the nation's emergence on the world stage.
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The American Pageant 15th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Q1) In 1492,when Europeans arrived in the Americas,the total of the two continents' populations was perhaps
A) 5 million.
B) 15 million.
C) 35 million.
D) 54 million.
E) 82 million.
Answer: D
Q2) Before the middle of the fifteenth century,sub-Saharan Africa had remained remote and mysterious to Europeans because
A) there was little of value for them there.
B) sea travel down the African coast had been virtually impossible.
C) Islamic societies prevented Europe from making inroads there.
D) they did not know that it existed.
E) they feared the people who lived there.
Answer: B
Q3) ____ Portugal
Answer: 4
Q4) ____ North America
Answer: 2
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Q1) On the eve of its colonizing adventure,England possessed a
A) unified national state.
B) measure of religious unity.
C) sense of nationalism.
D) popular monarch.
E) All of these
Answer: E
Q2) By 1750,all the southern plantation colonies
A) based their economies on the production of staple crops for export.
B) practiced slavery.
C) provided tax support for the Church of England.
D) had few large cities.
E) All of these
Answer: E
Q3) ____ Savannah
Answer: 14
Q4) ____ Roanoke Island
Answer: 11
Q5) ____ Maryland
Answer: 8
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) All of the following are true of Martin Luther except
A) he was German.
B) he protested against Catholic doctrines at Wittenberg in 1517.
C) there was little notice of his reforms in Europe.
D) he denounced the authority of priests and popes.
E) he declared that the Bible was the only source of God's word.
Answer: C
Q2) Roger Williams' beliefs included all of the following except
A) breaking away from the Church of England.
B) demanding oaths regarding religious beliefs.
C) condemning the taking of Indian land without fair compensation.
D) denying the authority of the civil government to regulate religious matters.
E) challenging the legality of Massachusetts Bay's charter.
Answer: B
Q3) ____ New York
Answer: 2
Q4) ____ Pennsylvania
Answer: 1
Q5) ____ Salem
Answer: 4
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
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Q1) By 1700,the colonial South generally lacked
A) a well-
B) reliable overland transportation.
C) an urban professional class.
D) a manageable labor force.
E) cash crops.
Q2) To what extent is the following statement,by Thomas Jefferson,true; "the town meeting was the best school of political liberty the world ever saw."
Q3) Assess the validity of the following statement,"democracy in church government led logically to democracy in political government."
Q4) In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies,those in New England
A) had a more diversified economy.
B) expanded westward in a less orderly fashion.
C) had a more ethnically mixed population.
D) were more oriented toward the individual than toward community interests.
E) followed the land use pattern established by the local Indians.
Q5) Why did colonial masters first adopt the institution of indentured servitude rather than Indian or black slavery to meet their demands for labor? Why,then,did black slavery replace indentured servitude?
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Q1) By the end of the 1700s,what was the percentage of people living in rural areas of colonial America?
A) 25 percent
B) 40 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 75 percent
E) 90 percent
Q2) Trends that sapped the spiritual vitality from many early eighteenth-century churches included
A) clerical intellectualism.
B) predestination.
C) the rejection of Arminianism.
D) lay liberalism.
E) the growing strength of Catholicism.
Q3) ____ Timber and foodstuffs
Q4) triangular trade
Q5) ____ Rum
Q6) Anglicans
Q7) Congregational Church
Q8) Jonathan Edwards
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Q1) During the Seven Years' War
A) colonial militiamen were impressed with the seeming invincibility of the British regulars.
B) British officers roundly praised the skillful fighting ability of colonial troops.
C) British officials were disturbed by the lukewarm support of many colonials.
D) the colonists lost confidence in their own military capability.
E) all American trade with Spain and France ended.
Q2) Jesuits
Q3) The clash between Britain and France for control of the North American continent sprang from their rivalry for control of
A) Cape Breton Island.
B) the Ohio River Valley.
C) the Mississippi River.
D) the Great Lakes.
E) the St. Lawrence River.
Q4) Write your definition of world war.Then use this definition to argue that the Seven Years' War was or was not a world war.
Q5) ____ Great Lakes
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) Which of the following statements is false?
A) By 1773, it was clear that a colonial rebellion was inevitable.
B) British officials granted the British East India Company a monopoly in the colonies to prevent its bankruptcy.
C) Anger at the tea tax led to mass efforts to turn cargo ships around in New York, Philadelphia, and Annapolis.
D) Bostonians dressed as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor in protest of the tea tax.
E) Some Bostonians supported the Boston Tea Party; others disagreed with the destruction of property.
Q2) Samuel Adams
Q3) Townshend Acts
Q4) Stamp Act Congress
Q5) George Grenville
Q6) Quebec Act
Q7) admiralty courts
Q8) nonimportation agreement
Q9) Charles Townshend
Q10) Boston Tea Party
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Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) General William Howe did not pursue and defeat George Washington's army after the Battle of Long Island for all of the following reasons except A) he remembered the slaughter of Bunker Hill.
B) the country was rough.
C) supplies were slow in coming.
D) he did not relish the rigors of a winter campaign.
E) he lacked sufficient naval support.
Q2) Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A)fighting at Lexington and Concord,(B)convening of the Second Continental Congress,(C)publication of Common Sense,and (D)adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
A) B, C, A, D
B) A, B, C, D
C) A, C, D, B
D) C, D, A, B
E) A, B, D, C
Q3) Common Sense
Q4) Horatio Gates
Q5) republicanism
Q6) John Burgoyne
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) One of the most farsighted provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
A) set aside a section of each township for education.
B) abolished slavery in all of the United States.
C) prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest.
D) kept power in the national government.
E) established a commission to determine the extent of a need for a Bill of Rights.
Q2) ratification
Q3) The ultimate guarantor of liberty and justice was
A) the authority of the state.
B) a written constitution.
C) an independent judicial system.
D) the virtue of the people.
E) the absolute authority of the federal government.
Q4) Under the Articles of Confederation
A) a unicameral Congress was to be the chief agency of national government.
B) there was no executive branch of national government.
C) each state remained essentially sovereign.
D) major legislation required a two-thirds vote to pass Congress.
E) a strong national judiciary was established.
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) Whiskey Rebellion
Q2) James Madison
Q3) One of the first jobs facing the new government,formed under the Constitution,was to
A) establish a powerful army.
B) reestablish diplomatic ties with Britain.
C) draw up and pass a bill of rights.
D) establish economic ties with France.
E) All of these
Q4) excise tax
Q5) Thomas Jefferson appealed to all of the following groups except A) small shopkeepers.
B) the underprivileged.
C) the middle class.
D) the upper class.
E) artisans.
Q6) agrarian
Q7) What was the relationship between the French Revolution and American domestic politics in the 1790s?
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Q8) compact theory
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11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) Judiciary Act of 1789
Q2) Which of these does not describe the ways in which Americans responded to Jefferson's embargo?
A) The Federalist party gained new converts and was revived to fight it.
B) New England threatened to secede from the United States.
C) People compared Jefferson to King George III, whom Jefferson had berated in the Declaration of Independence.
D) Southern states promised not to enforce it and to break away from the Union.
E) Americans engaged in an illicit trade at the Canadian border and cursed it as "Dambargo."
Q3) Before he became chief justice of the Supreme Court,John Marshall's service at Valley Forge during the American Revolution convinced him
A) to support Thomas Jefferson and his republican principles.
B) to give up the life of a soldier and return to law school.
C) of the drawbacks of feeble central authority.
D) of the futility of opposing Britain.
E) of the dangers of a strong central government.
Q4) "midnight judges"
Q5) James Madison
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) The delegates of the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions that included a call for A) a Constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress before war was declared.
B) New England's secession from the Union.
C) a separate peace treaty between New England and the British.
D) the dissolution of the Federalist party.
E) war with England.
Q2) In diplomatic and economic terms,the War of 1812
A) was a disaster for the United States.
B) could be considered the Second War for Independence.
C) had few significant consequences for Americans.
D) created permanent hostility between the United States and Canada.
E) made Americans more internationally minded.
Q3) ____ Michilimackinac
Q4) Cohens v.Virginia
Q5) Era of Good Feelings
Q6) ____ Thames River
Q7) isolationism
Q8) second Bank of the United States Page 15
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) Nullifiers
Q2) Write your definition of tyrant.Then use this definition to argue that Andrew Jackson was or was not a presidential tyrant riding roughshod over the Constitution.
Q3) ____ Alamo
Q4) Tariff of 1833
Q5) The so-called Era of Good Feelings was never entirely tranquil,but even the illusion of national consensus was shattered by the
A) Monroe Doctrine and the Indian Removal policy.
B) War of 1812 and the clamor of the War Hawks.
C) Panic of 1819 and the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
D) judicial decisions of John Marshall.
E) disputes between the different political parties.
Q6) The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when A) Andrew Jackson used the court system to force compliance.
B) the federal army crushed all resistance.
C) Congress used the provisions of the Force Bill.
D) Congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833.
E) South Carolina took over the collection of tariffs.
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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860
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Q1) By 1850,America's factory system was producing
A) textiles.
B) boots and shoes.
C) firearms.
D) steel.
E) sewing machines.
Q2) Life on the frontier was
A) fairly comfortable for women but not for men.
B) downright grim for most pioneer families.
C) free of disease and premature death.
D) rarely portrayed in popular literature.
E) based on tight-knit communities.
Q3) Early-nineteenth-century American families
A) were becoming more loosely knit and less affectionate.
B) usually included three generations in the same household.
C) taught their children to be unquestioningly obedient.
D) usually allowed parents to determine choice of marriage partners.
E) were getting smaller.
Q4) Ancient Order of Hibernians
Q5) Cyrus McCormick
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was
A) James Russell Lowell.
B) Henry David Thoreau.
C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
D) Edgar Allan Poe.
E) Walt Whitman.
Q2) William Miller
Q3) Oliver Wendell Holmes
Q4) The Knickerbocker group of American writers included
A) Henry David Thoreau.
B) Louisa May Alcott.
C) Washington Irving.
D) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
E) William Cullen Bryant.
Q5) In the reform movements of the first half of the 1800s,historians have regarded some reformers in the abolitionist movement not so much as heroes,but as people who sought social control.What is your opinion?
Q6) Shakers
Q7) Oneida Community
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) Slaves were
A) regarded primarily as financial investments by their owners.
B) the primary form of wealth in the South.
C) profitable for their owners.
D) often bred like cattle.
E) denied any kind of family life.
Q2) Regarding work assignments,slaves were
A) given some of the most dangerous jobs.
B) sometimes spared dangerous work.
C) given the same jobs as Irish laborers.
D) usually given skilled rather than menial jobs.
E) generally supervised in small groups.
Q3) Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840,when they backed the presidential candidate of the
A) Free Soil party.
B) Republican party.
C) Know-Nothing party.
D) Liberty party.
E) Anti-Masonic party.
Q4) abolitionism
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) The election of 1844 was notable because
A) the campaign raised no real issues.
B) a genuine and clear mandate emerged.
C) it was fought over the issue of expansionism.
D) Polk won the electoral vote but lost the popular vote.
E) it brought the slavery issue into politics.
Q2) President Polk's program for his administration included
A) lower tariffs.
B) a new independent treasury system.
C) acquisition of California.
D) settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute.
E) the annexation of Texas.
Q3) Was there any validity to the charge that the Texas annexation and Mexican War were attempts to expand slavery? Why or why not?
Q4) The Wilmot Proviso
A) symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories.
B) gained House and Senate approval in 1846.
C) settled, once and for all, the issue of slavery in California.
D) allowed slavery in the territory taken from Mexico in 1848.
E) left open the issue of slavery in New Mexico and Utah.
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) James Gadsden
Q2) In the 1848 presidential election,the Democratic and Whig parties
A) lost to the Free Soil party.
B) addressed the issue of slavery.
C) remained silent on the issue of slavery.
D) abandoned the tactic of nominating military leaders.
E) were divided on the issue of admitting California.
Q3) Fugitive Slave Law
Q4) Treaty of Wanghia
Q5) All of the following were results of the Fugitive Slave Act except
A) many people were drawn into the antislavery movement.
B) Northerners who aided slaves in escaping faced heavy fines and jail sentences.
C) federal commissioners handling the cases of runaways received twice as much in a bonus if the slave was returned.
D) Northerners protested the capture of individual runaway slaves.
E) the Underground Railroad scaled back its efforts.
Q6) Gadsden Purchase
Q7) Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Q8) filibustering
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) Pottawatomie Creek massacre
Q2) Hinton R.Helper
Q3) The central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was
A) popular sovereignty.
B) expansionism.
C) proslavery.
D) abolitionism.
E) nativism.
Q4) To what extent was the Crittenden Compromise a way to avoid Civil War? What modifications might have made it more attractive to both Lincoln and the South?
Q5) In 1855,proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as
A) territory governed by the Missouri Compromise.
B) slave territory.
C) geographically unsuitable for slavery.
D) too close to free states for slavery to be practical.
E) a test for slavery in wheat-growing areas.
Q6) Dred Scott decision
Q7) self-determination
Q8) Lincoln-Douglas debates
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q1) All of the following were similar characteristics that both Union and Confederate soldiers shared except
A) most soldiers had been farmers or farm laborers.
B) poor unskilled workers were well represented among both armies.
C) most troops were native born.
D) almost half were under the age of 22.
E) both shared a common commitment to patriotism.
Q2) Like the North during the Civil War,the South
A) exempted the wealthy from military service.
B) experienced a high rate of desertion.
C) relied mainly on volunteer enlistments.
D) drafted men into military service.
E) used black soldiers.
Q3) Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery
A) came as a disappointment to most Northerners and demoralized the Union.
B) revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies.
C) caused some seceded states to rejoin the Union.
D) contradicted the campaign promises of the Republican party.
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E) cost him support in the Butternut region of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) Assess the validity of the following statement,"The removal of Lincoln [as president in 1864] was the last real hope for a Confederate victory."
Q2) ____ Atlanta
Q3) The South's victory at Bull Run in 1861
A) reduced enlistments in the South's army.
B) reduced the number of Confederate deserters.
C) demonstrated how difficult Confederate independence would be.
D) convinced the South of the need to prepare for a protracted conflict.
E) forced Lincoln to flee Washington.
Q4) George B.Meade
Q5) Robert E.Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to
A) deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement.
B) force the Union to ease its blockade of the South.
C) cut Northern supply lines.
D) stir northern draft resisters to rise in revolt.
E) seize Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Q6) David G.Farragut
Q7) Union party
Q8) Copperheads
Q9) First Battle of Bull Run
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877
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Q1) Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War
A) occurred immediately with the Emancipation Proclamation.
B) caused large numbers to migrate to the big cities in the North.
C) came haltingly and unevenly in different parts of the conquered Confederacy.
D) was achieved without the use of Union soldiers.
E) was a source of considerable anxiety.
Q2) For blacks,emancipation meant all of the following except A) the ability to search for lost family.
B) the right to get married.
C) the opportunity to form their own churches.
D) the opportunity for an education.
E) that large numbers would move north.
Q3) There are several examples in American history of rapid reconciliation with the defeated foe.Why didn't the South receive this sympathetic treatment in Reconstruction? Who or what do you fault for the harshness of Southern Reconstruction? Why?
Q4) Radical Republicans have been both credited with having high ideals and accused of crass partisanship as motives for their Reconstruction policies.Which argument do you find more persuasive? Why?
Q5) Civil Rights Act
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q1) Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually
A) reformers.
B) incorruptible.
C) party loyalists.
D) political independents.
E) wealthy and well educated.
Q2) The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in
A) a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South.
B) the transformation of Tom Watson into a fervent civil rights leader.
C) an alignment of wealthy Bourbon whites with moderate blacks.
D) the breakdown of segregation in areas outside southern cities.
E) the emergence of Republican political power in the South.
Q3) American politics in the late nineteenth century has been referred to as the "politics of equilibrium." Why? List some consequences of this equilibrium in the party system.
Q4) Gilded Age
Q5) Mugwumps
Q6) "Mulligan letters"
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) stock watering
Q2) Compare and contrast the methods used by late-nineteenth-century corporations to control competition especially the pool,trust,interlocking directorate,and vertical integration.
Q3) Thomas Edison
Q4) Wabash,St.Louis,and Pacific Railroad Company v.Illinois
Q5) Richard Olney
Q6) Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called
A) pools.
B) trusts.
C) rebates.
D) interlocking directorates.
E) holding companies.
Q7) Great Northern Railroad
Q8) Standard Oil Company
Q9) Union Pacific Railroad
Q10) yellow dog contract
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q2) The Morrill Act of 1862
A) established women's colleges like Vassar.
B) required compulsory school attendance through high school.
C) established the modern American research university.
D) mandated racial integration in public schools.
E) granted public lands to states to support higher education.
Q3) Black leader,Dr.W.E.B.Du Bois
A) demanded complete equality for African Americans.
B) established an industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama.
C) supported the goals of Booker T. Washington.
D) was an ex-slave who rose to fame.
E) None of these
Q4) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Q5) What was the impact of industrialization and urbanization on late-nineteenth-century American churches,schools,and family life? Cite at least two changes wrought on each of these institutions during this period.
Q6) "Richardsonian"
Q7) Young Men's Christian Association/Young Women's Christian Association
Q8) Edward Bellamy
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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural
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Q1) In the long run,the group that probably did the most to shape the modern West was the
A) trappers.
B) miners.
C) railroad men.
D) cowboys.
E) hydraulic engineers.
Q2) Which one of the following was not among influential Populist leaders?
A) William "Coin" Harvey
B) Ignatius Donnelley
C) Mary Elizabeth Lease
D) James B. Weaver
E) Eugene V. Debs
Q3) John Wesley Powell
Q4) Comstock Lode
Q5) William F.Cody
Q6) Apaches
Q7) Haymarket Square anarchists
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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A) the need to defend these nations against a reassertion of Spanish power.
B) the hope that involvement would lead to their outright acquisition by the United States.
C) the fact that they were chronically in debt.
D) the desire to control the flow of Latin American immigrants into the United States.
E) a desire to strengthen Latin American democracy.
Q2) The clash between Germany and America over the Samoan islands eventually resulted in
A) a small naval war between the two emerging powers.
B) a colonial division of the islands between Germany and the United States.
C) complete independence for all of Samoa.
D) the intervention of Japan to prevent a German-American war.
E) a new American doctrine opposing any colonialism in the Pacific.
Q3) Explain the rationale for President Cleveland's refusal to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.Could Hawaii have remained independent under either native Hawaiian rule or white planter rule? Why or why not?
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican
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Q1) Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because
A) William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's progressive policies.
B) Taft decided not to run for a second term.
C) Woodrow Wilson appeared to be a very strong Democratic candidate.
D) Senator Robert La Follette encouraged him to do so.
E) the Democratic party was split.
Q2) The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was
A) the National Consumers League.
B) Hull House.
C) the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
D) the Progressive Party.
E) the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Q3) Frances Willard
Q4) Louis D.Brandeis
Q5) Elkins Act
Q6) How the Other Half Lives
Q7) Henry Demarest Lloyd
Q8) New Nationalism
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Q10) Ida Tarbell
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q1) ____ Locate the nation that joined the Allies later,after the outbreak of World War I.
Q2) Central Powers
Q3) Compare and contrast Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Wilson's New Freedom programs.Which seems to you to be the more realistic response to industrialization? Why?
Q4) Underwood Tariff Bill
Q5) Which of these is NOT a true statement about the sinking of the Lusitania?
A) 128 Americans onboard lost their lives.
B) Germany expressed profound regret.
C) Afterwards, Germany issued a warning to travelers about the perils of traveling in war zone waters.
D) Germany immediately pledged not to sink unarmed passenger ships anymore.
E) The incident helped feed a growing anti-Germany sentiment in the U.S.
Q6) ____ Three of the nations who became associated as the Central Powers during World War I.
Q7) Wilson once remarked that he was "going to teach the South American republics to elect good men." Do you think that this was a proper function for the president of the United States? Why or why not? Use U.S.relations with Mexico to illustrate your view.
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) In the decade after the war,feminists
A) pressed for more laws to protect women workers and end child labor.
B) sought full economic and political equality.
C) wanted more opportunities for women in the paid workforce.
D) made getting women into political office a top priority.
E) None of these
Q2) Assess the significance of Wilson's moralistic idealism on his call for America's entry into World War I in 1917,the Fourteen Points,and the campaign for American participation in the League of Nations.
Q3) Congress's passage of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act demonstrated that the federal government
A) was beginning to address the issue of equal treatment of mothers in the workplace.
B) was prepared to take substantial steps toward federally funded child care.
C) was completely hostile to mothers working outside the home.
D) supported pregnancy and maternity-leave benefits for women.
E) was willing to benefit and support women primarily in their role as mothers.
Q4) Espionage and Sedition acts
Q5) Bernard Baruch
Q6) Committee on Public Information
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Q2) The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following except
A) the consolidation of schools.
B) the increased dependence of women on men.
C) the spread of suburbs.
D) a loss of population in less attractive states.
E) altered youthful sexual behavior.
Q3) D.W.Griffiths
Q4) The Birth of a Nation
Q5) Immigration Act of 1924
Q6) In response to the need to develop greater and greater mass markets for their products,American business in the 1920s relied especially on the new techniques of A) developing a large range of product variation.
B) price competition.
C) direct selling through catalogs and door-to-door solicitation.
D) consumer advertising.
E) government-backed guarantees of product performance.
Q7) Sigmund Freud
Q8) Zora Neale Hurston Page 40
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932
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Q2) The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact
A) formally ended World War I for the United States, which had refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
B) set a schedule for German payment of war reparations.
C) established a battleship ratio for the leading naval powers.
D) condemned Japan for its unprovoked attack on Manchuria.
E) officially outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry and conflict.
Q3) Washington Disarmament Conference
Q4) The Bonus Expeditionary Force marched on Washington,D.C.,in 1932 to demand
A) the removal of American troops from Nicaragua.
B) an expanded American army and navy.
C) immediate full payment of bonus payments promised to World War I veterans.
D) punishment for those who had forced unemployed veterans to leave Washington, D.C.
E) housing and health care assistance for veterans.
Q5) Stimson doctrine
Q6) Progressive party
Q7) Henry L.Stimson
Q8) Alfred E.Smith
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939
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A) raising the tariff.
B) imposing a tax on the sale of farms.
C) selling government surplus grain.
D) increasing taxes on the wealthy.
E) taxing processors of farm products.
Q2) John Maynard Keynes
Q3) "Every Man a King"
Q4) National Labor Relations Board
Q5) Charles Coughlin
Q6) Dust Bowl
Q7) Ruth Benedict
Q8) parity
Q9) Huey Long
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Q10) Cite evidence to demonstrate that "the most damning indictment of the New Deal was that it failed to cure the Depression." Then cite achievements of value that the New Deal did in fact accomplish.
Q12) Franklin D.Roosevelt
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q1) ____ The only European nation to pay off its World War I debts to the United States,invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939-1940.
Q2) totalitarianism
Q3) As part of his Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America,President Roosevelt developed more generous policies of
A) encouraging Mexican immigration into the United States
B) removing American controls on Haiti, Cuba, and Panama.
C) supporting Latin American strongmen in Argentina and Brazil.
D) returning the Guantanamo naval base to Cuban control.
E) moving Puerto Rico toward its independence.
Q4) Pearl Harbor
Q5) Throughout most of the 1930s,the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany,Italy,and Japan by
A) assisting their victims with military aid.
B) giving only economic help to the targets of aggression.
C) beginning to build up their military forces.
D) demanding an oil embargo on all warring nations.
E) retreating further into isolationism.
Q6) Charles Lindbergh
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Chapter 35: America in World War II,1941-1945
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Q2) kamikazes
Q3) Chester W.Nimitz
Q4) Most of the money raised to finance World War II came through A) tariff collections.
B) excise taxes on luxury goods.
C) raising income taxes.
D) voluntary contributions.
E) borrowing.
Q5) What are the arguments for and against the Japanese American relocation camps used in World War II? Do you agree with the text authors that these camps were "unnecessary and unfair"? Why or why not?
Q6) 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.
Q7) In what ways did the United States emerge from World War II fundamentally changed? Consider national power,economic health,race,and gender relations.
Q8) War Production Board
Q9) A.Philip Randolph
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Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins,1945-1952
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Q2) Though he was decidedly unpopular when he left the presidency,President Truman has since come to be viewed as one of America's ten greatest presidents.Explain why his popularity was so low in 1952 and why he is so well rated in retrospect.
Q3) Since 1945,population in the United States has grown most rapidly in the A) Northeast.
B) Midwest.
C) Sunbelt.
D) Frostbelt.
E) Pacific Northwest.
Q4) The National Security Act of 1947 created the A) Joint Chiefs of Staff.
B) Central Intelligence Agency.
C) Federal Bureau of Investigation.
D) Selective Service System.
E) Department of Defense.
Q5) Reinhold Niebuhr
Q6) Why did President Truman relieve General MacArthur of his command in Korea? Do you think that it was a wise decision? Why or why not?
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Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960
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Q1) Compare and contrast Truman's and Eisenhower's foreign policies.What was new about the new look? What illustrates the basic continuity of the containment doctrine?
Q2) In response to Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist attacks,President Eisenhower
A) publicly denounced him only after he attacked General George Marshall. B) quietly encouraged him to continue his attacks on Democrats.
C) publicly opposed his ruthless tactics but privately enjoyed his personal charm. D) effectively allowed him to control personnel policy at the State Department.
E) privately supported him but publicly kept his distance.
Q3) Betty Friedan
Q4) Joseph McCarthy
Q5) Why were women especially affected by the cult of domesticity,as well as the changing economic patterns of the 1950s?
Q6) Sweatt v.Painter
Q7) Landrum-Griffith Act
Q8) Montgomery bus boycott
Q9) "cult of domesticity"
Q10) Ralph Ellison
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Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968
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A) the sickness and dire conditions President Johnson witnessed in the mining regions of Appalachia.
B) Michael Harrington's book The Other America.
C) increasing public faith that an affluent nation such as America should be able to end poverty.
D) None of these
E) All of these
Q2) All of the following programs were created by Lyndon Johnson's administration except
A) the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities.
B) Project Head Start.
C) the Peace Corps.
D) Medicare.
E) the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Q3) Explain how America's involvement in Vietnam "presented a grisly demonstration" of how "the doctrine of 'flexible response' ...contained lethal logic."
Q4) Malcolm X
Q5) Michael Harrington
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Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980
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Q1) The Supreme Court's Miranda and Escobedo decisions came under sharp attack from many conservatives because they
A) prohibited any official recognition of religion in public education.
B) guaranteed the rights of criminal suspects against mistreatment by the police.
C) overturned laws prohibiting unnatural sexual acts.
D) upheld laws requiring busing to achieve racial balance in public schools.
E) upheld laws prohibiting private property owners from polluting rivers and lakes.
Q2) Under Chief Justice Earl Warren,the Supreme Court handed down rulings to A) prevent required prayer and Bible readings in public schools.
B) protect the rights of individuals accused of crime.
C) preserve states' rights.
D) support civil rights for blacks.
E) establish a right to choose abortion.
Q3) Henry Kissinger
Q4) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Q5) Do you think that President Carter overreacted to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? Why or why not? In what way did that event mark a critical turning point in American foreign policy?
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A) regain control of the Middle East oil supply.
B) roll back Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
C) demonstrate that the U.S. military could conduct a major ground war thousands of miles from its home bases.
D) support Israel against the growing threat from the Arab states.
E) guarantee a permanent U.S. naval presence in the Middle East.
Q2) Conservative Democrats who helped Ronald Reagan to pass his budget and tax-cutting legislation were called
A) blue dogs.
B) sagebrush rebels.
C) scalawags.
D) neoconservatives.
E) boll weevils.
Q3) rainbow coalition
Q4) ____ Syria
Q5) Compare and contrast Ronald Reagan as leader and agent of political change in the 1980s with that of Franklin D.Roosevelt in the 1930s.
Q6) Norman Schwartzkopf
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A) taking too large a role in managing her husband's administration.
B) considering running for office in her own right.
C) not publicly criticizing her husband's sexual affairs.
D) developing an excessively complex health care plan that was quickly dropped by Congress.
E) advocating too strongly for the role of women in the administration.
Q2) Al Gore
Q3) In what ways did the Clinton administration reinforce the negative public views of government and politics first nourished in Vietnam and Watergate eras?
Q4) Newt Gingrich
Q5) weapons of mass destruction
Q6) Two of Clinton's early political blunders occurred in the areas of A) gun control and the environment.
B) deficit reduction and foreign trade.
C) military preparedness and relations with Latin America.
D) gays in the military and health care.
E) sexual relations with his staff and appointments to the Supreme Court.
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Q2) 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.
Q3) Condoleezza Rice
Q4) The money used to provide Social Security payments to retirees comes from A) the federal income tax.
B) the contributions made by the elderly during their working lives.
C) Social Security taxes paid by current workers.
D) private employers' pension funds.
E) the federal government's investment of Social Security contributions in the stock market.
Q5) Douglas Wilder
Q6) Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Q7) O.J.Simpson
Q8) Cinco de Mayo
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