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Course Introduction
U.S. History II explores the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the United States from the end of the Reconstruction era to the present day. The course covers significant topics such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration, the Progressive Era, the world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War, civil rights movements, and recent trends in American society. Students will analyze key events, influential figures, and transformative moments that have shaped the modern United States, fostering an understanding of how past events inform current issues and identities.
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The American Pageant 15th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Q1) Which of the following mountain ranges was probably created before the continental separation,approximately 350 million years ago?
A) The Rockies
B) The Sierra Nevada
C) The Cascades
D) The Coast Range
E) The Appalachians
Answer: E
Q2) The Christian crusaders were indirectly responsible for the discovery of America because they
A) were victorious over the Muslims.
B) brought back news of valuable Far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk.
C) succeeded in establishing improved business relations between Muslims and Christians.
D) returned with captured Muslim maps showing the North and South American continents.
E) developed better navigational devices.
Answer: B
Q3) ____ Asia
Answer: 9
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Q1) The Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs was A) Powhatan.
B) Handsome Lake.
C) Pocahontas.
D) De La Warr.
E) Pontiac.
Answer: B
Q2) Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as A) very limited.
B) saving the colony from collapse.
C) persuading the colonists to continue their hunt for gold.
D) worsening the colonists' relationship with the Indians.
E) reducing the terrible death toll.
Answer: B
Q3) Jamestown
Answer: Student answers will vary.
Q4) ____ Roanoke Island
Answer: 11
Q5) ____ Georgia
Answer: 4
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) ____ Connecticut River
Answer: 3
Q2) As the founder of Rhode Island,Roger Williams
A) established religious freedom for all but Jews and Catholics.
B) supported some types of special privileges.
C) established complete religious freedom for all.
D) demanded attendance at worship.
E) became a very wealthy man.
Answer: C
Q3) ____ Pennsylvania
Answer: 1
Q4) Indian policy in early Pennsylvania can be best described as A) extremely harsh.
B) bad at first but improving later.
C) influenced mainly by the state-supported church.
D) fair.
E) None of these
Answer: D
Q5) ____ Delaware
Answer: 10
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) Assess the validity of the following statement,"democracy in church government led logically to democracy in political government."
Q2) The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was
A) the Virginia governor's refusal to retaliate against Indian attacks on frontier settlements.
B) the wealthy planter class losing control of the colony.
C) a shortage of indentured servants.
D) to halt the importation of African slaves.
E) All of these
Q3) The combination of Calvinism,soil,and climate in New England resulted in the people there possessing which of the following qualities?
A) Energy
B) Stubbornness
C) Self-reliance
D) Resourcefulness
E) All of these
Q4) indentured servitude
Q5) Half-Way Covenant
Q6) jeremiads
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Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) The religious doctrine of the Arminians held that
A) predestination determined a person's eternal fate.
B) good works could get you into heaven.
C) Calvin's ideas should be followed without question.
D) emotion had no place in religion.
E) individual free will determined a person's eternal fate.
Q2) Anglicans
Q3) By 1775,population growth in the American colonies
A) was beginning to slow down.
B) was causing the population to double about every twenty-five years.
C) was attributable more to reproduction than to immigration.
D) made the American colonies more populous than England.
E) led to greater dependence on England.
Q4) ____ Slaves
Q5) jayle birds
Q6) John Peter Zenger
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Q7) Summarize the key features of the American population in the early eighteenth century.Consider its sources,size,location,diversity,and mobility.
Q8) George Whitefield
Q9) John Trumbull
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Chapter 6: The Duel for North America,1608-1763
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Q1) The British invasion of Canada in 1756 during the Seven Years' War
A) resulted in victory for Britain.
B) concentrated on Quebec and Montreal.
C) followed sound strategic planning.
D) ended in defeat.
E) resulted in British control of the St. Lawrence River.
Q2) New France
Q3) ____ Nova Scotia (Acadia)
Q4) Huguenots
Q5) As a result of General Braddock's defeat a few miles from Fort Duquesne
A) the British controlled the frontier.
B) George Washington was left without a military command.
C) the frontier from Pennsylvania to North Carolina was open to Indian attack.
D) General Braddock was forced to leave the military.
E) the British called off their planned invasion of Canada.
Q6) Identify which of the following contributed most to the British victory in the Seven Years' War: the leadership of William Pitt,the aid of American colonists,or the skill of the British regulars? Justify your choice.
Q7) ____ Quebec
Q8) George Washington
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) Stamp Act
Q2) The most memorable of the responses to the Intolerable Acts was
A) a rejection of the Quebec Act by the colonial legislatures.
B) the summoning of the First Continental Congress in 1774.
C) the Boston Massacre.
D) the closing of Boston Harbor by the Massachusetts colonial assembly.
E) call for a complete break with Great Britain and a declaration of independence.
Q3) The most drastic measure of the Intolerable Acts was the A) Quartering Act.
B) Quebec Act.
C) Sugar Act.
D) Courts Act.
E) Boston Port Act.
Q4) King George III
Q5) mercantilism
Q6) Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty
Q7) The Association
Q8) Benjamin Franklin
Q9) First Continental Congress
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Q1) Examples of colonial experience with self-governance,which prepared Americans for a republic,included all of the following except
A) New England town meetings.
B) committees of correspondence.
C) militia service.
D) the relative equality of landowning farmers.
E) the absence of a hereditary aristocracy.
Q2) After the British defeat at Yorktown
A) the fighting continued for more than a year.
B) the war ended within a month.
C) the French withdrew their assistance as it was no longer needed.
D) King George III decided to end the struggle.
E) Spain finally entered the war on the U.S. side.
Q3) Horatio Gates
Q4) Thomas Paine
Q5) natural rights
Q6) Marquis de Lafayette
Q7) Benedict Arnold
Q8) Battle of Saratoga
Q9) Nathanael Greene
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) sovereignty
Q2) 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.
Q3) The issue that finally touched off the movement toward the Constitutional Convention was
A) control of public lands.
B) control of commerce.
C) Indian policy.
D) monetary policy.
E) foreign threats to our independence.
Q4) The Federalist
Q5) "large-state plan"
Q6) "bundle of compromises"
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Q7) Compare and contrast the British notion of a constitution with that of the Americans.
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Q1) All of the following are accurate descriptions of the young American nation except A) its population was still about 90 percent rural, despite the flourishing cities.
B) the first official census of 1790 recorded almost 4 million people.
C) all but 5 percent of the people lived east of the Appalachian Mountains.
D) most of the population lived in the eastern seaboard cities.
E) foreign visitors looked down at the roughness and crudity of the pioneering life.
Q2) As secretary of the treasury,Alexander Hamilton's first objective was to
A) help the wealthy.
B) bring more industry to the United States.
C) see that more agricultural products were exported.
D) bolster the national credit.
E) put the country on the gold standard.
Q3) James Madison
Q4) Farewell Address
Q5) Henry Knox
Q6) Matthew Lyon
Q7) Miami Confederacy
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Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian
Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) Set the historical context of the following quote,"It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...." Which principle does this establish? Has this principle had any impact in our current political and legal context? How so? Do you agree with the principle or not? Why or why not?
Q2) Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at the Battle of A) Tippecanoe.
B) the Thames.
C) Horseshoe Bend.
D) New Orleans.
E) Fallen Timbers.
Q3) three-fifths clause
Q4) On becoming president,Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed
A) the Alien and Sedition Acts.
B) the charter of the National Bank.
C) the excise tax on whiskey.
D) the funding and assumption of the national debt.
E) money to fund the naval build-up.
Q5) Aaron Burr
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) Describe the ways in which nationalism exhibited itself in the American republic following the War of 1812?
Q2) ____ forty-ninth parallel
Q3) Treaty of 1818
Q4) When the United States entered the War of 1812,it was
A) militarily unprepared.
B) allied with France.
C) united in support of the war.
D) fortunate to have a strong and assertive commander in chief.
E) clear what its political and military objectives were.
Q5) As a result of the Missouri Compromise
A) there were more slave than free states in the Union.
B) slavery was outlawed in all states north of the forty-second parallel.
C) slavery was banned north of 36° 30' in the Louisiana Purchase territory.
D) Missouri was required to free its slaves when they reached full adulthood.
E) there were more free states than slave states in the Union.
Q6) Hartford Convention
Q7) Russo-American Treaty of 1824
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) All of the following were characteristics of Henry Clay's election campaign of 1832 except
A) overconfidence of his campaign and the National Republicans.
B) a hefty campaign chest of $50,000.
C) most of his financial support did not come from the Bank of the United States.
D) he had strong newspaper backing.
E) he lost both the popular vote and the Electoral vote.
Q2) In response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1828,Andrew Jackson
A) publicly hanged several of the nullifiers.
B) dispatched naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification.
C) worked quietly to defuse the confrontation.
D) mobilized all the other southern states to oppose nullification.
E) sought a Supreme Court ruling declaring nullification invalid.
Q3) speculation
Q4) South Carolina Exposition
Q5) Bank of the United States
Q6) nullification
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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860
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Q1) Rank the following in terms of their contribution to industrialization: cotton gin,principle of interchangeable parts,and Erie Canal.Justify your ranking.
Q2) German immigrants to the United States
A) quickly became a powerful political force.
B) came to escape economic hardships and autocratic government.
C) were as poor as the Irish.
D) contributed little to American life.
E) were almost all Roman Catholics.
Q3) ____ Lake Michigan
Q4) ____ Lake Huron
Q5) The concentration of capital for investment in large-scale enterprises in the early nineteenth century was promoted by the
A) wider acceptance of the principle of limited liability.
B) introduction of state corporate tax laws.
C) legalization of labor unions.
D) passage of state free incorporation laws.
E) lowering of the capital gains tax.
Q6) Kentucky bluegrass
Q7) ____ Ohio and Erie Canal
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) Of the following,the most successful of the early-nineteenth-century communitarian experiments was at
A) Brook Farm, Massachusetts.
B) Oneida, New York.
C) New Harmony, Indiana.
D) Seneca Falls, New York.
E) Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Q2) Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because
A) frontier life necessitated these distinctions.
B) men were regarded as morally superior beings.
C) it was the duty of men to teach the young how to be good, productive citizens.
D) the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles.
E) women believed this emphasis brought them greater respect.
Q3) Washington Irving
Q4) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Q5) Women's Rights Convention
Q6) Knickerbocker Group
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) Most slaves were raised
A) without the benefit of a stable home life.
B) in stable two-parent households.
C) never knowing anything about their relatives.
D) not to display their African cultural roots.
E) without religion.
Q2) For free blacks living in the North
A) living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites.
B) voting rights were widespread.
C) good jobs were plentiful.
D) education opened the door to economic opportunity.
E) discrimination was common.
Q3) Plantation mistresses
A) had little contact with slaves.
B) primarily controlled male slaves.
C) frequently supported abolitionism.
D) commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.
E) were almost universally loved by their slaves.
Q4) To what extent were cotton production and slavery more a burden to the South than a benefit?
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Q2) The Aroostook War was
A) a short-lived insurrection in British Canada.
B) a battle between Native Americans and settlers in northern Maine.
C) a full-scale war between Britain and the United States.
D) a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada
E) a dispute over fishing rights between Britain and the United States.
Q3) Assess the validity of the following statement,"James K.Polk is one of America's near-great presidents." Do you agree that he should be so highly ranked? Why or why not?
Q4) John Tyler
Q5) List the following items in order of their importance as factors in the outbreak of war between the United States and Mexico: Slidell mission,Taylor's troops on the Rio Grande,debt claims of American citizens,Manifest Destiny,and Polk's quest for California.Justify your ranking and explain how each item contributed to the outbreak of war.
Q6) To what extent was the Mexican War inevitable? Was it necessary? Why or why not? What might either side have done to avoid war?
Q7) Winfield Scott
Q8) Fiscal Bank
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) One of the more surprising elements of John C.Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery involved
A) a constitutional amendment permanently guaranteeing equal numbers of slave and free states.
B) southern secession from the Union.
C) support of Henry Clay's proposed concessions by both the North and the South.
D) repealing the president's veto power.
E) the election of two presidents, one from the North and one from the South.
Q2) Zachary Taylor
Q3) One of Stephen Douglas's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was
A) not securing the transcontinental railroad for the North.
B) overestimating the protest to the bill.
C) allowing slavery to spread into new territory.
D) underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery.
E) believing that slavery could not survive in Kansas.
Q4) Write your definition of compromise.Then use this definition to argue that popular sovereignty was or was not a reasonable compromise between the sections on the slavery expansion issue.
Q5) Free Soil party
Q6) ____ Gadsden Purchase
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) Arrange these events in chronological order: (A)Dred Scott decision,(B)Lincoln-Douglas debates,(C)Kansas-Nebraska Act,and (D)Harpers Ferry raid.
A) A, C, B, D
B) B, D, C, A
C) C, A, B, D
D) D, B, A, C
E) A, C, D, B
Q2) James Buchanan
Q3) self-determination
Q4) Dred Scott decision
Q5) In his raid on Harpers Ferry,John Brown intended to
A) call upon the slaves to rise and establish a black free state.
B) arouse the South to secede from the Union.
C) stir West Virginia to break away from Virginia as a free state.
D) demonstrate that blacks could fight for their freedom.
E) seize weapons to start a guerrilla war against the federal government.
Q6) "Beecher's Bibles"
Q7) American or Know-Nothing party
Q8) Hinton R.Helper
Q9) Freeport Doctrine
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q1) States that joined the Confederacy after the firing on Fort Sumter included A) Virginia.
B) North Carolina.
C) Missouri.
D) Tennessee.
E) Arkansas.
Q2) "Johnny Reb"
Q3) The Union's establishment of the National Banking System
A) led to the issuance of depreciated paper money.
B) established the gold standard in the United States.
C) resulted in the reestablishment of the Bank of the United States.
D) lasted only during the Civil War.
E) was the first significant step toward a unified banking network since 1836.
Q4) In order to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union,President Lincoln
A) relied solely on moral appeal.
B) used only totally legal methods.
C) guaranteed that they could keep slavery permanently.
D) never had to use troops.
E) used legally dubious methods.
Q5) Confederacy
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) The Union victory at Vicksburg was of major importance for all of the following reasons except
A) it reopened the Mississippi River to Northern trade.
B) coupled with the victory at Gettysburg, foreign help for the Confederacy was irretrievably lost.
C) it helped to quell Northern peace agitation.
D) it cut off the supply of cattle and other goods from Texas and Louisiana.
E) it was the last major battle of the Civil War.
Q2) Second Battle of Bull Run
Q3) Andrew Johnson
Q4) William T.Sherman
Q5) Ulysses S.Grant
Q6) ____ Fort Sumter
Q7) Union party
Q8) David G.Farragut
Q9) The Civil War has also been called the "War Between the States" and the "War for Southern Independence." Which of the three titles do you find most apt? Why?
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Q10) Copperheads
Q11) Battle of Chancellorsville
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Q1) All of the following are true statements about the Black Codes except
A) blacks were forced to work under labor contracts for little money for one year.
B) blacks who fled their employers could be dragged back to work by a paid "Negro-catcher."
C) they restricted the conditions under which blacks could legally marry.
D) blacks who fled could be made to forfeit back wages or hired out to pay their fines.
E) they were designed to reproduce the master-slave relationship after slavery was abolished.
Q2) Ex parte Milligan
Q3) Black Codes
Q4) The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that
A) most were sentenced to prison for life.
B) several were executed for treason.
C) after brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868.
D) they were immediately returned to citizenship and full civil rights.
E) many went into exile in slaveholding Brazil.
Q5) sharecropping
Q6) "radical" regimes
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q1) As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873,debtors strongly advocated
A) a return to gold as the only form of American money.
B) establishment of a federally regulated system of savings and loan banks.
C) the appointment of farmers and workers to the Treasury Department.
D) rapid growth in federal expenditures on public works.
E) inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency.
Q2) Jim Fisk
Q3) At the end of Reconstruction,Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using
A) literacy requirements.
B) poll taxes.
C) economic intimidation.
D) lynching
E) All of these
Q4) People's Party (Populists)
Q5) Why did white Populist leaders like Thomas Watson,who attempted to forge biracial coalitions,often turn viciously racist when those coalitions failed?
Q6) James A.Garfield
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Q1) land grant
Q2) J.Pierpont Morgan
Q3) trust-busting
Q4) pool
Q5) New South
Q6) "Pittsburgh plus" pricing
Q7) Thomas Edison was instrumental in the invention of the
A) electric light.
B) telephone.
C) mimeograph machine.
D) motion picture.
E) radio.
Q8) Explain how the vast,continental scale of the American economy in the late nineteenth century shaped American transportation,manufacturing processes,marketing,and labor relations.
Q9) William Graham Sumner
Q10) Union Pacific Railroad
Q11) Gospel of Wealth
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q1) Florence Kelley
Q2) What were the primary changes in American education in the late nineteenth century? What did the developments in basic public education have in common with the changes in American colleges and universities?
Q3) The development of electric trolleys in the late nineteenth century transformed the American city by
A) ending horse-drawn transportation in the city.
B) enabling cities to build upward as well as outward.
C) separating the mass transportation of the working class from the private vehicles of the wealthy.
D) enabling cities to plan streets along regular grid lines.
E) creating distinct districts devoted to residential neighborhoods, commerce, and industry.
Q4) Dwight Lyman Moody
Q5) Anti-Saloon League
Q6) liberal Protestantism
Q7) "Richardsonian"
Q8) Victoria Woodhull
Q9) settlement house
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Revolution,1865-1896
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Q1) Frontier towns where cattle were shipped east after being driven north on the "Long Drive" from Texas included
A) Dodge City, Kansas.
B) Deadwood, South Dakota.
C) Abilene, Kansas.
D) Abilene, Texas.
E) Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Q2) In the warfare that raged between the Indians and the American military after the Civil War,
A) the Indians were never as well armed as the soldiers.
B) the U.S. army was able to dominate with its superior technology.
C) there was often great cruelty and massacres on both sides.
D) Indians proved to be no match for the soldiers.
E) Indians and soldiers seldom came into face-to-face combat.
Q3) Explain the ultimate defeat of the Plains Indians by whites.Select and discuss at least three major reasons for the decline of the Plains culture; then tell which you think was the most important and why.
Q4) In what way did the mining,ranching,and farming frontiers respond to the industrial revolution in the same way as entrepreneurs and laborers?
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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Q1) China's Boxer Rebellion was an attempt to
A) overthrow the corrupt Chinese government.
B) establish American power in the Far East.
C) throw out or kill all foreigners.
D) destroy the Open Door policy.
E) restore traditional Chinese religion.
Q2) The near-war between the United States and Britain over the Venezuela boundary crisis ultimately resulted in
A) a brief war between Venezuela and British Guiana.
B) British concession of the disputed territory to Venezuela.
C) stationing United States marines along the disputed border.
D) a growing diplomatic reconciliation between the two English-speaking countries.
E) a naval arms race between the United States and Britain.
Q3) Was the occupation and annexation of the Philippines fundamentally different from America's previous forms of expansion into territory held by Mexico? Why or why not?
Q4) ____ Three territorial acquisitions made by the United States in the Treaty of Paris,which ended the Spanish-American War.
Q5) Josiah Strong
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican
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Q1) The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was a key progressive reform designed to
A) end the corrupt and family-destroying influence of the liquor industry.
B) make Senators directly elected and end the Senate millionaire's club.
C) prohibit child labor.
D) guarantee the secret Australian ballot in all federal elections.
E) enable the President to be elected directly by the people rather than by the Electoral College.
Q2) While president,Theodore Roosevelt
A) enhanced the power and prestige of the presidency.
B) displayed little skill in getting his legislation through Congress.
C) relied more on insider political skills than on public opinion.
D) was highly popular with the business community.
E) held rigidly to ideological principles.
Q3) Do you think that the strong emphasis that progressive feminists placed on extending women's maternal instincts into the public arena of child welfare,consumer protection,sanitation,and so on strengthened the movement for women's equality,or did it actually reinforce the idea of separate spheres for men and women?
Q4) Elkins Act
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q2) The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking and currency system through the great authority given to
A) the secretary of the treasury.
B) the president of the United States.
C) the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Banking Committee.
D) regional Federal Reserve banks.
E) the presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board.
Q3) New Freedom
Q4) Kaiser Wilhelm II
Q5) When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912,the most serious shortcoming in the country's financial structure was that
A) federal paper money was not backed by sound gold or silver.
B) unsound banks regularly issued inflated bank notes that had to serve as currency.
C) the banking system was too heavily regulated by the federal government.
D) the U.S. dollar was rigidly tied to gold.
E) money for lending was inelastic and heavily concentrated in New York City.
Q6) New Nationalism
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) Most wartime mobilization agencies primarily relied on ____ to prepare the economy for war.
A) congressional legislation
B) voluntary compliance
C) presidential edict
D) court decisions
E) business trade organizations
Q2) President Wilson's position at the Paris Peace Conference was weakened by
A) his refusal to attend the conference personally.
B) Republican party victories in the 1918 midterm elections.
C) his lack of popular support among people outside the United States.
D) his failure to appoint a leading Senate Republican to the conference delegation.
E) his paralyzing stroke.
Q3) conscription
Q4) Bolsheviks
Q5) Based on the chapter and "Varying Viewpoints," why is it fair to say that the issue of Wilsonianism has dominated discussions of American foreign policy from that time to the present?
Q6) Espionage and Sedition acts
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Chapter 31: American Life in the "Roaring
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Q2) During the red scare
A) hundreds of immigrant radicals were deported from the United States.
B) many states passed laws making it a crime to advocate violence.
C) labor union membership nearly doubled.
D) several lawfully elected Socialists were denied their seats in the New York State legislature.
E) the United States threatened war against the revolutionary Soviet Union.
Q3) Ku Klux Klan
Q4) The American airline industry in the 1920s made most of its early profits through
A) mail contracts with the federal government.
B) passenger fares.
C) air freight and bulk cargo.
D) subsidies from state and local governments.
E) crop dusting and cloud seeding.
Q5) Eugene O'Neill
Q6) Randolph Bourne
Q7) Sigmund Freud
Q8) Bible Belt
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932
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Q2) Which one of the following members of President Harding's cabinet proved to be incompetent and corrupt?
A) Herbert Hoover
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Andrew Mellon
D) Charles Evans Hughes
E) Albert Fall
Q3) In the early 1920s,one glaring exception to America's general indifference to the outside world was its
A) involvement in the World Court.
B) armed intervention in the Caribbean and Central America.
C) involvement in the League of Nations' humanitarian operations.
D) naval buildup.
E) continuing attempt to oust the Communists from power in the Soviet Union.
Q4) Muscle Shoals Bill
Q5) Explain how American tariff policy and policy on war debts and reparations contributed to deepening the Great Depression,even if they did not cause it.Why were Americans so generally indifferent to the effects of their policies on Europe during these years?
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New
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Q1) Franklin Roosevelt's qualities as a leader included
A) pugnaciousness and eagerness to take on controversy.
B) poor public speaking ability.
C) optimism.
D) personal charm and persuasiveness.
E) willingness to experiment.
Q2) National Labor Relations Board
Q3) Works Progress Administration
Q4) Mary McLeod Bethune
Q5) John Steinbeck
Q6) Social Security Act
Q7) The most controversial aspect of the Tennessee Valley Authority was its effort to A) provide cheap electrical power in competition with private industry.
B) control floods in the Tennessee and Cumblerland valleys.
C) prevent soil erosion throughout the region.
D) build housing for poor and middle-class citizens in the region.
E) resettle poor farmers on more productive land.
Q8) Huey Long
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q1) Those opposed to the Lend-Lease program,such as members of Massachusetts' Woman's Political Club,feared that
A) the lending countries would default on their debt.
B) it was in violation of America's strict neutrality.
C) it would eventually draw the nation into the war itself.
D) All of these
E) None of these
Q2) Nazi party
Q3) Francisco Franco
Q4) ____ The nation that was sacrificed at the Munich Conference by the Allied nations to achieve "peace in our time."
Q5) Atlantic Charter
Q6) The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
A) raised America's tariff schedule.
B) inhibited President Roosevelt's efforts to implement his Good Neighbor policy.
C) increased America's foreign trade.
D) was most strongly opposed in the South and West.
E) was aimed at isolating Italy and Germany.
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Q2) When the United States entered World War II in December 1941
A) it took nearly two years for the country to unite.
B) the conflict soon became an idealistic crusade for democracy.
C) the government repudiated the Atlantic Charter.
D) a majority of Americans had no clear idea of what the war was about.
E) the idea of allying with the Communist Soviet Union was repugnant.
Q3) Korematsu v.United States
Q4) Despite the demands of the wartime economy,inflation was kept well in check during the war by
A) directing production to whatever goods were in most demand.
B) prosecuting war profiteers and black marketers who tried to earn windfall profits.
C) permitting large numbers of illegal migrants to enter the work force.
D) sharply constricting the flow of credit from the Federal Reserve Board.
E) federally imposed wage and price controls.
Q5) Battle of the Bulge
Q6) Fair Employment Practices Commission
Q7) George S.Patton
Q8) Bataan Death March
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Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins,1945-1952
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Q1) Trace the origins of the Cold War,considering the historical background of United States-Soviet Union relations,the wartime relationship,and early postwar developments.
Q2) How did the rise of the suburbs affect American family life,community life,and race relations?
Q3) ____ China
Q4) Which of the following was not among the early successes of the United Nations?
A) Stopping the spread of atomic weapons
B) Preventing warfare over Kashmir and Iran
C) Creating the new state of Israel
D) Guiding former European colonies to independence
E) Enhancing global health, food production, and cultural development
Q5) ____ Czechoslovakia
Q6) Berlin airlift
Q7) President Truman risked American access to Middle Eastern oil supplies when he
A) sent U.S. military forces into Lebanon.
B) refused to recognize the authoritarian Saudi Arabian monarchy.
C) supported British control of the Suez Canal.
D) tried to force the Soviet Union out of the Middle East.
E) recognized the new Jewish state of Israel.
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Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960
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Q1) Were Senator Joseph McCarthy's unfair and often vicious attacks a reflection of his personal character or a manifestation of the larger American fears and anxieties about communism and social change in the early 1950s?
Q2) Which of the following was not true of the changing nature of work in the 1950s?
A) Science and technology drove economic growth.
B) There were fewer jobs in the military-related aerospace industry.
C) White collar workers were surpassing blue collar workers in numbers.
D) Labor unions reached a peak and then began to decline.
E) Job opportunities were opening to women in the white collar work force.
Q3) How was the increasingly open expression of sexuality in popular culture and music a reflection of American affluence? In what ways did overt sexuality and mass production mutually enhance one another?
Q4) Two postwar American fiction writers,who explored the problems and anxieties of affluence,were
A) John Updike and John Cheever.
B) Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.
C) Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller.
D) Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin.
E) Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor.
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Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968
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Q1) In the final analysis,Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs
A) did no good at all.
B) actually increased the poverty rate.
C) proved that poverty could not be papered over with greenbacks.
D) won some noteworthy battles in education and health care.
E) received more money than they could effectively spend.
Q2) President Johnson proved to be much more successful than President Kennedy at
A) getting his legislation passed by Congress.
B) exciting the ideals and spirit of his fellow citizens.
C) reducing America's overseas commitments.
D) gaining the admiration and support of the media.
E) appealing to America's European Allies.
Q3) John F.Kennedy
Q4) New Frontier
Q5) At the time of his death,President John Kennedy's civil rights bill
A) had been passed, much to the satisfaction of African Americans.
B) had been passed, but greatly weakened by amendments.
C) was still bogged down in Congress.
D) was on the desk waiting to be signed into law.
E) was locked in a filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
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Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980
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Q1) The 1973 War Powers Act
A) gave the president the power to commit troops without declaring war.
B) compelled President Nixon to end the secret bombing war in Cambodia.
C) required presidential reporting and congressional approval of extended troop commitments.
D) ended the military draft and created an all-volunteer army.
E) required Congress to approve funds for military operations.
Q2) Evaluate the impact of the Warren Court on American life.Cite specific cases that "reflected [the Supreme Court's] deep concern for the individual,no matter how lowly."
Q3) Why did President Carter's 1979 retreat to Camp David and his subsequent malaise speech cause such hostile public reaction?
Q4) Jimmy Carter
Q5) executive privilege
Q6) Wounded Knee
Q7) Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABM)
Q8) Watergate scandal
Q9) Kent State killings
Q10) Iranian hostage crisis
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Q1) Describe President Reagan's approach to foreign affairs.Was it effective? Why or why not?
Q2) Many of the movement conservatives of the new religious right gained political effectiveness by imitating the methods of
A) the prophets in the Bible.
B) the 1960s New Left.
C) corporate advertisers.
D) Third World guerrillas.
E) big city political machines.
Q3) Solidarity Movement
Q4) As one consequence of the demise of the Soviet Union
A) religious rivalries in Russia ended.
B) Solidarity rose in Poland.
C) the entire European continent became more stable.
D) long-suppressed ethnic hatreds flared in the former Soviet republics.
E) the rivalry between Russia and China ended.
Q5) Irving Kristol
Q6) Norman Podhoretz
Q7) ____ Jordan
Q8) Planned Parenthood v.Casey
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Q2) ____ Syria
Q3) Kyoto Treaty
Q4) Given that traditional political party organizations had seriously weakened,what explains the fierce partisan conflict between Republicans and Democrats in the 1990s? Was the conflict really rooted in different ideologies and views of government or more in the clash of colorful personalities like Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich?
Q5) In his campaign for the presidency in 2000,George W.Bush promised to A) pursue America's national interests without restraint from traditional U.S. allies. B) bring reconciliation after the sharp partisan divisions of the Clinton years. C) pursue hard right conservative policies regarding the environment and social welfare. D) protect the environment and try to stop global warming.
E) balance the federal budget under all circumstances.
Q6) Brady Bill
Q7) September 11,2001
Q8) Oklahoma City bombing
Q9) Joseph Lieberman
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Chapter 42: The American People Face a New Century
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Q1) Studies show that illegal immigrants
A) do not seek education for their children.
B) mostly plan to return to their country of origin as soon as they can.
C) claim welfare benefits at the taxpayer's expense.
D) are responsible for a disproportionate share of crime.
E) pay more dollars in federal taxes than they claim in benefits but do often burden local government services.
Q2) The leading painting movement in the immediate post-World War II period was
A) pop art.
B) abstract expressionism.
C) minimalism.
D) Dadaism.
E) postmodernism.
Q3) Jonas Salk
Q4) Jackson Pollock
Q5) David Mamet
Q6) What were the greatest achievements of Big Science in the post-World War II era? What issues and problems emerged with the close relationship among the federal government,defense industries,and American research universities?
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