U.S. History II Solved Exam Questions
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U.S. History II is a comprehensive survey course that explores the political, social, economic, and cultural development of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the present day. Key topics include industrialization, urbanization, America's role in world affairs, the Great Depression, the World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and recent developments shaping contemporary society. Emphasis is placed on understanding major events, influential figures, and the diverse experiences of Americans as the nation evolved into a modern global power. Students will analyze historical documents, engage in discussions, and develop critical thinking skills through the exploration of key themes and turning points in modern U.S. history.
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The American Pageant 15th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Q1) ____ Asia
Answer: 9
Q2) The Iroquois Confederacy was able to menace its Native American and European neighbors because of
A) its military alliances, sustained by political and organizational skills.
B) the Iroquois warriors' skill with the Europeans' muskets.
C) the scattered nature of the Iroquois settlements, which made it difficult for their enemies to defeat them.
D) the alliance with the Aztecs and Incas.
E) its use of new weapons.
Answer: A
Q3) European explorers introduced ____ into the New World.
A) syphilis
B) maize
C) tobacco
D) smallpox
E) pumpkin
Answer: D
Q4) ____ West Indies
Answer: 3
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Q1) By about 1700,black slaves outnumbered white settlers in the English West Indies by nearly
A) two to one.
B) three to one.
C) four to one.
D) six to one.
E) ten to one.
Answer: C
Q2) Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith by
A) agreeing to marry him.
B) interposing her head between his and his captor's clubs.
C) pleading with her father on Smith's behalf.
D) nursing him back to health after a battle with her tribe.
E) All of these
Answer: B
Q3) In many ways,North Carolina was the least typical of the five plantation colonies.Describe the unique features of colonial North Carolina,and explain why this colony was so unlike its southern neighbors.
Answer: Student answers will vary.
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) Henry VIII aided the entrance of Protestant beliefs into England when he
A) allowed Martin Luther to journey to England.
B) broke England's ties with the Roman Catholic Church.
C) removed himself as the head of the Church of England.
D) ordered John Calvin to go to Switzerland.
E) supported the Puritans.
Answer: B
Q2) Puritans
A) were Calvinists.
B) thought that the Church of England should be open to all comers.
C) especially attracted England's economically depressed.
D) thought that the Protestant Reformation was bringing too much change too quickly.
E) supported the Separatists.
Answer: A,C
Q3) ____ New Jersey
Answer: 9
Q4) ____ Salem
Answer: 4
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) Bacon's Rebellion
Q2) Bacon's Rebellion stemmed from
A) Governor Berkeley's Indian policies.
B) the frustration of Virginia's colonial dependency on England.
C) the frontier's resentment of the tidewater gentry.
D) the inherent rebelliousness of African slaves.
E) lack of a policy toward Indians.
Q3) The slave culture that developed in America
A) was derived exclusively from African roots.
B) rejected Christianity.
C) was Muslim in its religious teachings.
D) contained many Western elements that remained thoroughly European.
E) was a uniquely New World creation.
Q4) Assess the validity of the following statement,"democracy in church government led logically to democracy in political government."
Q5) Assess the extent to which distinctions of wealth and status were widening or narrowing as the seventeenth century drew to a close? Why?
Q6) middle passage
Q7) Yankee ingenuity
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Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) taverns
Q2) American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain
A) in order to gain their independence.
B) mainly to anger the king.
C) to anger Parliament.
D) to help strengthen the French.
E) to make money to buy what they wanted in Britain.
Q3) Colonial American taverns were all of the following except
A) frequented mainly by the lower class.
B) another cradle of democracy.
C) hotbeds of agitation for the Revolutionary movement.
D) important in crystallizing public opinion.
E) places providing amusements.
Q4) By the mid-1700s,the number of poor people in the American colonies
A) became greater than in all of Europe.
B) had increased to the point of overpopulation.
C) had begun to decline from seventeenth-century levels.
D) remained tiny compared with the number in England.
E) was about one-third of the population.
Q5) Jacobus Arminius
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Q1) The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to
A) achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.
B) propose independence of the colonies from Britain.
C) declare war on the Iroquois tribe.
D) prohibit New England and New York from trading with the French West Indies.
E) gain peace with France.
Q2) French motives in the New World included the desire to
A) establish agricultural communities to produce profitable staple crops.
B) convert Indians to Protestantism.
C) compete with Spain for an empire in America.
D) provide a place for French religious dissenters to settle.
E) compete with Portugal for an empire in America.
Q3) The Proclamation of 1763
A) was warmly received by American land speculators.
B) removed the Spanish and Indian menace from the colonial frontier.
C) declared war on Chief Pontiac and his fierce warriors.
D) prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
E) opened Canada to American settlement.
Q4) salutary neglect
Q5) Louis XIV
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) Intolerable Acts
Q2) The British Parliament enacted currency legislation that was intended primarily to benefit
A) Virginia tobacco planters.
B) British merchants.
C) New England merchants.
D) backwoods farmers.
E) the Crown.
Q3) Virtual representation meant that
A) almost all British subjects were represented in Parliament.
B) every member of Parliament represented all British subjects everywhere.
C) colonists could elect their own representatives to Parliament.
D) Parliament could pass virtually all types of legislation except taxes.
E) each member of Parliament represented only people in his district.
Q4) Colonists objected to the Stamp Act because
A) it was a very expensive tax.
B) they believed it could not be repealed.
C) Parliament passed the tax, not the colonists.
D) they opposed all taxes.
E) they wanted their independence.
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8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) The Americans who continued to support the crown after independence had been declared were more likely to be all of the following except A) well educated.
B) from among the older generation.
C) affiliated with the Anglican Church.
D) from New England.
E) wealthy.
Q2) As commander of America's Revolutionary army,George Washington exhibited all of the following except
A) military genius.
B) courage.
C) a sense of justice.
D) moral force.
E) patience.
Q3) ____ Princeton
Q4) John Jay
Q5) Loyalists/Tories
Q6) Richard Henry Lee
Q7) ____ Newport
Q8) Treaty of Paris of 1783
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Q1) Shays's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for A) lower taxes.
B) granting long-delayed bonuses to Revolutionary War veterans.
C) a vigilante effort by westerners to halt the Indian threat.
D) a stronger central government.
E) a weaker military presence in the West.
Q2) One of the enduring paradoxes of American history is that
A) conservatives supported democracy.
B) liberals supported democracy.
C) both radicals and conservatives have championed the heritage of democratic revolution.
D) conservatives and liberals were on opposite sides in the Revolution.
E) conservatives opposed democracy.
Q3) As a means of ensuring that legislators stay in touch with the mood of the people,state constitutions
A) were rewritten once every ten years.
B) were rewritten once every five years.
C) required yearly visits to the homes of their constituents.
D) stipulated that ordinary legislation could override the constitution.
E) required the annual election of legislators.
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) The Federalist-dominated Congress's Alien Act was aimed at ____,whereas the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at ____.
A) rebellious slaves, newspapers
B) recent immigrants, newspapers
C) recent immigrants, merchants
D) merchant smuggling, rebellious slaves
E) Indians, farmers
Q2) All of the following are true statements about the Whiskey Rebellion except A) backcountry pioneer folk saw whiskey not as a luxury but as an economic necessity and medium of exchange.
B) protesters felt burdened by Hamilton's economic programs.
C) Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion by negotiating with the protestors. D) protesters erected whiskey poles similar to liberty poles used against the Stamp Act in 1765.
E) whiskey rebels tarred and feathered revenue officers.
Q3) Assess the validity of the following statement: "It was fortunate for the Republic that the Federalists had the helm [control of the government] for a time." Do you agree? Why or why not?
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Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian
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Q1) James Madison
Q2) ____ Spanish Territory
Q3) President Jefferson's foreign policy of economic coercion
A) underestimated British dependence on American trade.
B) adversely affected France's economy more than Britain's.
C) stimulated manufacturing in the United States.
D) destroyed the Federalist party in New England.
E) succeeded in its goal of forcing the British to halt its impressment of American sailors.
Q4) With Thomas Jefferson's election as president,the Democratic-Republican party
A) grew stronger and more unified.
B) removed many Federalists from government jobs.
C) soon resented its leaders' lavish life-style.
D) grew less unified as the Federalist party began to fade and lose power.
E) sought to extend the Alien and Sedition Acts to punish their enemies.
Q5) Set the following statement in its historical context,"The day France takes possession of New Orleans we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." Why was Thomas Jefferson so alarmed?
Q6) Albert Gallatin
Q7) Robert R.Livingston
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) The Monroe Doctrine was essentially intended to prevent A) new European colonies from being established in the Western Hemisphere.
B) European nations from intervening in the affairs of Latin American countries.
C) the United States from intervening in the affairs of Latin American countries.
D) dictatorships in Latin American governments.
E) Russian control of Alaska.
Q2) The doctrine of noncolonization in the Monroe Doctrine was A) applicable only to Central and South America.
B) a response to the apparent designs of the Russians in Alaska and Oregon.
C) included in the doctrine only over the opposition of Secretary of State John Quincy Adams.
D) mostly a symbolic gesture of goodwill to the Latin American republics.
E) aimed at British efforts to gain control over Cuba.
Q3) Why was the West the region most seized with the spirit of nationalism following the War of 1812?
Q4) nationalism
Q5) Gibbons v.Ogden
Q6) sectionalism
Q7) James Monroe
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) Twelfth Amendment
Q2) If you had lived in the 1820,would you have voted for Andrew Jackson? Why or why not?
Q3) Stephen F.Austin's grant from the Mexican government required that immigrants whom he helped settle in Texas
A) become Mexican citizens.
B) be Roman Catholics.
C) not own slaves.
D) be willing to make their settlements self-governing.
E) serve a short time in the Mexican army.
Q4) Nullifiers
Q5) Despite Adams's discomfort,his political supporters used all of the following dirty tactics against his rival Jackson except
A) describing Jackson's mother as a prostitute.
B) claiming Jackson's wife was an adulteress.
C) printing black-bordered handbills shaped like coffins.
D) pointing out his numerous duels and brawls.
E) trumpeting his hanging of six Indian chiefs.
Q6) Tariff of 1833
Q7) minority president
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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860
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Q1) One of the goals of the child-centered family of the 1800s was to
A) raise children who were obedient to authority.
B) allow parents to spoil their children.
C) raise independent individuals.
D) increase the number of children.
E) preserve childhood innocence.
Q2) Compare and contrast the Irish and German immigrants of early-nineteenth-century America in terms of their motives for leaving Europe,pattern of settlement in the United States,impact on American life,and reception by native-born Americans.
Q3) Samuel F.B.Morse
Q4) The early factory system distributed its benefits
A) mostly to the owners.
B) evenly to all.
C) primarily in the South.
D) to workers represented by unions.
E) to overseas investors.
Q5) Eli Whitney
Q6) Boston Associates
Q7) Carl Schurz
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) The Oneida colony declined due to
A) widespread criticism of its sexual practices.
B) a decline in animal trapping.
C) their adoption of capitalism.
D) the loss of Noyes's leadership.
E) All of these
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) 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?
Q4) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Q5) American Temperance Society
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) Forced separation of spouses,parents,and children was most common
A) in the Deep South.
B) on the large plantations.
C) on small plantations and in the upper South.
D) in the decade before the Civil War.
E) as a punishment for running away.
Q2) All of the following were true of slavery in the South except that
A) slave life on the frontier was harder than that of life in the more settled areas.
B) a distinctive African American slave culture developed.
C) a typical planter had too much of his own prosperity riding on the backs of his slaves to beat them on a regular basis.
D) by 1860, most slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" of the Deep South.
E) most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households.
Q3) Gag Resolution
Q4) Uncle Tom's Cabin
Q5) Cotton Kingdom
Q6) It has been argued that both Britain and the North were tied to the South with "cotton threads." Explain.
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Q7) Nat Turner
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) Assess the validity of the following statement,"The Mexican War was a major cause of the American Civil War."
Q2) Rio Grande
Q3) Arrange the following in chronological order: (A)Bear Flag revolt,(B)Slidell mission rejected,(C)declaration of war on Mexico,and (D)American troops ordered to the Rio Grande Valley.
A) B, D, C, A
B) A, C, B, D
C) D, B, A, C
D) C, A, D, B
E) A, D, C, B
Q4) Given the great enthusiasm for territorial expansion,why did the "all of Mexico" movement fail?
Q5) Those people most opposed to President James K.Polk's expansionist program were the
A) western Democrats.
B) antislavery forces.
C) Senate Democrats.
D) supporters of Nicholas P. Trist.
E) proslavery Whigs.
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) The issue of runaway slaves was important because
A) the South was losing a significant portion of its labor force.
B) the Underground Railroad might encourage a slave rebellion.
C) the loss of property was significant, but the loss of honor was felt more.
D) escaped slaves might establish free colonies in the West.
E) free blacks demonstrated that the racist theory of slavery was wrong.
Q2) The election of 1852 was significant because it
A) saw the victory of a pro-South northerner.
B) marked the return of issues-oriented campaigning.
C) saw the rise of purely national parties.
D) marked the end of the Whig party.
E) saw the emergence of an antislavery third party.
Q3) Matthew C.Perry
Q4) ____ Kansas Territory
Q5) The authors argue that the North "got the better of the Compromise of 1850." Do you agree? Why or why not?
Q6) "personal liberty laws"
Q7) Gadsden Purchase
Q8) Martin Van Buren
Q9) "fire eaters"
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) The clash between Preston S.Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed
A) the seriousness of political divisions in the North.
B) the importance of honor to northerners.
C) despite divisions over slavery, the House of Representatives would unite to expel a member for bad conduct.
D) passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South.
E) the division between the House and the Senate over slavery.
Q2) Dred Scott
Q3) New England Immigrant Aid Society
Q4) Write your definition of national self-determination.Then use this definition to argue that southern secession in 1860-1861 was or was not an act of a people conscious of their own separate nationalism and determined to achieve it for themselves.
Q5) Uncle Tom's Cabin
Q6) southern nationalism
Q7) Roger Taney
Q8) "Bleeding Kansas"
Q9) The Impending Crisis of the South
Q10) Charles Sumner
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South,1861-1865
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Q1) Fort Sumter
Q2) Of all the hardships faced by the soldiers during the Civil War,the greatest was A) starvation.
B) disease.
C) decline of moral standards.
D) lack of proper clothing.
E) constant fighting.
Q3) Write your definition of revolution.Then use this definition to argue that the Civil War did or did not produce a revolution in the political,economic,and social life of the United States.
Q4) To achieve its independence,the Confederacy had to A) invade the Union.
B) win a decisive military victory on its own soil.
C) fight the invading Union army to a draw.
D) attract more talented military commanders.
E) capture Washington, D.C.
Q5) The Civil War began in 1861.Why was it 1863 before Lincoln committed the Union to the emancipation of slaves?
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) As a result of the Confederate victory in the Peninsula Campaign
A) Robert E. Lee was named to command the entire Southern army.
B) Lincoln named Ulysses S. Grant as commander of the Union forces.
C) Lincoln delayed his issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
D) the Union turned to a strategy of total war.
E) Lincoln abandoned the war in the West.
Q2) Historians usually rank the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln,as the greatest of American presidents.Do you agree? Why or why not?
Q3) Northern soldiers became increasingly convinced of slavery's evils when
A) Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
B) abolitionists praised Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
C) slaves ran away to Union camps and persevered against all odds.
D) the South called Lincoln a "fiend."
E) None of these
Q4) Robert E.Lee
Q5) ____ Vicksburg
Q6) Assess the validity of the following statement,"The removal of Lincoln [as president in 1864] was the last real hope for a Confederate victory."
Q7) Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877
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Q1) Under congressional Reconstruction,Southern states were required to
A) organize and support the Republican party.
B) ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
C) give freed slaves the right to vote.
D) provide land and education for former slaves.
E) protect black religious freedom.
Q2) In 1865,Southern
A) whites quickly admitted they had been wrong in trying to secede and win Southern independence.
B) whites rapidly turned their slaves into paid employees.
C) blacks uniformly turned in anger and revenge against their former masters.
D) blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity.
E) blacks looked to the federal government for help.
Q3) Radical Republican leaders in Congress included
A) Congressman Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania.
B) Senator William Seward of New York.
C) Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.
D) Senator Alexander Stephens of Georgia.
E) Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi.
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q1) The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved
A) public utility company bribes.
B) Bureau of Indian Affairs payoffs.
C) railroad construction kickbacks.
D) evasion of excise taxes on distilled liquor.
E) manipulating the Wall Street stock market.
Q2) William McKinley
Q3) Horace Greeley
Q4) 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.
Q5) Was Grover Cleveland's gold deal with J.P.Morgan justified? Why or why not?
Q6) Grover Cleveland
Q7) "Mulligan letters"
Q8) Andrew Carnegie
Q9) People's Party (Populists)
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) Which of the following was not among the technologies invented or improved by Thomas A.Edison?
A) The electric light bulb
B) The phonograph
C) The mimeograph
D) The electric dynamo
E) The motion picture
Q2) The image of the "Gibson Girl" represented a(n)
A) revival of the early American feminine ideal of republican motherhood.
B) portrayal of the modern corporate business woman.
C) exploitative image of the woman as a sex object.
D) romantic ideal of the independent and athletic new woman.
E) sentimental image of a woman as mother.
Q3) American Federation of Labor
Q4) Which was most important to the rapid pace of American industrialization in the late nineteenth century: the abundance of raw materials,an integrated national market under the same governmental system,the organizational drive of American corporate leaders,or the creativity of American inventors? Defend your answer.
Q5) James Buchanan Duke
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q1) William Randolph Hearst
Q2) Some historians have called pragmatism "America's only distinctive contribution to philosophy." In what way might it be true to say that pragmatism reflected unique qualities of American society and culture? How would pragmatists respond to the charge that theirs was an anti-intellectual philosophy?
Q3) Theodore Dreiser
Q4) "birds of passage"
Q5) settlement house
Q6) fundamentalism
Q7) evolution
Q8) liberal Protestantism
Q9) Mark Twain
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A) adult education.
B) education for political action.
C) developing separate black schools and colleges.
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Revolution,1865-1896
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Q1) All of the following characteristics describe William Jennings Bryan in 1896 except he A) disliked the concept of class conflict.
B) was very youthful.
C) was an energetic and charismatic campaigner.
D) was an excellent orator.
E) radiated honesty and sincerity.
Q2) Battle of Little Bighorn
Q3) Granger Laws
Q4) The Farmers' Alliance was especially weakened by A) its political ineptitude.
B) its inability to overcome racial divisions in the South.
C) corrupt leadership.
D) its failure to target landowners.
E) regional concentration in the South.
Q5) Ignatius Donnelley
Q6) Chief Joseph
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Q7) Trace the history of the currency question in American politics from the aftermath of the Civil War to the passage of the Gold Standard Act.
Q8) Sitting Bull
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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A) helping to build tourism to Hawaii.
B) writing songs such as "Aloha Oe."
C) establishing the pineapple business on the island.
D) her lavish personal expenditures, particularly for clothes.
E) None of these
Q2) Mark Twain
Q3) President McKinley's policy of benevolent assimilation in the Philippines
A) failed to solve serious sanitation and public-health problems.
B) fell short of providing an effective public-school system for the Filipinos.
C) was not welcomed by the Filipinos.
D) worked remarkably well and led to the early granting of the Philippine independence.
E) recognized the value of traditional Filipino culture.
Q4) Was Theodore Roosevelt's policy toward Japan fundamentally friendly,fundamentally hostile,or somewhere in between? Include in your answer discussion of the Russo-Japanese War mediation,the San Francisco school crisis,the Root-Takahira agreement,and the "Great White Fleet."
Q5) Pearl Harbor
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican
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A) the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations.
B) the missionary movement.
C) conservative evangelicalism.
D) the Social Gospel.
E) the Catholic Action movement.
Q2) the Square Deal
Q3) Women's Trade Union League
Q4) "separate spheres"
Q5) Progressives believed that "the cure for the ills of democracy was more democracy." How did progressive reforms attempt to bring more democracy to American society and government? In what areas were their reforms most successful? In what areas did they largely fail to succeed?
Q6) The first people to work toward preserving nature and the environment were
A) typically members of the upper classes.
B) Native Americans.
C) primarily women.
D) followers and supporters of Theodore Roosevelt.
E) cattle ranchers in the Dakotas.
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q1) Assess Wilson's conduct of foreign policy from 1914 to 1917.Do you think that he could have pursued a different course that would have kept the United States out of the war? Should he have? Why or why not?
Q2) In the 1930s,many Americans came to believe that American business and arms manufacturers had engaged in a conspiracy to get the United States into World War I.Is there any evidence to support such a view? In what ways did American business actually benefit from U.S.neutrality in the war?
Q3) Virgin Islands
Q4) Critically evaluate Woodrow Wilson's personal qualities as they affected his conduct of foreign policy.How did his strong belief in promoting morality and democracy in other countries emerge from his own view of the world?
Q5) What were the most important of Wilson's progressive reforms? Was Wilson actually a more effective progressive than Theodore Roosevelt? Why or why not?
Q6) Federal Reserve Act
Q7) Allies
Q8) ____ The nation where an assassination ignited World War I.
Q9) New Freedom
Q10) Central Powers Page 37
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) Grievances of labor during and shortly after World War I include all of the following except
A) the inability to gain the right to organize.
B) war-spawned inflation.
C) suppression of the American Federation of Labor.
D) violence against workers by employers.
E) the use of African Americans as strikebreakers.
Q2) Henry Cabot Lodge
Q3) National Woman's party
Q4) Bolsheviks
Q5) Chateau-Thierry
Q6) During World War I,the government's treatment of labor could be best described as A) fair.
B) strict and financially unrewarding.
C) extremely brutal.
D) so good that the right to form unions was finally granted.
E) decent for native Americans but harsh for ethnic groups.
Q7) George Creel
Q8) "normalcy"
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Chapter 31: American Life in the "Roaring
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Q1) The Ku Klux Klan virtually collapsed in the late 1920s when
A) the immigration restriction laws of the early 1920s were repealed.
B) the organization was publicly exposed as a corrupt and cynical racket.
C) the advent of radio led to a new level of public knowledge and tolerance.
D) the Klan proved unable to implement its program.
E) both political parties sharply criticized the Klan as un-American.
Q2) Babbitt
Q3) Automobiles,radios,and motion pictures
A) were less popular than had been anticipated.
B) contributed to the standardization of American life.
C) had little impact on traditional life-styles and values.
D) were for the most part too expensive for ordinary working families.
E) strengthened American family life.
Q4) "Jelly Roll" Morton
Q5) Describe the dominant themes of American literature in the 1920s.Explain why these themes prevailed.
Q6) The Sound and the Fury
Q7) John T.Scopes
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Q8) What were the greatest changes in religious and moral values in the 1920s? How did Americans respond to these changes?
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932
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Q2) Veterans' organizations like the American Legion successfully lobbied Congress to give them
A) higher pay for service in military reserve or national guard units.
B) special payments for those suffering the effects of shell shock or poison gas.
C) financial support for college education or job training.
D) guaranteed medical care in modern, efficient veterans' hospitals.
E) a bonus insurance policy to compensate them for lost wages during their military service.
Q3) Charles R.Forbes
Q4) Compare the presidential leadership of Harding,Coolidge,and Hoover.What did they have in common,and how did they differ? How did their personal qualities affect their political success in the 1920s?
Q5) Alfred E.Smith
Q6) Teapot Dome
Q7) Norris-LaGuardia Act
Q8) Henry L.Stimson
Q9) Robert La Follette
Q10) Harry M.Daugherty
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939
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Q2) Charles Coughlin
Q3) 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.
Q4) Federal Housing Administration
Q5) In 1935,President Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration to A) help farmers migrate from Oklahoma to California.
B) place unemployed industrial workers in areas where their labor was needed.
C) move Indians from land that could be farmed by victims of the Dust Bowl.
D) find jobs for farmers in industry.
E) help farmers who were victims of the Dust Bowl move to better land.
Q6) John L.Lewis
Q7) What were the most enduring accomplishments of the New Deal? Which of its efforts had the least long-term impact?
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q1) Americans' fervent isolationism in the 1930s can best be attributed to A) their regrets about participating in WWI.
B) bitter memories of the ungrateful nations that defaulted on their WWI debts.
C) the totalizing impact of the Great Depression and the need to focus on getting out of it.
D) None of these
E) All of these
Q2) One of the few successful wartime American efforts to save Jews from perishing in the Holocaust came when
A) Americans helped some German and Austrian Jews seek refuge in neutral Sweden and Switzerland.
B) American Zionist organizations helped Romanian Jews escape to Israel.
C) the U.S. Air Force bombed the rail lines leading to Auschwitz.
D) American agents enabled French Jews to escape across the Pyrenees into Spain.
E) Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board helped some Hungarian Jews escape.
Q3) It is a common observation that American foreign policy often reflects domestic politics.In what way did domestic considerations influence the Roosevelt administration's recognition of the Soviet Union,adoption of a Good Neighbor policy,and extension of independence to the Philippines?
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Q2) President Roosevelt's promise to the Soviets to open a second front in Western Europe by the end of 1942
A) was fulfilled by the invasion of North Africa.
B) was made to deceive Stalin and encourage him to slow his army's movement into Eastern Europe.
C) was strongly supported by Churchill and British military leaders.
D) proved utterly impossible to keep.
E) represented the key goal to which all early American military efforts were directed.
Q3) Explain why America's participation in World War II never really became an idealistic crusade in the mold of World War I.
Q4) Teheran Conference
Q5) The national debt increased most during
A) Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
B) Herbert Hoover's administration.
C) World War II.
D) World War I.
E) the 1920s.
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Q1) Was the Cold War inevitable? Why or why not? If so,at what point did it become inevitable?
Q2) McCarran Act
Q3) How did the rise of the suburbs affect American family life,community life,and race relations?
Q4) Yalta Conference
Q5) baby boom
Q6) Much of the Sunbelt's new prosperity was based on its
A) tremendous influx of money from the federal government.
B) policy of high state taxes.
C) regulated economic growth.
D) cooperative effort rather than unbridled individualism.
E) attention to environmental issues.
Q7) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Q8) How do you assess Harry S Truman as a political leader? What were his greatest successes in foreign and domestic policy? What were his greatest failures?
Q9) ____ Poland
Q10) Sunbelt
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Q1) The 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine empowered the president to extend economic and military aid to nations of ____ that wanted help to resist communist aggression.
A) Southeast Asia
B) Africa
C) Central and Eastern Europe
D) the Middle East
E) Latin America
Q2) The Beat Generation can be described in all of the following ways except
A) they formed the protest culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
B) they promoted interest in bebop jazz and Eastern religious mysticism.
C) in founding their own movement, the hippies later rejected many of the Beat notions.
D) they embraced sexual liberation.
E) their name came from the term "beatnik," meant as a Cold War insult.
Q3) Assess the diplomatic and military policies of John Foster Dulles.Do you think that they were realistic? Why or why not?
Q4) Ho Chi Minh
Q5) Rosa Parks
Q6) "spirit of Camp David"
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Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968
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Q1) When he became attorney general,Robert Kennedy sought to refocus the attention of the FBI on
A) organized crime and civil rights.
B) communist spies and terrorism.
C) political corruption and campaign law violations.
D) illegal immigration and drug trading.
E) automobile theft and illegal weapons.
Q2) In the worldwide youthful protests of 1968,the movement in ____ succeeded in toppling the government,while the movement in ____ ended in harsh repression and failure.
A) the United States; France
B) Poland; France
C) Germany; Britain
D) France; Czechoslovakia
E) Japan; the United States
Q3) Alliance for Progress
Q4) flexible response
Q5) Why do you think President Johnson's Vietnam policy of "a fine-tuned,step-by-step increase in American force [that] would drive the enemy to defeat with a minimum loss of life on both sides" was unsuccessful?
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Q1) The difference between Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action programs and those of Richard Nixon was
A) very small.
B) that Johnson intended his to help groups and Nixon intended his to help individuals.
C) that Nixon's actions applied only to educational opportunities and did nothing for employment, while Johnson's helped both.
D) that Johnson intended to help individuals, but Nixon conferred privileges on groups.
E) that Johnson established quotas and Nixon ended them.
Q2) War Powers Act
Q3) détente
Q4) Thurgood Marshall
Q5) What was President Nixon's southern strategy? Why did he adopt it? Describe what he did to implement it.Was it responsible for his reelection? Why or why not?
Q6) Helsinki accords
Q7) Gerald Ford
Q8) "silent majority"
Q9) Iranian hostage crisis
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Chapter 40: The Resurgence of Conservatism,1980-1992
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Q2) The first results of Reagan's supply-side economics in 1982 were a(n)
A) sharp recession and rise in unemployment.
B) reduced federal deficit.
C) expansion of international trade.
D) economic boom.
E) wave of new business investment.
Q3) Why did both the United States and Britain see such strong conservative leaders in the 1980s? Could Reagan have achieved his goals without such support from America's closest ally?
Q4) President Ronald Reagan and the new British prime minister,Margaret Thatcher,shared all of the following goals except
A) limiting the role of government, especially in regulating business.
B) shrinking the power of labor unions.
C) strengthening the Anglo-American alliance.
D) enhancing the role of religion in public life.
E) promoting a muscular foreign policy, especially against the Soviet Union.
Q5) Norman Podhoretz
Q6) ____ Red Sea
Q7) Grenada
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Q1) What steps did President Clinton take to successfully manage the economy in the 1990s? Why were his trade and tax policies so controversial?
Q2) ____ Lebanon
Q3) ____ Syria
Q4) Monica Lewinsky
Q5) George H.W.Bush
Q6) Columbine High School
Q7) Barack Obama
Q8) How did the U.S.domestic reaction to the "war on terror" compare with similar responses to World War I,World War II,and the Cold War? In which of these conflicts were there greater threats to America's tradition of civil liberties,and why?
Q9) ____ Iran
Q10) Whitewater
Q11) Shia
Q12) Department of Homeland Security
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Chapter 42: The American People Face a New Century
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Q2) Maxine Hong Kingston
Q3) Compare the social,economic,and political experiences of African Americans and Latinos since the 1970s.
Q4) United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Q5) Eero Saarinen
Q6) What gains has the African American community attained since the 1960s? What are the greatest challenges still facing African Americans and U.S.society regarding race?
Q7) 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.
Q8) The authors conclude that after much of its history as a revolutionary force in a conservative world,America "is now a conservative force in a world of revolution." Do you agree? Why or why not?
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