United States History II Final Exam
Course Introduction
United States History II explores the development of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course examines key social, political, economic, and cultural changes, including Reconstruction, industrialization, the rise of the U.S. as a global power, the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War dynamics, and contemporary issues. Students will engage with primary and secondary sources to analyze significant events, influential figures, and transformative movements that have shaped modern American society.
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MindTap US History 1st Edition by Cengage
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Q1) Explorer Amerigo Vespucci named the new continent he "discovered" after himself,calling it "America."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Why did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain agree to fund Columbus's expedition?
A)They had just lost Granada and needed to find new colonies to replace it.
B)They feared the Italians would back Columbus if Spain did not.
C)They resented Portugal's domination of the slave trade.
D)They hoped it would yield new ways to rebuild Spain's depleted financial resources. Answer: D
Q3) Explorer Amerigo Vespucci described the continent he encountered in his travels as the "New World."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Contact, colonization, and Exchange in the
Atlantic World, 1492-1600
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Q1) Queen Isabella decreed that the people of Spain's new territories should be treated humanely.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In 1455,the pope granted which nation a monopoly on the Atlantic slave trade?
A)Portugal
B)England
C)Spain
D)Italy
E)France
Answer: A
Q3) The Columbian Exchange transformed Native American and European life profoundly.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Sir Francis Drake attacked the port of St.Augustine in Florida.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) The Dutch West India Company,like the East India Company,received broad powers,including the right to make war.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Most of the early settlers in Pennsylvania were Dutch farmers from the West Indies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Where was the settlement that later became known as the Lost Colony located?
A)Roanoke
B)Croatoan Island
C)St.Augustine
D)Hispaniola
E)Jamestown
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) The most religiously diverse colonies prior to the Great Awakening were found in A)New England.
B)the southern colonies.
C)the middle colonies.
D)the backcountry.
E)all of these colonies were equally diverse.
Q2) The Gaspée was a French warship that harassed colonial merchant ships.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The three major parts or sections of the Declaration of Independence included all of the following except
A)an actual declaration of independence from Great Britain.
B)a listing of King George's mistreatment of the colonists.
C)a rationale for breaking away from an unjust government.
D)a demand for the British to vacate American territory immediately.
E)all of these were included in the Declaration of Independence.
Q4) Benjamin Franklin helped establish the first American lending library.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) Who was the chief advocate for passage of a Bill of Rights?
A)George Washington
B)James Madison
C)Thomas Jefferson
D)Alexander Hamilton
E)John Adams
Q2) Antifederalists believed that even the House of Representatives would become
A)unrepresentative.
B)dominated by the rich.
C)too large to be workable.
D)unresponsive.
E)All of these
Q3) At the Constitutional Convention,the agreed-upon 3/5ths compromise called for enslaved Americans to count as 3/5ths of a free person for what purpose?
A)direct taxation.
B)apportioning representation.
C)All of these
D)None of these
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Chapter 6: Forging a New Nation, 1790-1828
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Q1) The Monroe Doctrine was issued jointly by the United States and Great Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following event pairings occurred during the same year?
A)George Washington became president and the French Revolution began.
B)The Bank of the United States was established and the Senate approved the Jay Treaty.
C)John Adams became president and the Naturalization Act was passed.
D)The Judiciary Act was passed and Alexander Hamilton wrote his Report on Public Credit.
Q3) Which of the following accurately describes America's first Congress?
A)Antifederalists
B)Elitists
C)Federalists
D)Both A and B
E)Both B and C
Q4) In 1802,federal personnel throughout the country numbered under 10,000,and most of that number worked as bureaucrats in Washington,D.C.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Market Revolution and Social Reform,
1800-1860
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Q1) Revivalism and religious awakenings of the 1820s sought to A)convert Catholics to the Protestant faith.
B)contain the emerging faith of Mormonism.
C)simplify the services of local churches.
D)bring others closer to God by spreading their message.
Q2) Dorothea Dix launched a famous crusade in support of A)the abolition of slavery.
B)the right of women to vote and hold office.
C)protections for children working in factories.
D)humane institutions for the insane,orphans,and the poor,among others.
Q3) One result of the opening of western lands to settlement was that couples married at younger ages.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most famous artistic production of the antebellum United States was the statue
The Greek Slave.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Peculiar Institution: the Old South and
Slavery, 1800-1860
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Q1) Denmark Vesey was a black slave in North Carolina who led an aborted slave rebellion in 1822
A)True
B)False
Q2) What did the American Colonization Society,which purchased land in Africa for free blacks,name the new country?
A)Ghana
B)Ivory Coast
C)Republic of the Congo
D)Cameroon
E)Liberia
Q3) In their own ways,both Whigs and Democrats in the South supported slavery.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a true statement about William Lloyd Garrison?
A)His newspaper,The Liberator,became a vehicle for ending slavery.
B)He embraced moral suasion as a strategy.
C)He attended antislavery meetings held by African Americans.
D)He supported the gradual end of slavery as the most expedient approach.
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) After gaining its independence from Mexico,Texas
A)immediately joined the United States.
B)declared its intention to steer clear of entanglements with the United States.
C)existed as an independent republic for almost ten years.
D)sent Sam Houston to serve in the United States Congress.
E)invited Louisiana to join it in a small republic.
Q2) John Quincy Adams labeled the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828 as "the corrupt bargain."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who led South Carolina's response to the tariff of abominations?
A)John C.Calhoun
B)Henry Clay
C)Daniel Webster
D)Benjamin Rush
E)James Goodson
Q4) New immigrant groups in the antebellum years typically supported Whig candidates.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion,
1820-1860
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Q1) About one in four of the eastern Cherokees died on the Trail of Tears.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following was not one of the terms of the Louisiana Purchase between the United States and France?
A)The United States would respect the rights of Native Americans living there
B)The amount of land the U.S.would acquire would equal 828,000 square miles
C)The cost of the land acquired would be $15 million
D)French settlers could retain their land in the territory by paying a small tax to the U.S.
Q3) The Louisiana Purchase tripled the size of the United States
A)True
B)False
Q4) Who is credited with coining the term Manifest Destiny?
A)Sam Houston
B)John Tyler
C)Zachary Taylor
D)John L.O'Sullivan
E)Henry Clay
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin about the evils of slavery prompted publication of pro-slavery books in the South.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After winning an unfair election in Kansas in 1854,proslavery proponents took control of the territorial legislature at what city?
A)Lecompton
B)Pottawatomie
C)Topeka
D)Lawrence
E)Kansas City
Q3) During the first series of secessions,seven states left the Union during a six-week period.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Southern Whigs nominated Zachary Taylor for president in 1848 because they assumed he would support the spread of slavery.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) All of the following were the advantages the Confederacy had over the Union at the start of the Civil War except
A)A larger geographical terrain to navigate
B)Its long border with Mexico
C)Its large industrial capacity
D)A network of country roads that made sneak attacks possible
E)Generals with greater military experience than those in the North
Q2) What did the war mean for women's lives?
A)Opportunities to serve as nurses or spies
B)New jobs in government
C)Financial difficulties
D)All of these choices
Q3) The Wade-Davis bill was supported by Abraham Lincoln.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
A)Freed all slaves
B)Freed only northern slaves
C)Freed slaves that lived in the rebel territories
D)Freed slaves once the war ended
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) In the segregated South,blacks were subjected to
A)segregated railroad cars and public facilities.
B)literacy test requirements designed to keep them from voting.
C)lynching and other forms of violence.
D)poll tax requirements designed to keep them from voting.
E)All of the above.
Q2) What was the legacy of Reconstruction for most African Americans?
A)The full legal benefits of freedom
B)Discrimination and violence
C)Landownership for the first time
D)Admission to skilled factory jobs
E)Economic security
Q3) For many newly freed blacks,the highest priority at the end of the war was
A)reuniting their families.
B)leaving the South.
C)obtaining jobs.
D)learning to read and write.
E)creating their own churches.
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Q1) Dollar diplomacy was applied to Latin America but not to Asia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Passed in 1901,the Platt Amendment _____.
A)encouraged trade with China
B)dictated the terms of the Panama Canal Zone
C)established protectorate status in the Philippines
D)barred Cuba from allying itself with another foreign power
Q3) What happened as a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
A)Seventy-five thousand Chinese were deported from the United States.
B)Prejudice against Chinese living in the West became more pronounced.
C)Chinese were barred from entering the United States for 10 years.
D)The number of Chinese living in the United States fell to less than 50,000.
E)The Supreme Court's reversal of the law ushered in a series of lawsuits from immigrant groups.
Q4) In the Spanish-American War,naval forces commanded by Commodore George Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet in the Philippines.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Change and Resistance: Industrialization,
urbanization, and Farm Protest, 1865-1910
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Q1) The Wilson-Gorman Tariff included provisions for all of the following except
A)reducing duties on wool
B)adding a personal income tax
C)raising duties on copper and lumber
D)repealing reciprocal trade provisions of the McKinley Tariff Act
Q2) The fact that many people associated the Haymarket Riot with organized labor resulted in which of the following?
A)A decline in membership in the Knights of Labor.
B)Greater public support for an eight-hour day and improved working conditions.
C)Federal laws requiring labor leaders to undergo background checks.
D)New legislation banning national unions.
Q3) Which union embraced women,blacks,and agricultural workers,as well as workers from various skilled crafts?
A)American Federation of Labor
B)National Labor Union
C)Knights of Labor
D)American Railway Union
Q4) J.P.Morgan founded the Standard Oil Company.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?
A)to replace the central bank with regional banks
B)to reduce the power of the Federal Reserve Board
C)to facilitate trade between the United States and its neighbors
D)to provide a means for controlling the currency and money supply
Q2) In 1912,Theodore Roosevelt ran as the presidential candidate of the Bull Moose Party,which was officially known as the
A)Socialist Party.
B)American Party.
C)Progressive Party.
D)Know-Nothing Party.
E)People's Party.
Q3) What Wisconsin politician was the leading symbol of state reform during the Progressive Era?
A)Robert M.LaFollette
B)D.W.Griffith
C)Woodrow Wilson
D)Theodore Roosevelt
E)William Jennings Bryan
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
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Q1) The National War Labor Board established
A)daylight savings time.
B)a new appeals process for laborers.
C)minimum wages and maximum hours.
D)ambitious production quotas for arms factories.
E)desegregation policies in war-related industries.
Q2) Which of these was NOT part of the U.S.war effort during World War I
A)Meatless days
B)Wheatless days
C)Fishless days
D)Victory gardens
Q3) American soldiers during World War I potentially experienced all of the following except
A)Shellshock
B)Trench warfare
C)Exposure to poison gas
D)The use of airplanes in battle
E)Reliance on U.S.submarine technology
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Chapter 18: The Rise of American Mass Culture, 1920-1929
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Q1) In the 1921-1922 Washington Naval Conference,a commitment to respect one another's territorial possessions was agreed to by all of the following countries except:
A)France
B)Great Britain
C)Japan
D)the Soviet Union
E)the United States
Q2) In 1927,Ford attempted to regain market share from General Motors by doing all of the following except
A)advertising extensively.
B)introducing a new Model A.
C)offering credit to car buyers.
D)dismantling the assembly line.
Q3) Amelia Earhart made a successful trans-Atlantic flight in in the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The first motion picture with sound was The Grapes of Wrath.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: A Nation in Crisis: the Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) What group wooed African American support by defending the Scottsboro boys,teens who had been wrongly accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931?
A)the Civilian Conservation Corps
B)the Communist Party
C)the Democratic Party
D)the Ku Klux Klan
Q2) The unemployment rate for African Americans during the Depression was as high as 50 percent,higher than for white Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who led the Bonus March on Washington in the summer of 1932?
A)farmers who wanted a government bonus for allowing land to lay fallow
B)young people who lobbied for free public land after their term of service ended
C)World War I veterans who lobbied for cash advances on their veterans' bonuses
D)trade unionists who demanded the government force industrialists to pay bonuses stipulated in union contracts
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) Who became president following the death of FDR on April 12,1945?
A)Herbert Hoover
B)Warren Harding
C)Calvin Coolidge
D)Harry Truman
E)Dwight Eisenhower
Q2) Germany's lightening strike invasion of Poland was called the A)Anschluss
B)Blitzkrieg
C)Kristallnacht
D)Luftwaffe
Q3) A 1943 fight between whites and blacks sparked a race riot that left thirty-five people dead and more than seven hundred wounded in the city of A)Atlanta.
B)Detroit.
C)Los Angeles.
D)Philadelphia.
Q4) The Selective Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S.history.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
1945-1960
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Q1) Who was America's leading white cover artist?
A)Allen Ginsberg
B)Pat Boone
C)Elvis Presley
D)Little Richard
Q2) Between 1944 and 1950,how many of the new houses built in the United States were built in suburban areas?
A)fewer than 20 percent
B)roughly 33 percent
C)roughly 60 percent
D)more than 80 percent
Q3) What was the Beat Generation?
A)a group of parents and educators who opposed the new rock 'n' roll culture
B)a group of writers and poets who attacked mainstream values and conformity
C)a group of World War II veterans who demanded respect for older Americans
D)a group of young people who focused on economic prosperity and material gain
Q4) Although American troops fought in the Korean War,casualties numbered fewer than 10,000.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) In August 1965,a violent race riot occurred in Watts,a black neighborhood of what major U.S.city?
A)Chicago
B)Detroit
C)Los Angeles
D)New York
E)Philadelphia
Q2) The Freedom of Information Act gave the American people unprecedented access to classified government material.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Peace Corps sought to spread American ideals by providing which of the following?
A)equal educational opportunities for underprivileged youth
B)food and clothing to Americans living below the poverty line
C)educational and technical assistance to underdeveloped nations
D)trained mediators to negotiate among political and military rivals
Q4) In the 1972 election,Nixon carried every state except Massachusetts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) Ronald Reagan won over voters in the 1980 presidential election by asking "Are you better off than in 1976?"
A)True
B)False
Q2) Proposition 2 ½ in Massachusetts sought to lower income taxes in response to the recession.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a network of computer-based messaging systems that became the internet.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?
A)a weapons system based in space that would shoot down Soviet missiles
B)a series of nuclear missile bases in locations surrounding the Soviet Union
C)a set of international agreements that pledged mutual assistance in case of Soviet aggression
D)a surveillance system that would make it feasible to hit Soviet-launched missiles while they were still over Soviet territory.
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Q1) Which of the following terrorist attacks occurred first?
A)the attack on the U.S.S.Cole in Yemen
B)the truck bombing of the World Trade Center
C)the series of attacks on American embassies in Africa
D)the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
Q2) The Internet went from being in less than 10 percent to more than half of American homes during which years?
A)1990-1995
B)1996-2001
C)2002-2007
D)2008-2013
Q3) The 1992 acquittal of four white police officers accused of beating Rodney King after he was stopped for speeding sparked race riots that left 53 people dead in what city?
A)Atlanta
B)Chicago
C)Los Angeles
D)New York
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