United States History II Review Questions
Course Introduction
United States History II surveys the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. Key topics include Reconstruction, industrialization, the Progressive Era, the Great Depression and New Deal, both World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, and recent domestic and international events. The course emphasizes changing patterns of political power, social organization, economic growth, and the transformation of the U.S. into a global superpower, while exploring the diverse experiences and contributions of various groups within American society.
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Liberty Equality Power A History of the American People 7th Edition by John M. Murrin
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Chapter 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe
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Q1) The leader of the Aztecs at the time of their defeat in 1519 was
A)Atahualpa.
B)Moctezuma.
C)Tenochtitlan.
D)Texcoco.
E)Geronimo.
Answer: B
Q2) The most sophisticated civilization in the world at the time of European exploration was in China.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The European explorer who reached the Grand Canyon was
A)Francisco de Coronado.
B)Amerigo Vespucci.
C)Francisco Pizarro.
D)Hernan Cortés.
E)Prince Henry
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Colonization in North America, 1600-1680
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Q1) William Penn's constitution for Pennsylvania was
A)called the Plan of Government.
B)based on the Fundamental Governing Law.
C)inspired by the ideas of John Harrington.
D)entitled the Covenant of the People
E)a proponent of a Bill of Rights.
Answer: C
Q2) Pennsylvanians organized a militia shortly after the founding of their colony.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) ____________________ led the Puritans in their decision to found a colony of pure Christianity in New England, far away from British state control.
Answer: John Winthrop
Q4) Henry IV granted limited toleration to ____________________ through the Edict of Nantes in 1598.
Answer: Huguenots
Q5) The Englishman who explored the North River was ____________________.
Answer: Henry Hudson
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Chapter 3: Empires, Indians, and the Struggle for Power in
North America, 1670-1720
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Q1) ____________________ increasingly became the standard vehicle for defense in England but not in America.
Answer: Professional armies
Q2) The only New England staple desired in Europe was ____________________.
Answer: fish
Q3) When Nathaniel Bacon was elected to the Virginia assembly, William Berkeley
A)had him arrested.
B)welcomed him as a hero.
C)had him killed.
D)refused to allow him to take his seat.
E)dissolved the local political system.
Answer: A
Q4) The most successful Indian revolt in American history was led by ____________________, a San Pueblo medicine man, in 1680.
Answer: Popé
Pope
Q5) By the early 18th century England was an unstable power in Europe.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent,
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Q1) Which of the following was not a major southern cash crop in the early 1700s?
A)cotton
B)tobacco
C)indigo
D)wheat
E)rice
Q2) The religious revivals of the 1740s through 1770s
A)led to a decline in the number of female church members.
B)almost destroyed the Freemasons.
C)united all the major colonial churches into one interdenominational organization.
D)increased the size and strength of the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches.
E)converted most of the Indians in the colonies.
Q3) Describe and analyze family relations in colonial America.
Q4) Most of the settlers of Georgia shared the proprietors' dislike of slavery and alcohol.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the outbreak of the French and Indian War.
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Chapter 5: Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776
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Q1) The colonists named the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act the
Q2) At first, Britain's George Grenville used voluntary measures to get the colonists to pay for British troops stationed in North America.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The motive behind the American invasion of Canada in June 1775 was territorial expansion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Stamp Act was never enforced.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Coercive Acts
A)attempted to impose new taxes on the colonies.
B)forced the port of Boston to remain open to British ships.
C)reorganized the government of Massachusetts.
D)extended the power of the governor of New York.
E)suppressed the rights of Catholics in Maryland.
Q6) Describe the causes and significance of the Boston Massacre in 1770.
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary Republic, 1776-1789
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Q1) George Washington refused to accept a letter from brothers William and Richard Howe about discussing peace terms in the summer of 1776 because it did not address him as ____________________.
Q2) The central government under the Articles of Confederation raised money by
A)enacting a national sales tax.
B)passing import/export tariffs.
C)attacking British merchant ships.
D)imposing an income tax.
E)requisitioning funds and printing currency.
Q3) Shawnee and Delaware leaders who pursued friendly relations with the Americans but refused to fight other Indians included all of the following except A)Joseph Brant.
B)White Eyes.
C)Killbuck.
D)Corn planter.
E)none of these choices
Q4) The commander of British troops at the Battle of Saratoga was John
Q5) Describe the role of loyalists in the American Revolution.
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Chapter 7: Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815
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Q1) The debate over the national bank was the first to raise the question of "necessary and proper" laws and actions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans favored
A)promoting the revolutionary concepts of limited government.
B)establishing stronger ties with England instead of France.
C)the economic interests of merchants, bankers, and businessmen.
D)expanding the power of the national government.
E)a national government with no executive leader.
Q3) Fourteen Republicans were prosecuted for violating the ____________________.
Q4) Which of the following is true concerning the Alien and Sedition Acts?
A)Many states joined Kentucky and Virginia in opposing them.
B)The Sedition Act led to the prosecution of fourteen Federalists.
C)They were passed by Congress at the instigation of John Adams.
D)President Adams never used the powers granted under the Alien Act.
E)none of these choices.
Q5) New England had the highest number of War Hawks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850
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Q1) The status of artisans remained high and did not change.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The first successful American steamboat, Clermont, was built by ____________________.
Q3) ____________________ made secret drawings of British textile factory machines during an 1811 visit and then duplicated the machines in America.
Q4) State governments took a more or less "laissez-faire" approach to the building of canals in the early nineteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q5) By making a run from New Orleans to Louisville, the steamboat ____________________ demonstrated that two-way river trade was possible.
Q6) The building of the Erie Canal raised the cost of transporting western wheat in the early nineteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q7) In 1790, all of the largest American cities were ____________________.
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Chapter 9: The Old South, 1790-1850
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Q1) The largest cities were in the North.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In slave Christianity the "liberator' was ____________________.
Q3) The plantation economy of the South resulted in an unequal distribution of wealth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Hammond Quarterly was the principal southern business journal.
A)True
B)False
Q5) By 1834, the cotton belt produced more than ____ of the cotton in the United States.
A)30 percent.
B)40 percent.
C)50 percent.
D)70 percent.
E)90 percent.
Q6) Nat Turner's Rebellion killed ____________________ people.
Q7) How did the short-staple cotton alter the South?
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Chapter 10: Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850
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Q1) The Shakespeare play that was a favorite of working-class audiences was
Q2) Slaveholders were expelled from their churches for mistreating their slaves.
A)True
B)False
Q3) White southerners in the deep south did not discuss emancipation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In regards to slavery, in the late eighteenth century evangelical preachers
A)encouraged its expansion.
B)called for the removal of slaves from the United States.
C)called for the freeing of slaves.
D)generally avoided the subject.
E)justified it through Scripture.
Q5) Millerites were a religious group that believed the world would end in the year following March 1843.
A)True B)False
Q6) ____________________ ran New York City's Sportsman Hall, a saloon that became a frequent venue for blood sports.
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Chapter 11: Whigs and Democrats, 1815-1840
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Q1) The Panic of 1819 had no impact on Philadelphia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The first presidential election in which national, not sectional, alignments determined the outcome was the election of 1840.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jacksonian democracy can best be understood as the inheritance of the old Hamiltonian emphasis on federal power.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Andrew Jackson believed that the republic was safe only when governed by the will of the majority.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________________, vice presidential candidate in 1840, had joined the Whig Party because of his opposition to Jackson.
Q6) The man who ran for President on the Log Cabin campaign was ____________________.
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860
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Q1) An organization that blamed prostitution on the brutality of men and sought to reform prostitutes was the ____________________ Society.
Q2) Whigs first sought to curb alcohol consumption by focusing on the licenses that permitted retailers and taverns to sell liquor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The leader of the slave uprising in Saint-Domingue that led to that nation's independence in 1804 was
A)Toussaint L'Ouverture.
B)Gabriel.
C)Denmark Vesey.
D)Simon Bolivar.
E)Stono
Q4) Horace Mann was most interested in the establishment of ____________________.
Q5) Most Democrats in the period from 1820 to 1840 were suspicious of any type of paper currency.
A)True
B)False
Q6) America's "national drink" was ____________________.
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Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or
Slavery 1845-1860
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Q1) The Mexican commander who granted Texas independence from Mexico was
A)Santa Anna.
B)Narciso Lopez.
C)William Walker.
D)General Huerta.
E)General Lopez.
Q2) Describe the western movement of the 1830s and 1840s. What were the experiences of men and women in this movement?
Q3) The Liberty Party supported the Wilmot Proviso.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ____________________ framed the national debate over slavery for 15 years.
Q5) President Polk's compromise with the British on the Oregon Treaty
A)united the Democratic Party.
B)angered Southern Democrats.
C)angered Democrats from the Old Northwest.
D)alienated Whigs.
E)started war with Mexico.
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860
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Q1) In the presidential election of 1856, some southerners threatened to secede if _____________________ won.
Q2) The final act that destroyed the Whigs as a national political party was the
A)passage of the Missouri Compromise.
B)passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
C)passage of the Compromise of 1850.
D)passage of the Lecompton Constitution.
E)the Fugitive Slave Act.
Q3) The end of the ____________________ War in Europe caused a decline in grain exports contributing to the onset of the Panic of 1857.
Q4) ____________________ was the North Carolinian who wrote The Impending Crisis of the South.
Q5) Members of the Know-Nothing Party were all of the following except
A)American-born Protestants.
B)middle-aged and elderly professional men.
C)supporters of the temperance movement.
D)advocates of legislation increasing the naturalization period.
E)pledged to maintain secrecy about their order.
Q6) ____________________ caned Charles Sumner.
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Chapter 15: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862
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Q1) The Confederacy reaped great profits from the sale of the 1861 cotton crop.
A)True
B)False
Q2) On the issue of secession, most Northerners agreed that
A)the union was a voluntary association and therefore could be dissolved.
B)the Southern states were an economic drain on the nation and so the North would actually profit from secession.
C)secession was unconstitutional, treasonable, and impossible.
D)the issue should be decided by the Supreme Court, not by the president.
E)the issue should be decided by a nationwide referendum.
Q3) Constitutional Union Party presidential candidate John Bell had no chance of winning the election of 1860.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ____________________ was a series of five proposed constitutional amendments that would have protected slavery in the states and in the territories south of 36° 30'.
Q5) Examine the various attempts on the part of the Union and the Confederacy to finance their war efforts.
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Chapter 16: A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865
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Q1) Northern Democrats supported enlisting black troops to serve in the Union army. A)True
B)False
Q2) The Thirteenth Amendment
A)gave citizenship to freed slaves.
B)ended slavery.
C)took the vote away from Confederate officials.
D)outlawed segregation.
E)gave women the vote.
Q3) Lincoln's preliminary emancipation proclamation came as a total surprise. A)True B)False
Q4) An order issued by a judge to law enforcement officers requiring them to bring an arrested person before the court to be charged with a crime is called a writ of ____________________.
Q5) Lincoln believed that issuing an emancipation proclamation was a military necessity.
A)True B)False
Q6) The New York draft riots were led mostly by ____________________.
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Chapter 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) Disputed election returns in the 1876 presidential election came from Louisiana, South Carolina, and ____________________.
Q2) The Compromise of 1877 signified
A)a renewal of federal support for the civil rights of all Americans.
B)the end of Reconstruction.
C)the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
D)the decline of Democratic Party control of Congress.
E)the end of the spoils system.
Q3) White southerners who joined the Republican Party were called ____________________.
Q4) The congressional acts that divided the former Confederate states (except Tennessee) into five military districts, enfranchised black men, disenfranchised some Confederates, and called for new constitutional conventions were the ______________________________.
Q5) The Wade-Davis Bill granted the franchise to black Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The removal of ____________________ from the post of secretary of war triggered the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
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Chapter 18: A Transformed Nation: the West and the New
South, 1865-1900
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Q1) Eastern Americans were introduced to the myths of the West as they were entertained by ____________________ show.
Q2) Plains Indian culture was based on the ____________________.
Q3) Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, and leading advocate for the New South was ____________________.
Q4) Miller and Lux only hired Chinese laborers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) By 1890, the Sioux and other reservation Indians
A)were rapidly adapting to a capitalist, agrarian lifestyle.
B)had achieved full U.S. citizenship and equal rights.
C)were reduced to lives of poverty, depression, and alcoholism.
D)were profiting from the discovery of oil on their ancestral lands.
E)were working in large numbers for the mining industry.
Q6) The McKinley Tariff of 1890
A)established the first income tax.
B)had a reform measure that reduced the price of American manufactured products.
C)was vetoed by President Benjamin Harrison.
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D)was responsible for the decisive Republican victory in the election of 1892.
E)had a protective tax that raised import duties to an average of 50 percent.
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Chapter 19: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
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Q1) Examine the role of the railroads in stimulating economic growth, arousing public hostility, and necessitating federal regulation of the industry.
Q2) The financier who triggered a crash of the New York Stock Exchange that, in turn, sparked the Panic of 1873 was
A)J.P. Morgan.
B)John D. Rockefeller.
C)Jay Cooke.
D)Henry George.
E)Edward Bellamy.
Q3) The Knights of Labor were unusual in admitting unskilled workers, women, and blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court ruling was a victory for the A)Industrial Workers of the World.
B)all labor unions.
C)bakery employees.
D)anti-union interests.
E)Samuel Gompers.
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Chapter 20: Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920
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Q1) The nation's racial climate was worsening.
A)True
B)False
Q2) This time period saw a great deal of government corruption and organized crime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Coney Island offered commercial amusements in a setting in which social mores were decidedly loosened.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The "old" and "new" immigrants had nothing in common.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The quintessential force in late-nineteenth-century city government was
A)city hall.
B)the political machine.
C)the political party.
D)the mayor.
E)the wealthy private citizen.
Q6) ____________________ was income politicians made outside of their salaries.
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Chapter 21: Progressivism, 1900-1917
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Q1) Which state was the first to grant women the right to vote?
A)Wyoming
B)Utah
C)Colorado
D)Massachusetts
E)New York
Q2) A race riot in ____________________ caused some progressive whites to join the Niagara movement to form the NAACP.
Q3) The Progressive Era is known not only for the political reform achieved at all different levels of government but also for the numerous social movements that emerged in the early twentieth century. For many Americans, participating in these social movements was their initial experience in political activism. Choose three of these movements and describe them. Discuss how they were consistent with larger Progressive ideologies and where they differed.
Q4) Women first began voting in the north.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The charismatic speaker and leader of American socialists was
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Chapter 22: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q1) In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the mechanism used to control
A)Hawaii.
B)the Philippines.
C)Cuba.
D)Guam
E)Puerto Rico.
Q2) Which of the following did Alfred Mahan emphasize?
A)marine core
B)large army
C)coast guard
D)strong navy
E)air force
Q3) The Spanish military leader in Cuba was General ____________________.
Q4) William McKinley ordered the Maine into Havana's harbor in order to
A)protect U.S. citizens in Cuba.
B)threaten the Spanish.
C)threaten the Cubans.
D)start a war.
E)bring refugees to the U.S.
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Q1) Woodrow Wilson's hopes for a negotiated settlement with Germany were dashed by
A)the sinking of the Lusitania.
B)revelation of the Zimmermann telegram.
C)German violations of the Sussex pledge.
D)the failure of the House-Grey memorandum.
E)the Republican victories in the congressional elections.
Q2) The organization founded by Marcus Garvey that called for black nationalism was the "Universal ______________________________."
Q3) Both the English and the Germans violated American neutral rights during World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During World War I, "IQ" (intelligence quotient) tests
A)proved to be a valuable tool in determining appropriate assignments for recruits.
B)conclusively disproved traditional racial stereotypes.
C)concluded (inaccurately) that most American soldiers were feeble-minded.
D)were used to prove the inferiority of enemy soldiers.
E)were administered only to officers.
Q5) Discuss the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. Why was it significant?
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Chapter 24: The 1920s
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Q1) The book that portrayed Jesus as the consummate business executive was titled
Q2) The number of female college students increased by 50 percent during the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Nonpartisan League of North Dakota
A)sought to end Prohibition.
B)crusaded for Protestant fundamentalist values.
C)drew attention to the agricultural crisis.
D)advocated immigration restrictions.
E)supported the Ku Klux Klan.
Q4) ____________________ was the greatest black baseball player.
Q5) Which of these people avidly countered the growing belief among intellectuals in the 1920s that democracy was obsolete?
A)Walter Lippman
B)Herbert Hoover
C)Alice Paul
D)John Dewey
E)H.L. Mencken
Q6) ____________________ presided over the Ku Klux Klan's growth during the 1920s.
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930
A)lowered U.S. tariff rates to provide markets for European goods.
B)raised tariff rates and contributed positively to economic recovery worldwide.
C)encouraged European nations to lower their tariff rates to enable U.S. companies to sell their goods abroad.
D)did not pass.
E)raised U.S. tariff rates, causing European nations to raise their rates and thus weaken international trade.
Q2) From 1929 to 1932, industrial production fell by
A)10 percent.
B)25 percent.
C)50 percent.
D)75 percent.
E)90 percent.
Q3) The New Deal restored prosperity to America.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the demands of labor during the 1930s.
Q5) Describe FDR's "First Hundred Days."
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Chapter 26: America During the Second World War, 1939-1945
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Q1) During World War II, U.S. refugee policy
A)increased the number of Jews who were admitted to the country.
B)increased the number of Germans who were admitted to the country.
C)did not increase its immigration quota to admit 20,000 Jewish children into the U.S..
D)allowed Jewish children, but not adults, to enter the country as refugees.
E)allowed Japanese refugees to enter the country.
Q2) ____________________ of Japanese American detainees were native-born U.S. citizens.
Q3) The America First Committee
A)opposed U. S. involvement in the war in Europe.
B)supported President Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies.
C)opposed Communist expansion in Asia.
D)opposed Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union.
E)opposed efforts to expand international trade.
Q4) In August 1945, President Harry Truman made the most controversial decision of the war; he chose to use atomic weapons against Japan. Discuss the motives and goals that prompted Truman to usher in the nuclear age.
Q5) Describe the situation of American Indians during World War II.
Q6) In October 1935, Italy took over ____________________.
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Chapter 27: The Age of Containment, 1946-1953
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Q1) Democrats in Congress considered President Truman's anticommunism efforts as being
A)too strong.
B)too limited.
C)a violation of civil liberties.
D)just what the nation needed.
E)Constitution. too focused on Europe.
Q2) The term "containment" first appeared in an article published in ____________________.
Q3) In the election of 1948, Harry Truman was helped by voters loyal to the memory of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the campaign of 1952, General Eisenhower was perceived as a far right candidate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Ohio Senator Robert Taft was the leading supporter of NATO.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 28: America at Midcentury, 1953-1963
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Q1) The key political spokesperson for the new conservatism was
A)Barry Goldwater.
B)Richard Nixon.
C)John F. Kennedy.
D)Richard Dulles.
E)Robert McNamara.
Q2) The AFL and the CIO merged in 1955.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Eisenhower administration rejected the idea of covert CIA activities to remove or assassinate leftist political leaders in the Third World.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During the 1950s and Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the
A)United States rejected its former role as protector of the free world.
B)United States economy fell into a prolonged economic recession.
C)United States experienced a period of economic growth and affluence.
D)domestic programs of the Roosevelt and Truman eras were completely eliminated.
E)Bay of Pigs invasion failed.
Q5) Examine the beginnings of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from 1954 to 1960.
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Chapter 29: America During a Divisive War, 1963-1974
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Q1) The Great Society was never controversial.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "Great Society" usually is associated with the presidency of John F. Kennedy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By 1971, unemployment topped ____________________ percent.
Q4) One of Johnson's Great Society initiatives, the Head Start program was designed to
A)stimulate new construction in poor urban areas.
B)provide job skills training.
C)offer voter registration services to black voters.
D)provide help for children who are educationally unprepared for kindergarten.
E)offer food assistance to poor neighborhoods.
Q5) ____________________ headed the South Vietnamese government when U.S. troops pulled out.
Q6) In 1968, the ____________________, a coordinated attack on South Vietnam by National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese troops, shocked and confused the United States.
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Chapter 30: Uncertain Times, 1974-1992
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Q1) Ronald Reagan was the first movie star to be president.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In response to the Khmer Rouge seizure of the U.S. ship Mayaguez, Gerald Ford
A)appealed to the United Nations for help in freeing the ship and crew.
B)apologized for the ship's accidental intrusion into Cambodian waters.
C)refused to negotiate with the Cambodians.
D)took no direct action and let events play themselves out.
E)ordered a rescue mission and a bombing attack.
Q3) Compare and contrast the domestic policies of the Carter and Reagan administrations.
Q4) When he ran for president in 1976, Jimmy Carter asked voters, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
A)True
B)False
Q5) During his second year in office, Jimmy Carter extended amnesty to those who had resisted the draft during the Vietnam War.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 31: Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the
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Q2) All of the following statements regarding labor unions are true except
A)most union growth came from health and government workers.
B)by the early 21st century, union membership had declined to around 3 percent.
C)corporations were able to fight off unionization in the 1950s and 1960s with generous benefits packages to workers.
D)the labor movement struggled to recruit hotel, clerical and restaurant workers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
E)in the 1950s union membership averaged 30 percent.
Q3) The religious landscape of the United States
A)became almost nonexistent as most Americans do not believe in a higher power.
B)lacked diversity.
C)saw a swing back toward conservative Christianity.
D)became increasingly streamlined.
E)was more diverse than it had ever been before.
Q4) The songs on music CDs tend to focus on a single theme.
A)True
B)False
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A)impeach President Barack Obama.
B)oust any incumbent Republicans who supported Obama's initiatives.
C)support health care reform.
D)overturn the TARP assistance to companies facing bankruptcy.
E)resolve the economic crisis by supporting government spending on infrastructure improvements.
Q2) Anti-immigration groups sought all of the following except A)new legislative restrictions.
B)tighter border control.
C)harsh penalties for companies that employed undocumented workers.
D)turning people away who try to enter the U.S. illegally.
E)a ban on immigration from Mexico, the biggest source of illegal immigrants.
Q3) One area in which Democrats seemed disappointed in Barack Obama involved
A)his position on gay marriage.
B)his healthcare programs.
C)his retention of former Bush appointees and position on the war.
D)his use of social networking and technology.
E)all of these choices
Q4) Barack Obama's campaign slogan was Hope and ____________________.
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