United States History II
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United States History II explores the development of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present day. This course examines major political, social, economic, and cultural changes that shaped modern America, including Reconstruction, industrialization, immigration, the World Wars, the Great Depression, civil rights movements, and contemporary developments. Students will analyze key events, individuals, and ideas that contributed to the nations growth, considering both historical continuity and change. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, interpretation of primary and secondary sources, and understanding how past events influence current American society.
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The American Pageant 15th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Q1) ____ South America
Answer: 1
Q2) The early voyages of the Scandinavian seafarers did not result in permanent settlement in North America because
A) the Native Americans drove them out.
B) the area in which they landed could not support a large population.
C) no nation-state supported these ventures.
D) British adventurers defeated the Scandinavians in 1066.
E) the settlers died of disease.
Answer: C
Q3) Before the arrival of Europeans,most native peoples in North America
A) lived in large communities.
B) were more advanced than those in South America.
C) lived in small, scattered, and impermanent settlements.
D) populated the greater part of the continent.
E) relied on horses for transportation.
Answer: C
Q4) ____ Spain
Answer: 6
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Q1) Identify the statement that is false.
A) England took little interest in establishing its own overseas colonies in the first half of the 16th century.
B) English society was disrupted by religious conflict when King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s.
C) The Protestant Reformation resulted in years of a seesaw of the balance of power between Catholics and Protestants throughout England.
D) Spain and England were long-time and bitter enemies in the first half of the 16th century.
E) When Elizabeth ascended to the English throne in 1558, the rivalry with Spain intensified.
Answer: D
Q2) ____ Chesapeake Bay
Answer: 9
Q3) ____ Jamestown
Answer: 10
Q4) ____ Savannah
Answer: 14
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) ____ Delaware Bay
Answer: 8
Q2) As a result of England's Glorious Revolution
A) the Dominion of the New World collapsed.
B) Sir Edmund Andros gained control over Massachusetts.
C) Massachusetts regained its original charter.
D) opposition to English rule in the colonies subsided.
E) James II regained his legitimate right to the crown.
Answer: A
Q3) ____ Rhode Island
Answer: 7
Q4) Puritan religious beliefs allowed all of the following except A) drinking alcohol.
B) eating plentifully.
C) challenging religious authority.
D) making love discreetly.
E) singing songs.
Answer: C
Q5) ____ New York City
Answer: 6
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) Compared with indentured servants,African American slaves were
A) less reliable workers.
B) more likely to rebel.
C) cheaper to buy and own.
D) a more easily controlled labor force.
E) less expensive to buy but more expensive to keep.
Q2) African American contributions to American culture include all of the following except
A) jazz music.
B) the banjo.
C) the piano.
D) a variety of words.
E) bongo drums.
Q3) The New England economy depended heavily on
A) slave labor.
B) the production of many staple crops.
C) fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce.
D) tobacco.
E) rice production.
Q4) jeremiads
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Q1) By the end of the 1700s,what was the percentage of people living in rural areas of colonial America?
A) 25 percent
B) 40 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 75 percent
E) 90 percent
Q2) Identify the statement that is false.
A) In 1700, the Atlantic seaboard colonies contained fewer than 300,000 inhabitants.
B) In 1700, only about 20,000 inhabitants were blacks.
C) By 1775, the Atlantic seaboard colonies contained almost 2.5 million inhabitants.
D) By 1775, the black population rose to over 1 million.
E) White immigrants in 1775 made up about 400,000 of the inhabitants.
Q3) Paxton Boys
Q4) What were the short-term and long-term consequences of the American colonists seeking foreign markets for their exports?
Q5) Congregational Church
Q6) Great Awakening
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Q1) Huguenots
Q2) In his first military command in the French and Indian War,George Washington
A) won a decisive and hard-fought battle at Fort Duquesne.
B) was defeated at Fort Necessity but was allowed to retreat.
C) received strong support from the British.
D) helped to force the French out of Nova Scotia.
E) turned his twenty years of military experience to great success.
Q3) 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.
Q4) The disunity that existed in the colonies before the Seven Years' War can be attributed to all of the following except
A) the enormous distances between the colonies.
B) geographical barriers like rivers.
C) conflicting religions.
D) varied nationalities.
E) contempt for the British government.
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) Battle of Lexington and Concord
Q2) Lord North
Q3) The radical whigs feared
A) too much democracy.
B) a written constitution.
C) the arbitrary power of the monarchy.
D) a too powerful parliament.
E) republicanism.
Q4) Sugar Act
Q5) The first law ever passed by Parliament for raising tax revenues in the colonies for the crown was the
A) Stamp Act.
B) Declaratory Act.
C) Townshend Acts.
D) Quartering Act.
E) Sugar Act.
Q6) Quartering Act
Q7) Boston Massacre
Q8) Quebec Act
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Q1) Patriots responded to Paine's vision of an ultra democratic republic in all of the following ways except
A) some enthusiastically embraced this as the ideal form of government.
B) some favored a republic ruled by a "natural aristocracy" of talented elites.
C) some feared the fervor for liberty would overwhelm the stability of the social order.
D) some wanted to see only the lower orders of farmers and workers as the base of political power
E) some worried that a republic would have a radical leveling effect on the social classes.
Q2) Which individual privately advocated equality for women?
A) Betsy Ross
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Martha Washington
D) Benjamin Franklin
E) Abigail Adams
Q3) John Jay
Q4) Declaration of Independence
Q5) Patriots/Whigs
Q6) Battle of Saratoga
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) Major goals of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention included A) careful revision of each article of the Articles of Confederation.
B) preservation of the Union.
C) creation of a stronger national government.
D) restricting democracy in several states.
E) outlawing slavery.
Q2) Motives of the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia include all of the following except to A) preserve the union.
B) forestall anarchy.
C) ensure the security of life and property.
D) curb unrestrained democracy.
E) increase individual freedom.
Q3) Shays's Rebellion
Q4) Electoral College
Q5) "Great Compromise"
Q6) Thomas Jefferson
Q7) constitutional convention
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Q1) In the election campaign of 1796,the Democratic-Republicans made their primary issue
A) the content of Washington's Farewell Address.
B) Washington's refusal to consult Congress before issuing the Neutrality Proclamation.
C) the terms of Jay's Treaty and the crushing of the Whiskey Rebellion.
D) the terms of the Pinckney Treaty.
E) Alexander Hamilton's idea for a national bank.
Q2) The Treaty of Greenville signed in August with the Miami Confederation resulted in all of the following except
A) giving to the United States vast tracts of land in the Old Northwest.
B) the Indians receiving a $20,000 lump sum payment.
C) an annual annuity of $9,000 to the Indians.
D) the right of the Indians to hunt the land they had ceded.
E) the establishment of an equal relationship with the Indians.
Q3) Write your definition of democracy.Then use this definition to argue that Jefferson or Hamilton was the better spokesperson for democratic government in the 1790s.
Q4) List the provisions of Jay's Treaty.Which were most unsatisfactory to American interests? Why?
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Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) Samuel Chase
Q2) Assess the Jeffersonian presidency.What do you think were his three most important legacies? Explain your choices.
Q3) Embargo Act of 1807
Q4) mosquito fleet
Q5) John Marshall
Q6) To deal with British and French violations of America's neutrality,Thomas Jefferson
A) declared war on Britain.
B) enacted an economic embargo.
C) declared war on France.
D) did nothing.
E) sought trade relations with Spain and Holland.
Q7) three-fifths clause
Q8) Louisiana Purchase Treaty
Q9) List at least three key principles of government advanced by Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican party before 1800.Describe how these ideals fared during Jefferson's administration.Were they translated into public policy? Explain how or,if not,why not.
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) Treaty of Ghent
Q2) In interpreting the Constitution,John Marshall
A) favored loose construction.
B) supported strict construction.
C) supported an unchanging document.
D) advocated state control of interstate commerce.
E) set few precedents.
Q3) America's postwar nationalism manifested itself in the A) rechartering of a national bank.
B) literary themes of James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving.
C) financial Panic of 1819.
D) Missouri Compromise debates.
E) explorations of Lewis and Clark.
Q4) Describe the ways in which nationalism exhibited itself in the American republic following the War of 1812?
Q5) Washington Irving
Q6) Gibbons v.Ogden
Q7) Battle of Horseshoe Bend
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Dartmouth College v.Woodward
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) "Revolution of 1828"
Q2) Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because
A) the Indians assimilated too easily into white society.
B) the Supreme Court ruled in favor of this policy.
C) whites wanted the Indians' lands.
D) Georgia and Florida tried to protect the Indians and their lands.
E) they continued their attacks on white settlements.
Q3) Compare and contrast John C.Calhoun's position with regard to protective tariffs in 1816 with that of his position in 1828.
Q4) Andrew Jackson's Democratic political philosophy was based on his A) support of a strong central government.
B) advocacy of the American System.
C) suspicion of the federal government.
D) opposition to the old antifederalist ideals.
E) conviction of the need for "the best and the brightest" in government.
Q5) speculation
Q6) National Republicans
Q7) Santa Anna
Q8) Stephen Austin
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Q1) Irish immigrants typically worked in all of the following occupations except A) domestic servants.
B) construction workers.
C) day laborers.
D) silversmiths.
E) saloon owners.
Q2) Most early railroads in the United States were built in the A) North.
B) Old South.
C) lower Mississippi Valley.
D) Far West.
E) Appalachian Mountains.
Q3) All of the following are true statements about German immigrants except A) they typically settled in Northeast coastal cities.
B) they tended to be better educated than mainstream Americans.
C) they supported public schools, the arts, and music.
D) they championed freedom and fought to end slavery.
E) they settled in compact colonies to preserve their language and culture.
Q4) ____ Lake Ontario
Q5) sewing machine
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) Unitarians endorsed the concept of
A) the deity of Christ.
B) original sin.
C) free will and salvation through good works.
D) predestination.
E) the Bible as the norm of doctrine.
Q2) American transcendentalist writers included
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B) Henry David Thoreau.
C) James Fenimore Cooper.
D) Angelina Grimke.
E) Margaret Fuller.
Q3) Joseph Smith
Q4) 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
Q5) Phineas T.Barnum
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as A) supporting their right to full citizenship.
B) disliking the race but liking individual blacks.
C) advocating black movement into the new territories.
D) politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.
E) disliking the individuals but liking the race.
Q2) The South's "positive good" argument for slavery claimed that
A) slavery was supported by the authority of both the Bible and the Constitution.
B) slavery was good for the barbarous Africans because enslavement introduced them to Christianity.
C) slaves benefited from receiving education and job training.
D) slaves were usually treated as members of the family.
E) slaves were better off than most northern wage earners.
Q3) Denmark Vesey
Q4) Lane rebels
Q5) Frederick Douglass
Q6) To what extent were abolitionists extremists when they undertook to abolish slavery?
Q7) mulatto population
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) David Wilmot
Q2) Assess the validity of the following statement,"The Mexican War was a major cause of the American Civil War."
Q3) One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation
A) could involve the country in a series of ruinous wars in America and Europe.
B) might give more power to the supporters of slavery.
C) was not supported by the people of Texas.
D) offered little political or economic value to America.
E) would lead to tensions and possible war with the British.
Q4) The Wilmot Proviso,introduced into Congress during the Mexican War,declared that
A) Mexican territory would not be annexed to the United States.
B) slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States.
C) the United States should annex all of Mexico.
D) the United States should have to pay Mexico a financial indemnity for having provoked the war.
E) slavery in the territories would be determined by popular sovereignty.
Q5) Tariff of 1842
Q6) Fiscal Bank
Q7) Maine
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) Franklin Pierce
Q2) ____ Washington,D.C.
Q3) William H.Seward
Q4) By 1850,the South was losing perhaps ____ runaways a year out of its total of some 4 million slaves.
A) 200
B) 500
C) 800
D) 1,000
E) 2,000
Q5) The Underground Railroad consisted of
A) an informal network of homes where slaves could hide on their escape to freedom.
B) a train that hid slaves in cargo areas and carried them to freedom in the north.
C) a vehicle for capturing and returning runaway slaves back to the south.
D) a radical new transportation design.
E) None of these
Q6) Compare and contrast the views of Clay,Webster,and Calhoun in the congressional debate that produced the Compromise of 1850.
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) Before his nomination in 1860,Abraham Lincoln had been
A) a Jacksonian Democrat.
B) a state legislator in Illinois.
C) a United States congressman from Illinois.
D) the vice-presidential candidate of the Republican party in 1856.
E) a failed candidate for the United States Senate.
Q2) Nativists in the 1850s were known for their
A) support of Native Americans (Indians).
B) support of slavery.
C) opposition to old-stock Protestants.
D) anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes.
E) opposition to alcohol and Sabbath-breaking.
Q3) The proposed Crittenden Compromise,if adopted,would have
A) prohibited slavery north of 36 30'.
B) guaranteed federal protection of slavery in territories south of 36 30'.
C) annexed Cuba as a slave territory of the United States.
D) repealed the Fugitive Slave Law.
E) permitted the expansion of slavery into new territories south of 36 30'.
Q4) Freeport Doctrine
Q5) Charles Sumner
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q1) Draft Riots
Q2) During the Civil War
A) relations between the Union and Canada were at times very poor.
B) Southerners were unable to use Canada as a base from which to attack the Union.
C) the Union and Canada became very close allies.
D) France made an effort to regain control of Canada.
E) the British army in Canada mobilized for intervention.
Q3) Border slave states that remained loyal to the Union included
A) Kentucky.
B) Missouri.
C) Tennessee.
D) Maryland.
E) Delaware.
Q4) Northern soldiers eventually became known for their
A) discipline and determination.
B) cowardice in battle.
C) lack of proper training.
D) high-pitched battle yell.
E) love of military pomp and hierarchy.
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) The Confederacy enlisted slaves into their army
A) a month before the war ended.
B) at the beginning of the war.
C) as a response to the Emancipation Proclamation.
D) to help in the attack on Gettysburg.
E) in recognition that the idea of slavery was wrong.
Q2) Assess the validity of the following statement,"The Emancipation Proclamation was a proclamation without emancipation."
Q3) Peninsula Campaign
Q4) Assess the validity of the following statement,"The removal of Lincoln [as president in 1864] was the last real hope for a Confederate victory."
Q5) The Civil War has also been called the "War Between the States" and the "War for Southern Independence." Which of the three titles do you find most apt? Why?
Q6) Thirteenth Amendment
Q7) Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War
Q8) George Pickett
Q9) George B.McClellan
Q10) Battle of Chancellorsville
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Q1) The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was
A) passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
B) the creation of the sharecropping system.
C) the attempt to pass the Fourteenth Amendment.
D) the South's regaining control of the Senate.
E) Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau.
Q2) The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated
A) the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress.
B) the close ties that were developing between President Lincoln and the Democrats.
C) President Lincoln's desire for a harsh reconstruction plan.
D) that a Congressional majority believed that the South had never legally left the Union.
E) the Republicans' fear of re-admitting Confederate leaders to Congress.
Q3) scalawags
Q4) It has been wryly observed that "the North won the Civil War,but the South won Reconstruction." Interpret this statement and assess its truth.
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q1) The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
A) who would be Speaker of the House.
B) the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
C) Samuel Tilden's association with corrupt politicians.
D) President Grant's campaign for a third term.
E) failure to use the secret Australian ballot in some places.
Q2) Greenback Labor party
Q3) "Boss" Tweed
Q4) Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader
A) Tom Watson.
B) William Jennings Bryan.
C) William McKinley.
D) J. Pierpont Morgan.
E) Adlai E. Stevenson.
Q5) Samuel Tilden
Q6) James B.Weaver
Q7) Winfield Scott Hancock
Q8) Chester A.Arthur
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) The Knights of Labor believed that republican traditions and institutions could be preserved from corrupt monopolies
A) when American workers achieved a greater degree of class consciousness.
B) by strengthening the economic and political independence of the workers.
C) through the destruction of the American Federation of Labor.
D) by the development of strong craft unions.
E) by forming an independent political movement.
Q2) Write your definition of the gospel of wealth.Do you agree with its assumptions? Why or why not?
Q3) Efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporations first came in the form of action by
A) Congress.
B) the Supreme Court.
C) private lawsuits charging unfair competition.
D) President Cleveland.
E) state legislatures.
Q4) interlocking directorate
Q5) Richard Olney
Q6) standard time zones
Q7) Great Northern Railroad
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Q1) Leading pastimes of late-nineteenth-century Americans included
A) bicycling.
B) watching football.
C) watching baseball.
D) the circus.
E) vaudeville.
Q2) yellow journalism
Q3) The Origin of Species
Q4) The growing prohibition movement especially reflected the concerns of A) the new immigrants.
B) big business.
C) the poor and working classes.
D) middle class women.
E) industrial labor unions.
Q5) Horatio Alger
Q6) Carrie Chapman Catt
Q7) dumbbell tenement
Q8) Edward Bellamy
Q9) James Naismith
Q10) "City Beautiful" movement Page 31
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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural
Revolution,1865-1896
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Q1) Western cities like Denver and San Francisco did serve as a major safety valve by providing
A) a home for new immigrants.
B) recreational activities for its inhabitants.
C) a home for economically struggling farmers, miners, and easterners.
D) None of these
E) All of these
Q2) Which one of the following was least sympathetic to workers and farmers hard-pressed by the Depression of 1893?
A) John P. Altgeld
B) Richard Olney
C) Eugene V. Debs
D) Jacob Coxey
E) William Jennings Bryan
Q3) Write your definition of radical.Then use this definition to argue that the farmers' response to their problems in the 1880s and 1890s was or was not radical.
Q4) "Gold Bugs"
Q5) Comstock Lode
Q6) William Hope Harvey
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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Q1) Theodore Roosevelt strongly encouraged the Panamanians to revolt against Colombia because
A) he thought they would not charge as much for a canal route as the Colombians.
B) he wanted to establish a permanent U.S. military base in the region.
C) Roosevelt was personal friends with the Panamanian engineer Bunau-Varilla.
D) he regarded the Colombians as racially inferior.
E) the Colombian senate had rejected the American offer to buy a canal route across Panama.
Q2) Theodore Roosevelt's aggressive policies,along with the economic and political instability in Central America and the Caribbean,frequently led to
A) growing demands for U.S. economic aid to the region.
B) the intervention of the U.S. marines in the region.
C) radical anti-American movements in Central American countries.
D) the intervention of Britain and Germany in Latin America affairs.
E) the growth of Central American immigration to the United States.
Q3) Mark Twain
Q4) What were the arguments of the pro-imperialists and the anti-imperialists in the debate over acquiring the Philippines? Which of the anti-imperialist arguments were most persuasive,and which proved not to hold up?
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Q2) The Elkins and Hepburn Acts were designed to
A) regulate municipal utilities and end private utility monopolies.
B) guarantee the purity of food and drugs.
C) provide federal protection for natural resources.
D) improve women's working conditions.
E) end corrupt and exploitative practices by the railroad trusts.
Q3) Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Q4) recall
Q5) In the early 1900s,critics of social injustice who contributed to the progressive movement included
A) socialists.
B) railroad owners.
C) Christians.
D) feminists.
E) journalists.
Q6) Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill
Q7) Northern Securities case
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q2) ____ Locate the neutral nation of Spain.
Q3) Charles Evans Hughes
Q4) In 1912,Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that included all of the following except a call for
A) antitrust legislation.
B) banking reform.
C) dollar diplomacy.
D) tariff reductions.
E) support for small business.
Q5) ____ Three nations associated as the Allies at the outbreak of World War I.
Q6) Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by German submarines?
A) Lusitania
B) Arabic
C) Sussex
D) All of these American ships were sunk.
E) None of these were American ships.
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Q7) ____ Three of the nations who became associated as the Central Powers during World War I.
Q8) Francisco Villa
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q2) Women's Bureau
Q3) The Zimmermann note involved a proposed secret agreement between A) Britain and France.
B) Russia and Germany.
C) Germany and Mexico.
D) Mexico and France.
E) Germany and Canada.
Q4) Republican isolationists successfully turned Warren Harding's 1920 presidential victory into a A) mandate for international arms reduction.
B) victory for idealism and social tolerance.
C) guarantee of U.S. military withdrawal from Latin America.
D) crusade against Bolshevik communism.
E) death sentence for the League of Nations.
Q5) Do you agree with the text authors that Wilson's high-minded appeal to turn World War I into a "crusade" for democracy and peace "worked perhaps too well"? Why or why not?
Q6) Eighteenth Amendment
Q7) Georges Clemenceau
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Q1) List at least five major economic and/or technological developments of the 1920s.Select the three most significant ones and explain your choices.
Q2) Businesspeople used the red scare to
A) establish closed shops throughout the nation.
B) break the backs of fledgling unions.
C) break the railroad strike of 1919.
D) secure passage of laws making unions illegal.
E) refuse to hire communists.
Q3) Frederick W.Taylor,a prominent inventor and engineer,was best known for his A) development of the gasoline engine.
B) thoughts on Darwinian evolution.
C) efforts to clean up polluted cities.
D) promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management.
E) concern for worker safety.
Q4) The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly against A) Canadians and West Indians.
B) northern and western Europeans.
C) Latin Americans.
D) Jews and Muslims.
E) southern and eastern Europeans and Japanese.
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932
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Q2) The great event that essentially crippled organized labor throughout the 1920s was
A) the Supreme Court's ruling against the union closed shop in the Adkins case.
B) the deportation of the most effective labor organizers to the Communist Soviet Union.
C) the split within the American labor movement between the American Federation of Labor and the Socialists.
D) the federal government's antilabor intervention that broke the 1919 steel strike.
E) repeal of the Clayton Act guaranteeing unions the right to organize.
Q3) Dawes Plan
Q4) In America,the Great Depression caused
A) people to blame the economic system, not themselves, for their problems.
B) a decade-long decline in the birthrate.
C) an increase of foreign investment because prices were so low.
D) a shift from Wall Street investment to investment in small, local businesses.
E) a growing acceptance by business of the need for federal regulation.
Q5) Charles Dawes
Q6) Bonus Army
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939
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Q1) Eleanor Roosevelt had honed her own skills and developed a personal network of reform activists through
A) running for local offices in New York state.
B) her experience in settlement houses and women's reform organizations.
C) her long resistance to Franklin Roosevelt's personal infidelities.
D) her personal association with women's colleges and sororities.
E) sitting in on Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet meetings when he was governor of New York.
Q2) John Maynard Keynes
Q3) Recently,some historians have argued that the New Deal had a more radical effect on men than women for all of the following reasons except
A) Social Security was designed to assist male breadwinners, who were expected to share benefits with their families.
B) married women were rarely favored for jobs in New Deal agencies.
C) programs maintained or reaffirmed women's traditional roles as wives or mothers.
D) programs tended to provide more opportunities to men than women.
E) women were recruited to run day care centers and light service sector positions.
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q2) London Economic Conference
Q3) By the mid-1930s,there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to
A) increase the size of the Supreme Court.
B) limit a president to two terms.
C) ban arm sales to foreign nations.
D) require the president to gain Congressional approval before sending U.S. troops overseas.
E) forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum.
Q4) In the 1940 presidential election campaign,both President Roosevelt and the Republican candidate,Wendell Willkie,agreed that the
A) United States should supply military aid to Britain and the Allies.
B) United States should actively find a way to enter the war.
C) United States should strengthen its defenses.
D) New Deal should be abandoned.
E) U.S. military should directly aid China.
Q5) Neutrality Acts
Q6) Charles Lindbergh
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Chapter 35: America in World War II,1941-1945
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A) Japanese living in the U.S.
B) Italians living in the U.S.
C) Germans living in the U.S.
D) All of these
E) None of these
Q2) Arrange these events in chronological order: (A)V-J Day,(B)V-E Day,(C)D Day,and (D)Invasion of Italy.
A) D, C, B, A
B) A, C, B, D
C) B, D, A, C
D) C, A, D, B
E) A, D, B, C
Q3) Douglas MacArthur
Q4) Summarize the grand strategy of the Big Three allies in World War II.What aspects of that strategy became controversial? Why?
Q5) flying "over the hump"
Q6) braceros
Q7) D-Day
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Q1) Why were so many Americans anxious about the economic future of the nation at the conclusion of World War II? Why did these fears prove groundless?
Q2) Benjamin Spock
Q3) The Marshall Plan succeeded in reviving Europe's economy and thwarting the large internal Communist parties threatening to take over
A) Italy and France.
B) West Germany and East Germany.
C) Britain and Ireland.
D) Spain and Italy.
E) Greece and Turkey.
Q4) Why did President Truman relieve General MacArthur of his command in Korea? Do you think that it was a wise decision? Why or why not?
Q5) 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.
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A) led to the advent of the "pink collar ghetto" of occupations.
B) created a dual role for women as homemakers and workers.
C) fueled a social revolution that raised questions about gender roles.
D) All of these
E) None of these
Q3) Richard Nixon
Q4) Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Q5) What made Eisenhower such a popular and successful president in the 1950s? How would you assess the relative importance of his personality,his policies,and the climate of the times?
Q6) Dien Bien Phu
Q7) Which of the following was not true of the changing nature of work in the 1950s?
A) Science and technology drove economic growth.
B) There were fewer jobs in the military-related aerospace industry.
C) White collar workers were surpassing blue collar workers in numbers.
D) Labor unions reached a peak and then began to decline.
E) Job opportunities were opening to women in the white collar work force.
Q8) The Feminine Mystique
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Q2) Barry Goldwater
Q3) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Q4) The consequences of the Cuban missile crisis included
A) a nuclear test-ban treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.
B) a Vienna summit meeting between President Kennedy and Chairman Khrushchev.
C) the installation of a Moscow-Washington hot line for crisis communication.
D) a massive military arms-building program in the Soviet Union.
E) the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
Q5) The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed
A) a long deadlock over the nomination of its presidential candidate.
B) a violent conflict between police and antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall.
C) a walkout by hundreds of southern delegates, who then founded the Independent party.
D) the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy soon after he delivered a speech at the convention.
E) the enthusiastic nomination of Vice President Humphrey.
Q6) Lyndon B.Johnson
Q7) Allen Ginsberg
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Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980
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Q1) What were the causes and consequences of the Iranian hostage crisis?
Q2) When the North Vietnamese launched a full-scale invasion of South Vietnam in 1975, A) the United States provided even more military aid to South Vietnam.
B) the Chinese intervened to seek a neutral settlement.
C) the United States renewed bombing against North Vietnam.
D) all the South Vietnamese who supported the United States were trapped inside the country.
E) the South Vietnamese government quickly collapsed.
Q3) energy crisis
Q4) The American armed forces in Vietnam were composed largely of A) marines.
B) African Americans.
C) soldiers in their middle and late twenties.
D) the least privileged young Americans.
E) professional career soldiers.
Q5) affirmative action
Q6) Phyllis Schlafly
Q7) George McGovern
Q8) My Lai massacre
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Q2) ____ Iran
Q3) Liberal Democrats complained that Jimmy Carter
A) had failed to control inflation.
B) negotiated the Panama Canal Treaty.
C) had not aggressively pursued civil rights.
D) failed to rescue the hostages in Iran.
E) had removed regulatory controls from major industries.
Q4) Ronald Reagan began to abandon his liberal New Deal political philosophy and to espouse a conservative,antigovernment line
A) after being elected governor of California.
B) during World War II.
C) when he discovered communist infiltration in Hollywood.
D) when he became a wealthy movie star.
E) when he became a spokesman for General Electric.
Q5) Boris Yeltsin
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Q2) To President George W.Bush,"the axis of evil" that menaced American security consisted of the nations of
A) France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
B) Russia, China, and Cuba.
C) Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
D) Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
E) Sudan, Egypt, and Libya.
Q3) Richard Cheney
Q4) ____ The Red Sea
Q5) Kyoto Treaty
Q6) The 2008 presidential election is significant because
A) it opened a new chapter in the nation's history of race relations.
B) it marked America's first African American president.
C) the new president's message of hope struck a chord during the worst recession in memory.
D) the new president's youthful energy proved inspiring in the midst of crisis.
E) All of these
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Q2) Frank McCourt
Q3) By the early twenty-first century,evidence of the growing numbers and influence of the Latino population in the U.S.could be seen in all of the following ways except
A) electing mayors of major cities such as Miami, Denver and San Antonio.
B) the United Farm Workers' success in improving working conditions for the mostly Chicano laborers.
C) more Hispanic restaurants and foods in supermarkets.
D) increasing Spanish-language television broadcasts.
E) more election ballots in Spanish.
Q4) Which of the following was not among the notable ethnic and African writers of the period since the 1980s?
A) Amy Tan
B) Toni Morrison
C) Joy Harjo
D) James Welch
E) Raymond Carver
Q5) "outsourcing"
Q6) Big Science
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