United States Social and Political History
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Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of the social and political evolution of the United States from its colonial origins to the present day. Emphasizing the interplay between diverse groups, movements, and institutions, students examine pivotal events such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, the rise of industrial society, and major reforms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics include the development of democracy, struggles for civil rights, the impact of immigration, and the transformation of political parties. Through analysis of primary sources and scholarly interpretations, the course encourages critical understanding of how social forces and political decisions have shaped the nations trajectory.
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The Unfinished Nation A Concise History of the American People 8th Edition by Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures Key
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Q1) Christopher Columbus spent his early seafaring years in the service of the Portuguese.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Many pre-Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by
A) the shared use of a series of forts.
B) the Iroquois Confederacy.
C) common linguistic roots.
D) economic compacts.
E) intertribal religious festivals.
Answer: C
Q3) The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the A) Maya.
B) Inca.
C) Aztecs.
D) Pueblo peoples.
E) Olmecs.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands Key
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Q1) During the early years,the survival and growth of the Plymouth colony
A) was due in large part to the assistance of the natives.
B) led the colonists to grow rich from the surrounding productive farmlands.
C) was critically important for trade routes with Jamestown to the south.
D) nevertheless saw two-thirds of its population die.
E) saw the colonists carry out warfare that wiped out much of the local Indian population.
Answer: A
Q2) Residents of Massachusetts generally had greater freedom of worship than the Puritans had had in England.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Virginia did not become a royal colony until the eve of the American Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America Key
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Q1) The British Navigation Acts were designed to protect England from foreign competition in the colonies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Colonial agriculture in the northern colonies was more diversified than in the southern colonies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) By 1700,English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in part because
A) landowners in the southern colonies became less capable of paying indentured servant wages.
B) of worsening economic conditions in England.
C) colonial parliaments passed laws improving the status of indentured servants.
D) the English government had come to discourage the practice of indenture.
E) of a declining birthrate in England.
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Key
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Q1) Taverns were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because
A) they become central meeting places to discuss ideas about resistance.
B) All these answers are correct.
C) they were the only public places where one could legally speak without fear of arrest.
D) colonists increasingly resented the heavy British duties on alcohol.
E) the tavern was one of the few places where men and women gathered together to speak.
Q2) Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by
A) reducing the geographic size of the colony.
B) repealing the Tea Act.
C) threatening to launch a war against the Massachusetts militia.
D) withdrawing its military protection of Massachusetts.
E) reducing the powers of self-government in Massachusetts.
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding the Coercive Acts is true?
A) Massachusetts became a martyr in the cause of resistance.
B) The acts were basically ignored by other colonial legislatures.
C) Colonial boycotts decreased.
D) Massachusetts became politically isolated from the other colonies.
E) The acts had little practical effect on the Massachusetts colony.
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution Key
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Q1) Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each side in fighting the Revolutionary War.
Q2) Compare the leading personalities on both sides in an explanation as to why the upstart United States was able to defeat England.
Q3) In composing the Declaration of Independence,Thomas Jefferson borrowed heavily from the political theories of Thomas Hobbes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As leaders of a tax rebellion the 1780s,Daniel Shays and his supporters demanded A) renewed trade agreements with England.
B) the nation's capital be moved to New England.
C) the right to vote for all white men, regardless of property holdings.
D) a moratorium on debt collection.
E) an end to paper currency.
Q5) What impact did the American Revolution have on the rights and status of women?
Q6) Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the structure of government as defined by the Articles of Confederation.
Q7) Why was pressure building for a new constitution during the second half of the 1780s?
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Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Key
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Q1) Who among the following was one of the authors of The Federalist Papers?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Samuel Adams
D) George Washington
E) George Mason
Q2) The Constitutional Convention of 1787 came close to
A) granting citizenship to slaves.
B) None of these answers is correct.
C) abolishing slavery.
D) abolishing slavery and granting citizenship to slaves.
E) granting suffrage for free black males.
Q3) The Judiciary Act of 1801
A) was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
B) was passed by the new Republican Congress.
C) increased the size of the Supreme Court by two seats.
D) was an attempt by Federalists to secure their hold on the courts.
E) resulted in the Federalists losing control of the judiciary.
Q4) Why was there such opposition to the proposed Constitution of 1787?
Q5) What steps did Hamilton take to strengthen the federal government?
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era Key
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Q1) By the end of Jefferson's presidency,the capital city of Washington rivaled New York and Philadelphia as a major American city.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The early nineteenth century in America is known as the "turnpike era" because
A) most towns and villages became connected by a network of inexpensive roads.
B) concrete was first developed as a long-life road surface.
C) many roads were built for profit by private companies.
D) the federal government provided free land to road construction companies.
E) Americans stopped transporting goods by canal in favor of roads.
Q3) The terms of the Louisiana Purchase were made without the prior approval of either the president or Congress.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the importance of Marbury v.Madison in the evolution of the federal government.
Q5) What were the decisions made and actions taken by Thomas Jefferson,during his administration,that most significantly changed the role of the presidency in American politics?
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Key
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Q1) What event prompted Spain to negotiate the sale of Florida to the United States?
A) the Panic of 1819
B) civil war in Spain
C) the Mexican war for independence against Spain
D) the Missouri Compromise
E) the Seminole War
Q2) Francis Cabot Lowell's contribution to American textile mills included
A) improving the power loom.
B) the invention of the cotton spindle.
C) dramatically expanding the textile industry in the South.
D) organizing his workers by task into a primitive assembly line.
E) improving the cotton gin.
Q3) ,the Marshall Court affirmed federal authority over
A) the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase.
B) all American Indian tribes.
C) both American Indian tribes and the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase.
D) individual states.
E) both individual states and all American Indian tribes.
Q4) What effect did the Missouri Compromise have on the sectional conflict in the United States? Why was it only a temporary solution to a growing conflict?
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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America Key
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Q1) The "age of Jackson" was less a triumph for the common man than conservatives feared.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Of the following groups,support for the Whigs was weakest among
A) substantial New England manufacturers.
B) evangelical Protestants.
C) wealthy southern planters.
D) aristocratic Americans.
E) small western farmers.
Q3) William Henry Harrison
A) was a Republican.
B) died before he took office.
C) was a renowned soldier and popular national figure.
D) was, in 1840, the youngest man to win the presidency.
E) was a simple frontiersman with little money or resources to his name.
Q4) As Andrew Jackson's vice president,John
C. Calhoun became a strong Jackson opponent.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution Key
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Q1) The Erie Canal was the greatest construction project Americans had ever undertaken.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Prior to 1860,American urban society
A) saw Irish immigrants have fewer rights than free blacks.
B) None of these answers is correct.
C) saw wealthy people move toward the outer edges of cities.
D) considered the conspicuous display of wealth to be poor social behavior.
E) included a substantial number of destitute poor.
Q3) Despite contrasts between great wealth and great poverty,there was very little overt class conflict in pre-Civil War America.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the immigrant experience in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s.
Q5) What factors encouraged the growth of a labor union movement in the United States? Why did it ultimately fail to develop into a powerful force before the Civil War?
Q6) Why did railroads become the key American industry in the nineteenth century?
Q7) How had the status and role of American women changed between 1800 and 1860?
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Chapter 11: Cotton,Slavery,and the Old South Key
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Q1) One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by
A) Nat Turner.
B) Denmark Vesey.
C) Gabriel Prosser.
D) Harriet Tubman.
E) Frederick Douglass.
Q2) Between 1840 and 1860,the American South's slave population
A) became concentrated in the upper South.
B) dramatically shifted into the Southwest.
C) changed little.
D) could not meet the South's labor needs.
E) declined in overall numbers.
Q3) The slave system may have created separate spheres for blacks and whites,but each race was nonetheless dependent on the other.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Approximately one-third of southern whites owned slaves.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform Key
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Q1) Both the Oneida Community and the Shakers were committed to celibacy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v.Pennsylvania (1842)
A)led to the passage of "personal liberty laws."
B)prohibited the interstate slave trade.
C)abolished slavery in the District of Columbia.
D)angered abolitionists.
E)forced state officials to assist in the capture of runaways.
Q3) The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to
A) ignite such anger in the South that several states soon seceded from the Union.
B) help humanize southern slaveholders in the minds of northern readers.
C) reveal the ugly extent of the vicious slave trade to America.
D) spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience.
E) offer the first written history of American slavery.
Q4) How do the ideas of nineteenth-century transcendentalism link to twentieth-century ecology?
Q5) How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Key
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Q1) The Kansas-Nebraska Act helped create the Republican Party.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1848 elections,the new party that emerged as a political force was the
A) Liberty Party.
B) Whig Party.
C) Free-Soil Party.
D) Republican Party.
E) Know-Nothing Party.
Q3) In the 1840s,critics of territorial expansion by the United States
A) All these answers are correct.
B) found their greatest support in the "penny press."
C) warned it would increase the controversy over slavery.
D) enjoyed considerable political support.
E) warned that further expansion would cause rifts with Indian tribes.
Q4) Assess and rate the presidency of James K.Polk.
Q5) Texas was a territory of Mexico at the time that it came into the Union.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Could the Civil War have been avoided?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War Key
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Q1) In the Civil War,the number of deaths for every 100,000 of the population was
A) 500.
B) 1,000.
C) 4,000.
D) 5,000.
E) 2,000.
Q2) Prior to becoming president of the Confederacy,Jefferson Davis had
A) been vice president of the United States.
B) been regarded as a moderate on secession.
C) called for the imprisonment of abolitionists.
D) begged South Carolina not to leave the Union.
E) called for a gradual phase-out of slavery.
Q3) Black fighting men captured by the Confederates were treated the same as white prisoners of war.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the early part of the Civil War,the sympathies of the ruling classes in France and England lay with the Confederacy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South Key
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Q1) As president,Rutherford B.Hayes
A)helped to unify Republicans and Democrats.
B)promised to take the South back from the "Redeemers."
C)called for a modest expansion of Reconstruction programs.
D)promised to serve only one term.
E)refused to make political compromises with Democrats.
Q2) In the 1890s,the black journalist Ida B.Wells devoted her writing to attacking
A)the loss of black voting rights.
B)the legality of segregation.
C)the crime of lynching.
D)the arguments of Booker T.Washington.
E)restrictions on black education.
Q3) During the Johnson administration,the United States acquired
A) Hawaii.
B) the Virgin Islands.
C) Puerto Rico.
D) Guam.
E) Alaska.
Q4) In 1865,what major challenges faced the nation? How did the various plans for reconstructing the nation attempt to address those challenges?
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West Key
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Q1) By the mid-1840s,the American West
A) had seen the elimination of nearly all Indian tribes.
B) was still an empty, desolate land.
C) contained few migrants from the United States.
D) closely resembled its popular image.
E) was extensively populated.
Q2) Describe the rise and decline of the western Plains farmer in the late nineteenth century.
Q3) In the mid-nineteenth century,the Plains Indians were
A) not as vulnerable to disease as eastern tribes.
B) mostly sedentary farmers.
C) among the least aggressive of all American Indians.
D) the most widespread Indian groups in the West.
E) usually able to unite against white aggression.
Q4) Late-nineteenth-century American farmers increasingly sold their produce in competitive international markets and bought their supplies in a domestic market protected by tariffs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare the myths and the realities of the American cowboy.
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Key
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Q1) The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward
A) suggested that industrialism was creating "organization men."
B) argued that people could do little to alter the economic stratification of society.
C) sought to apply Darwinian laws to human society.
D) believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.
E) believed that government intervention in society would be harmful.
Q2) In the late nineteenth century,what benefits did the growth of corporate industrialism offer to the American working class?
Q3) In the late nineteenth century,the writer Henry George argued in favor of A) heavier taxes on the raw materials of industry.
B) a single land tax to replace all other taxes.
C) abolishing all taxes.
D) government efforts to increase land values.
E) taxing only the richest Americans.
Q4) Why were railroads such an important factor in the growth of industrial strength in America?
Q5) The Knights of Labor accepted both the eight-hour day and the wage system. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: The Age of the City Key
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Q1) In what ways did mass entertainment in the late nineteenth century perpetuate racial,class,and gender distinctions? In what ways did it break down these distinctions?
Q2) By 1900,the transportation systems of American cities included
A) electric trolleys and cable cars.
B) subways.
C) elevated railroads.
D) suspension bridges.
E) All these answers are correct.
Q3) The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to
A) require immigrants to sign loyalty oaths to the United States government.
B) limit immigration to those who already had relatives living in the United States.
C) stop immigrants from entering the United States.
D) make English the official language of the United States.
E) give "native" Americans preference over immigrants in employment opportunities.
Q4) In what ways did the traditional cultural beliefs and values practiced by new immigrants both help and hinder their adjustment to life in America?
Q5) How did high culture and popular culture differ at the turn of the century?
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Q1) In the campaign of 1896,William McKinley
A) was significantly outspent by his opponent.
B) appealed to the interests of urban industrial workers.
C) campaigned largely from his house.
D) alienated Protestants by reaching out to Catholics.
E) embarked on an unprecedented public-speaking tour.
Q2) The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 called for the federal government to
A) purchase silver but not coin it.
B) abandon the gold standard.
C) change the ratio of silver to gold to 20:1.
D) purchase and coin silver.
E) expand the nation's currency supply.
Q3) In the late nineteenth century,the United States' interest in Samoa saw competition from
A) Russia.
B) Japan.
C) Spain.
D) Australia.
E) Germany.
Q4) What was "yellow journalism" and how significant was it in the events of 1898?
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Chapter 20: The Progressives Key
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Q1) The temperance movement was strengthened by World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following were passed during Theodore Roosevelt's administration EXCEPT the
A) Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act.
B) National Reclamation Act.
C) Interstate Commerce Act.
D) Meat Inspection Act.
E) Pure Food and Drug Act.
Q3) As president,William Howard Taft
A) managed to match Roosevelt's personal dynamism.
B) None of these answers is correct.
C) angered many conservatives with his activism, but generally pleased progressives.
D) angered many conservatives with his activism.
E) generally pleased progressives.
Q4) Why were western states often on the leading edge of political reform and women's voting rights?
Q5) Analyze and assess the presidential election results of 1912.
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Chapter 21: America and the Great War Key
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Q1) In early 1915,virtually the entire European continent was at war after the assassination of an Austrian archduke provided the spark to hostilities on the continent.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1919,President Woodrow Wilson believed the Paris Peace Conference treaty
A) should have placed large reparations on the defeated Central Powers.
B) had ended colonialism.
C) agreed with most of his Fourteen Points.
D) was a success because of the acceptance of the League of Nations.
E) was a complete and utter failure.
Q3) In the early twentieth century,the United States' actions toward Mexico included
A) both encouraging an overthrow of the Madero government and refusing to formally recognize the Huerta government.
B) sending an American expeditionary force across the border into Mexico.
C) encouraging an overthrow of the Madero government.
D) All these answers are correct.
E) a refusal to formally recognize the Huerta government.
Q4) Define and analyze President Woodrow Wilson's "New World Order."
Q5) Why did the United States stay out of World War I between 1914 and 1917?
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Q1) Describe the many factors that resulted in America becoming more of a consumer society during the 1920s.
Q2) In the 1920s,the "noble experiment" referred to A) political isolationism.
B) laws to restrict child labor.
C) the Equal Rights Amendment for women.
D) the prohibition of alcohol.
E) female suffrage.
Q3) During the 1920s,birth control in the U.S.
A) was limited to physical methods such as abstinence and withdrawal.
B) was illegal, in some form, in many states.
C) was strongly opposed by moralists such as Margaret Sanger.
D) included legal abortion in most states.
E) was among the major causes of poverty and distress in poor communities.
Q4) What did the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance mean for African American culture? What were the contributions of some of its leading figures?
Q5) The film The Birth of a Nation glorified the early Ku Klux Klan.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Although it was a segregated organization,the Southern Tenant Farmers Union sought to improve the lives of all sharecroppers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How was the American family affected by the Great Depression?
Q3) In the 1930s,all of the following films offered social commentary on the United States and the Great Depression,EXCEPT
A) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
B) Our Daily Bread.
C) The Grapes of Wrath.
D) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
E) It Happened One Night.
Q4) The Abraham Lincoln Brigade is associated with
A) the "bonus marchers."
B) the Spanish Civil War.
C) veterans of World War I.
D) the radical right.
E) the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Q5) Accurately characterize the depth and breadth of the Great Depression.
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Q1) New Deal policy toward Native Americans,as led by John Collier, A) was grounded in a commitment to cultural relativism.
B) encouraged Indians to own land as individuals, rather than collectively.
C) favored Indian assimilation into the larger white culture.
D) led to a considerable decrease in tribal lands.
E) continued past government policies.
Q2) The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
A) did not include a provision regarding working hours.
B) created an enforcement mechanism to protect unions' right to organize.
C) signaled the start of a new round of New Deal legislation.
D) established a national minimum wage.
E) sought to eliminate hiring discrimination based on race, but not on gender.
Q3) What did the New Deal accomplish in the 1930s? What did it not accomplish? Why did it fail to end the Depression?
Q4) The National Industrial Recovery Act sought to tighten antitrust provisions and make important concessions to labor.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How might the New Deal have been more successful?
Q6) What impact did the New Deal have on women and minorities?
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Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 Key
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Q1) By September 1941,
A) Germany had agreed with Japan to fight against the United States.
B) the United States extended lend-lease privileges to the Soviet Union.
C) Germany claimed it had no interest in engaging America in war.
D) the German navy had begun to sink American destroyers, including the Reuben James.
E) President Roosevelt made a secret agreement to send American troops to England.
Q2) The Neutrality Act of 1937
A) allowed warring nations to purchase nonmilitary goods in the United States if they paid cash.
B) banned the sale of all goods from the United States to any nation at war.
C) loosened the trade policy for England, while tightening it for Germany and Japan.
D) stripped the president of many of his powers as commander in chief.
E) exempted Asian nations from the provisions of the 1935 Neutrality Act.
Q3) President Franklin Roosevelt made his "quarantine" speech in an effort to block Hitler's takeover of Austria.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) During World War II,the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created
A)after serious racial rioting broke out in several northern industrial cities.
B)to help southern African Americans move to northern cities to take war jobs.
C)by President Roosevelt after black protesters threatened a massive march on the capital.
D)in response to significant protests led by the Congress of Racial Equality.
E)and led by A.Philip Randolph.
Q2) In 1943,the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was
A) the United States.
B) Great Britain.
C) China.
D) the Soviet Union.
E) Canada.
Q3) In 1939,the first steps toward the creation of an atomic bomb were taken by A) Nazi Germany.
B) the United States.
C) Great Britain.
D) the Soviet Union.
E) Japan.
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Q1) The end of the war in 1945 saw the onset of serious inflation,but no serious labor strife.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Joseph McCarthy burst into national prominence by charging that there were known communists in the
A) Central Intelligence Agency.
B) Truman Cabinet.
C) United States Senate.
D) Defense Department.
E) State Department.
Q3) In 1945,when Harry Truman became president,he
A) was already drawing up plans for his "Truman Doctrine."
B) believed Joseph Stalin could be trusted.
C) looked to Great Britain to contain the Soviet Union.
D) had almost no familiarity with foreign affairs.
E) renounced the Yalta accords signed by Roosevelt.
Q4) What role did wartime diplomacy,personalities,and tensions play in the coming of the Cold War?
Q5) Describe the Marshall Plan and assess its importance in the postwar world.
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Q1) Dr.Benjamin Spock made a career of helping women have professional careers and be mothers at the same time.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Rural America
A) lost nearly 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone.
B) both nearly lost 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone, and saw its percentage of the national income drop to less than two percent within the decade of the 1950s.
C) saw its percentage of the national income drop to less than 2 percent in the 1950s.
D) All these answers are correct.
E) saw the South increase plantings of cotton as a cash crop in the 1950s.
Q3) Senator Joseph McCarthy was eventually expelled from the United States Senate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By the late 1950s,the United States could send a guided missile several thousand miles.
A)True
B)False
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A) None of these answers is correct.
B) prevented North Vietnam from sufficiently resupplying their soldiers.
C) eventually broke the resolve of North Vietnam.
D) led the United States to abandon its air bombardment campaign.
E) both prevented North Vietnam from sufficiently resupplying their soldiers, and led the United States to abandon its air bombardment campaign.
Q2) The 1964 election saw
A) Lyndon Johnson distance himself from the memory of John Kennedy.
B) Lyndon Johnson receive a larger plurality than any candidate before or since.
C) Lyndon Johnson win a decisive victory over Richard Nixon.
D) Lyndon Johnson carry the entire South.
E) Republicans gain control of the Senate, but not the House.
Q3) Ngo Dinh Diem was a Buddhist who had turned against his fellow Buddhists in order to fight the communists in Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the multiple traumas of 1968.How did the country respond to them?
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A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1972 presidential election,
A) Richard Nixon won over 60 percent of the popular vote.
B) Richard Nixon won a narrow victory in the Electoral College.
C) George Wallace only carried California and the District of Columbia.
D) Richard Nixon won a narrow victory in the Electoral College and won over 60 percent of the popular vote.
E) All these answers are correct.
Q3) ,the Supreme Court
A) ruled that limits on campaign funding violated the right to free speech.
B) declared that the application procedure for federal jobs must be open to the public.
C) sharply limited government curbs on pornography.
D) ruled that forced busing to integrate public schools was constitutional.
E) ruled that prayers in public schools were unconstitutional.
Q4) What type of individual was attracted to the counterculture,and why?
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Chapter 31: From the Age of Limits to the Age of Reagan
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Near the end of his first term,Jimmy Carter's standing in popularity polls was the lowest of any president in American history.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 1979,the Carter administration responded to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan by
A) imposing economic sanctions on the Soviet Union.
B) mobilizing NATO airstrikes.
C) cutting off all diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
D) convincing most of its Western European allies to boycott the 1980 summer Olympic Games.
E) withdrawing the SALT I treaty from Senate consideration.
Q4) On what well-received political themes did Jimmy Carter run for the presidency in 1976,and how did these became liabilities once he was in office?
Q5) What were President Carter's major political successes and failures?
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Q1) Evaluate the role of immigrants and immigration in the U.S.How and why did the U.S.population look different in 2010 than it had looked in 1965?
Q2) In 1998,the federal budget
A) set a record for deficit spending.
B) saw its first surplus in thirty years.
C) was one-third smaller than it had been six years earlier.
D) had cut military spending in half from its Cold War peak.
E) had paid off the national debt.
Q3) As a result of the 1994 elections,
A) President Clinton proposed a national health care plan.
B) Republicans in Congress moved toward the political center.
C) President Clinton reaffirmed his commitment to big government.
D) President Clinton moved toward the political left.
E) Republicans won majorities in both houses of Congress.
Q4) How has the Internet changed American society and the American economy? Do you believe these changes are permanent?
Q5) What accounted for the Republican resurgence in 1994? How did President Clinton respond to this and how successful was his response?
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