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World Civilizations explores the development, interaction, and influence of major civilizations from ancient times to the modern era across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The course examines significant cultural, political, religious, and economic systems that have shaped human societies. Students analyze patterns of continuity and change, key events, and cross-cultural exchanges, fostering a comprehensive understanding of global history and the interconnectedness of past and present civilizations.
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HIST 3 3rd Edition by Kevin M. Schultz
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Chapter 1: Three Societies on the Verge of Contact
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of the empires of West Africa?
A) Mali's principal city, Timbuktu, became the cultural and artistic capital of Africa.
B) The kingdom of Ghana absorbed the kingdom of Mali by the thirteenth century.
C) Around 1500, the ruler of Songhay converted to Christianity.
D) Ghana was eventually conquered by the Muslim kingdom of Kongo.
E) The city of Timbuktu was an important center for the religion of Islam.
Answer: A
Q2) The Native American tribes in the Northwest were known for constructing complex and dramatic totem poles.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The native societies in the northeastern part of what is now the United States depended almost entirely on fishing for their food supply.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Contact and Settlement, 1492-1660
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Q1) The major conflict between the colonists and a local Indian tribe in the 1630s that previewed future conflicts was known as the
A) Powhatan Conflict.
B) Jamestown Massacre.
C) Pequot War.
D) Roanoke War.
E) Wampanoag War.
Answer: C
Q2) Rather than just one or two major cities,small towns composed of just several families were the central institution of Massachusetts.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Christopher Columbus was a Portuguese-trained Italian sailor who made exploratory voyages for the king and queen of Spain.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Expansion and Its Costs, 1660-1700
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Q1) Between 1660 and 1700,North America changed in which of the following ways?
A) The non-native population grew from about 70,000 to about one million.
B) England had established colonies in three distinct regions.
C) New England was flourishing economically, while the Chesapeake was still struggling.
D) The only colony where living conditions were fairly stable and comfortable was in New England.
E) English colonists had not yet found it necessary to move on to the western frontier, but signs pointed to that happening soon.
Answer: A
Q2) New York began as a Dutch colony,founded in 1624,when the Dutch claimed New Jersey and New York.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Proprietary colonies were ruled by the English crown.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763
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Q1) At the Albany Congress in 1754,prominent politicians and businessman from the British colonies considered national independence from Britain for the first time.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The rapid increase of New England's population between 1660 and 1760 stemmed from all of the following, <i>except</i>
A) a high birthrate.
B) the importance of families in New England society.
C) a hospitable and healthy environment.
D) a voracious appetite for African slaves in the region.
E) an environment friendly to commerce.
Q3) The wealthy families of the Chesapeake believed they should control political and religious institutions because they
A) had money.
B) were better educated.
C) had invested the most in settling the land.
D) had social responsibilities which they acquired as the region's economic elite.
E) had the most to lose if things didn't go well.
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Chapter 5: Toward Revolution, 1763-1775
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Q1) King George's response to the Olive Branch Petition was to
A) agree to meet with representatives of the colonists.
B) tear the document into shreds.
C) ignore the document since he viewed the colonists as already in rebellion.
D) send a declaration of war by return courier.
E) ask Parliament to declare the colonies in open rebellion.
Q2) The Stamp Act provoked a stronger colonial response than the Sugar or Quartering Acts for all of the following reasons, <i>except</i>
A) The Stamp Act applied to goods used by merchants and lawyers, thus stirring an educated and powerful opposition.
B) The act had been passed by the king over the heads of British parliament, thus violating the British constitution.
C) So much time passed between the passage of legislation and its effective date that colonists had time to organize their protest.
D) The Stamp Act was a direct tax on the colonists.
E) The proceeds of the tax were meant to pay the salaries of colonial officials, something the colonists themselves had done in the past.
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Chapter 6: The Revolution
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Q1) When and how did the Revolutionary War come to be one that the British would not win?
Q2) All of these were reasons why Britain did not win the war against the American rebels <i>except</i>
A) General Washington's military strategy of prolonging the war by constantly retreating inland made it difficult for Britain to re-supply its troops.
B) The colonial rebels were able to take military advantage of their familiarity with the terrain and water formations where battles occurred.
C) Other European nations eventually came to America's aid.
D) Britain's army was not prepared for the guerilla-style warfare of the colonists.
E) The British army's hierarchy of authority broke down in the unfamiliar foreign land.
Q3) The Radical Whigs advocated a new government based on feudal traditions after the Revolutionary War was won.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789
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Q1) The Articles had no power to force states to cede their extra land to the federal government,so it was not until 1802 that all of the western lands had been ceded back to the government.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain the most significant parts of the Bill of Rights,addressing each amendment separately.
Q3) One political compromise at the Constitutional Convention stated that in 1808
A) a census would begin.
B) the issue of slavery would be addressed directly.
C) the state of Virginia would not present a presidential candidate.
D) the slave trade would end.
E) new states could begin to join the Union.
Q4) Which of these was <i>not</i> a power of the Continental Congress under the Articles?
A) To declare war and make peace
B) To make international treaties
C) To establish a currency
D) To select a president
E) To create and maintain a postal service
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Q1) Gabriel's Conspiracy was a direct result of the Haitian Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Judiciary Act of 1789
A) created five circuit courts.
B) set up thirteen district courts and three circuit courts to accompany the Supreme Court.
C) provided for the selection of the first Supreme Court justices.
D) established the requirements and experience necessary for all judges.
E) gave the president the leeway to appoint judges as he saw fit.
Q3) Jefferson's position in the cabinet put him in charge of all of the following <i>except</i>
A) public lands.
B) diplomatic relations.
C) the delivery of mail.
D) patents and copyrights.
E) the census.
Q4) Hamilton,Adams,and Jefferson would all come to be known as Federalists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1814
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Q1) America's first magazine of importance was the <i>North American Review.</i>
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the immediate outcomes of the War of 1812 and its long-term consequences.
Q3) The purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition was to explore
A) the land west of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
B) the land between the United States and the Rocky Mountains.
C) the lands from Chicago to the Oregon Territory.
D) as much of North America as they could cover in three years.
E) the Missouri and Colorado Rivers.
Q4) The peace treaty ending the War of 1812
A) did not resolve the impressment issue.
B) left open the question of America's right to neutrality.
C) was negotiated at Ghent.
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.
Q5) Explain the significance of the Supreme Court case Marbury v.Madison.
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Chapter 10: The Market Revolution
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Q1) The "burned-over district" was a term used to describe the impact fiery preachers had in creating new converts during the Second Great Awakening.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of these were key components of the American System <i>except</i>
A) a national bank.
B) protective tariffs.
C) internal improvements.
D) increased role of the federal government in stimulating economic growth.
E) a self-sustaining agricultural system.
Q3) Who of the following did not support the economic plan called the American System?
A) Young Democratic-Republicans from the West
B) Southern cotton plantation owners
C) Henry Clay of Kentucky
D) Younger politicians from the Middle Atlantic states
E) John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
Q4) What was the role of the National Bank in the development of America's Market Revolution? Explain how the Bank operated to fulfill this role.
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Chapter 11: Politics of the Market Revolution
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Q1) Through his animosity toward the National Bank,Andrew Jackson
A) almost managed to bring the workings of the federal government to a standstill.
B) ruined the national currency, which did not recover until the Civil War.
C) convinced many people in America that paper currency was only helpful to the wealthy.
D) put personal feelings above the needs of the nation in an extremely unsettled time.
E) made many of his personal friends wealthy by his actions against it.
Q2) President Jackson distrusted the National Bank because
A) he thought Nicholas Biddle was assuming too much power.
B) he did not believe that the Bank was constitutional.
C) private owners held shares in the Bank.
D) he viewed paper money as dangerous, based on his personal financial losses in a bank during the 1790s.
E) so many different currencies existed throughout the United States.
Q3) What were the events that led up to the Panic of 1837 and the depression that followed? How much credit or blame would you assign to Andrew Jackson for his actions during this time?
Q4) Explain the differences between the Whigs and the Democrats.
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Chapter 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860
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Q1) <i>Gone with the Wind</i> provided a generally accurate picture of the antebellum American South.
A)True
B)False
Q2) William Lloyd Garrison
A) used his anti-slavery newspaper, <i>The Liberator</i>, to advocate for other causes as well, such as temperance.
B) believed the Constitution was complicit in allowing slavery.
C) helped Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman escape from slavery.
D) did not allow women as members in his American Anti-Slavery Society.
E) favored a gradualist form of abolition.
Q3) Which of the following was not one of the most popular American novelists of the antebellum years?
A) Herman Melville
B) Harriet Beecher-Stowe
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Upton Sinclair
E) Fanny Fern
Q4) What was everyday life like for most middle-class women in the North?
Q5) Describe ways in which whites' defense of slavery changed over time.
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Chapter 13: The Continued Move West
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of the situation with Texas prior to its statehood?
A) Texas became a Mexican colony in 1810 after Mexico declared its independence from Spain.
B) During the 1820s, Americans in Texas grew to outnumber Mexicans there two to one.
C) Although Mexico had previously abolished slavery, Americans brought their slaves with them in defiance of Mexico's wishes.
D) The new American settlers enrolled their children in the local schools so they could learn to speak Spanish fluently.
E) Many Americans in Texas became assimilated into Mexican society.
Q2) Which of these was <i>not</i> a consequence of continued American westward expansion?
A) Native Americans saw their population and landholdings decline.
B) The Market Revolution expanded.
C) Slavery became a major and contentious political issue.
D) Religious tolerance and freedom in the areas of expansion increased.
E) Expansion offered the possibility of upward mobility via land ownership to more people.
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Chapter 14: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) Which of these was <i>not</i> a part of the Compromise of 1850?
A) California would join the Union as a free state.
B) Slave auctions would be banned in the nation's capital.
C) Congress passed a tougher Fugitive Slave Law.
D) Texas would get $10 million but would have to stop trying to sway New Mexico toward adopting slavery.
E) New Mexico and Utah could have slaves as long as they remained territories, but when they became states, slavery would end.
Q2) According to Republican political rhetoric,the "Slave Power" conspiracy intended to outlaw free speech and make all Americans accept proslavery principles.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Under popular sovereignty,who would decide whether a territory accepted slavery?
A) The Territorial Legislature
B) The Congress
C) The Territorial Governor
D) The majority vote of settlers in that territory
E) The Supreme Court
Q4) What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
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Chapter 15: The Civil War
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Q1) One strategy that both the Union and Confederacy used as the war progressed was
A) limited warfare.
B) instituting an income tax.
C) requiring slaves and former slaves to serve in combat.
D) sending emissaries to negotiate a limited peace.
E) mandating that all men serve in the military, regardless of class.
Q2) Inflation in the civil war South was so bad that the cost of living in the South had grown ____ over the course of the war.
A) threefold.
B) fivefold.
C) twelvefold.
D) fifty-twofold.
E) ninety-twofold.
Q3) The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
A) abolished slavery.
B) was passed by Congress in January 1865, while the war was still continuing.
C) was ratified by enough Union states during the war to make it part of the Constitution.
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.
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Chapter 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) How did President Grant's administration respond to increased southern violence against free men and women?
A) The president sent troops to retain order in the South and arrest perpetrators.
B) They did nothing; the administration was busy grappling with the problems of the Whiskey Ring.
C) Grant sent a stern warning including threats of censuring southern Congressmen until the violence ceased.
D) The administration passed two laws making it a felony to interfere with the right to vote and allowing the government to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to end Klan violence.
E) Grant pushed for a measure to make the Ku Klux Klan illegal in the South.
Q2) Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were members of a group known as A) Copperheads.
B) Radical Republicans.
C) Carpetbaggers.
D) Redeemers.
E) Scalawags.
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Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) The Haymarket strike led to
A) the founding of the Knights of Labor.
B) growing anti-union sentiment nationwide.
C) increased union membership across the country.
D) new government policies about arresting strikers.
E) a huge victory for the American Federation of Labor.
Q2) Syndicates,put together by men such as Jay Gould and J.Pierpont Morgan,were established for the sole purpose of gaining total control over particular industries.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although corrupt,New York's Tammany Hall appealed to A) big business looking to boost profits.
B) recent immigrants and job seekers.
C) state government seeking a system for granting contracts.
D) reformers seeking to improve the social landscape.
E) Congressmen looking to get rich.
Q4) What major factors contributed to the development of the Industrial Revolution in America?
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Chapter 18: The Industrial Age: North, south, and West
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Q1) Between 1880 and 1920,approximately ____ people came to America from other countries.
A) 500,000
B) 5 million
C) 25 million
D) 10 million
E) 1 million
Q2) In the years following the Civil War,those most interested in the newly opened lands in the West were
A) small farmers eager to work the superior soil of the Great Plains.
B) corporate interests with headquarters in northern cities.
C) ex-soldiers who had been given land by the government for their services.
D) a few miners still hoping for a bonanza of gold.
E) Southern freedmen drawn by the prospect of escaping racial discrimination.
Q3) Segregation in the South was harsh.Describe some of the things that whites did to maintain a segregated society and to keep African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
Q4) Why did Mark Twain describe this era as "The Gilded Age"? What does "gilded" mean? Why does it seem to fit this age so well?
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Chapter 19: The Progressive Era
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Q1) Theodore Roosevelt considered the White House to be a "bully pulpit" from which he could intervene in national affairs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The National Civic Federation,founded in 1900,brought business owners and workers together in a form of partnership,with the result that working conditions improved markedly.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Progressive education advocates like John Dewey embraced child-centered education,which referred to
A) ensuring children had balanced exposure to the arts and sciences.
B) the introduction of a core curriculum at schools nationwide.
C) encouraging children to pursue their interests rather than forcing them into a standard curriculum.
D) teaching children the value of living in a democracy.
E) the practice of learning by rote.
Q4) Who were the Progressives? What were their main goals?
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Chapter 20: Becoming a World Power
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Q1) What was known as "Seward's Folly"?
A) His agreement with Latin America to help them build a road from Mexico to Colombia
B) His purchase of Alaska
C) His sale of Victoria Island to the British
D) America's purchase of rights to the Great Lakes
E) His tentative treaty with the Russians over fishing rights in the Bering Sea
Q2) In order for Theodore Roosevelt to be able to volunteer for military service in Cuba he had to
A) get an examination from the draft board.
B) get McKinley's permission to leave his post as vice-president.
C) accept the lowly rank of a private.
D) resign his naval post.
E) bribe recruitment officers to ignore his poor eyesight and other ailments.
Q3) President Cleveland's secretary of state used the Monroe Doctrine as the rationale for settling the Venezuela Crisis of 1895,since the British believed that the United States would be ready to go to war to protect Venezuelan territorial interests and integrity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Prosperity and Change in the Twenties
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Q1) An "open shop" meant that
A) owners could not discriminate in any way in their hiring practices.
B) owners were legally bound to keep all escape routes open, and they were fined frequently when they did not.
C) no one could be forced to join a union as a condition for working at a given company.
D) no unions were allowed on the premises.
E) workers had voted to ban all union activity from their particular workplace.
Q2) All of the following are true statements about Prohibition <i>except</i>
A) Most people embraced it as a solution to the social problems caused by alcohol and alcoholism.
B) It turned more law-abiding citizens into lawbreakers than any other piece of legislation had ever done.
C) It made rural Baptists and Methodists in the South and Midwest happy.
D) Immigrants resisted and sold their own alcohol.
E) It lasted 15 years.
Q3) Who were some of the artists and writers who became expatriates in Europe during the 1920s? What were their reasons for leaving?
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Chapter 22: The Great Depression and the New Deal
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Q1) As approved,the Social Security Act (1935)would
A) be a safety net against poverty for people who couldn't support themselves -the elderly, the unemployed and single mothers.
B) set up a national health insurance program to provide medical assistance to those in need.
C) set up a system for public contributions to relief funds.
D) provide housing for the elderly who were homeless.
E) All of these choices.
Q2) The Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933
A) made $500 million available for bank loans and direct relief.
B) established a national bank holiday, closing the banks for four days to prevent a panic.
C) created a new national bank and federal depository.
D) encouraged banks to make loans to distressed businesses to safeguard the economy from further crisis.
E) established federal control over banks and rescued those in trouble with government loans.
Q3) Who were the Bonus Army Marchers? What was their mission? Describe what happened during their time in the nation's capital.
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Chapter 23: World War II
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Q1) The Zoot Suit Riots occurred between Mexican and American youths in the city of Brownsville,Texas.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When Franklin Roosevelt came into the presidency,he set out to mend relations with the countries of Latin America by using
A) the Roosevelt Corollary to the Roosevelt Corollary.
B) the policy of "dollar diplomacy."
C) his plans to pull all American troops out of every Latin American country.
D) the "good neighbor" policy.
E) the Lend-Lease Policy.
Q3) Rosie the Riveter was a fictional character meant to represent whom? What were some of the ways in which "Rosies" across the country played their part in the war effort?
Q4) Several American companies still in business today stopped producing consumer goods (ex.: cars,tires)and began to manufacture military equipment and materiel (ex.: jeeps,tanks,ammunition)under lucrative government contracts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: Cold War America
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Q1) In reaction to laws ordering desegregation,those in charge of many schools and other public facilities in the South responded grudgingly but acceptingly.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After the Chinese entered the Korean conflict in support of North Korea,
A) Truman threatened to use the atomic bomb to end the conflict.
B) MacArthur called the North Koreans cowards and losers.
C) MacArthur and the UN troops drove the Communists back north across all of the Korean Peninsula and to the Chinese side of the Yalu River.
D) UN troops pushed the North Koreans and the Chinese back to the original dividing line at about the 38th parallel.
E) UN forces insisted that the Chinese pull out of the fight; when they did so, the North Koreans were helpless against the UN forces.
Q3) The world's first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviets in October 1957,shaking the confidence of the American people.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The main goal of those who participated in Freedom Summer was to
A) register blacks to vote in the South.
B) pay the poll taxes for blacks so that they could afford to vote.
C) call attention to the deplorable conditions in the segregated South.
D) let southern blacks know that there were white people in America who supported them in trying to gain their right to vote.
E) drum up support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Q2) The Cuban Missile Crisis
A) brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
B) ended when Kennedy agreed to remove missiles from Cuba and the Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles from Turkey.
C) ended the Cold War.
D) was a U.S. attempt to seize control of Cuba from Fidel Castro.
E) caused the U.S. to escalate its testing of nuclear weapons.
Q3) Describe the actions of African Americans and whites who campaigned for civil rights in America during the first half of the 1960s.How supportive was the federal government? The state governments? Local governments in the South?
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Chapter 26: The Age of Fracture: the 1970s
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Q1) Carter was unable to carry out any of his plans for expanding American social justice because
A) the budget was already in deficit.
B) the New Left would not support him.
C) Islamic militants took 52 hostages from the American Embassy in Tehran.
D) his ambitious plans were struck down by the Supreme Court.
E) the economy remained too troubled overall.
Q2) All of the following is true about young conservatives in the late 1950s under the leadership of William F.Buckley, <i>except</i>
A) They opposed Great Society and New Deal-style government programs.
B) They opposed abortion and embraced traditional family values.
C) They advocated aggressive imperial expansion.
D) They urged tax cuts and less government intervention in people's lives.
E) They were militantly anti-communist.
Q3) During the 1970s,American Indian activists drew attention to their cause by
A) staging sit-ins in downtown San Francisco.
B) hosting teach-ins at Berkeley.
C) marching peacefully.
D) occupying the former federal prison on Alcatraz for over one year.
E) rioting in the cities' poorer neighborhoods.
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Chapter 27: Reagans America
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Q1) How did most Americans,and the American government,react to the first revelations about the new disease called AIDS? Why?
Q2) Explain how the Iran-Contra Affair developed.What were the first goals of the president and his advisors? Describe how those goals morphed into something quite different.
Q3) In October 1983,a Libyan air raid on the Lebanese city of Beirut killed 241 U.S.Marine peacekeepers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Hezbollah was the terrorist organization responsible for
A) the bombing in a Berlin nightclub in 1986 that killed two Marines.
B) leading the fight against the Soviets inside Afghanistan.
C) an attack on a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 American troops.
D) attacking American oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.
E) helping Iran fight off the Iraqi invasion.
Q5) How did the Berlin Wall come to "fall" when it did? What was the reaction of the world to this event? What happened to East and West Germany afterward?
Q6) What social effects did Reagan's economic policy have on Americans?
Q7) Discuss the rationale for Reagan's supply-side economics.
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Chapter 28: America in the Information Age
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Q1) "Don't Ask,Don't Tell" prevented the military from asking about recruits' sexual orientation but still allowed them to remove gays from service.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Clinton's worst political defeat during his first term was
A) the unpopularity of his "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on gays in the military.
B) his failure to get the Senate to pass NAFTA on its first round through the legislative process.
C) the failure of Congress to vote for joining the WTO.
D) welfare reform.
E) the failure of his administration to achieve health care reform.
Q3) Discuss the role of multiculturalism in contemporary society.How diverse is this nation today? What opportunities and what challenges arise out of this?
Q4) The controversial head of the Federal Reserve Board through the 1990s was Alan Greenspan.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 29: Globalization and Its Discontents
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Q1) Abu Ghraib refers to
A) a naval base in Cuba where U.S. houses prisoners.
B) a battle during the Iraq war.
C) the location where Osama bin Laden hid out in Afghanistan.
D) an Iraqi prison where U.S. soldiers tortured and humiliated prisoners of war.
E) None of these choices.
Q2) Shortly after taking office,which of the following signaled a potential problem for George Bush from his own party?
A) His controversial plan to search for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
B) Republican Senator Jim Jeffords declaring himself an independent.
C) Criticism of his initial reaction to the terrorist attacks of September 11.
D) His father's record on the Middle East.
E) All of these choices.
Q3) The administration of George W.Bush presented clear evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before it invaded that country.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What were George W.Bush's avowed goals in invading Iraq?
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