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AMERICA: PAST AND PRESENT BRIEF EIGHTH EDITION
Robert A. Divine University of Texas
T.H. Breen Northwestern University
George M. Frederickson Late of Stanford University
R. Hal Williams Southern Methodist University
Ariela J. Gross University of Southern California
H.W. Brands University of Texas
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Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32
New World Encounters 1 New World Experiments: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies 12 Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society 24 Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America 38 The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783 50 The Republican Experiment 63 Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800 76 Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision 89 Nation Building and Nationalism 103 The Triumph of White Men's Democracy 117 Slaves and Masters 130 The Pursuit of Perfection 143 An Age of Expansionism 157 The Sectional Crisis 170 Secession and the Civil War 184 The Agony of Reconstruction 198 The West: Exploiting an Empire 212 The Industrial Society 226 Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900 239 Political Realignments in the 1890s 253 Toward Empire 268 The Progressive Era 284 From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism 299 The Nation at War 313 Transition to Modern America 328 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 342 America and the World, 1921-1945 356 The Onset of the Cold War 369 Affluence and Anxiety 384 The Turbulent Sixties 397 The Rise of a New Conservatism, 1969-1988 411 To the Twenty-first Century, 1989-2009 425
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America: Past and Present, 8e - Brief Edition (Divine et al.) Chapter 1 New World Encounters 1.1 Multiple-Choice Questions 1) The most significant factor that allowed large numbers of nomadic hunters to enter the heart of North America was A) the domestication of horses. B) global warming. C) population growth. D) the search for new food supplies. E) the growing diversity of people. Answer: B [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 2 2) Which of the following revolutionized early Native American cultures? A) the discovery of hunting B) the development of agriculture C) tribal political alliances D) the emergence of a written language E) the domestication of the horse Answer: B [Factual] Diff: 2 Page Ref: 2 3) Cahokia, a large Indian city in what is now Illinois, was built by A) the Mississippians. B) the Anasazs. C) the Adena and Hopewell cultures. D) the Aztecs. E) the Comanches. Answer: A [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 3 4) The aggressive Native American people who occupied the valley of Mexico when the Spanish arrived were the A) Mayas. B) Apaches. C) Aztecs. D) Incas. E) Toltecs. Answer: C [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 3
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5) By the time Europeans arrived, the peoples of central Mexico had all of the following EXCEPT A) large cities ruled by effective bureaucracies. B) tools and weapons made of iron and bronze. C) hieroglyphic writing. D) an accurate solar calendar. E) a religion which involved human sacrifice. Answer: B [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 3 6) The Atlantic tribal group with whom the English had the most contact was called the A) Algonquian. B) Mayan. C) Apache. D) Sioux. E) Cherokee. Answer: A [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4 7) The tribes of eastern North America defined their place in society through A) patricide. B) monotheism. C) kinship. D) intertribal marriages. E) land ownership. Answer: C [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4 8) What Indians desired most, upon encountering Europeans, was A) cultural enlightenment. B) peaceful trade. C) religious instruction. D) allies to help them defeat their enemies. E) victims for human sacrifice rituals. Answer: B [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 5 9) The single greatest factor that caused the destruction of Native Americans after contact with Europeans was A) warfare. B) planned genocide. C) disease. D) forced conversions to Christianity. E) forced removal from tribal lands. Answer: C [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6
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10) In the Columbian Exchange, the Old World and the New exchanged A) animal, plant, and microbial life forms. B) technologies. C) religious beliefs. D) political systems. E) scientific theories. Answer: A [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 5 11) Which of the following statements about West Africa during the era of the European slave trade is true? A) Africans were quite isolated from the rest of the world. B) Africans had a simple, self-sufficient economy. C) A single monolithic culture covered most of the African continent. D) Muslim missionaries were having some success in making converts there. E) Africans were united by a single language. Answer: D [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6 12) The first European nation to establish contact with sub-Saharan Africa was A) France. B) Italy. C) the Netherlands. D) Portugal. E) Germany. Answer: D [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 7 13) The Portuguese explored West Africa searching for A) slaves. B) gold. C) ancient artifacts. D) both A and B E) both B and C Answer: D [Factual] Diff: 1 Page Ref: 7 14) All of the following contributed to the rise of nation-states in Europe in the fifteenth century EXCEPT A) population growth. B) a general prosperity. C) the centralization of political authority under a monarchy. D) feudalism. E) the effects of the Renaissance. Answer: D [Factual] Diff: 2 Page Ref: 8
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