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THE AMERICAN STORY FIFTH 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
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 15 Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society 28 Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America 42 The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783 56 The Republican Experiment 70 Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800 83 Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision 96 Nation Building and Nationalism 109 The Triumph of White Men's Democracy 123 Slaves and Masters 137 The Pursuit of Perfection 150 An Age of Expansionism 163 The Sectional Crisis 176 Secession and the Civil War 190 The Agony of Reconstruction 204 The West: Exploiting an Empire 218 The Industrial Society 232 Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900 245 Political Realignments in the 1890s 259 Toward Empire 272 The Progressive Era 287 From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism 300 The Nation at War 313 Transition to Modern America 326 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 339 America and the World, 1921-1945 353 The Onset of the Cold War 366 Affluence and Anxiety 379 The Turbulent Sixties 392 The Rise of a New Conservatism, 1969-1988 405 To the Twenty-first Century, 1989-2011 418
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CHAPTER ONE NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS Multiple Choice 1. The most significant factor that led 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) rising water levels E) a mass extinction of large mammals in Europe Answer: B Page Ref: 4 Skill: Factual Topic: Native American Histories Before the Conquest 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 Page Ref: 5 Skill: Factual Topic: Native American Histories Before the Conquest 3. The 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 Page Ref: 7 Skill: Factual Topic: Native American Histories Before the Conquest 4. The Atlantic tribal group with whom the English had the most contact were ________. A) Algonquian speakers B) Mayan C) Apache D) Sioux E) Cherokee Answer: A Page Ref: 7 Skill: Factual Topic: Native American Histories Before the Conquest
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5. What Indians desired most, upon encountering Europeans, was ________. A) cultural enlightenment B) victims for human sacrifice rituals C) religious instruction D) allies to help them defeat their enemies E) commercial relations Answer: E Page Ref: 9 Skill: Factual Topic: A World Transformed 6. The single greatest factor that caused the destruction of Native Americans after contact with Europeans was ________. A) warfare B) planned genocide C) disease D) loss of farmland E) enslavement Answer: C Page Ref: 12 Skill: Factual Topic: A World Transformed 7. 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) trade goods Answer: A Page Ref: 12–13 Skill: Factual Topic: A World Transformed 8. The first European nation to establish contact with sub-Saharan Africa was ________. A) France B) Italy C) the Netherlands D) Portugal E) Spain Answer: D Page Ref: 15 Skill: Factual Topic: West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
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9. The Portuguese explored West Africa searching for ________. A) lands to settle B) spices and timber C) converts to Christianity D) slaves and gold E) land for a convict colony Answer: D Page Ref: 15 Skill: Factual Topic: West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies 10. Columbus was originally determined to prove that ________. A) a westward water route to China existed B) the world was not flat C) the continents of North and South America existed D) the lost continent of Atlantis was actually part of South America E) the world was smaller than scientists believed at the time Answer: A Page Ref: 20 Skill: Factual Topic: Imagining a New World 11. At the time of Columbus’s first voyage in 1492, ________. A) most educated Europeans believed the earth was flat B) no European nation had any interest in exploration C) most educated Europeans knew the world was round D) no one thought he would find anything E) the Catholic Church condemned this kind of exploration Answer: C Page Ref: 21 Skill: Factual Topic: Imagining a New World 12. The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 resulted in ________. A) war between Spain and Portugal B) Portuguese control of what would become Brazil C) English control of what is now Canada D) French control of Martinique E) the withdrawal of the Spanish from the New World Answer: B Page Ref: 22 Skill: Factual Topic: Imagining a New World
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