Type:
Instructor Manual and Test Bank
Resource:
American People
Edition:
7th Edition
Author(s):
Gary B. Nash Julie Roy Jeffrey John R. Howe Peter J. Frederick Allen F. Davis Allan M. Winkler Charlene Mires Carla Gardina Pestana
Instructor's Manual and Test Bank
Jason Newman Cosumnes River College
The American People Creating a Nation and a Society, VangoBook
Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles Julie Roy Jeffrey, Goucher College John R. Howe, University of Minnesota Peter Frederick, Wabash College Allen F. Davis, Temple University Allan M. Winkler, Miami University of Ohio Charlene Mires, Villanova University Carla Gardina Pestana, Miami University of Ohio
CONTENTS PART ONE Chapter 1:
Ancient America and Africa
1
Chapter 2:
Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas
14
Chapter 3:
Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century
27
Chapter 4:
The Maturing of Colonial Society
49
Chapter 5:
The Strains of Empire
64
PART TWO Chapter 6: A People in Revolution
77
Chapter 7:
Consolidating the Revolution
92
Chapter 8:
Creating a Nation
107
Chapter 9:
Society and Politics in the Early Republic
125
PART THREE Chapter 10: Economic Transformations in the Northeast and the Old Northwest
137
Chapter 11:
Slavery and the Old South
151
Chapter 12:
Shaping a Democratic America in the Antebellum Age
165
Chapter 13:
Moving West
180
Chapter 14:
The Union in Peril
194
Chapter 15:
The Union Severed
208
Chapter 16:
The Union Reconstructed
223
PART FOUR Chapter 17: Rural America: The West and the New South
237
Chapter 18:
The Rise of Smokestack America
250
Chapter 19:
Politics and Reform
264
Chapter 20:
Becoming a World Power
278
PART FIVE Chapter 21: The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism
292
Chapter 22:
The Great War
306
Chapter 23:
Affluence and Anxiety
319
Chapter 24:
The Great Depression and the New Deal
332
Chapter 25:
World War II
345
PART SIX Chapter 26:
Postwar America at Home, 1945—1960
359
Chapter 27:
Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945—1960
374
Chapter 28:
Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960—1969
386
Chapter 29:
Disorder and Discontent, 1969—1980
397
Chapter 30:
The Revival of Conservatism, 1980—1992
410
Chapter 31:
The Post—Cold War World, 1992—2008
421
The American People: Creating a Nation and Society, (Nash) [VangoBook] Chapter 1 Ancient America and Africa 1.1 Multiple-Choice Questions 1) By the 1400s, the ʺIndiansʺ of the Americas had: A) developed diverse and complex societies. B) adopted essentially the same language and religion. C) become nomadic big-game hunters. D) fashioned a uniform system of social organization. E) experienced a 90 percent population loss because of foreign diseases. Answer: A Page Ref: 3
2) As a result of the development of agriculture in the Americas, the members of native tribes: A) engaged solely in agricultural tasks. B) grew in numbers and founded separate societies. C) lost faith in religious leaders. D) abandoned regional trading networks. E) gave up intertribal feuding and became pacifists. Answer: B Page Ref: 5
3) The Aztecs, one of the Meso-American empires: A) created a highly stratified society. B) built a capital city that amazed the Spanish with its grandeur. C) established an empire that controlled a population estimated at between 10 and 20 million people. D) exacted tributes from conquered peoples. E) all of the above Answer: E Page Ref: 2, 5-6
4) The Pueblo people of the American Southwest, encountered by the Spanish in the 1540s: A) made their clothing and utensils from buffalo hides and bones. B) built ceremonial mounds on which to worship their gods. C) used irrigation canals, dams, and hillside terracing to water their arid maize fields. D) failed to develop agricultural techniques suitable for their arid environment. E) lived in tepees and engaged in a nomadic lifestyle. Answer: C Page Ref: 8
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