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Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive survey of American history from the pre-Columbian era through Reconstruction in 1877. It explores the diverse cultures and societies that existed before European contact, the impact of colonization, the growth of the British colonies, the causes and effects of the American Revolution, the creation of the Constitution, and the expansion and transformation of the new nation. Emphasis is placed on major political, economic, social, and cultural developments, including slavery, westward expansion, sectional conflict, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Through primary and secondary sources, students will analyze pivotal events and figures that shaped the foundations of the United States.
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The American Pageant 15th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Q1) Which of the following is the false concept,which held that the Spanish conquerors merely tortured and butchered the Indians,stole their gold,infected them with smallpox,and left little but misery behind?
A) Dark Myth
B) European Legend
C) Black Legend
D) Spanish Myth
E) Tragic Death
Answer: C
Q2) The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of A) similar mountain ranges on the various continents.
B) nearly identical species of fish in long-separated freshwater lakes throughout the world.
C) marsupials on the various continents.
D) the continued shifting of the earth's crust.
E) geological evidence of soil samples common among all continents.
Answer: B
Q3) ____ England
Answer: 5
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Q1) Identify the statement that is false.
A) England's victory over the Spanish Armada helped ensure England's naval dominance in the North Atlantic.
B) England never experienced any religious unity or stability as it continued to have years and years of bloody warfare over religious radicalism.
C) England's victory over the Spanish Armada started England on its way to becoming master of the world oceans.
D) England had a strong, unified national state under a popular monarch.
E) England had a strong vibrant sense of nationalism and national destiny.
Answer: B
Q2) In 1650,Virginia counted only 300 blacks in its population,although by the end of the century,blacks,most of them enslaved,made up approximately ____ percent of the colony's population.
A) 6
B) 14
C) 25
D) 56
E) 73
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) General Court
Answer: The General Court was the legislative and judicial body of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1629 to 1692. It was made up of the governor, deputy governor, and freemen of the colony, who were elected representatives from each town. The General Court had the power to make laws, levy taxes, and serve as the highest court of appeals.
The historical significance of the General Court lies in its role in shaping the early government and legal system of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was a key institution in the establishment of the colony's Puritan government and played a central role in the development of early American democracy. The General Court also had a significant impact on the legal and political traditions that would later influence the formation of the United States government.
Additionally, the General Court was involved in several important events in early American history, including the Salem witch trials and the establishment of Harvard College. Its decisions and actions helped to shape the social, political, and legal landscape of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and had a lasting impact on the development of the American colonies.
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
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Q1) Indentured servants in the seventeenth century Chesapeake represented
A) one tenth of the population.
B) one-fourth of the population.
C) half of the population.
D) three-quarters of the population.
E) 85% of the population.
Q2) Bacon's Rebellion
Q3) Write your definition of mass hysteria.Then use this definition to argue that the Salem witchcraft episode was or was not a simple case of mass hysteria.
Q4) Which of the following are products of the American slave culture?
A) Jazz
B) The Christian belief in obedience
C) Several modern American dances
D) The development of an American form of Islam
E) A new language, Gullah
Q5) William Berkeley
Q6) freedom dues
Q7) headright system
Q8) indentured servitude Page 6
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5: Colonial Society on the Eve of
Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) The religious doctrine of the Arminians held that A) predestination determined a person's eternal fate.
B) good works could get you into heaven.
C) Calvin's ideas should be followed without question.
D) emotion had no place in religion.
E) individual free will determined a person's eternal fate.
Q2) naval stores
Q3) To the Puritans,education was essential for A) reading the Bible.
B) enforcing Christian laws and customs.
C) creating good citizens.
D) writing inspiring sermons.
E) training future ministers.
Q4) George Whitefield
Q5) Benjamin West
Q6) Charles Wilson Peale
Q7) John Trumbull
Q8) Andrew Hamilton
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Q1) Edward Braddock
Q2) ____ Hudson Bay
Q3) Compare and contrast the reasons for unity and the reasons for disunity in the American colonies before and after the Seven Years' War.
Q4) The primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New France was
A) farming.
B) fishing.
C) mining.
D) fur trapping.
E) rum manufacturing.
Q5) In a sense,the history of the United States began with the A) Revolutionary War.
B) July 4, 1776, signing of the Declaration of Independence.
C) Boston Tea Party.
D) founding of the first colony in 1607.
E) fall of Quebec and Montreal.
Q6) William Pitt
Q7) New France
Q8) Fort Duquesne
Q9) Samuel de Champlain
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q2) British East India Company
Q3) Regarding American independence
A) a majority of Americans supported the cause selflessly.
B) most of the American business community sacrificed profit for victory.
C) France gave little assistance.
D) only a select minority supported independence with selfless devotion.
E) Spain was in total opposition.
Q4) First Continental Congress
Q5) Republican belief held that the stability of society and the authority of the government
A) rested with the legislature.
B) depended on a strong hierarchical culture.
C) rested with a strong monarchy.
D) rested on an interdependence of all citizens.
E) depended on the virtue of its citizenry.
Q6) The Association
Q7) It might be said that it was the British who were revolutionaries in 1763 and the colonists who were conservatives attempting to preserve the status quo.Explain.
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Q1) The Revolutionary War began with fighting in ____; then in 1777-1778,fighting was concentrated in ____; and the fighting concluded in ____.
A) the South, the middle colonies, New England
B) the middle colonies, New England, the South
C) New England, the South, the middle colonies
D) New England, the middle colonies, the South
E) the middle colonies, the South, New England
Q2) As commander of America's Revolutionary army,George Washington exhibited all of the following except
A) military genius.
B) courage.
C) a sense of justice.
D) moral force.
E) patience.
Q3) The Battle of Saratoga was a key victory for the Americans because it
A) brought the British to offer recognition of colonial independence.
B) brought the colonists much-needed aid and a formal alliance with France.
C) prevented the fighting from spreading into the southern colonies.
D) prevented the colonial capital from being captured by the British.
E) kept Benedict Arnold from joining the British.
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) The issue that finally touched off the movement toward the Constitutional Convention was
A) control of public lands.
B) control of commerce.
C) Indian policy.
D) monetary policy.
E) foreign threats to our independence.
Q2) The Founders failed to eliminate slavery because
A) they did not truly believe in democracy.
B) a fight over slavery might destroy national unity.
C) they were more concerned with securing equality for women.
D) the North, as its industry expanded, began to rely more heavily on slave labor.
E) economic conditions would not allow such a loss.
Q3) confederation
Q4) Historian Charles Beard described the Constitution as the "reactionary" phase of the Revolutionary era.What did he mean by this,and what could have led him to this conclusion?
Q5) "three-fifths compromise"
Q6) primogeniture
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Q2) excise tax
Q3) Assess the validity of the following statement: "It was fortunate for the Republic that the Federalists had the helm [control of the government] for a time." Do you agree? Why or why not?
Q4) funding at par
Q5) All of the following are accurate descriptions of the young American nation except
A) its population was still about 90 percent rural, despite the flourishing cities.
B) the first official census of 1790 recorded almost 4 million people.
C) all but 5 percent of the people lived east of the Appalachian Mountains.
D) most of the population lived in the eastern seaboard cities.
E) foreign visitors looked down at the roughness and crudity of the pioneering life.
Q6) Democratic-Republicans
Q7) John Adams called his peaceful resolution of the problems with France in 1800 "the most splendid diamond in my crown." Why did he think so? Was his pride justified? Why or why not?
Q8) ____ Ohio
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Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812
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Q2) The British policy of impressment was a kind of
A) naval blockade.
B) economic boycott.
C) forced enlistment.
D) diplomatic pressure.
E) punishment for the United States.
Q3) ____ Oregon Country
Q4) President James Madison made a major foreign-policy mistake when he
A) accepted Napoleon's promise to repeal its trade restrictions.
B) failed to suppress the war hawks in his own party.
C) permitted Napoleon to offer financial aid to the United States.
D) began compromising away America's neutral rights.
E) tried to use Russia as a counterweight to Britain and France.
Q5) The British impressed American sailors into the British navy because A) the Americans took the Chesapeake.
B) they needed more men.
C) Parliament passed a law.
D) of the XYZ affair.
E) they wanted to punish the United States.
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) Select two of the following and explain what important contributions to American nationalism after the War of 1812 they made: John Marshall,Daniel Webster,Henry Clay,and John Quincy Adams? Justify your selection.
Q2) The Battle of New Orleans
A) resulted in one more American defeat.
B) helped the United States to win the War of 1812.
C) saw British troops defeated by Andrew Jackson's soldiers.
D) prevented America from taking Canada.
E) resulted in Louisiana becoming part of the United States.
Q3) ____ West Florida
Q4) The rapid growth and development of the West after 1815 were stimulated by
A) the lure of cheap lands to easterners and European immigrants.
B) construction of new roads through the mountains into the West.
C) the subduing of the Indian tribes during the War of 1812.
D) the abolition of slavery from western territories.
E) the Spanish leaving California.
Q5) Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of Henry Clay's "American System." What was the basis of support and opposition for this proposal?
Q6) Fletcher v.Peck
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) Most of the early American settlers in Texas came from
A) New England.
B) the South and Southwest.
C) the Old Northwest.
D) the middle Atlantic states.
E) the Ohio Territory.
Q2) The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was
A) hatred of Andrew Jackson.
B) support of the American System.
C) opposition to the Anti-Masonic party.
D) the desire for a strong president.
E) opposition to the tariff.
Q3) Stephen F.Austin's grant from the Mexican government required that immigrants whom he helped settle in Texas
A) become Mexican citizens.
B) be Roman Catholics.
C) not own slaves.
D) be willing to make their settlements self-governing.
E) serve a short time in the Mexican army.
Q4) Tariff of 1832
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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860
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Q1) Compare and contrast the economic development of the Northeast with that of the South.What were some of the reasons that caused those differences in development?
Q2) The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called A) the cult of domesticity.
B) nativism.
C) racism.
D) rugged individualism.
E) patriotism.
Q3) Tammany Hall
Q4) Assess the validity of the following statement,"The cotton gin affected not only the history of America but that of the world."
Q5) Cyrus McCormick
Q6) ____ Lake Michigan
Q7) By 1850,America's factory system was producing A) textiles.
B) boots and shoes.
C) firearms.
D) steel.
E) sewing machines.
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) The Second Great Awakening tended to
A) promote religious diversity.
B) reduce social class differences.
C) blur regional differences.
D) discourage church membership.
E) weaken women's social position.
Q2) Of the following,the most successful of the early-nineteenth-century communitarian experiments was at
A) Brook Farm, Massachusetts.
B) Oneida, New York.
C) New Harmony, Indiana.
D) Seneca Falls, New York.
E) Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Q3) One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was
A) James Russell Lowell.
B) Henry David Thoreau.
C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
D) Edgar Allan Poe.
E) Walt Whitman.
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin
A) fewer slaves were needed on the plantations.
B) short-staple cotton lost popularity.
C) slavery was reinvigorated.
D) Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery.
E) the African slave trade was legalized.
Q2) In society's basement in the South of 1860 were nearly ____ million black human chattels.
A) 1
B) 2
C) 4
D) 8
E) 10
Q3) For free blacks living in the North
A) living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites.
B) voting rights were widespread.
C) good jobs were plentiful.
D) education opened the door to economic opportunity.
E) discrimination was common.
Q4) Gag Resolution
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) During the Mexican War,the Polk administration was called on several times to respond to spot resolutions,indicating where American blood had been shed to provoke the war.The resolutions were frequently introduced by
A) Abraham Lincoln.
B) Henry Clay.
C) Robert Walker.
D) David Wilmot.
E) Lewis Cass.
Q2) The first Old World Europeans to come to California were
A) Russians.
B) French.
C) Dutch.
D) English.
E) Spanish.
Q3) When the war with Mexico began,President James K.Polk
A) advocated taking all of Mexico.
B) believed the British would intervene on behalf of the Americans.
C) hoped to fight a limited war, ending with the conquest of California.
D) supported a large-scale conflict.
E) denied any intention of expanding slavery.
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) Compromise of 1850
Q2) With the discovery of gold near Sutter's Mill,California,in 1848,all of the following took place except
A) miners and adventurers from around the world came to California.
B) most of the first wave of miners struck it rich with lucrative diggings of gold.
C) many travelers to California faced illness and deadly fevers.
D) people providing laundry and other personal services for miners made a fortune by charging high prices.
E) crime soared in California due to the large number of lawless men and virtueless women who arrived there.
Q3) The public liked popular sovereignty because it
A) stopped the spread of slavery.
B) fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination.
C) provided a national solution to the problem of slavery.
D) supported the Wilmot Proviso.
E) upheld the principles of white supremacy.
Q4) To what extent was there a reassertion of Manifest Destiny in the 1850s? What were the goals of America's diplomacy at the time?
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) The central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was
A) popular sovereignty.
B) expansionism.
C) proslavery.
D) abolitionism.
E) nativism.
Q2) Assess the validity of the following statement,"It was probably fortunate for the Union that secession and civil war did not come in 1856,following a Republican victory."
Q3) Nativists in the 1850s were known for their
A) support of Native Americans (Indians).
B) support of slavery.
C) opposition to old-stock Protestants.
D) anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes.
E) opposition to alcohol and Sabbath-breaking.
Q4) John C.Fremont
Q5) Dred Scott decision
Q6) Rank the following in order of their importance to the coming of the Civil War: Kansas-Nebraska Act,Dred Scott decision,John Brown's raid,and Lincoln's election.Justify your ranking.
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
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Q2) In order to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union,President Lincoln
A) relied solely on moral appeal.
B) used only totally legal methods.
C) guaranteed that they could keep slavery permanently.
D) never had to use troops.
E) used legally dubious methods.
Q3) The Civil War was a women's war in all of the following ways except A) as men left for war, women gained new job opportunities in government.
B) military demand for shoes and clothing drew women into industrial employment.
C) women were encouraged to run for office to fill political posts abandoned by men.
D) women aided men on the battlefront as spies or by posing as male soldiers
E) women were able to professionalize nursing.
Q4) King Cotton
Q5) Abraham Lincoln
Q6) Border States
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Q7) During the Civil War,many poor Southerners complained that it was a rich man's war but a poor man's fight.On what basis did they make this complaint? Could Northerners have made the same accusation for the same reason? Explain.
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) George B.McClellan,commander of the Army of the Potomac,is best described as
A) disliked by his own men.
B) aggressive.
C) overly cautious.
D) poorly prepared for military leadership.
E) poorly organized.
Q2) After defeating McClellan at the Second Battle of Bull Run,Robert E.Lee decided to
A) consolidate his forces to protect the Confederate capital.
B) send Jeb Stuart's calvary to raid northern lines.
C) invade the Union via Maryland.
D) call for a ceasefire and peace negotiations.
E) shift some of his troops to the Tennessee and Kentucky fronts.
Q3) The Civil War resulted in all of the following except
A) expanded federal powers of taxation.
B) the end of nullification and secession.
C) the creation of the first federal social welfare agency.
D) the end of slavery.
E) the end of protective tariffs and isolationism.
Q4) George B.Meade
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Q1) Radical Republican leaders in Congress included
A) Congressman Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania.
B) Senator William Seward of New York.
C) Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.
D) Senator Alexander Stephens of Georgia.
E) Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi.
Q2) carpetbaggers
Q3) The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was
A) passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
B) the creation of the sharecropping system.
C) the attempt to pass the Fourteenth Amendment.
D) the South's regaining control of the Senate.
E) Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau.
Q4) The Fourteenth Amendment is commonly referred to as one of the most important additions to the Constitution.Why?
Q5) Redeemers
Q6) Tenure of Office Act
Q7) William Seward
Q8) sharecropping
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Q1) Tom Watson
Q2) When he was president,Grover Cleveland's strong belief in a laissez-faire approach to government gained the support of A) former Confederates in the South.
B) veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic. C) farmers.
D) workers.
E) businesspeople.
Q3) pork-barrel bills
Q4) How could the Populists have broadened their platform to appeal to both black farmers and the white industrial working class?
Q5) Jim Crow
Q6) Horatio Seymour
Q7) Chester A.Arthur
Q8) "Redeemers"
Q9) Civil Rights Cases
Q10) crop-lien system
Q11) Colored Farmers' National Alliance
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) Business leaders of the late nineteenth century have been characterized both as greedy and unscrupulous robber barons and as great captains of industry whose entrepreneurial skill and tactics produced economic growth.Which view do you find more persuasive? Why?
Q2) In its efforts on behalf of workers,the National Labor Union won
A) an eight-hour day for all workers.
B) government arbitration for industrial disputes.
C) equal pay for women.
D) an eight-hour day for government workers.
E) the right to collective bargaining.
Q3) Compare and contrast the National Labor Union,Knights of Labor,and American Federation of Labor in regard to their origins,goals,and leadership.Account for the failure of the first two and for the success of the AFL.
Q4) craft union
Q5) yellow dog contract
Q6) Jay Gould
Q7) trust
Q8) "survival of the fittest"
Q9) plutocracy
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q2) In the late nineteenth century,orthodox Protestant churches were being challenged by
A) the theories of Charles Darwin.
B) the mounting emphasis on materialism.
C) fundamentalist insistence on a literal interpretation of the Bible.
D) the social doctrines of Catholicism and Judaism.
E) African Americans' rejection of Christianity.
Q3) The public library movement across America was greatly aided by the generous financial support from
A) the federal government's Morrill Act.
B) Andrew Carnegie.
C) John D. Rockefeller.
D) local "friends of the library."
E) women's organizations.
Q4) The Nation
Q5) Women and Economics
Q6) Which post-Civil War writers best reflected the social concerns of the new urban age? Which writers reflected a nostalgic interest in the American or European past? Which tendency do you admire most,and why?
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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural
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Q1) Explain the ultimate defeat of the Plains Indians by whites.Select and discuss at least three major reasons for the decline of the Plains culture; then tell which you think was the most important and why.
Q2) Gold Standard Act
Q3) President Grover Cleveland justified federal intervention in the Pullman strike of 1894 on the grounds that
A) the union's leader, Eugene V. Debs, was a socialist.
B) strikes against railroads were illegal.
C) the strikers were engaging in violent attacks on railroad property.
D) shutting down the railroads threatened American national security.
E) the strike was preventing the transit of U.S. mail.
Q4) Yellowstone
Q5) The bitter conflict between whites and Indians intensified
A) during the Civil War.
B) as a result of vigilante justice.
C) when big business took over the mining industry.
D) as the mining frontier expanded.
E) after the Battle of Wounded Knee.
Q6) Oliver H.Kelley
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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Q1) In his book,Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis,the Reverend Josiah Strong advocated American expansion to
A) maintain the international balance of power.
B) open up new markets for industrial goods.
C) spread American religion and values to backward nations.
D) ease labor violence at home.
E) demonstrate and maintain white racial superiority.
Q2) William Randolph Hearst
Q3) The near-war between the United States and Britain over the Venezuela boundary crisis ultimately resulted in
A) a brief war between Venezuela and British Guiana.
B) British concession of the disputed territory to Venezuela.
C) stationing United States marines along the disputed border.
D) a growing diplomatic reconciliation between the two English-speaking countries.
E) a naval arms race between the United States and Britain.
Q4) "Little Brown Brothers"
Q5) What do you consider the most important domestic and foreign-policy consequences of the Spanish-American War? Why?
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican
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Q1) Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because
A) William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's progressive policies.
B) Taft decided not to run for a second term.
C) Woodrow Wilson appeared to be a very strong Democratic candidate.
D) Senator Robert La Follette encouraged him to do so.
E) the Democratic party was split.
Q2) Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?
A) Ending special regulations governing women in the workplace
B) Preventing child labor in factories and sweatshops
C) Ensuring that food products were healthy and safe
D) Attacking tuberculosis and other diseases bred in slum tenements
E) Creating child care subsidies for working mothers with preschool children
Q3) The Supreme Court's rule of reason in antitrust law was handed down in a case involving
A) Northern Securities.
B) United States Steel.
C) General Electric.
D) Armour Meat-Packing.
E) Standard Oil.
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q2) Eugene V.Debs
Q3) In 1912,Woodrow Wilson became the first ____ elected to the presidency since the Civil War.
A) person born in the South
B) Democrat
C) lawyer
D) non-Civil War veteran
E) Methodist
Q4) Sixteenth Amendment
Q5) ____ Three nations associated as the Allies at the outbreak of World War I.
Q6) Francisco Villa
Q7) As World War I began in Europe,the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungary as leaders of the ____,while Russia and France were among the ____.
A) Central Powers; Holy Alliance
B) Central Powers; Triple Alliance
C) Allies; Central Powers
D) Triple Alliance; Central Powers
E) Central Powers; Allies
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the American people to enter World War I by A) appealing to America's tradition of intervention in Europe.
B) convincing the public of the need to make the world safe from the German submarine.
C) declaring it a crusade to "make the world safe for democracy."
D) demonstrating how American national security would be threatened by a German victory.
E) insisting that the war would be fought primarily by the navy.
Q2) President Wilson's position at the Paris Peace Conference was weakened by
A) his refusal to attend the conference personally.
B) Republican party victories in the 1918 midterm elections.
C) his lack of popular support among people outside the United States.
D) his failure to appoint a leading Senate Republican to the conference delegation.
E) his paralyzing stroke.
Q3) Eugene V.Debs
Q4) Based on the chapter and "Varying Viewpoints," why is it fair to say that the issue of Wilsonianism has dominated discussions of American foreign policy from that time to the present?
Q5) League of Nations
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Chapter 31: American Life in the "Roaring
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Q2) Frederick W.Taylor,a prominent inventor and engineer,was best known for his
A) development of the gasoline engine.
B) thoughts on Darwinian evolution.
C) efforts to clean up polluted cities.
D) promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management.
E) concern for worker safety.
Q3) Jazz music was developed by
A) Latinos.
B) Caribbean immigrants.
C) Caucasian impresarios.
D) American teenagers.
E) American blacks.
Q4) Businesspeople used the red scare to
A) establish closed shops throughout the nation.
B) break the backs of fledgling unions.
C) break the railroad strike of 1919.
D) secure passage of laws making unions illegal.
E) refuse to hire communists.
Q5) William Jennings Bryan
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Q2) John W.Davis
Q3) Many historians now believe that Herbert Hoover has been unfairly maligned as the villain of the Great Depression.What blame,if any,does Hoover deserve for the economic collapse and the suffering of the public? Why does the text state that Hoover was caught "on the horns of a cruel dilemma"?
Q4) After the initial shock of the Harding scandals,many Americans reacted by
A) demanding that all those involved be sent to prison.
B) excusing some of the wrongdoers on the grounds that "they had gotten away with it."
C) demanding the impeachment of the president.
D) suggesting that Harding resign the presidency so that Calvin Coolidge could take control.
E) calling for a thorough Congressional investigation.
Q5) Dawes Plan
Q6) "Hoovercrats"
Q7) Bonus Army
Q8) steel strike of 1919
Q9) Teapot Dome
Q10) Washington Disarmament Conference
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939
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A) had lost most of its momentum.
B) turned more toward direct relief than social reform.
C) had plainly failed to achieve its objectives.
D) had won over the majority of business people to its policies.
E) was prepared to embark on ambitious new initiatives.
Q2) Cite at least three New Deal programs that clearly derived from the early-twentieth-century progressive era.Also,explain how government action during World War I itself can be viewed as a precursor to the New Deal.
Q3) Huey Long
Q4) Public Works Administration
Q5) Is it accurate to say that Franklin Roosevelt should actually be regarded as a savior of the capitalist system and a hero to American business? Why or why not?
Q6) Works Progress Administration
Q7) Alfred M.Landon
Q8) Dust Bowl
Q9) Francis Townsend
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q1) In the 1940 presidential election campaign,both President Roosevelt and the Republican candidate,Wendell Willkie,agreed that the
A) United States should supply military aid to Britain and the Allies.
B) United States should actively find a way to enter the war.
C) United States should strengthen its defenses.
D) New Deal should be abandoned.
E) U.S. military should directly aid China.
Q2) In 1940,Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie avoided deepening the sharp divisions among the American people when he
A) avoided attacking the New Deal.
B) refused to raise the racial issue.
C) declined to criticize Roosevelt for seeking a third term.
D) avoided attacking the draft.
E) avoided attacking Roosevelt for his increasingly interventionist policies.
Q3) ____ The nation that,when invaded in 1939,touched off the formal onset of World War II.
Q4) the Holocaust
Q5) Good Neighbor policy
Q6) "merchants of death"
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Chapter 35: America in World War II,1941-1945
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Q2) During World War II,American Indians
A) demanded that President Roosevelt end discrimination in defense industries.
B) rarely enlisted in the armed forces.
C) moved south to replace African American laborers.
D) moved off reservations in large numbers.
E) promoted recovery of tribal languages.
Q3) Overall,most ethnic groups in the United States during World War II
A) were further assimilated into American society.
B) were not allowed to serve in the military.
C) had their patriotism questioned as in World War I.
D) cast their vote for Republican candidates opposed to the war.
E) served in ethnically distinct military units.
Q4) Manhattan Project
Q5) Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
Q6) Joseph Stalin
Q7) Henry Stimson
Q8) kamikazes
Q9) Thomas E.Dewey
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Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins,1945-1952
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Q2) The long economic boom from World War II to about 1970 was especially fueled by A) low energy costs.
B) reduced military expenditures.
C) low inflation.
D) low taxes.
E) a more highly educated work force.
Q3) Cold War
Q4) Normally,divisions or a split in a major political party spells certain defeat for its presidential candidate.Harry Truman was able to overcome a three-Democratic split in 1948,What explains his surprising underdog victory? Would Truman have won against any opponent besides Thomas Dewey?
Q5) Was the Cold War inevitable? Why or why not? If so,at what point did it become inevitable?
Q6) The continued growth of the suburbs led to A) increased school integration.
B) better entertainment opportunities in the cities.
C) an increase in urban poverty.
D) a decrease in urban crime.
E) more efficient transportation.
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Q1) Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the
A) isolationists.
B) liberal Republicans.
C) hard-line anticommunists.
D) moderate Republicans.
E) southern Republicans.
Q2) white collar/blue collar
Q3) Two postwar American fiction writers,who explored the problems and anxieties of affluence,were
A) John Updike and John Cheever.
B) Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.
C) Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller.
D) Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin.
E) Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor.
Q4) Brown v.Board of Education
Q5) John F.Kennedy
Q6) Describe the literary flowering of post-World War II America.How did that culture reflect new voices of African Americans,southerners,and Jews?
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Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968
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Q1) How did the cultural and social upheavals of the 1960s alter American religion and values?
Q2) The Alliance for Progress,which intended to improve economic growth and democratic reforms in Latin America,was
A) effectively implemented by American Peace Corps volunteers.
B) effective economically but ineffective in developing pro-American sentiment in the region.
C) generally disappointing.
D) weakened by the Kennedy administration's harsh policies toward Cuba.
E) an incentive for growing Soviet intervention in the region.
Q3) credibility gap
Q4) Opponents of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act calculated that
A) they had enough votes from senators and congressmen opposed to racial equality to tank the bill.
B) it would fail because liberals would not be able to support legislation that would end laws that gave women special protections.
C) it would be derailed by the inclusion of sexual orientation in the new law.
D) discrimination in hiring would not be eliminated by this law.
E) None of these
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Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980
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Q1) What was the essential goal of the Nixon-Kissinger policy of détente with the Soviet Union and China? Did the policy achieve its essential goals?
Q2) Perhaps Richard Nixon's most valuable asset as he began his presidency in 1969 was his
A) naturally conciliatory manner.
B) inclination to try to work openly with antiwar liberals to halt the Vietnam War.
C) close connection with former President Eisenhower.
D) clear mandate from the public as a result of his 1968 election victory.
E) expertise in foreign affairs.
Q3) American Indian activists brought attention to their cause in the 1970s by seizing
A) the Little Big Horn battleground and Mount Rushmore in the sacred Black Hills.
B) Alcatraz Island and Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
C) the major tribal headquarters throughout Oklahoma.
D) salmon fishing grounds in Washington and trout streams in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
E) the Tippecanoe battlefield and Mesa Verde National Park.
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Q2) Walter Mondale
Q3) Many of the movement conservatives of the new religious right gained political effectiveness by imitating the methods of
A) the prophets in the Bible.
B) the 1960s New Left.
C) corporate advertisers.
D) Third World guerrillas.
E) big city political machines.
Q4) Jerry Falwell
Q5) Conservative Democrats who helped Ronald Reagan to pass his budget and tax-cutting legislation were called
A) blue dogs.
B) sagebrush rebels.
C) scalawags.
D) neoconservatives.
E) boll weevils.
Q6) Ronald Reagan
Q7) Grenada
Q8) Irving Kristol
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Chapter 41: America Confronts the Post-Cold War
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Q2) Which of the following was not among the areas where President Clinton's foreign policy stumbled in the first years of his presidency?
A) Human rights and trade with China
B) American troops in Somalia
C) Bringing democracy to Haiti
D) Ethnic conflict in the Balkans
E) Relations with America's allies Germany and France
Q3) "ethnic cleansing"
Q4) "axis of evil"
Q5) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Q6) globalization
Q7) In June 2004,the United States handed over ____ to the new interim government of Iraq.
A) the Abu Ghraib prison
B) political power and limited sovereignty
C) former dictator Saddam Hussein
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D) captured weapons of mass destruction
E) militant Islamic rebels and insurgents
Q8) September 11,2001
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Chapter 42: The American People Face a New Century
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A) gained powerful political momentum through the support of the Catholic Church.
B) won strong support from most elements of his Republican party.
C) pleased almost no one and failed to pass Congress.
D) was welcome by most immigrants and their advocates.
E) sharply divided immigrant groups between those favoring and those opposing it.
Q2) Cesar Chavez
Q3) By 2002,approximately ____ percent of African Americans lived in central cities.
A) 10
B) 52
C) 25
D) 75
E) 90
Q4) Compare the social,economic,and political experiences of African Americans and Latinos since the 1970s.
Q5) Condoleezza Rice
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