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American Studies is an interdisciplinary course that explores the history, culture, society, and politics of the United States from its founding to the present day. The course examines key themes such as national identity, race and ethnicity, gender, immigration, and the development of American social and political institutions. Students critically analyze a variety of sources, including literature, film, art, historical documents, and popular media, to gain a deeper understanding of the complex and diverse experiences that have shaped American life. By integrating perspectives from history, literature, sociology, and other disciplines, the course aims to foster an informed and nuanced understanding of the United States and its global influence.
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The American Pageant 15th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Q1) Europeans learned of the great wealth of Asia from
A) Christian Crusaders.
B) the voyages of Norse explorers.
C) Marco Polo's report of his travels.
D) the voyages of Christopher Columbus.
E) Muslim traders.
Answer: A,C,E
Q2) Which of these statements does NOT describe mestizos?
A) They were the offspring of Spanish conquistadores who married Indian women.
B) They were the pagan slaves of Cortes' soldiers.
C) They formed a cultural and biological bridge between Latin America's European and Indian peoples.
D) They were considered a "new race."
E) All of these
Answer: B
Q3) ____ Asia
Answer: 9
Q4) ____ England
Answer: 5
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Q1) Georgia's founders were determined to
A) conquer Florida and add it to Britain's empire.
B) create a haven for people imprisoned for debt.
C) keep Georgia for Catholics.
D) restrict the colony to British citizens.
E) establish slavery.
Answer: B
Q2) By 1750,all the southern plantation colonies
A) based their economies on the production of staple crops for export.
B) practiced slavery.
C) provided tax support for the Church of England.
D) had few large cities.
E) All of these
Answer: E
Q3) ____ Georgia
Answer: 4
Q4) ____ Pennsylvania
Answer: 1
Q5) ____ Chesapeake Bay
Answer: 9
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) Factors leading to the first major European migration include
A) a population explosion.
B) economic depression.
C) better quality oceangoing vessels.
D) religious repression.
E) the use of African slaves.
Answer: A,B,D
Q2) Plymouth Bay
Answer: Plymouth Bay is a natural harbor located in Massachusetts, USA. It is historically significant as the landing site of the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620. The Pilgrims established the Plymouth Colony, which was one of the first successful English settlements in North America. The Mayflower Compact, a key document in American history, was signed by the Pilgrims upon their arrival in Plymouth Bay. This compact established a form of self-government and is considered an early precursor to the Constitution of the United States. Plymouth Bay is also a symbol of the early interactions between European settlers and Native American tribes, particularly the Wampanoag people who played a crucial role in helping the Pilgrims survive their first winter. Today, Plymouth Bay is a popular tourist destination and a site of historical significance, with landmarks such as Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower II attracting visitors from around the world.
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) At the bottom of the social class in the South were the
A) landless farmers.
B) indentured servants.
C) small farmers.
D) slaves.
E) tenant farmers.
Q2) Over the course of the seventeenth century,most indentured servants
A) became landowners.
B) devolved into slavery.
C) managed to escape the terms of their contracts.
D) faced increasingly harsh circumstances.
E) saw their wages increase.
Q3) As slavery spread in the South
A) social differences within society narrowed.
B) the great plantation owners worked less.
C) gaps in the social structure widened.
D) planters tried to imitate the ways of English country gentlemen.
E) it also increased dramatically in New England.
Q4) Bacon's Rebellion
Q5) Nathaniel Bacon
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Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) Colonial American taverns were all of the following except
A) frequented mainly by the lower class.
B) another cradle of democracy.
C) hotbeds of agitation for the Revolutionary movement.
D) important in crystallizing public opinion.
E) places providing amusements.
Q2) Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance,they did produce which of the following?
A) Rum
B) Beaver hats
C) Lumber
D) Iron
E) All of these
Q3) Did differences in wealth and status in the colonies increase or diminish from 1700 to 1750? Explain.
Q4) ____ Rum
Q5) John Peter Zenger
Q6) Paxton Boys
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Q7) ____ Tobacco,fish,lumber,and flour for British textiles
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Chapter 6: The Duel for North America,1608-1763
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Q1) The Seven Years' War was also known in America as A) the War of Jenkins's Ear.
B) the French and Indian War.
C) the War of the Austrian Succession.
D) King William's War.
E) Queen Anne's War.
Q2) Benjamin Franklin
Q3) What was the Proclamation of 1763-how was it viewed by America and how was it viewed by England? What caused this difference in perception?
Q4) When William Pitt became prime minister during the Seven Years' War,he
A) ended Parliament's practice of reimbursing the colonies for their war-related expenditures.
B) ordered a full-scale assault on the French West Indies.
C) relied heavily on the older, more cautious generals in the British Army.
D) focused his military strategy on the Quebec-Montreal area.
E) remained popular with the wealthy but not the poor.
Q5) Proclamation of 1763
Q6) Samuel de Champlain
Q7) Jesuits
Q8) Louisbourg
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution,1763-1775
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Q1) The first Navigation Laws were designed to
A) help colonists get the best possible price for their trade goods.
B) eliminate Dutch shippers from the American carrying trade.
C) foster a colonial economy that would offer healthy competition with Britain's.
D) encourage agricultural experimentation in the colonies.
E) support the mapping of the Atlantic trade routes.
Q2) All of the following were direct benefits reaped by the Americans from the mercantile system of Britain except
A) British allowed the Americans to freely trade with other countries and compete on the open market.
B) London paid high prices for ship parts to American producers.
C) Virginia tobacco planters enjoyed a monopoly in the British market.
D) protection of the world's mightiest navy and army without a penny of cost.
E) some British merchants were not allowed to compete with the American colonial merchants.
Q3) Abigail Adams
Q4) mercantilism
Q5) Loyalists
Q6) Marquis de Lafayette
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Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) Thomas Paine argued that all government officials A) were corrupt.
B) should derive their authority from popular consent.
C) should be part of a "natural aristocracy."
D) need not listen to the voice of the uneducated.
E) should not be paid for their service.
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 colonists suffered their heaviest losses of the Revolutionary War at the Battle of A) Charleston.
B) Cowpens.
C) Valley Forge.
D) Long Island.
E) Brandywine Creek.
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) Adopted almost a decade before the federal constitution,the ____ constitution remains the longest-lived in the world.
A) Massachusetts
B) Virginia
C) Maryland
D) Rhode Island
E) Connecticut
Q2) The antifederalist camp included all of the following groups except
A) supporters of a strong central authority.
B) states' rights supporters.
C) backcountry dwellers.
D) paper money advocates.
E) debtors.
Q3) According to the text's authors,"In some respects,the hated British Navigation Laws were more disagreeable after independence than before." What is the basis for their conclusion?
Q4) checks and balances
Q5) nonimportation agreements
Q6) civic virtue
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt
A) would do great harm to the nation's economy.
B) might lead to military weakness.
C) could persuade individuals and nations not to lend money to the United States.
D) was beneficial, because people to whom the government owed money would work hard to make the nation a success.
E) could help his economic plans but not his political plans.
Q2) Judiciary Act of 1789
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)
____ Old Northwest
Q5) The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Pennsylvania when the federal government
A) levied an excise tax on whiskey.
B) tried to prohibit the sale of whiskey.
C) allowed the import of foreign whiskey.
D) halted the export of American whiskey.
E) tried to prohibit the manufacturing of whiskey.
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11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian
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Q1) Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it
A) moved the United States away from its democratic ideals.
B) marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties.
C) occurred after he left the presidency.
D) caused America to do what the British had been doing for a generation regarding the election of a legislative body.
E) was in no way a revolution.
Q2) judicial review
Q3) Aaron Burr
Q4) James Madison
Q5) John Marshall
Q6) The case of Marbury v.Madison involved the question of who had the right to A) commit the United States to entangling alliances.
B) impeach federal officers for "high crimes and misdemeanors."
C) determine the meaning of the Constitution.
D) purchase foreign territory for the United States.
E) appoint Supreme Court justices.
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Q7) ____ Original United States by Treaty of 1783
Q8) ____ Louisiana Purchase of 1803
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) ____ 36° 30'
Q2) Britain opposed Spain's reestablishing its authority in Latin American countries that had successfully revolted because
A) Britain had now allied itself with France.
B) Britain had great sympathy toward democratic revolutions.
C) the United States had asked for such a policy.
D) the ports of these nations were now open to lucrative trade.
E) it wanted to take control of these nations.
Q3) ____ Detroit
Q4) When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment in response to Missouri's request for admission to the Union,the South thought that the amendment
A) would threaten the sectional balance.
B) might keep alive the institution of slavery.
C) would slow the growth of the West.
D) would silence the abolitionists.
E) would keep Maine out of the union.
Q5) Washington Irving
Q6) Gibbons v.Ogden
Q7) second Bank of the United States
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840
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Q1) In the 1820s and 1830s,the public's attitude regarding political parties
A) reflected the view of "a pox on both your houses."
B) was deeply ambivalent.
C) was more positive in the North and the South.
D) reflected growing acceptance of the wild contentiousness of political life.
E) was that they were the best expressions of political ideologies.
Q2) ____ Texas
Q3) Anti-Masonic party
Q4) Spanish authorities allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas because
A) they believed that Austin and his settlers might be able to civilize the territory.
B) they believed that the militarily powerful Austin would otherwise have taken the land by force.
C) Spanish control of the territory was a subject of dispute between Spain and the United States.
D) Spain planned to sell the land to the United States.
E) he paid them a sizeable sum of money.
Q5) spoils system
Q6) Black Hawk
Q7) Santa Anna
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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860
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Q1) The growth of industry and the factory system in the United States was slowed by
A) the high price of land.
B) the scarcity of labor.
C) limited investment capital.
D) a small domestic market.
E) weak incentives for new technology.
Q2) Explain the impact of the market revolution on American workers,including women.
Q3) Tammany Hall
Q4) rugged individualism
Q5) "twisting the lion's tail"
Q6) The growth of early-nineteenth-century American manufacturing was stimulated by the
A) War of 1812.
B) Peace of Ghent.
C) Louisiana Purchase.
D) Tariff of 1816.
E) rise of the Know-Nothing Party.
Q7) transportation revolution
Q8) industrial revolution
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) In early-nineteenth-century America,
A) the lines between male and female roles in society were becoming blurred.
B) women could not vote.
C) married women could not retain ownership of their property.
D) women were growing less aware of themselves as individuals and as one another's sisters.
E) women turned away from patriarchal religion.
Q2) American Temperance Society
Q3) Sylvester Graham
Q4) Hudson River School
Q5) Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through A) scientific observation and experiment.
B) the senses.
C) divine revelation.
D) reason, logic, and critical thinking.
E) an inner light.
Q6) Joseph Smith
Q7) The text's authors contend that early-nineteenth-century Americans "were more interested in practical gadgets than in pure science," and it is widely believed that Americans have always had a love affair with technology.Why?
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) All of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that
A) it relied on a one-crop economy.
B) it repelled a large-scale European immigration.
C) it stimulated racism among poor whites.
D) it created an aristocratic political elite.
E) its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers.
Q2) The pre-Civil War South was characterized by
A) a well-developed martial spirit.
B) the lack of free, tax-supported public education.
C) a widening gap between rich and poor.
D) a ruling planter aristocracy.
E) a growing hostility to free speech and a free press.
Q3) Slaves were
A) regarded primarily as financial investments by their owners.
B) the primary form of wealth in the South.
C) profitable for their owners.
D) often bred like cattle.
E) denied any kind of family life.
Q4) abolitionism
Q5) Sojourner Truth
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) "conscience" Whigs
Q2) One goal of Mexico in its 1846-1848 war with the United States was to A) demonstrate the strength of Latino culture.
B) regain control of Texas.
C) capture slaves and take them back to Mexico.
D) force America to make good on unpaid claims of damages to Mexican citizens.
E) humiliate the bullies of the North by invading the U.S. and freeing black slaves.
Q3) In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846,the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of
A) 42 .
B) 52 40'.
C) 54 40'.
D) 36 30'.
E) 49 .
Q4) Zachary Taylor
Q5) Manifest Destiny
Q6) Whigs
Q7) Winfield Scott
Q8) Walker Tariff
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) "fire eaters"
Q2) Fugitive Slave Law
Q3) ____ Nashville
Q4) Compare and contrast the views of Clay,Webster,and Calhoun in the congressional debate that produced the Compromise of 1850.
Q5) John C.Calhoun
Q6) Do you think that by the end of 1854 the two sections had reached an impasse and that Civil War was inevitable sooner or later? Why or why not?
Q7) The United States' victory in the Mexican War resulted in all of the following except
A) renewed controversy over the issue of extending slavery into the territories.
B) a possible split in the Whig and Democrat parties over slavery.
C) the cession by Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the United States.
D) a rush of settlers to new American territory in California.
E) acquisition of the Oregon territory.
Q8) ____ Kansas Territory
Q9) ____ Nebraska Territory
Q10) Explain the relationship between the Ostend Manifesto and the slavery controversy in the United States.
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) Harriet Beecher Stowe
Q2) Arrange these events in chronological order: (A)Dred Scott decision,(B)Lincoln-Douglas debates,(C)Kansas-Nebraska Act,and (D)Harpers Ferry raid.
A) A, C, B, D
B) B, D, C, A
C) C, A, B, D
D) D, B, A, C
E) A, C, D, B
Q3) As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin,many northerners
A) found the book's portrayal of slavery too extreme.
B) vowed to halt British and French efforts to help the Confederacy.
C) rejected Hinton Helper's picture of the South and slavery.
D) would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.
E) sent guns to antislavery settlers in Kansas ("Beecher's Bibles").
Q4) The roots of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery sentiments lay in the
A) evangelical religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening.
B) rationalist theories of the Enlightenment.
C) economic theories of Robert Owen and Karl Marx.
D) ideas of the Free Soil party.
E) feminist ideals of the Seneca Falls Convention.
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q1) The Southern cause was weakened by
A) the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed.
B) a president, Jefferson Davis, who catered to public opinion and did not work hard at his job.
C) the failure of the Southern people to commit to the ideal of Southern independence.
D) a lack of sound military leadership.
E) the constant threat of slave rebellion.
Q2) As president of the Confederacy,Jefferson Davis did not exercise the arbitrary power wielded by Abraham Lincoln because
A) of the South's emphasis on states' rights.
B) there was such strong agreement on policy in the South.
C) he did not believe in strong executive action.
D) Lee's insistence on keeping his army out of politics.
E) the Confederate Constitution gave him all the power he needed.
Q3) Alabama
Q4) To what extent was President Lincoln justified in his violations of ordinary civil liberties during the Civil War? Why or why not?
Q5) "Johnny Reb"
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) Edward Everett Hale
Q2) Southern slaves ran away to Union camps at the rate of
A) one in three.
B) one in four.
C) one in five.
D) one in six.
E) one in seven.
Q3) Battle of Vicksburg
Q4) As a result of the Union loss in the Peninsula Campaign
A) Lincoln named George McClellan commander of the Union forces.
B) the North decided to fight a war of containment.
C) Lincoln began to draft the Emancipation Proclamation.
D) Lincoln decided that the key to the war was controlling the Mississippi River.
E) the Union commanders were left without an overall military strategy.
Q5) The Civil War has also been called the "War Between the States" and the "War for Southern Independence." Which of the three titles do you find most apt? Why?
Q6) Battle of Fredericksburg
Q7) George Pickett
Q8) Second Battle of Bull Run
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Q1) Redeemers
Q2) Radical Reconstruction state governments
A) did little of value.
B) passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms.
C) were more corrupt than Northern state governments.
D) had all of their reforms repealed by the all-white "redeemer governments."
E) failed to address the issue of education.
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 white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as
A) a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.
B) an agency acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.
C) a valued partner in rebuilding the South.
D) more helpful in the North than the South.
E) a threat to state social service agencies.
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Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896
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Q1) contraction
Q2) During the Gilded Age,the Democrats and the Republicans
A) had few significant policy differences.
B) agreed on currency policy but not the tariff.
C) disagreed primarily over the power of the federal government.
D) held similar views on all economic issues except for civil-service reform.
E) were divided over silver vs. gold currency.
Q3) For one of only a few times in its history,the treasury showed a surplus in the 1880s.Why was this a problem?
Q4) "Redeemers"
Q5) Compromise of 1877
Q6) Farmers' Alliance
Q7) During the mid to late nineteenth century,Chinese women
A) did not emigrate to the United States at all.
B) settled mostly on the east coast,
C) were a large percentage of the immigrants to the U.S.
D) were few in number, and most became prostitutes.
E) competed with Irish women for jobs in domestic service.
Q8) "Mulligan letters"
Q9) "Crime of '73"
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Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900
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Q1) Which was most important to the rapid pace of American industrialization in the late nineteenth century: the abundance of raw materials,an integrated national market under the same governmental system,the organizational drive of American corporate leaders,or the creativity of American inventors? Defend your answer.
Q2) By 1900,American attitudes toward labor began to change as the public came to recognize the right of workers to bargain collectively and strike.Nevertheless
A) labor unions continued to decline in membership.
B) the American Federation of Labor failed to take advantage of the situation.
C) the vast majority of employers continued to fight organized labor.
D) Congress declared the AFL illegal.
E) workers began to turn to the Socialist party.
Q3) Two technological innovations that greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late nineteenth century were the
A) typewriter and the telephone.
B) electric light and the phonograph.
C) Bessemer steel process and the internal combustion engine.
D) streetcar and the bicycle.
E) electric refrigerator and stove.
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900
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Q1) Do you think that the United States needed laws restricting immigration in the nineteenth century? List the kinds of restrictions actually imposed and state whether you agree with each restriction.Why or why not?
Q2) Was the new morality and rising frankness about matters of sexuality and marriage a reflection of women's rising status,or part of an attempt to keep women in a subordinate place?
Q3) Leading pastimes of late-nineteenth-century Americans included
A) bicycling.
B) watching football.
C) watching baseball.
D) the circus.
E) vaudeville.
Q4) World's Columbian Exposition
Q5) Sears/Montgomery Ward
Q6) land-grant colleges
Q7) What were the primary changes in American education in the late nineteenth century? What did the developments in basic public education have in common with the changes in American colleges and universities?
Q8) liberal Protestantism
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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural
Revolution,1865-1896
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B) foreign competition.
C) the declining number of farms and farmers.
D) the shortage of farm machinery.
E) low prices and a deflated currency.
Q2) Marcus Alonzo Hanna
Q3) William Jennings Bryan
Q4) In 1890,when the superintendent of the census announced that a stable frontier line was no longer discernible,Americans were disturbed because
A) they knew that the Homestead Act would no longer do them much good.
B) they thought that there would be a renewal of Indian warfare.
C) the idea of an endlessly open West had been an element of America's history from the beginning.
D) many of them hoped eventually to migrate to the West.
E) they feared that an influx of new western states would strengthen the Populists and other radicals.
Q5) James B.Weaver
Q6) William F.Cody
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909
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Q2) Was there any shift in American foreign policy between President McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt,the vice president who succeeded him after McKinley's assassination? If so,what was it? In what area,if any,did Roosevelt most clearly depart from McKinley's policies?
Q3) President McKinley's policy of benevolent assimilation in the Philippines
A) failed to solve serious sanitation and public-health problems.
B) fell short of providing an effective public-school system for the Filipinos.
C) was not welcomed by the Filipinos.
D) worked remarkably well and led to the early granting of the Philippine independence.
E) recognized the value of traditional Filipino culture.
Q4) The United States asserted that it had a virtual right of continuing intervention in Cuba in the
A) insular cases.
B) Platt Amendment.
C) Teller Amendment.
D) Foraker Act.
E) Guantanamo Bay Treaty.
Q5) Open Door notes
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican
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Q2) Why did feminists,and middle-class women generally,play such a prominent role in the progressive movement? Were feminist and progressive goals essentially identical,or were there areas where the two movements differed?
Q3) Pure Food and Drug Act
Q4) The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass A) laws requiring mandatory fire escape for all businesses employing more than ten people.
B) laws prohibiting women from working in the needle trades.
C) antisweatshop and workers' compensation laws for job injuries.
D) zoning regulations governing where dangerous industrial factories could be located.
E) laws guaranteeing unions the right to raise safety concerns.
Q5) The Elkins and Hepburn Acts were designed to
A) regulate municipal utilities and end private utility monopolies.
B) guarantee the purity of food and drugs.
C) provide federal protection for natural resources.
D) improve women's working conditions.
E) end corrupt and exploitative practices by the railroad trusts.
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Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and
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Q1) Central Powers
Q2) Virgin Islands
Q3) The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914 to address all of these practices except
A) eliminating unfair and discriminatory trade practices.
B) outlawing unfair business competition and bribery.
C) sale of stocks without full disclosure of a business's organization and profits.
D) prohibiting false and misleading advertising.
E) outlawing the mislabeling or adulterating of products.
Q4) In the 1930s,many Americans came to believe that American business and arms manufacturers had engaged in a conspiracy to get the United States into World War I.Is there any evidence to support such a view? In what ways did American business actually benefit from U.S.neutrality in the war?
Q5) Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by German submarines?
A) Lusitania
B) Arabic
C) Sussex
D) All of these American ships were sunk.
E) None of these were American ships.
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Chapter 30: The War to End War,1917-1918
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Q1) irreconcilables
Q2) Summarize President Wilson's Fourteen Points.Which were substantially attained as a result of American participation in World War I? Which were not? Why?
Q3) After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed,Woodrow Wilson
A) remained a popular leader.
B) was condemned by both disillusioned liberals and frustrated nationalists and imperialists.
C) was more popular in Europe than in the United States.
D) realized that he had made too many compromises.
E) planned a shrewd strategy for gaining Senate approval.
Q4) Assess America's contribution to the Allied victory in World War I.Do you think that the United States' involvement was crucial to victory? Why or why not?
Q5) Lodge reservations
Q6) self-determination
Q7) Committee on Public Information
Q8) Summarize the impact of American participation in World War I on the national economy,civil liberties,and public attitudes.
Q9) Liberty Loans
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Chapter 31: American Life in the "Roaring
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Q1) Most American writers and cultural commentator before World War I had celebrated American democracy and politics.Why did the 1920s produce a cultural critic like H.L.Mencken who mocked democracy and middle American values? Was Mencken's criticism itself a healthy reflection of democracy or the sign of a dangerous cynicism entering American life?
Q2) Ernest Hemingway
Q3) The 1920 census revealed that,for the first time,most
A) men worked in manufacturing.
B) adult women were employed outside the home.
C) Americans lived in cities.
D) Americans lived in the trans-Mississippi West.
E) families had fewer than four children.
Q4) Sigmund Freud
Q5) Zora Neale Hurston
Q6) What part did African American artists,writers,and musicians play in the new culture of the 1920s? How do you explain this burst of cultural creativity at a time when most blacks were still oppressed and segregated?
Q7) Ku Klux Klan
Q8) D.W.Griffiths
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Q1) Which of the following was not a consequence of the American policy of raising tariffs sky-high in the 1920s?
A) European nations raised their own tariffs.
B) The postwar chaos in Europe was prolonged.
C) International economic distress deepened.
D) American foreign trade declined.
E) The American economy slipped into recession.
Q2) McNary-Haugen Bill
Q3) The McNary-Haugen Bill passed by Congress and twice vetoed by President Coolidge was aimed to assist American farmers by
A) restricting the amount of crops farmers could plant in order to drive up prices.
B) having the federal government buy farm surpluses and sell them abroad.
C) providing federal support for farm co-operatives as a way of eliminating middle men.
D) providing federal loans for agricultural equipment and seeds.
E) blocking the import of certain cheaper agricultural commodities from Europe and Latin America.
Q4) Norris-LaGuardia Act
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Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939
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Q2) List the major factors that brought a close to the New Deal in the late 1930s.Separate the list into those that President Roosevelt had some control over and those that he did not.Explain how the combination of these factors ended the New Deal.
Q3) Was Franklin Roosevelt's victory in 1932 more an endorsement of his reform agenda or a repudiation of Herbert Hoover and the Republican policies?
Q4) 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.
Q5) How revolutionary was the New Deal? Evaluate the significant changes that it wrought,and determine how different the nation became because of it.
Q6) Cite evidence to demonstrate that "the most damning indictment of the New Deal was that it failed to cure the Depression." Then cite achievements of value that the New Deal did in fact accomplish.
Q7) Francis Townsend
Q8) Federal Housing Administration
Q9) National Labor Relations Board
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Chapter 34: Franklin DRoosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
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Q1) The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because A) President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaysia or the Philippines.
B) no American officials suspected that Japan might start a war with the United States. C) Japanese communications were in a secret code unknown to the United States.
D) the United States was, at the time, Japan's main source of oil and steel.
E) it was believed that Japan had insufficient aircraft carriers to reach Hawaii.
Q2) Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to A) revoke all the neutrality laws.
B) expand naval patrols in the Atlantic.
C) enact a new neutrality law enabling the Allies to buy American war materials on a cash-and-carry basis.
D) call for the quarantining of aggressor nations.
E) pass a conscription law.
Q3) Explain what the text authors mean by their remark that in the 1930s,"Congress was one war too late with its [neutrality] legislation."
Q4) Joseph Stalin
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Chapter 35: America in World War II,1941-1945
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Q2) Hitler's last-ditch attempt to achieve a victory against the Americans and British came in
A) the Battle of the Bulge.
B) the Battle of the Rhineland.
C) the attempt to assassinate Churchill and Roosevelt.
D) an attempt to arrange a negotiated peace with Stalin.
E) the final U-boat campaign against the American navy.
Q3) The fundamental strategic decision of World War II made by President Roosevelt and the British at the very beginning of the war was to
A) plan for a second front in Western Europe as soon as possible.
B) force Italy out of the war first by attacking the soft underbelly of Europe.
C) arouse the American people to an idealistic crusade of the same sort that Woodrow Wilson had so effectively used in World War I.
D) concentrate first on the war in Europe and to place the Pacific war against Japan on the back burner.
E) fight an equally vigorous naval war against Japan and a land war against Germany and Italy.
Q4) Battle of Okinawa
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Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins,1945-1952
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Q1) The Marshall Plan succeeded in reviving Europe's economy and thwarting the large internal Communist parties threatening to take over
A) Italy and France.
B) West Germany and East Germany.
C) Britain and Ireland.
D) Spain and Italy.
E) Greece and Turkey.
Q2) Thomas Dewey
Q3) By 1945,the Soviet Union had reason to be suspicious of the United States because the
A) United States had never extended formal diplomatic recognition to the Soviet government.
B) British and Americans had delayed opening a second front in Europe during the war.
C) British and Americans had not informed the Soviet Union of the A-bomb project until it was completed.
D) United States had not given the Soviets any lend-lease aid during the war.
E) United States had installed a pro-American government in France.
Q4) Dixiecrats
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Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960
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Q1) In the epochal 1954 decision in Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka,the Supreme Court
A) declared that the concept of "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional.
B) upheld its earlier decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
C) rejected desegregation.
D) supported the "Declaration of Constitutional Principles" issued by Congress.
E) ordered immediate and total integration of all American schools.
Q2) The basic military strategy of Eisenhower's and Dulles's New Look foreign policy in the 1950s aimed at
A) the dismantling of the military-industrial complex.
B) massive new military spending.
C) greater reliance on air power and the deterrent power of nuclear weapons than on the army and navy.
D) a buildup of unconventional and guerrilla-warfare forces.
E) the rapid deployment of the navy and marines to trouble spots.
Q3) What explains the rise of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s?
Q4) Marilyn Monroe
Q5) Fidel Castro
Q6) "cult of domesticity"
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Q1) How did the mainstream liberal Protestant churches lose cultural authority in the 1960s? Why were more conservative evangelical Protestants able to take their place?
Q2) When he took office in 1961,President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy through
A) a massive foreign-aid program.
B) large-scale government spending programs.
C) a tax cut.
D) reducing expenditures on the space program.
E) a looser monetary policy.
Q3) President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the A) Great Crusade.
B) Fair Deal.
C) New Frontier.
D) Johnson Revolution.
E) Great Society.
Q4) To what extent was the gay movement a direct outgrowth of the 1960s? How does it compare with the other civil rights and liberation movements of the time?
Q5) Stokely Carmichael
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Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980
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Q1) The most controversial action of Gerald Ford's presidency was
A) signing the Helsinki accords with the Soviet Union.
B) frantically evacuating the last Americans and Vietnamese by helicopter during the fall of South Vietnam to the communists.
C) arranging the deal whereby Nixon resigned the president.
D) pardoning Nixon for any known or unknown crimes he had committed while president.
E) pardoning Vietnam War draft resisters and evaders.
Q2) The guiding principle of President Carter's foreign policy was
A) isolationism.
B) containment.
C) détente.
D) unilateralism.
E) human rights.
Q3) energy crisis
Q4) Menachem Begin
Q5) SALT II treaty
Q6) What was President Nixon's southern strategy? Why did he adopt it? Describe what he did to implement it.Was it responsible for his reelection? Why or why not?
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Q1) Webster v.Reproductive Health Services
Q2) In the cases of Webster v.Reproductive Health Services and Planned Parenthood v.Casey,the Supreme Court
A) severely restricted abortion to the first two months of pregnancy.
B) permitted states to put some restrictions on abortion, while fundamentally upholding the abortion rights decision of Roe v. Wade.
C) overturned Roe v. Wade.
D) declared that the issue of legalized abortion should be completely determined by the states.
E) galvanized antiabortion forces into a new militancy.
Q3) Besides cutting the federal budget,Reagan's other main domestic initiative when he took office was
A) developing new programs to aid business.
B) expanding federally funded social programs.
C) making substantial reductions in marginal tax rates over a period of three years.
D) privatizing the Social Security system.
E) eliminating government regulation of food and drugs.
Q4) ____ Jordan
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Chapter 41: America Confronts the Post-Cold War
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Q2) After the mid-term elections of 2006,who became the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House?
A) Ruth Bader Ginsberg
B) Hillary Clinton
C) Nancy Pelosi
D) Janet Napolitano
E) Sonya Sotomayor
Q3) In his campaign for the presidency in 2000,George W.Bush promised to
A) pursue America's national interests without restraint from traditional U.S. allies.
B) bring reconciliation after the sharp partisan divisions of the Clinton years.
C) pursue hard right conservative policies regarding the environment and social welfare.
D) protect the environment and try to stop global warming.
E) balance the federal budget under all circumstances.
Q4) Whitewater
Q5) ____ Lebanon
Q6) Kyoto Treaty
Q7) ____ Saudi Arabia
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Chapter 42: The American People Face a New Century
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Q1) As women's status changed,men's lives changed in all of the following ways except
A) employers offered paternity leave in addition to maternity leave.
B) companies increasingly acknowledged shared obligations of two-worker households.
C) more men took on traditional female household chores.
D) Congress passed a Family Leave Bill that protected jobs for fathers and mothers who need time off for family reasons.
E) men began to look outside of their marriages for the emotional connections they once shared with wives.
Q2) Which of these is NOT among the challenges facing America and Americans in the twenty-first century?
A) The increasingly unequal distribution of wealth
B) Women increasingly surpassing men in the workforce
C) Diminishing oil supplies and the need for alternative energy sources
D) Enhancing national security without eroding civil liberties
E) Protecting the nation's borders without preventing desirable immigrants from coming to the U.S.
Q3) Frank Lloyd Wright
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