History for Teachers: United States Final
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Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of United States history with a focus on content, themes, and approaches most relevant for future teachers. It covers key periods and events from pre-Columbian societies through the present, highlighting central political, economic, social, and cultural developments. Emphasis is placed on understanding cause-and-effect relationships, the roles of diverse groups, and the evolution of American democracy. Course materials and discussions are designed to help prospective educators develop effective strategies for teaching U.S. history in diverse classroom settings, fostering critical thinking and inclusive perspectives in their future students.
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AMERICA A Narrative History 10th Edition by
David Emory Shi
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) As monarch, Queen Elizabeth:
A) returned England to Catholicism
B) eliminated archbishops and bishops from the Church of England
C) advocated for true religious freedom for her subjects
D) illustrated incredible strength and effectiveness
E) oversaw a decline in English military and political strength
Answer: D
Q2) The Protestant Reformation was launched in Europe by:
A) Henry VIII
B) John Calvin
C) Martin Luther
D) Charles V of Spain
E) Ferdinand and Isabella
Answer: C
Q3) Ferdinand Magellan's ship was the first to sail around the world.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Englands Colonies
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Q1) Nathaniel Bacon was an indentured servant who led a Virginia rebellion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) All of the following are true of the English Quakers EXCEPT that they:
A) opposed salaried ministers
B) refused military service
C) suffered great persecution
D) followed charismatic preachers
E) counted William Penn among their number
Answer: D
Q3) One outstanding characteristic of Jamestown in its initial years was:
A) the high percentage of slaves in its population
B) complete freedom of religion
C) the influence of women in its government
D) the absence of effective leaders
E) the high mortality rate among its settlers
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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Q1) Which of the following spurred shipbuilding in New England?
A) the abundance of fish and whales off its coast
B) the region's extensive forests
C) the growing American navy
D) the need for transporting southern cotton
E) southern purchases of New England-made ships
Answer: B
Q2) The Stono Rebellion:
A) took place in Virginia
B) was the only successful slave revolt of the colonial era
C) was incited by a law forcing Christianity on slaves
D) came about as a result of Spanish interference
E) tightened controls on slaves
Answer: E
Q3) In British North America, black men and women were often excluded from religious services out of the belief that Christianized slaves might seek to gain freedom.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Q1) Describe the ideological responses to George Grenville's colonial policies. What impact did these responses have on the relationship between Parliament and the colonial assemblies?
Q2) George Washington
A)was a British general in the French and Indian War
B)surrendered Fort Necessity to the French
C)wrote Common Sense
D)architect of the Albany Plan of Union
E)warned citizens of Lexington of a British military advance
F)wrote Two Treatises on Government
G)was a British war minister during the French and Indian War
H)organized the Sons of Liberty
I)proposed the Stamp Act
J)was the governor of the Dominion of New England
Q3) As a result of the Boston Massacre:
A) dozens of Americans were killed by the British
B) the Sons of Liberty adopted peaceful methods
C) Samuel Adams defended the British soldiers
D) all but two of the British defendants were acquitted
E) Americans now quietly paid their taxes
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1783
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Q1) Before the Revolution was over, the British were fighting the Spanish, the French, and the Dutch, as well as the Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the problems in America of finance, supplies, and troops during the Revolution. How did Americans attempt to solve these problems? How successful were they?
Q3) Discuss the evolution of the Articles of Confederation. What type of government was established and how effective was the Confederation government?
Q4) Thomas Jefferson was the most notable Virginian to free his slaves during the Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Thomas Paine's The American Crisis:
A) stated the impossibility of beating the British
B) urged Congress to make Washington a temporary dictator
C) bolstered American morale
D) supplied Washington with battle plans
E) blamed Congress for the army's defeats
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Chapter 6: Strengthening the New Nation
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Q1) Alexander Hamilton's basic vision of America was to make it:
A) a vibrant capitalist power
B) a democratic model for the world
C) a mighty empire like ancient Rome
D) committed to limited government and social equality
E) an example of racial tolerance and diversity
Q2) Shays's Rebellion:
A) spread to several northern states
B) was supported by George Washington and other elite figures
C) was repressed by state militia
D) resulted in massive bloodshed and property destruction
E) made Americans more fearful of strong central government
Q3) Edmond-Charles Genêt:
A) came to the United States to escape the revolutionary excesses of the French Revolution
B) encouraged Americans to attack English and Spanish vessels
C) quickly won the sympathy of Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists
D) was deeply involved in the XYZ affair
E) became a leading member of the Republican party
Q4) Describe the system of checks and balances in the Constitution.
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Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800-1815
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Q1) Thomas Jefferson
A)appointed justice of the peace in the District of Columbia
B)elected president in 1804
C)negotiated the Louisiana Purchase
D)was a naval hero against the Barbary pirates
E)was a war hawk from Kentucky
F)saw the British attack of Fort McHenry from Baltimore Harbor
G)became vice president in 1801
H)was chief justice
I)was an American naval hero in the War of 1812
J)explored the Louisiana Purchase and Far West
Q2) Which of the following was true of the democracy that emerged at the turn of the century?
A) It was generally supported by Federalists.
B) Common men were no longer content to be governed by an aristocracy.
C) It was the result of an increasingly educated American society.
D) It emerged out of George Washington's farewell address.
E) It found significant support among the southern slaveholding population.
Q3) Assess the degree to which Jefferson's election as president can accurately be called the "revolution of 1800."
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Chapter 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850
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Q1) Examine the movement westward that took place in the early nineteenth century, making note of the various pieces of legislation that played a role in the process.
Q2) Because they, too, had suffered discrimination, Irish immigrants tended to be sympathetic to blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The first American factories produced:
A) cotton textiles
B) leather goods
C) tobacco products
D) glass products
E) muskets
Q4) By the early 1800s, the largest American cities were all major:
A) military centers
B) seaports
C) iron-producing centers
D) cotton exporters
E) state capitals
Q5) Trace the impact that industrialization had on the environment.
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Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828
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Q1) Discuss the concept of the "Era of Good Feelings," paying particular attention to the state of the nation after the War of 1812.
Q2) John Quincy Adams displayed superb political skills during his term as president.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Support for the Tariff of 1816 came primarily from the South.
A)True
B)False
Q4) John C. Calhoun
A)was a nationalist chief justice
B)was an advocate of compromise as an effective political tool
C)won the second most popular votes in the 1824 presidential election
D)was president at the end of the War of 1812
E)wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest
F)introduced amendment to ban slavery from Missouri
G)led the war against the Seminoles in Florida
H)was the presidential candidate in 1824 from Georgia
I)presided over the "Era of Good Feelings"
J)was the Massachusetts senator who favored a protective tariff in 1828
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Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
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Q1) When Congress rechartered the Bank of the United States in 1832:
A) the economy went into a depression
B) Jackson made Nicholas Biddle its new director
C) Western farmers revolted in anger
D) Jackson vetoed the recharter
E) Jackson announced plans to nationalize it
Q2) All of the following were presidential candidates in 1836 EXCEPT:
A) Daniel Webster
B) Martin Van Buren
C) Hugh Lawson White
D) William Henry Harrison
E) Andrew Jackson
Q3) Martin Van Buren opposed the establishment of an Independent Treasury.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss Jackson's idea of personal politics, to include the death of his wife shortly after his 1828 electoral victory and his destruction of the B.U.S.
Q5) What were the causes and results of the Panic of 1837? What impact did this economic crisis have on the Van Buren administration?
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Chapter 11: The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860
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Q1) What roles did religion, folklore, and family life play in the lives of slaves?
Q2) Approximately how many slaves lived in the South in 1860?
A) 30,000
B) 100,000
C) 1 million
D) 4 million
E) 10 million
Q3) Charles Deslondes
A)plotted a slave revolt near Richmond in 1800
B)was hanged for killing her master when defending herself against a sexual assault
C)ran away from slavery in Maryland and became an outspoken critic of the institution
D)plantation mistress who was a critic of the plantation system
E)led a successful slave revolt on Saint-Domingue
F)allegedly plotted slave rebellion in South Carolina
G)free black man kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South
H)led the largest slave revolt in American history just north of New Orleans
I)author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
J)led a slave revolt in 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia
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Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860
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Q1) The American Temperance Union lost many moderate members in 1836 when it:
A) allowed women to join
B) called for abstinence from all alcoholic beverages
C) allowed members to drink beer and wine
D) began to push immigration reform as the only sure way to rid America of Demon Rum E) became too involved in politics
Q2) All of the following are reasons Mormons generated hostility from non-Mormons EXCEPT:
A) they denied the legitimacy of civil governments
B) they refused to abide by local laws
C) they did not recognize the legitimacy of the U.S. Constitution
D) they denied they were Christians
E) they practiced "plural marriage"
Q3) Describe the southern defense of slavery before and after 1830.
Q4) Trace the reforms in prisons and asylums in America. Include the major changes in the treatment of prisoners, the disabled, and dependent children in antebellum America.
Q5) Using specific examples, discuss the objectives, membership, practices, and success of the nineteenth-century utopian communities.
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Chapter 13: Western Expansion, 1830-1848
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Q1) As president, Polk supported all of the following EXCEPT:
A) acquisition of California
B) tariff reduction
C) restoration of the Independent Treasury
D) settlement of the Oregon boundary question
E) internal improvements
Q2) The major factor that delayed Texas annexation until 1845 was:
A) concern over Texas entering as a slave state
B) fear of a possible Mexican attack on the United States
C) Calhoun's incompetence as secretary of state
D) the desire of Texans to remain a republic
E) Britain's support for Texas independence
Q3) Discuss the causes and consequences of the Mexican-American war.
Q4) The decisive victory in the war came with Winfield Scott's capture of:
A) Monterrey
B) Veracruz
C) Cerro Gordo
D) Puebla
E) Mexico City
Q5) Trace the development of the Oregon Country prior to the Mexican-American War.
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860
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Q1) At what point (if any) did the Civil War become inevitable? If you could change historical events, what would you do at that point to avoid war?
Q2) The Crittenden Compromise proposed to:
A) outlaw slavery in the United States after 1865
B) guarantee continuance of slavery in the states where it then existed
C) guarantee that all new territories would be open to slavery
D) give slaves full representation rather than allow them to count for only three fifths of A person
E) provide a federal slave code for the western territories
Q3) Through his execution, John Brown became a martyr for the anti-slavery cause. A)True
B)False
Q4) The proposed Lecompton Constitution would make Kansas a free state. A)True
B)False
Q5) As a result of the Compromise of 1850, California entered the Union as a free state. A)True B)False
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15: The War of the Union, 1861-1865
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Q1) The North's victory in the Civil War was guaranteed because the South enjoyed no significant advantages over the Union.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
A)was Lincoln's second vice president
B)was killed at Chancellorsville by his own men
C)had his division destroyed at the Battle of Gettysburg
D)was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans
E)marched through Georgia living off the land while destroying plantations, crops, and railroad lines
F)devised the Union's "Anaconda Plan"
G)was the 1864 Democratic presidential candidate
H)was the vice president of the Confederacy
I)was the Union admiral who captured Mobile, Alabama
J)was the president of the Confederacy
Q3) Describe domestic politics during the war, both northern and southern. What problems did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis face? How did they deal with these problems?
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Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Q1) Why was Johnson picked as Lincoln's running mate in 1864?
A) They were both lifelong Republicans.
B) They held identical political positions.
C) They agreed on the need for strict terms to readmit southern states into the Union.
D) As a gesture of unity, they combined to create a National Union ticket.
E) Johnson and Lincoln had already served together in the Illinois state government.
Q2) The 1866 congressional elections:
A) showed public approval of Johnson's policies
B) gave Republicans veto-proof majorities
C) encouraged the South to be even more defiant
D) were the first in which blacks could vote
E) reduced the influence of the Radicals
Q3) Describe the reign of white terror during Reconstruction and how Congress reacted to the violence.
Q4) Despite winning the popular vote in 1876, Samuel Tilden lost the presidency.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the Fourteenth Amendment and how it was received throughout the country.
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1860-1900
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Q1) The invention of electric motors did all of the following EXCEPT:
A) make it possible for factories to locate wherever they wished
B) lead to the development of streetcars
C) lead to the bankruptcy of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company
D) lead to the development of elevators
E) contribute to the development of suburbs
Q2) The greatest growth of the Knights of Labor took place:
A) in 1875, when the federal government outlawed the use of violence against union members
B) in the mid-1880s, when the union had several strikes against the railroads
C) under the leadership of Uriah S. Stephens
D) as a result of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
E) after the Wobblies spit the NLU
Q3) The golden spike used to connect the final rails symbolized:
A) the uniting of North and South
B) the uniting of East and North
C) the uniting of North and West
D) the uniting of East and South
E) the uniting of East and West
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Chapter 18: The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
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Q1) Why was the expansion of railroads significant to the growth of the cattle industry?
A) As the railroads increased the ability to ship huge numbers of western cattle, more cow towns were established in the West.
B) The railroads enabled eastern cattle to be shipped west and feed the region's growing population.
C) The railroads opened up Mexico as a market for American meat.
D) Cowboys from the eastern states could now travel to the West to apply their expertise.
E) The railroads increased the industry's profit margin by eliminating the need for cowboys.
Q2) Cattle drives:
A) delivered herds to the slaughterhouses in Chicago
B) were conducted by cowboys, twenty-five percent of whom were African Americans
C) typically started from ranches in Kansas and Oklahoma
D) caused the extinction of Texas longhorns
E) almost always began in Montana and ended in Texas
Q3) One of the goals of the New South prophets was a diversified agriculture. What factors stood in the way of this goal?
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Chapter 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900
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Q1) In the late nineteenth century, the least likely place you would find a woman spending her leisure time was at:
A) the movies
B) a vaudeville show
C) a saloon
D) a public park
E) a dance hall
Q2) After 1890, most immigrants were:
A) from northern and western Europe
B) from southern and eastern Europe
C) of Teutonic and Celtic origin
D) from Mexico
E) members of the professional class
Q3) Tenement housing gave city dwellers substantially healthier and more comfortable living conditions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Trace the issues and events surrounding the election of 1888. How was it that the person who won the popular vote still lost the election?
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Chapter 20: Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913
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Q1) A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why did President Theodore Roosevelt feel compelled to mediate a reduction of tension in Europe, and how did the president show the world, literally, that America had become a world power?
Q3) One reason the United States went to war against Spain was that:
A) the leaders of the Democratic party pushed for war
B) Cuban cigar manufacturers in Florida insisted that war was necessary to protect their markets
C) there was strong support among the American people for going to war
D) the shipping profiteers in New England believed their prosperity depended on war
E) Theodore Roosevelt insisted his Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine demanded war
Q4) As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States:
A) was deeply divided between war supporters and opponents
B) acquired Cuba as a colony
C) emerged as an imperial power
D) suffered a huge financial strain and went into a depression
E) acquired Alaska
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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
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Q1) The phrase "Square Deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Upton Sinclair
A)was the original "efficiency expert"
B)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1904
C)wrote The Jungle
D)was a Socialist party presidential candidate multiple times
E)was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1912
F)influenced New Nationalism with The Promise of American Life
G)wrote Congressional Government
H)wrote articles for McClure's
I)served on the Ohio Supreme Court
J)was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court
Q3) Woodrow Wilson was:
A) a professor and college president
B) the leading Roman Catholic politician at the turn of the century
C) the progressive governor of Oregon
D) influenced mainly by Populist reformers
E) the first Californian to win the White House
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Q1) The 1919 police strike in Boston:
A) began when several officers protested their long hours and small pay by calling in sick
B) was settled when both sides agreed to submit to an arbitration panel
C) inadvertently launched a presidential career
D) launched the career of J. Edgar Hoover
E) led to the deaths of hundreds of illegal immigrants
Q2) Discuss the various initial American reactions to the start of World War I.
Q3) The Republican candidate for president in 1916 was Charles Evans Hughes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The turning point in World War I for the Allies was:
A) the Somme
B) a massive Allied offensive, which began on September 26, 1918
C) Vaux
D) Thierry
E) Calais
Q5) Women in "war work" were usually able to keep their jobs after the war.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
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Q1) Define what the phrase "The Modernist Revolt" means.
Q2) The movement of southern blacks to the North:
A) was called the Great Migration
B) created the rise of the KKK
C) saw many African Americans return to Africa
D) was so large that southern agriculture was interrupted
E) meant industry could no longer hire whites
Q3) The NAACP emphasized:
A) legal action against discrimination
B) the formation of a black political party
C) vocational and technical education
D) Garvey's concept of social and political separation of blacks
E) strictly black membership
Q4) Fitzgerald's stories during the 1920s were:
A) written for Hollywood
B) painfully autobiographical
C) not discovered until the 1960s
D) nonfiction
E) about science
Q5) Describe the influence of modernism in literature.
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Chapter 24: The Reactionary Twenties
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Q1) David C. Stephenson
A)was the secretary of the Treasury
B)was Harding's secretary of state
C)was the secretary of the interior
D)was the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan
E)died in 1923
F)wrote American Individualism
G)was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1920
H)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928
I)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924
J)was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1924
Q2) The "Ohio gang":
A) rivaled Charlie Chaplin in box office receipts in the 1920s
B) directed Herbert Hoover's rise to the presidency
C) was a group of angry young men in a short story by Sinclair Lewis about the consumer culture
D) hosted the first national radio program
E) was a group of President Harding's friends who were named to political office
Q3) How might the decade of the 1920s be called "the decade of prosperity"?
Q4) Trace the rise of Calvin Coolidge to the presidency of the United States.
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Q1) Which of the following statements about the Social Security Act is NOT true?
A) It was, according to Roosevelt, the "supreme achievement" of the New Deal.
B) It committed the national government to a broad range of welfare activities.
C) It provided old-age pensions.
D) It was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes.
E) It was a regressive tax that pinched the poor more than the rich.
Q2) Franklin Roosevelt made black civil rights a major priority, ordering that New Deal programs not practice racial discrimination.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the various measures that President Roosevelt undertook in his first term to help relieve the human misery in America.
Q4) Describe the impact the Great Depression had on popular culture in America.
Q5) Why did Roosevelt attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court? Did he achieve his goals?
Q6) By 1935, the National Recovery Administration had become unpopular.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Describe the gains made by labor during the New Deal.
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26: The Second World War, 1933-1945
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Q1) The "good neighbor" policies of the 1920s and 1930s saw the United States permanently remove all its troops from Latin America.
A)True
B)False
Q2) J. Robert Oppenheimer
A)American admiral in the Pacific
B)Republican appointed secretary of war in 1940
C)Democratic presidential candidate in 1940
D)elected vice president in 1944
E)directed the construction of atomic bombs
F)was in charge of all U.S. forces in east Asia
G)lost the presidential election in 1940
H)drew up the Atlantic Charter with an American president
I)senator who led the committee that coined term "merchants of death"
J)lost the presidential election in 1944
Q3) Why did America drop the atomic bomb on Japan? Was the action justified?
Q4) Describe America's early battlefield experiences during World War II. How did America fare in these initial battles?
Q5) Detail the Yalta Conference and show its importance to the postwar world.
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Chapter 27: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952
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Q1) Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to:
A) provoke a war with the Americans and the British
B) gain the rich natural resources of those countries
C) inspire Russian patriotic feeling
D) gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean
E) free those countries from dictatorships
Q2) In the early months of the Korean War, UN forces encountered little resistance until they reached the Chinese border.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the civil war that broke out in Greece after World War II, the United States assisted the British-supported government.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Senator McCarthy was very effective in:
A) passing major legislation
B) nabbing actual Communists
C) gathering proof to back his accusations
D) protecting American freedoms
E) exploiting public fears
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Chapter 28: Cold War America, 1950-1959
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Q1) Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Trace the development of U.S.-Middle East relations during the Eisenhower administration.
Q3) By 1960, which American city had the largest concentration of Mexican Americans?
A) New York, New York
B) Chicago, Illinois
C) Miami, Florida
D) Los Angeles, California
E) San Diego. California
Q4) Elvis Presley's first national smash hit was "Heartbreak Hotel."
A)True
B)False
Q5) The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:
A) a massive government jobs program
B) new inventions
C) cold war-related military spending
D) the work ethic of the American population
E) trade with Europe and Japan
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Chapter 29: A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968
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Q1) Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:
A) the University of Alabama
B) Louisiana State University
C) Georgia Tech
D) the University of Mississippi
E) Texas A&M
Q2) Compare the philosophies and styles of Martin Luther King Jr. and the leaders of the black power movement.
Q3) In what city did Mayor Connor order police to unleash their dogs and clubs on civil rights demonstrators?
A) Birmingham, Alabama
B) New Orleans, Louisiana
C) Memphis. Tennessee
D) Charlotte, North Carolina
E) Houston, Texas
Q4) Jack Ruby was charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy, but doubts about his guilt linger.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Trace the early foreign-policy setbacks during the Kennedy administration.
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Chapter 30: Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) Nixon's new relationship with China was made possible by:
A) the discovery of China's vast oil deposits
B) China's growing fear of the Soviet Union
C) Nixon's landslide reelection in 1972
D) the American public's more favorable attitude toward communism
E) the removal of Vietnam as a source of division between the United States and China
Q2) The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s:
A) was dominated by the Weathermen
B) was a leading proponent of the sexual revolution
C) was the youth wing of the Democratic party
D) looked to the Socialists and Communists of the Depression era for inspiration
E) challenged established authority in favor of "participatory democracy"
Q3) The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) resolved to use its huge oil supplies as a political and economic weapon.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Trace how the Watergate crisis brought an end to the Nixon presidency.
Q5) Detail all aspects of the counterculture in the United States during the 1960s.
Q6) Discuss the election of 1972 and its implication for the future.
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Chapter 31: Conservative Revival, 1977-1990
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Q1) Bush's goal as president seemed to be to:
A) pursue his own ambitious legislative agenda
B) wipe out the Democratic opposition
C) consolidate Reagan's policies and achievements
D) be a Kennedy-like inspirational leader
E) establish a dynasty of Bushes in the White House
Q2) The Sunbelt includes the southern and western states.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed:
A) indecisive
B) upbeat
C) humorless
D) to be a deep thinker and expert on the details of policy
E) capable of getting Congress to pass a liberal reform program
Q4) In Germany, a bloody revolution brought the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe and illustrate the main features of Reaganomics.
Q6) What was America's role in world affairs during the Reagan and Bush years?
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Chapter 32: Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present
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Q1) George W. Bush won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the new patterns of immigration to the United States. What might account for this?
Q3) In January 2009, angry activists coalesced into a decentralized nationwide protest movement soon labeled the:
A) Green Party
B) Reform Party
C) New Republican Party
D) Party of Hope
E) Tea Party
Q4) In the war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the United States was most closely supported by:
A) Germany
B) France
C) Great Britain
D) Russia
E) Japan
Q5) Briefly assess Clinton's achievements in domestic policy.
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