History of the American People
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Course Introduction
This course explores the diverse and dynamic history of the United States, tracing its development from pre-Columbian societies through colonial times, independence, the Civil War, industrialization, and into the modern era. Students examine key political, social, economic, and cultural events and movements, analyzing how they shaped the American identity and influenced the nation's role in global affairs. Emphasis is placed on the experiences and contributions of various groups, including Indigenous peoples, immigrants, women, and minorities, providing a comprehensive understanding of the complexities and evolving nature of American society.
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The Unfinished Nation A Concise History of the American People 8th Edition by Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures Key
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Q1) Owing to their commitment to Catholicism,male Spanish immigrants had very little sexual contact with Indian women.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) As of the sixteenth century,Europeans had generally built up a greater immunity to smallpox than had the Native Americans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) By the seventeenth century,the Spanish had given up their efforts to assimilate the Indians to Spanish ways.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Puritans were the first English colonizers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands Key
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Q1) The Fundamental Constitution for the Carolina colony
A) made no provisions for a colonial parliament.
B) sought to create a society of general equality among Englishmen. C) was influenced by the English philosopher John Locke.
D) initially did not include slavery.
E) All these answers are correct.
Answer: C
Q2) In 1638,Anne Hutchinson was deported from the Massachusetts colony because she A) was a single mother who refused to marry.
B) challenged the prevailing assumptions of the proper role of women in society.
C) argued that only the "elect" were entitled to any religious or political authority. D) was accused of practicing witchcraft.
E) preached against what she called the "Antinomian heresy."
Answer: B
Q3) The first Africans to arrive in Virginia in 1619 were likely thought of as indentured servants by the colonists,rather than as slaves.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America Key
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Q1) In English North American colonies,the application of slave codes was based on color and
A) origin of birth.
B) religion.
C) nothing more.
D) economic status.
E) laboring skills.
Answer: C
Q2) Most seventeenth-century English immigrants to the North American colonies were
A) commercial agents.
B) landowners.
C) laborers.
D) aristocrats.
E) religious dissenters.
Answer: C
Q3) Parliament passed the Iron Act in 1750 to encourage colonial production of this metal.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Key
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Q1) The major participants in the Seven Years' War in North America were the
A) English, the Iroquois, and the Spanish.
B) French, the Spanish, and the English.
C) Iroquois, the English, and the French.
D) colonists, the English, and the Spanish.
E) French, the colonists, and the Spanish.
Q2) Creole refers to people of European ancestry born in the Americas. A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763,
A) France surrendered New Orleans and Canada to the British.
B) France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain.
C) France agreed to pay England for the cost of the war.
D) England acquired all French naval vessels docked in North American ports.
E) France ceded all of its Caribbean colonies to England.
Q4) Why was British rule in the colonies decentralized? What groups benefited from this,and how?
Q5) What effect did the French and Indian War have on the coming of the American Revolution?
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution Key
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Q1) Compare the leading personalities on both sides in an explanation as to why the upstart United States was able to defeat England.
Q2) Post-Revolution American domestic manufacturing was stimulated by
A) an English desire to protect American vessels.
B) the flood of immigration after the war.
C) the closing of British ports to American trade.
D) British abandonment of impressments.
E) favorable trade agreements with England.
Q3) As a result of the American Revolution,the Anglican Church in America was A) praised by Patriots for supporting independence.
B) banned in most colonies.
C) tried for aiding and abetting the British.
D) made the official religion of Virginia.
E) weakened.
Q4) carried into communities previously isolated from the war, A) local criticism of Patriots increased.
B) support for independence greatly increased.
C) more Loyalists began actively helping the British.
D) American armies engaged in more large, open-field battles.
E) large segments of the American population became war refugees.
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Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Key
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Q1) The presidential campaign in 1800
A) saw the Republicans win a decisive victory over the Federalists.
B) was notable for the sensational personal slandering of both candidates. C) was further complicated by the emergence of a third party, the Whigs.
D) saw leading Federalists in Congress attempt to engineer the election of Aaron Burr. E) was decided by a newly elected Republican Congress.
Q2) Some Republicans were so upset by the Alien and Sedition Acts that they concluded that the states had the power to nullify acts of Congress.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why was there so much opposition to political parties in the 1790s? Why did the Jeffersonians decide to create a political party?
Q4) Once enacted,Hamilton's program failed to bring about many of the effects he had intended and quickly lost the support of the most influential segments of the population.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why was there such opposition to the proposed Constitution of 1787?
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era Key
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Q1) In what ways was Thomas Jefferson's presidency a confirmation of his ideals? In what ways did it violate those ideals?
Q2) The Lewis and Clark expedition
A) never made it to the Pacific Coast.
B) was first planned after the Louisiana Purchase was made.
C) was led by two men who had little experience with Indians.
D) saw both leaders die before the expedition was complete.
E) was assisted by the guide Sacajawea.
Q3) In 1802,what spurred President Jefferson to seek the building of a river fleet and to give the impression that the United States might ally with Great Britain?
A) a new French regulation restricting the use of the port of New Orleans by American ships
B) the capture of the island of Santo Domingo by a black revolutionary force
C) a growing incidence of Indian attacks on western settlers
D) a Spanish attempt to readjust the northern border of its Florida colony
E) the arrival of a French invasion fleet near New York
Q4) What was the core message of the Second Great Awakening? How did the movement affect race relations in the United States?
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Key
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Q1) was a victory for
A) corporations.
B) state courts.
C) the Republican Party.
D) state government.
E) public education.
Q2) In the early nineteenth century,the Deep South
A) was largely developed by wealthy planters.
B) included a vast, productive region in Alabama and Mississippi.
C) was slow to organize into states.
D) contemplated seceding from the rest of the Union.
E) saw tobacco as its primary crop.
Q3) One cause of the Panic of 1819 was
A) decreased foreign demand for American agricultural goods.
B) the announcement that year that dozens of new state banks were to be chartered.
C) new management practices within the Bank of the United States.
D) an English embargo of American goods.
E) restrictive credit practices prior to 1819.
Q4) What effect did the Marshall Court have on the legal status of Indian tribes?
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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America Key
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Q1) The Supreme Court ruling in Charles River Bridge v.Warren Bridge (1837)
A)continued the constitutional interpretation set forth by John Marshall.
B)affirmed the inviolability of contracts.
C)outraged supporters of Andrew Jackson.
D)reflected Jacksonian ideas of democracy and economic opportunity.
E)was a victory for federal authority.
Q2) In 1840,efforts to expand voting rights in Rhode Island resulted in
A) new laws that actually further restricted voting rights.
B) federal troops occupying the state capital for two years.
C) female and black male suffrage for a brief period of time.
D) an effort within the state to secede from the Union.
E) two governments claiming control of the state.
Q3) In the 1830s,as a result of removal policies,the United States gained control of more than 100 million acres of Indian lands.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How had the nation's general perception of political parties as part of the democratic process changed since 1790,and why?
Q5) Characterize the presidency of Martin Van Buren.
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution Key
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Q1) Describe rural life in the American Northwest during the last three decades before the Civil War.How did it compare to both rural and urban life in the East?
Q2) As the immigrant labor force in New England textile mills grew in the 1840s,
A) the workday grew longer and wages increased.
B) the workday grew shorter and wages declined.
C) piece rates replaced a daily wage.
D) women and children were more likely to earn more than men.
E) safety conditions began to improve.
Q3) Which of the following is true of canal and turnpike transportation?
A) Canal construction was less expensive than turnpike construction.
B) State governments gave little financial support to canal transportation.
C) Canal transportation was generally developed before turnpike transportation.
D) Canal boats could haul vastly larger loads than could turnpike transports.
E) Pennsylvania was the first to finance canal construction.
Q4) What were the advances in new technology that had the greatest effect on the emerging American factory system during the first half of the nineteenth century?
Q5) The great majority of pre-Civil War immigrants came from Ireland and England. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Cotton,Slavery,and the Old South Key
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Q1) Prior to 1860,free blacks in the South
A) increased in number in the 1850s, as laws encouraged owners to free "surplus" slaves.
B) were required by law to leave the South.
C) were concentrated in the Deep South.
D) avoided urban centers such as New Orleans or Natchez, where they might attract attention.
E) occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves.
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding slave life is true?
A) It was uncommon to divide slave families for long periods of time.
B) Slaves were not given medical care except by their own efforts.
C) Slave children did no work until they turned twelve years old.
D) After 1808, the proportion of blacks to whites in the nation steadily declined.
E) Slaves had to grow all of their own food.
Q3) The slave system may have created separate spheres for blacks and whites,but each race was nonetheless dependent on the other.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform Key
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Q1) The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to
A) integrate Indians with white society.
B) create sovereign nations within U.S. territory so that Indians could negotiate with other nations.
C) allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.
D) None of these answers is correct.
E) allow Indians to develop to a point where they would not need to assimilate into white society.
Q2) In the 1830s and 1840s,cholera epidemics in the United States
A) None of these answers is correct.
B) were diminished, as physicians gained a basic understanding of bacteria.
C) typically killed more than half of those who contracted the disease.
D) were transmitted to humans by fleas living on rats.
E) led many cities to build water treatment facilities.
Q3) Ralph Waldo Emerson started as a minister and became a transcendentalist philosopher.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Key
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Q1) Only a tiny fraction of the so-called Forty-niners ever discovered gold in California.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Lincoln was elected in 1860 with less than a majority of the popular vote.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Assess the ideology known as Manifest Destiny.Looking back,was it more helpful or hurtful?
Q4) In 1844,President James K.Polk supported the acquisition of A) Cuba.
B) Texas.
C) Oregon and Texas.
D) Cuba and Texas.
E) Oregon.
Q5) The Free-Soil ideology was closely linked to the free labor argument. A)True
B)False
Q6) Could the Civil War have been avoided?
Q7) Assess and rate the presidency of James K.Polk.
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Chapter 14: The Civil War Key
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Q1) Prior to becoming president of the Confederacy,Jefferson Davis had
A) been vice president of the United States.
B) been regarded as a moderate on secession.
C) called for the imprisonment of abolitionists.
D) begged South Carolina not to leave the Union.
E) called for a gradual phase-out of slavery.
Q2) Which of the following federally-chartered corporations did the Union create to build the transcontinental railroad?
A) Central Pacific
B) Union Pacific
C) Western Pacific and Central Pacific
D) Western Pacific
E) Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Q3) What methods did President Lincoln use to suppress popular opposition to the war in the North?
Q4) Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Ulysses S.Grant and Robert E. Lee as military commanders.
Q5) What did the Emancipation Proclamation do,and how did it alter the Civil War?
Q6) Why was the South so confident of its "cotton diplomacy"? Why did it fail?
Q7) Why was the death toll in the Civil War so tremendous?
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South Key
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Q1) In what ways did Reconstruction succeed? In what ways did it fail? What has been its legacy?
Q2) Schuyler Colfax,Grant's vice president,
A) was fired by Grant for incompetence.
B) was assassinated by a disgruntled former plantation owner.
C) opposed almost every one of Grant's policies.
D) was involved in a stock-fixing scandal.
E) None of these answers is correct.
Q3) In the 1860s,Black Codes were
A) enacted by the Freedmen's Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
B) designed to give whites control over freedmen.
C) holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
D) passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
E) vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
Q4) Radical Republicans favored a reconstruction process that would readmit the former Confederate states to the Union with fairly few restrictions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West Key
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Q1) The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was against A) the railroads.
B) state governments.
C) eastern manufacturers.
D) the banks.
E) crop speculators.
Q2) In the late nineteenth century,fences for Plains farms were usually made from A) wood.
B) sod.
C) stones.
D) barbed wire.
E) brick.
Q3) By the end of the nineteenth century,the Hispanic presence in California was concentrated in the working class.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Management of Indian affairs by the federal government was in the hands of the army.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Key
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Q1) The business structure of Standard Oil is a good example of A) horizontal integration.
B) diagonal integration.
C) central integration.
D) vertical and horizontal integration.
E) vertical integration.
Q2) The Molly Maguires were a militant
A) offshoot of the Knights of Labor.
B) anarchist group.
C) woman suffrage organization.
D) anti-immigration organization.
E) labor union in the coal industry.
Q3) By 1900,the average yearly income of American workers
A) was about $600.
B) both allowed most workers to maintain a reasonably comfortable standard of living and remained generally unaffected by economic boom-and-bust cycles.
C) remained generally unaffected by economic boom-and-bust cycles.
D) allowed most workers to maintain a reasonably comfortable standard of living.
E) None of these answers is correct.
Q4) Why were labor unions not more successful during the late nineteenth century?
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Chapter 18: The Age of the City Key
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Q1) It can be said that Darwinism helped spawn the philosophy of pragmatism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The principal force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was
A) community service organizations.
B) ethnic political machines.
C) wealthy residents.
D) state governments.
E) the federal government.
Q3) By 1890,populations in the biggest urban areas
A) consisted mostly of foreign-born immigrants and their children.
B) experienced massive growth even where there was little immigration.
C) increased mainly as a result of longer life expectancy.
D) soared as the rates of infant mortality and disease significantly declined.
E) rose as the number of children born into urban families doubled.
Q4) Prior to the late nineteenth century,few Americans placed much value in leisure.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the efforts to restrict immigration in the late nineteenth century.
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Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire Key
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Q1) Beginning in 1898,the American war in the Philippines
A) was led by General George Pershing.
B) saw close to 10,000 Filipinos die in the conflict.
C) lasted for years and resulted in thousands of American deaths.
D) saw the United States withdraw its military and negotiate a diplomatic end to the conflict.
E) went much more smoothly than the recent Spanish-American War.
Q2) The author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History believed the United States
A) should go to war with England to destroy its navy.
B) All these answers are correct.
C) should take possession of the Hawaiian Islands.
D) had too cumbersome a navy and should streamline it by decommissioning capital ships.
E) should both take possession of the Hawaiian Islands and go to war with England to destroy its navy.
Q3) In the last few months leading up to war with Spain,President McKinley sought to involve the United States in the conflict in Cuba.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: The Progressives Key
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Q1) During the Progressive Era,clubs for African American women
A) existed in large numbers despite the racial inclusiveness of white-founded women's clubs.
B) often took anti-lynching and anti-segregation positions. C) differed sharply from white women's clubs in their structure. D) tried to ignore overtly racial issues such as segregation. E) did not exist.
Q2) During Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president, A) he desired to win for government the power to investigate corporations and publicize the results.
B) his primary accomplishment was to reform the meatpacking industry.
C) he deeply antagonized the conservative Old Guard wing of his party.
D) he was a champion of labor unions.
E) he made the breaking-up of business combinations his highest priority.
Q3) Analyze and assess the presidential election results of 1912.
Q4) Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were among the most prominent leaders of the anti-suffrage movement.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How would you define progressivism? Describe its major characteristics.
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Q1) In 1919,the racial climate in the United States
A) generally stayed the same as it had been before the war.
B) worsened in both the North and South.
C) improved in both the North and South.
D) worsened in the South but not in the North.
E) improved in the North but not in the South.
Q2) The Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act of 1918
A) eliminated jury trials for anyone charged under these laws.
B) were rarely if ever enforced by the Wilson administration.
C) made illegal any public expression opposing the war.
D) were created after the Supreme Court invalidated the Espionage Act of 1917.
E) were most frequently directed at German Americans.
Q3) When the United States entered World War I,Germany was near defeat. A)True B)False
Q4) Would the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt be effective today?
Q5) Why was Theodore Roosevelt so suited to be an activist foreign policy president? How did he carry out that activism,and what were the results?
Q6) Why did the United States stay out of World War I between 1914 and 1917?
Q7) What were the problems with American neutrality between 1914 and 1917?
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Q1) What were the major achievements in technology and science during the 1920s,and how were they applied to society?
Q2) As president,Warren Harding
A) was unable to abandon the party hacks who had brought him to success.
B) had no sense of his own intellectual limits.
C) sought a revival of progressive reform.
D) proposed the United States join the League of Nations.
E) saw his administration end with his defeat in a bid for reelection in 1924.
Q3) Prohibition did substantially reduce drinking in some parts of the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As a result of the Scopes trial of 1925,
A) fundamentalists reduced their political activism.
B) William Jennings Bryan decided to run one more time for president.
C) John Scopes was found innocent.
D) anti-evolution laws were repealed in most other states.
E) the conflict between fundamentalists and modernists subsided.
Q5) Compare the political philosophies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson with those of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
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Q1) As Herbert Hoover began his presidency,he
A) feared a depression.
B) called for voluntary guidelines to stabilize the stock market.
C) renounced his earlier policy of associationalism.
D) considered the country's economic future bright.
E) assumed the economy might suffer a mild recession.
Q2) The severity of the Depression increased in 1931 when the Federal Reserve Board
A) weakened the value of the dollar.
B) raised interest rates.
C) closed all financially-ailing banks.
D) declared bankruptcy.
E) expanded the money supply.
Q3) Characterize Herbert Hoover's personality during his presidency.How did his personal image with the American public change between 1928 and 1932?
Q4) What are the major interpretations regarding the causes of the Great Depression? Why is there little historical consensus regarding the causes?
Q5) What were the popular cultural similarities and differences in the 1930s among radio programs,the movies,and literature?
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Q1) During the 1930s,the sit-down strike
A) All these answers are correct.
B) was upheld by the courts and state governments.
C) was eventually broken by the Michigan National Guard.
D) was first used in the steel industry.
E) was a new and controversial labor tactic.
Q2) During President Franklin Roosevelt's early days in office,
A) he attempted to hold the Hoover administration accountable for the economic crisis. B) he rapidly constructed an ambitious and diverse program of legislation to address the economic crisis.
C) the American people concluded the economy was not as bad off as they once had believed.
D) he showed a relative lack of interest in taking on the economic crisis directly.
E) he believed the Depression was largely over.
Q3) Who were the major critics of the New Deal and what were their complaints? What effect did these complaints have on the New Deal?
Q4) How might the New Deal have been more successful?
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Q1) President Roosevelt's first response to the war in Europe was to request that Congress extend a "lend-lease" plan to the Allies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1941,prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
A) Japanese troops attacked the Philippines.
B) President Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japan's diplomats to leave Washington.
C) the Japanese developed a new, unbreakable communication code.
D) President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States.
E) Japan tried to repair relations with the United States in order to restore their flow of supplies.
Q3) Germany began World War II in Europe by invading Poland shortly after A) Germany and Austria were unified.
B) Germany's occupation of additional areas of Czechoslovakia.
C) Hitler's violation of the Munich agreement.
D) France promised Poland it would provide military support if attacked.
E) a nonaggression pact was signed between Germany and Russia.
Q4) Was war between the United States and Japan inevitable? Could it have been avoided?
Q5) Explain the evolution of American diplomacy toward Japan between 1921 and 1941.
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Q1) The Battle of Midway in 1942
A) lasted four days.
B) All these answers are correct.
C) both lasted four days and was a stunning defeat for the Japanese navy.
D) was a stunning defeat for the Japanese navy.
E) saw the United States suffer great losses.
Q2) The war effort led military leaders to largely ignore the presence of homosexual men and women serving in the ranks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942
A) saw the United States forced to withdraw its naval forces.
B) marked the first important victory by the United States against Japan.
C) marked the major turning point of the war in the Pacific.
D) saw the Japanese lose most of its aircraft carriers.
E) saw the Americans take the offensive for the first time.
Q4) Consider racial minorities and women in the United States during World War II.Which groups made notable gains from the war and which did not? Explain.
Q5) Describe the development and making of the atomic bomb.
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Q1) Describe the origins of the Cold War,1945-1947.
Q2) In 1945,when the United States Senate considered the proposed United Nations,it
A) made major changes to its charter.
B) quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority.
C) initially rejected American membership.
D) put the question to a national referendum.
E) refused to vote on the charter for nearly a year.
Q3) How and why did President Truman alter Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union?
Q4) While the Soviet Union likely never ordered North Korea to attack South Korea,Stalin did support the North Korean offensive once it was under way.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Marshall Plan assistance was eventually accepted by sixteen nations.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The Soviet Union was invited to participate in the Marshall Plan.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) By the late 1950s,the United States could send a guided missile several thousand miles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1960,the city in the United States with the largest Mexican American population was
A) San Diego.
B) San Antonio.
C) Los Angeles.
D) Chicago.
E) New York.
Q3) Martin Luther King Jr.was leader of the
A) United Negro Improvement Association.
B) Congress of Racial Equality.
C) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
D) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
E) Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Q4) Where would one most likely find the poor in America in the 1950s? Why did they remain poor?
Q5) How do you account for the rise of the civil rights movement?
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A) believed all of Vietnam should be restored to French control.
B) sent the first American combat troops to South Vietnam.
C) sent the first American military advisers to South Vietnam.
D) began removing military advisers from South Vietnam.
E) inherited a substantial American commitment to maintain South Vietnam.
Q2) The Immigration Act of 1965 maintained a strict limit on the number of immigrants to be admitted to the United States,even as it eliminated much of the "national origins" system of the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ngo Dinh Diem was a Buddhist who had turned against his fellow Buddhists in order to fight the communists in Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What steps did Lyndon Johnson take to expand the liberal state? Which steps seemed to be successful,and why? Which did not seem to be successful,and why?
Q5) Describe the multiple traumas of 1968.How did the country respond to them?
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A) All these answers are correct.
B) "surge" 30,000 additional ground combat forces in the Mekong Delta.
C) install a pro-American regime under General Lon Diem.
D) destroy military bases in Cambodia and Laos.
E) have the Congress repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Q2) The so-called Pentagon Papers revealed the government had misled the public in explaining its motives for American involvement in Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 1973,American Indian activists occupied the old Indian battle site of
A) Horseshoe Bend.
B) Sand Creek.
C) Fallen Timbers.
D) Little Bighorn.
E) Wounded Knee.
Q4) How do you explain the Watergate scandal and President Nixon's role in it?
Q5) What type of individual was attracted to the counterculture,and why?
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B) energy and the economy.
C) reform of government and education.
D) passing civil rights legislation.
E) conservation and the environment.
Q2) All of the following foreign policy events occurred during the Carter administration EXCEPT the
A) ratification of a new SALT II arms agreement with the Soviet Union.
B) signing of a formal peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
C) establishment of formal diplomatic relations with communist China.
D) ratification of the Panama Canal treaty.
E) beginning of a Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Q3) In the 1980s,record national budget deficits resulted from
A) increased military spending.
B) All these answers are correct.
C) increased health care costs.
D) large tax cuts.
E) increased entitlement spending on programs such as Social Security.
Q4) What were President Carter's major political successes and failures?
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A) remained largely confined to gay communities in large cities.
B) occurred most rapidly among heterosexuals.
C) began to level off and then decline.
D) was concentrated in the Northeast.
E) was transmitted almost exclusively through sexual contact.
Q2) In the 1980s and 1990s,the most divisive cultural issue in the United States was
A) gun control.
B) prayer in schools.
C) gay marriage.
D) racial relations.
E) abortion rights.
Q3) George Bush's "mission accomplished" speech aboard an American aircraft carrier marked the end of major U.S.military personnel losses in Iraq.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the key differences among the post-Cold War foreign policies of the first Bush,Clinton,and second Bush administrations.
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