History of the Americas Exam Review
Course Introduction
History of the Americas explores the development, interactions, and transformations of societies across North, Central, and South America from pre-Columbian times to the present. The course examines indigenous civilizations, European colonization and its lasting impacts, the formation and evolution of nation-states, social and cultural movements, economic transformations, and key political events. Emphasis is placed on the interconnectedness of peoples and regions, the struggle for independence and nationhood, and contemporary issues shaped by this rich and diverse history. Through critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, students gain a deeper understanding of the forces that have shaped the Americas and their global significance.
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The Unfinished Nation A Concise History of the American People 8th Edition by
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures Key
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Q1) Hernando Cortés's conquest of the Aztecs in 1518 was made possible largely due to
A) the Spanish co-opting the Aztec religion.
B) Spanish alliances with enemies of the Aztecs.
C) the brutality of the Spanish conquistadores.
D) the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox.
E) political divisions within the Aztec leadership.
Answer: D
Q2) Who was the first known European to look westward upon the Pacific Ocean,in 1513?
A) Ferdinand Magellan
B) Amerigo Vespucci
C) Juan Ponce de León
D) Hernando Cortés
E) Vasco de Balboa
Answer: E
Q3) 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 initial Jamestown colonists focused primarily on A) converting the local Indians to Christianity.
B) the search for gold.
C) developing peaceful relations with the Indians in the area.
D) the long-term success of the settlement.
E) building a family-centered community.
Answer: B
Q2) In King Philip's War,Indians made effective use of a relatively new weapon,the A) artillery cannon.
B) flintlock rifle.
C) Gatling gun.
D) matchlock rifle.
E) repeating revolver.
Answer: B
Q3) Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams were both executed for their dissent on the major tenets of Puritanism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America Key
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Q1) The case of John Peter Zenger saw the courts rule that criticisms of the government were not libelous if actually true.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) By the late seventeenth century,European and African immigrants outnumbered natives along the Atlantic coast.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The proportion of all blacks in the colonies living on a plantation of at least ten slaves was over
A) three-fourths.
B) one-fourth.
C) nine-tenths.
D) one-half.
E) one-third.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Key
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Q1) The Stamp Act of 1765
A) required colonists to pay taxes on most printed documents.
B) cost the British government much more money than it made in revenues.
C) established a royal postal system between the American colonies and England.
D) replaced the Sugar Act of 1764.
E) proved to be ineffective, as most colonies refused to accept it.
Q2) The Boston Tea Party of December 1773
A) took place in response to Boston's turning away of several British merchant ships from the harbor.
B) shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.
C) took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea and shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.
D) frightened both sides in the conflict and triggered a year of relative peace.
E) triggered acts of resistance in other colonial cities and took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea.
Q3) The Proclamation of 1763 decreed that Parliament had the right to pass laws dealing with the colonies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution Key
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Q1) In 1775,as conflicts with England intensified,American colonists
A) believed England was not willing to engage in military operations against them.
B) made extensive efforts to prepare themselves for war.
C) were deeply divided about what they were fighting for.
D) considered arming slaves to help build up the colonial army.
E) saw their larger population as a key advantage over England.
Q2) The Declaration of Independence
A) borrowed heavily from previously published colonial documents.
B) avoided making any direct criticism of the king.
C) originally recommended that all slaves be freed.
D) called for the formation of a two-party democracy.
E) was never formally approved by the Second Continental Congress.
Q3) Which statement about slavery in America in the 1780s is true?
A) Virginia passed a law forbidding the manumission of slaves.
B) Many southern states prohibited the importation of slaves from abroad.
C) Most whites believed blacks should be integrated into American society as equals.
D) The strongest forces against slavery were found in the western colonies.
E) In no state was it illegal.
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Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Key
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Q1) In the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,it was asserted that
A) the federal government had the right to void state laws.
B) states had the right to nullify federal laws.
C) the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution was unjust.
D) the Republicans had betrayed the spirit of the Constitution.
E) the Supreme Court had no constitutional authority to invalidate federal laws.
Q2) At the Constitutional Convention of 1787,each delegate voted as an individual.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What steps did Hamilton take to strengthen the federal government?
Q4) Virginia and New York ratified the new Constitution under the assumption that A) a provision would be added allowing for the direct election of the president.
B) Thomas Jefferson would become the first president.
C) there would be a ban on the importation of slaves.
D) a bill of rights would be added later, in the form of amendments.
E) it would not be ratified by enough other states to become binding.
Q5) Like George Washington's,Thomas Jefferson's estate freed his slaves after his death. A)True B)False
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Q1) The cotton gin was invented by
A) Albert Gallatin.
B) Samuel Slater.
C) Robert Fulton.
D) Eli Whitney.
E) Moses Brown.
Q2) In 1810,the Non-Intercourse Act expired and was replaced by
A) "Peaceable Coercion."
B) the Tallmadge Amendment.
C) Madison's Embargo.
D) the Harrison Land Law.
E) Macon's Bill No. 2.
Q3) By the end of Jefferson's presidency,the capital city of Washington rivaled New York and Philadelphia as a major American city.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The revivalism of the Second Great Awakening was essentially restricted to white people.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Key
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Q1) What factors motivated Americans to engage in a westward migration in the early nineteenth century? What type of American was more likely to move into the West?
Q2) In the early nineteenth century,"mountain men"
A) were the dominant segment of the population in the Far West.
B) very often became intimately involved with Indian and Mexican women.
C) frequently warred against Indian and Mexican peoples.
D) were mostly older settlers of an earlier era.
E) had little impact on the character of Far West society.
Q3) The Panic of 1819 resulted in a depression that lasted
A) six years.
B) four years.
C) six months.
D) one year.
E) two years.
Q4) How did the War of 1812 affect industry in the United States,and how did American industry evolve in the aftermath of the war?
Q5) What effect did the Missouri Compromise have on the sectional conflict in the United States? Why was it only a temporary solution to a growing conflict?
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Q1) What obstacles did Andrew Jackson see to American democracy? What steps did he take to reduce those obstacles?
Q2) Martin Van Buren won the presidency in 1836 because
A) land speculation had been reduced under President Andrew Jackson.
B) he was more popular with the public than Andrew Jackson.
C) his opponent openly advocated ending removal of the Indians.
D) federal spending had supported an economic boom.
E) the political opposition offered multiple candidates.
Q3) In the debate over the Bank of the United States,President Andrew Jackson agreed with
A) both "soft-money" and "hard-money" advocates.
B) None of these answers is correct.
C) Henry Clay.
D) the "hard-money" advocates.
E) the "soft-money" advocates.
Q4) What brought about the formation of the Whig Party? Describe the evolution of its political fortunes in the 1830s and 1840s.
Q5) Characterize the presidency of Martin Van Buren.
Q6) What role did political parties play during the 1830s and 1840s?
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Q1) All of the following statements regarding American leisure activities prior to 1860 are true EXCEPT that
A) popular tastes in public spectacle tended toward the bizarre and fantastic.
B) reading was a principal leisure activity among affluent Americans.
C) minstrel shows were increasingly popular.
D) unpaid vacations were becoming common among the middle class.
E) men gravitated to taverns for drinking, talking, and game-playing.
Q2) declared that
A) unions must admit working women as members.
B) child labor laws were unconstitutional.
C) labor unions were lawful organizations.
D) minimum wage laws were a restraint on trade.
E) labor strikes were illegal.
Q3) Prior to 1860,the social institution that most bound together rural Americans was the A) grocery store.
B) tavern.
C) town hall.
D) schoolhouse.
E) church.
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Chapter 11: Cotton,Slavery,and the Old South Key
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Q1) Though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal inside the U.S.until the Civil War,the "slave trade"-that is,the importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign locale-was made illegal in A) 1812.
B) 1808.
C) 1809.
D) 1815.
E) None of these answers is correct.
Q2) Rice and sugar production in the antebellum South
A) threatened to overwhelm cotton production in the lower South.
B) had difficulty sustaining profits for growers.
C) were concentrated in a relatively small geographic area.
D) was in considerable decline by the 1850s.
E) had short growing seasons.
Q3) What obstacles to industrialization existed in the South during the nineteenth century?
Q4) Compare and contrast the nature of the black slave family and culture with the free white family and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Q1) Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Walt Whitman
C) George Ripley
D) Robert Owen
E) John Humphrey Noyes
Q2) By the beginning of the Civil War,the United States had one of the highest literacy rates of any nation of the world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the mid-nineteenth century,the general European attitude toward American art and literature
A) was that American artists had little to offer Europe.
B) was one of growing respect and admiration.
C) included praise for American artists for defining a new set of national virtues.
D) included criticism of American artists for ignoring romanticism.
E) was that it had been hopelessly corrupted by the ideology of unfettered capitalism.
Q4) Describe the essential tenets of the transcendentalist philosophy.
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Key
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Q1) Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that
A) the United States was destined by God and history to expand in size.
B) the United States should create a vast new "empire of liberty."
C) U.S. expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada.
D) None of these answers is correct, as all of these were beliefs encompassed by the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
E) the growth of the United States should ultimately include much of the rest of the world.
Q2) In the 1820s,most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were
A) white southerners and their slaves.
B) white northerners.
C) recently-arrived European immigrants.
D) whites from the Far West.
E) free blacks.
Q3) Assess the ideology known as Manifest Destiny.Looking back,was it more helpful or hurtful?
Q4) Why were the Democratic presidents of the 1850s so ineffectual?
Q5) How did the slave issue affect the United States' westward expansion?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War Key
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Q1) How did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis compare as presidents and military commanders?
Q2) General Grant's Union forces attacked General Lee's Confederate forces in the month-long
A) clash at Nashville.
B) northern campaign.
C) siege of Vicksburg.
D) Battle of Chickamauga.
E) Battle of Gettysburg.
Q3) African American mortality rates in the war were higher than those of whites. A)True
B)False
Q4) During the Civil War,as a result of new technology in weapons, A) infantry troops began to fight standing in line formations.
B) soldiers were forced to carry rudimentary gas masks.
C) the Gatling gun became the primary combat weapon.
D) organized infantry did not fight in formation.
E) battlefields became more organized.
Q5) Why might the Civil War be described as the first "modern war"?
Q6) Why was the South so confident of its "cotton diplomacy"? Why did it fail?
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Q1) Advocates of the "New South"
A) discouraged white women from working outside of the home.
B) promoted southern industry and railroad development.
C) opposed using northern capital.
D) challenged the assumptions of white supremacy.
E) in fact advocated a return to the plantation system of the antebellum South.
Q2) Without the support of black voters in 1868,Ulysses S.Grant would have had only a minority of the popular vote.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By the end of Reconstruction,
A) black women still could not marry with any legal standing.
B) most black women did not hold a job.
C) most Southern black women played a role in the family that was very different from that of white women.
D) most Southern black women did field work.
E) roughly half of all black women were working for wages.
Q4) How did Lincoln's plan differ from those of the Radical Republicans?
Q5) In what ways did Reconstruction succeed? In what ways did it fail? What has been its legacy?
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West Key
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Q1) Plains Indians were formidable foes of white settlers because they were usually able to present a united front.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE?
A) At the time of the Mexican War, Hispanics greatly outnumbered Anglo-Americans.
B) Descendants of the original settlers engaged primarily in cattle and sheep ranching.
C) Taos Indians, allied with Navajos and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847.
D) The Anglo-American population grew rapidly once the railroads began traveling to the Southwest.
E) The Spanish had had settlements in the area since the seventeenth century.
Q3) In the late nineteenth century,fences for Plains farms were usually made from
A) wood.
B) sod.
C) stones.
D) barbed wire.
E) brick.
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Key
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Q1) Cite some specific examples in which the rise of corporations both benefited and hurt working-class Americans.
Q2) At its height in 1886,the Knights of Labor were led by
A) John Peter Altgeld.
B) Eugene V. Debs.
C) Uriah S. Stephens.
D) Henry Clay Frick.
E) Terence V. Powderly.
Q3) 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.
Q4) What factors in society and the business community during the late nineteenth century that would likely determine an individual's prospects for economic success were not considered in the ideal of the "self-made man"?
Q5) Which aspects of Social Darwinism do you believe are true and which are false? Why?
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Q1) What was the status of American education by the end of the nineteenth century?
Q2) In the late nineteenth century,leisure activities tended to be divided by A) class.
B) race.
C) gender.
D) both race and gender.
E) All these answers are correct.
Q3) In what ways did mass entertainment in the late nineteenth century perpetuate racial,class,and gender distinctions? In what ways did it break down these distinctions?
Q4) In 1869,Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of A) football.
B) boxing.
C) soccer.
D) basketball.
E) baseball.
Q5) It can be said that Darwinism helped spawn the philosophy of pragmatism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire Key
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Q1) In his second term,President Grover Cleveland
A) followed policies similar to those of his first term.
B) grew more active in social reform.
C) faced a Republican-controlled Congress.
D) None of these answers is correct.
E) changed his position on tariffs.
Q2) The Democratic National Convention of 1896 saw the party attempt to incorporate some Populist demands into its platform.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What statement regarding the national Grange movement is FALSE?
A) At their peak, Grange supporters controlled the legislatures of most Midwest states.
B) It was greatly strengthened by the end of the economic depression in the late 1870s.
C) The political inexperience of many Grange leaders hurt the movement.
D) It attempted to teach new scientific farming techniques to its members.
E) It sought to regulate the power and practices of railroads and warehouses.
Q4) What was the "silver question" in the 1890s,and why was it such a prominent issue?
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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) What major progressive reforms were enacted by the federal government between 1912 and 1915?
Q3) Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,
A) the majority of professional women were nurses.
B) social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women.
C) almost no women were able to have professional careers.
D) women were forced out of nursing as the occupation gained distinction. E) educated black women were barred from all professional opportunities.
Q4) What accounted for the great public popularity of Theodore Roosevelt? Do you think he would be popular with today's voters?
Q5) In what ways was Theodore Roosevelt a progressive reformer,consistent with the progressivism of his time?
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Q1) The country that lost the greatest number of lives in World War I was A) Russia.
B) Italy.
C) Germany.
D) Great Britain.
E) France.
Q2) During World War I,technologically-advanced submarines used engines powered by A) coal.
B) gasoline.
C) electricity.
D) diesel.
E) steam.
Q3) After the conflict between Russia and Japan in 1904-1905, A) relations between Japan and the Roosevelt administration steadily improved. B) the Russian government collapsed.
C) President Roosevelt sent a fleet of ships around the world, including to Japan, as a show of force.
D) the Japanese military presence in the Pacific declined.
E) President Roosevelt negotiated a secret free trade agreement with Russia.
Q4) Why did the United States stay out of World War I between 1914 and 1917?
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Chapter 22: The New Era Key
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Q1) In the 1920s,"behavioral" psychologists argued
A) mothers should rely on trained experts for advice in raising children.
B) women had an instinctive capacity for being mothers.
C) mothers who sent their children to nursery school and kindergarten hurt their development.
D) maternal affection was sufficient for successful child-rearing.
E) midwives rather than doctors should aid in childbirth, for the emotional health of the child.
Q2) Both Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge took essentially passive approaches to the presidency.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The infamous Baltimore journalist of the 1920s who delighted in ridiculing religion,politics,the arts,and even democracy itself,was
A)H.L.Mencken.
B)F.Scott Fitzgerald.
C)Thomas Wolfe.
D)Sinclair Lewis.
E)John Dos Passos.
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Q1) The automobile and construction industries were both experiencing economic declines prior to the stock market crash.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did the American people-men,women,minorities-generally respond to the Great Depression?
Q3) In 1932,the unemployment rate in Toledo,Ohio,was one of the worst in the nation,at
A) 80 percent.
B) 95 percent.
C) 40 percent.
D) 70 percent.
E) 60 percent.
Q4) During the 1930s,the American Communist Party
A) supported Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
B) None of these answers is correct.
C) excluded most minorities from its ranks.
D) distanced itself from the Soviet Union.
E) both distanced itself from the Soviet Union and excluded most minorities from its ranks.
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Q1) The Agricultural Adjustment Act did not bring about a rise in farm prices in the years immediately following its passage in 1933.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) A series of 1935 Roosevelt proposals for higher tax rates on the wealthy was likely designed to undercut Senator Huey Long's Share-Our-Wealth Plan.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Social Security Act was part of what has been called the Second New Deal. A)True
B)False
Q5) What impact did the New Deal have on women and minorities?
Q6) What impact did the New Deal have on women and minorities?
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Q1) The United States failed to join the League of Nations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How might the Roosevelt administration be labeled isolationist? How and why might it be labeled internationalist?
Q3) The Neutrality Act of 1935
A) was passed by Congress with recent acts of Nazi aggression in mind.
B) included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflict.
C) did not prevent the United States from intervening when Italy invaded Ethiopia.
D) sought to protect America's international trade agreements.
E) prevented Americans from traveling on ships of warring nations.
Q4) What steps were taken during the 1930s to reinforce the American retreat from Europe? What steps did the Roosevelt administration take to lead the United States away from isolationism?
Q5) Were American isolationists in the 1920s and 1930s a recent phenomenon,or did their thinking fit into traditional American ideas regarding foreign policy? Justify your response.
Q6) What were the weaknesses of U.S.foreign policy during the 1920s?
Q7) Explain the evolution of American diplomacy toward Japan between 1921 and 1941.
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Q1) Describe the development and making of the atomic bomb.
Q2) 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.
Q3) How did the war affect the American economy? How did it affect the New Deal? What economic factors of the war would fuel a post-war boom of material prosperity in the United States?
Q4) The Allied invasion of Sicily led to the collapse of the Mussolini government.
A)True
B)False
Q5) During World War II,Chinese Americans
A) All these answers are correct.
B) saw the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
C) were drafted in a higher proportion than any other national group.
D) both received a favorable image in U.S. government propaganda and saw the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
E) received a favorable image in U.S. government propaganda.
Q6) Trace the significant battles and events in the Pacific between the United States and Japan during World War II.
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Chapter 27: The Cold War Key
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Q1) In 1949,the Truman administration made progress in civil rights by
A) ordering the desegregation of public transportation.
B) establishing the Fair Employment Practices Commission.
C) making lynching a federal crime.
D) ordering an end to discrimination in the hiring of government employees.
E) abolishing the poll tax.
Q2) An integral part of the American policy of Cold War containment was to extend American economic aid to the rebuilding of Western Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Churchill,Roosevelt,and Stalin avoided bitterness by coming to a final settlement on the future of Poland.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the origins of the Cold War,1945-1947.
Q5) Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations proved there were 205 communists in the State Department.
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) All of the following researchers made important contributions to the development of antibiotics EXCEPT
A) Paul Muller.
B) Louis Pasteur.
C) Howard Florey.
D) Joseph Lister.
E) Alexander Fleming.
Q3) During the 1950s in the United States,married women who worked outside the home
A) increased in number throughout the decade.
B) All these answers are correct.
C) accounted for nearly one-third of all married women.
D) both increased in number throughout the decade, and accounted for nearly one-third of all married women.
E) faced social pressures to stay at home with their children.
Q4) What were the various strategies used by supporters and opponents of desegregation?
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Q1) Legislation to prohibit segregation in all public accommodations was proposed
A) by Johnson and approved during the Nixon administration.
B) by Kennedy and approved during the Johnson administration.
C) and approved during the Kennedy administration.
D) by Eisenhower and approved during the Kennedy administration.
E) and approved during the Johnson administration.
Q2) President Johnson based his proposals for federal aid to education on the needs of the schools themselves rather than on the needs of their students.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The 1961 Vienna summit between the United States and the Soviet Union
A) saw President Kennedy criticize the construction of the Berlin Wall.
B) saw the United States and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
C) was canceled in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs.
D) saw President John Kennedy agree not to invade Cuba.
E) saw Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev make a veiled threat of war.
Q4) When Lyndon Johnson became president was he,in essence,already committed to following a policy of escalating involvement in Vietnam? Why or why not?
Q5) Describe the multiple traumas of 1968.How did the country respond to them?
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Q1) President Richard Nixon's appointments to the Supreme Court
A)both included the first nomination of a female justice,and were twice rejected by the Senate.
B)included the first nomination of a female justice.
C)were twice rejected by the Senate.
D)culminated in the successful appointment of G.Harrold Carswell to the Court.
E)All these answers are correct
Q2) The intent of President Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy was to
A) expand the war effort to all parts of Indochina.
B) declare an immediate end to the conflict.
C) have the South Vietnamese military do more of the fighting.
D) expand the war effort to all parts of Vietnam.
E) concentrate American military power on destroying the NLF.
Q3) In 1972,the Equal Rights Amendment
A) had been promoted since the 1920s by some feminists.
B) was strongly opposed by some women.
C) All these answers are correct.
D) seemed almost certain to be ratified.
E) was passed by Congress and submitted to the states for ratification.
Q4) Was the new youth culture truly a "revolution" in America? What were its limits?
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Q1) The most serious domestic problem facing the Bush administration was
A) the recession of 1990-1992.
B) both Bush's opposition to current abortion and affirmative action laws, and the president's inability to work with the Democratic Congress.
C) Bush's opposition to current abortion and affirmative action laws.
D) the president's inability to work with the Democratic Congress.
E) Bush's broken pledge not to raise taxes.
Q2) The United States did not participate in the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow. A)True
B)False
Q3) In the late 1980s,challenges to communist rule were LEAST successful in A) Poland.
B) Romania.
C) Czechoslovakia.
D) Hungary.
E) China.
Q4) Some Americans consider Ronald Reagan to be one of the nation's "great" presidents.Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
Q5) What factors caused the fading of the "Reagan Revolution"?
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Q1) Bill Clinton became the third president,after Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon,to have an impeachment trial.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following was true of poor inner-city African Americans in the first decade of the twenty-first century?
A) In 2010, only 35 percent of black children lived with both their parents.
B) The number of black children living with both their parents had been steadily declining since before the 1970s.
C) Sixty percent of young, inner-city blacks were unemployed in 2006.
D) All these answers are correct.
E) In 2006, less than half of inner-city blacks completed high school.
Q3) Other than Katrina,what else accounted for the political woes faced by the Bush administration in their second term? How might they have ameliorated or even avoided these political problems?
Q4) What agenda did Bill Clinton bring to the presidency in 1992? What were his successes and failures in enacting that agenda?
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