Social Studies Methods (for Education Majors)
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Course Introduction
This course explores the theories, strategies, and practical techniques for teaching social studies in elementary and secondary classrooms. Emphasizing an inquiry-based and interdisciplinary approach, it covers curriculum design, lesson planning, assessment, and culturally responsive pedagogy. Prospective educators will engage with topics such as history, geography, civics, and economics, while also learning to integrate technology, foster critical thinking, and create inclusive learning environments that encourage active student participation and civic engagement.
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The Unfinished Nation 7th Edition by Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) The early Spanish settlers were successful at establishing plantations,but not at finding gold or silver.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The English Reformation resulted from
A)the threat of war between England and France.
B)a political dispute between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church.
C)the rise of Lutheranism within the English Church.
D)the persecution of liberal priests by King James I.
E)the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Answer: B
Q3) When Europeans arrived in North America,native tribes were generally able to unite in opposition to white encroachments on their land.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Puritan discontent in England grew rapidly after the death of ________.
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
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Q1) In 1608,Puritan Separatists who wished to leave England
A)began to seek refuge in Virginia.
B)emigrated quietly to northern France.
C)were encouraged by the Church of England to emigrate.
D)chartered a colony in Plymouth.
E)could not legally do so.
Answer: E
Q2) Over time in the seventeenth century,an increasing number of New England Puritans came to view Indian society
A)with condescending admiration.
B)with fear and contempt.
C)as worth preserving.
D)as part of the Godly community.
E)as helpful neighbors and partners in commerce.
Answer: B
Q3) The Glorious Revolution helped to solidify the Dominion of New England.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
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Q1) In the English colonies,Jews
A)had their largest community in Rhode Island.
B)did not live in most of the colonies.
C)enjoyed considerable toleration.
D)could not practice their religion openly anywhere.
E)could not vote or hold office.
Answer: E
Q2) During the course of colonial history,colonial legislatures grew increasingly accustomed to operating on orders from Parliament.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which statement about the economy of the northern colonies is true?
A)Conditions for farming were more favorable than in the southern colonies.
B)Planters were more likely to rely on slave labor.
C)Agriculture was not the dominant industry of the economy.
D)New England was able to develop several major export crops.
E)Agriculture was more diverse than in the southern colonies.
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition
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Q1) The Peace of Paris (1763)saw the French retain a portion of their North American holdings.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Throughout the French and Indian War,American colonists
A)fought on the side of the French.
B)accepted temporary new taxes to help finance the war.
C)sold and traded food with the French in the West Indies.
D)resented that they had to do more of the fighting than did the British regulars.
E)saw British requisition and impressment policies form as necessary.
Q3) During the third and final stage of the French and Indian War,British leader William Pitt
A)ignored the complaints of colonists.
B)gave more authority to conduct the war over to the colonists.
C)gradually loosened his tight control over the colonists.
D)barred the colonists from military service.
E)allowed Indian tribal leaders to dictate British battle strategy.
Q4) The Bostonian who took the lead in fomenting public outrage against the Boston Massacre was ________.
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution
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Q1) The ordinances of 1784 and 1785 were more favorable to settlers than to land speculators.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The American diplomat who negotiated the French-American alliance of 1778 was
Q3) One effect of Shays's Rebellion was that it
A)temporarily brought a halt to the new American government.
B)led the federal government to adopt the gold standard.
C)led to the downfall of the state government in Massachusetts.
D)contributed to the growing belief that the national government needed reform.
E)encouraged Massachusetts to adopt gradual emancipation.
Q4) The blunders of General ________ cost the British dearly in 1777.
Q5) Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1783,
A)the United States gained formal British recognition of American independence.
B)Spain received Gibraltar from the English.
C)the United States received all territory east of the Rocky Mountains.
D)France received Canada from the English.
E)England was forced to pay reparations to the new American nation.
Q6) ________ led a failed rebellion of New England farmers during the late1780s.
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) Under the "checks and balances" system of the Constitution of 1787,federal judges
A)were appointed by Congress.
B)served for life.
C)were elected by state legislatures.
D)could not reverse state court rulings.
E)served at the pleasure of the executive.
Q2) At the start of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 the delegates agreed that
A)their proceeding would be open to the public.
B)states would have proportional voting based on each state's population.
C)the country needed a stronger central government.
D)slavery would have to be preserved within the United States.
E)the country needed a stronger army to prevent further popular uprisings.
Q3) On September 25,1789,Congress approved twelve amendments,________ of which came to comprise what we know as the Bill of Rights.
Q4) The Judiciary Act of 1801 was passed by a lame duck Federalist Congress.
A)True B)False
Q5) Pinckney's Treaty of 1795 gave the United States the right to deposit goods at
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian ERA
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Q1) The first modern factory in America was located in ________,Rhode Island.
Q2) ________ presided over the treason trial of Aaron Burr.
Q3) In 1800,Virginia was the scene of a foiled slave revolt devised by ________.
Q4) The Treaty of ________ ended the War of 1812.
Q5) During the War of 1812,the United States achieved early military success
A)on the Atlantic Ocean.
B)in New England.
C)in the Carolinas.
D)on the Great Lakes.
E)in the Caribbean.
Q6) Judith Sargent Murray is best known for defending the right of women to a(n)________.
Q7) The writer Judith Sargent Murray argued that women
A)should have the same educational opportunities as men.
B)were equal to men in intellect and potential.
C)should have a role in society apart from their husbands.
D)should have opportunities to earn their own livings.
E)All these answers are correct.
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Q8) In 1811 General William Henry Harrison defeated Native Americans at the Battle of ________.
Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism
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Q1) After the War of 1812,it was clear that the United States needed an improved
A)trade policy with Europe.
B)system of tariffs.
C)system for selling public lands.
D)internal transportation system.
E)system of currency.
Q2) President Madison believed that federal funding of internal improvements required a constitutional amendment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the early nineteenth century,the westward movement of white Americans was encouraged by
A)exhausted agricultural lands in the East.
B)the spread of the plantation system in the South.
C)the federal government's policy toward Indian tribes in the West.
D)exhausted agricultural lands in the East,the spread of the plantation system in the South,and the federal government's policy toward Indian tribes in the West.
E)None of these answers is correct.
Q4) Compare life in the Old Northwest with life in the Old Southwest.
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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
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Q1) The Washington Star was the first of the new "penny press" newspapers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How "democratic" was the United States during the 1830s? Who was included in the political process and who was not?
Q3) The "Trail of Tears" taken by the Cherokees led them to the area that later became A)Texas.
B)Oklahoma.
C)Missouri.
D)New Mexico.
E)Nevada.
Q4) President Jackson sought to remove all of the eastern Indian tribes except the "Five Civilized Tribes."
A)True
B)False
Q5) Calhoun's defense of his doctrine of nullification was directed primarily at the issue of tariffs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution
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Q1) Between 1830 and 1860,what region of the nation changed the most dramatically overall? Explain.
Q2) The Erie Canal was the greatest construction project Americans had ever undertaken.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By 1860,the energy for industrialization in the United States increasingly came from A)water.
B)kerosene.
C)coal.
D)gasoline.
E)wood.
Q4) The first American cooperative news gathering organization was called the ________.
Q5) Much of the new pre-Civil War immigration went into the growing cities of the northeastern part of the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The first railroad company actually to begin operations was the ________.
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Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
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Q1) ________ was the leader of an aborted slave revolt in South Carolina in the early 1820s.
Q2) From the 1830s on,state laws governing slavery became gradually less rigid.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included
A)singing songs and playing musical instruments such as the banjo.
B)keeping family diaries and other written personal records.
C)wearing clothing that incorporated traditional African designs or colors.
D)speaking in their native African languages when out of the presence of whites.
E)celebrating traditional African feasts and rites of passage,in defiance of white law.
Q4) In the South,small farmers,often as much as great planters,were committed to the plantation system.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the distinguishing class features of the people who were known as "planters," "plain folk," "hill people," and "crackers."
Q6) The "peculiar institution" was ________.
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform
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Q1) All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River school EXCEPT
A)James Whistler.
B)Thomas Cole.
C)Frederic Church.
D)Albert Bierstadt.
E)Asher Durand.
Q2) Horace Mann believed public education should promote both democracy and social order.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By 1860,public schools in the United States had failed to produce significant improvement in education.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Many of the Hudson River school artists expressed a nostalgic view of nature.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The most important and popular American painters in the first half of the nineteenth century were known as the ________.
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) The United States and Great Britain agreed on the "joint occupation" of ________.
Q2) The Wilmot Proviso
A)banned all slavery west of the Mississippi River.
B)passed in the House and was signed into law.
C)overturned the Missouri Compromise.
D)was an appropriation to pay for peace with Mexico.
E)prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
Q3) President Polk was willing to go to war over Oregon rather than accept a divide at the 49th parallel.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ and six of his followers murdered five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas in what became known as the Pottawatomie Massacre.
Q5) The immediate cause of war between the United States and Mexico was a border dispute.
A)True
B)False
Q6) John Brown was executed following his raid on ________.
Q7) American diplomats issued the ________ Manifesto in an effort to acquire Cuba.
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) The prominent commander who died in the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 was
A)George McClellan.
B)Joseph Hooker.
C)Ambrose Burnside.
D)Thomas Jackson.
E)George Meade.
Q2) The Confederate constitution explicitly acknowledged the sovereignty of the individual states and the right of secession.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By the end of 1862,Union forces
A)had made considerable progress in the West.
B)were having little success in the East.
C)had closed the mouth of the Mississippi to Confederate trade.
D)had both made considerable progress in the West,and closed the mouth of the Mississippi to Confederate trade.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q4) The last-ditch effort by a Kentucky senator to avoid the Civil War was called the ________ Compromise.
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
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Q1) Grant played a leadership role among the "Liberal Republicans."
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1860s,the Black Codes were
A)holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
B)passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
C)enacted by the Freedmen's Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
D)vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
E)designed to give whites control over freedmen.
Q3) During Reconstruction,per capita income for Southerners
A)rose for blacks.
B)rose for whites.
C)declined for whites.
D)rose for blacks and whites.
E)rose for blacks and declined for whites.
Q4) Why would the legacy of Reconstruction matter throughout the twentieth century?
Q5) The most numerous Republicans in the South were ________.
Q6) State laws designed to restore slavery in all but name in the post-Civil War South were called ________.
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
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Q1) In the mid-nineteenth century,the Plains Indians were
A)usually able to unite against white aggression.
B)not as vulnerable to disease as eastern tribes.
C)among the least aggressive of all American Indians.
D)mostly sedentary farmers.
E)the most widespread Indian groups in the West.
Q2) From the time of initial colonial contact to the close of the nineteenth century,the relationship between Native Americans and white Americans was marked by a high degree of violence by whites toward Natives.What were the popular ideas and cultural beliefs found in white American society that motivated this violence?
Q3) In the late nineteenth century,fences for Plains farms were usually made from A)barbed wire.
B)stones.
C)wood.
D)sod.
E)brick.
Q4) Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran were painters from the "________ school" who celebrated the West in their art.
Q5) In what ways did the American West not conform to its popular image?
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
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Q1) In the late nineteenth century,the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT
A)the automobile industry.
B)steam engine technology.
C)freighters on the Great Lakes.
D)the Pennsylvania Railroad.
E)the oil industry.
Q2) In 1929,the base price of a Ford Model T was ________.
A)$290
B)$470
C)$630
D)$950
E)$1120
Q3) The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of A)vertical integration.
B)horizontal integration.
C)diagonal integration.
D)central integration.
E)vertical and horizontal integration.
Q4) The most important leader of the Knights of Labor was ________.
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Chapter 18: The Age of the City
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Q1) Without immigration,American cities would have grown relatively slowly.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the last decades of the nineteenth century,incomes in the United States
A)rose for almost all Americans.
B)declined for most unskilled workers.
C)remained the same for most Americans.
D)increased for white Americans,but decreased for most other ethnic groups.
E)grew more unequal,while the middle class shrunk.
Q3) Baseball was much like a game called "rounders," which was derived from the British game of ________.
Q4) By the turn of the century,professional baseball and professional football were both important spectator sports.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Electric trolleys were in use in American cities before World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The nation's most popular amusement park at the turn of the century was New York's ________.
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Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire
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Q1) Regarding Samoa,the American Navy had a particular interest in the natural harbor at
A)Oahu.
B)Manono.
C)Pago Pago.
D)Savaii.
E)Upolu.
Q2) Why did the United States go to war against Spain in 1898?
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
Q4) In 1900,the "Open Door notes"
A)gained more international support after the Boxer Rebellion.
B)were well received in Japan.
C)could only be enforced by the United States through diplomacy.
D)were never put into practice.
E)were accepted only by the United States and Russia.
Q5) Congress tried to respond to demands of inflationist sentiment in 1893 by passing the ________.
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Chapter 20: The Progressives
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Q1) A major reform of American banking was achieved in 1913 with passage of the A)Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
B)Economy Act.
C)Federal Securities Act.
D)Federal Reserve Act.
E)Currency Act.
Q2) World War I hurt the socialist movement in the United States
A)because the war generated anti-radical feelings in the country.
B)because the Socialist Party supported Germany.
C)because the Socialist Party had dynamited key railroad lines to prevent troop movement.
D)both because the war generated anti-radical feelings in the country,and because the Socialist Party supported Germany.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q3) The settlement house movement was built by middle-class reformers to help inner-city residents.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How were the calls for "order" and "reform" the same? How were they different?
Q5) The effort to make faith into a tool of social reform was known as the ________.
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Chapter 21: America and the Great War
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Q1) In early 1915,virtually the entire European continent was at war as a result of an assassination of an Austrian archduke.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The participation of blacks in the American army in World War I led to calls for integration of the military.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During World War I,the new technology of warfare
A)created logistical problems that slowed many offensives.
B)allowed the attack of the enemy without direct combat.
C)were largely responsible for the appalling level of casualties.
D)both created logistical problems that slowed many offensives,and allowed the attack of the enemy without direct combat.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q4) Marcus Garvey called for blacks to reject capitalism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The American Expeditionary Force was commanded by General ________.
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Chapter 22: The New ERA
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Q1) In the 1920s,as agriculture brought millions of acres of new land under cultivation,three million people left the farm sector.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle between A)blacks and whites.
B)urban and rural society.
C)nativists and immigrants.
D)U.S.Steel and the Amalgamated Steelworkers' Union.
E)creationism and evolution.
Q3) When prohibition went into effect in 1920,it had the support of not only most middle-class Americans,but most progressives as well.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Advertiser Bruce Barton's best-selling book,________,described Jesus Christ as a "super salesman."
Q5) F.Scott Fitzgerald attacked the American obsession with material success in his 1925 novel,________.
Q6) The pioneer of the American birth-control movement was ________.
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Chapter 23: The Great Depression
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Q1) During the Great Depression,in the rural United States
A)one-third of all farmers lost their land.
B)farm income dropped by 25 percent.
C)the economic conditions were slightly better than in industrial cities.
D)the farm economy could not keep up with consumer demand.
E)farmers enjoyed several unusually fertile growing seasons.
Q2) The "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" is associated with
A)the radical Right.
B)the Spanish Civil War.
C)veterans of World War I.
D)the "bonus marchers."
E)the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Q3) Why was Franklin Roosevelt elected president in 1932? What was his campaign platform?
Q4) During the Great Depression,both the marriage rate and the divorce rate declined. A)True
B)False
Q5) How did the American people-men,women,minorities-generally respond to the Great Depression?
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Chapter 24: The New Deal
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Q1) Frances Perkins,the first female cabinet member in American history,was secretary of A)commerce.
B)agriculture.
C)labor.
D)health and human services.
E)education.
Q2) What evidence supports the argument that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal were liberal?
Q3) John L.Lewis of the United Mine Workers was one of the leaders of the fledgling ________.
Q4) In 1937,the Supreme Court declared both the Wagner Act and the ________ Act to be constitutional.
Q5) The provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act included a promise to workers that they could participate in collective bargaining,but there were no enforcement mechanisms in the legislation.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The commissioner of Indian affairs in the 1930s was ________.
Q7) What impact did the New Deal have on women and minorities?
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Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
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Q1) The American ambassador to London who insisted in 1940 that the British plight was already hopeless was
A)Neville Chamberlain.
B)Joseph Kennedy.
C)Gerald Nye.
D)Burton Wheeler.
E)Wendell Willkie.
Q2) During the 1920s and 1930s,interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy
A)led the United States to give up its membership in the World Court.
B)reflected the sentiments of a majority of the American public.
C)led the U.S.Senate to assert that no single nation was a threat to world peace.
D)was strongly supported by President Franklin Roosevelt.
E)declined after the investigations chaired by Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota.
Q3) The Anschluss of 1938 was between Germany and ________.
Q4) The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war as an instrument of national policy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Roosevelt's 1937 "quarantine" speech was directed at ________.
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Chapter 26: America in a World at War
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Q1) George Marshall placed General ________ in charge of the plan for the invasion of France in 1944.
Q2) In February 1945,an Allied bombing attack on Dresden,Germany
A)destroyed 75 percent of the previously undamaged city.
B)killed approximately 135,000 people.
C)resulted in mostly civilian casualties.
D)both killed approximately 135,000 people and resulted in mostly civilian casualties.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q3) The first important Allied victory against Japan was during the Battle of ________.
Q4) Over the course of World War II,inflation in the United States
A)remained low before 1941.
B)was much less serious a problem than during World War I.
C)was largely uncontrolled by the federal government.
D)was at its highest in the last year of the war.
E)was less a concern during the war than fears of deflation.
Q5) Trace the significant battles and events in the Pacific between the United States and Japan during World War II.
Q6) Describe the development and making of the atomic bomb.
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Chapter 27: The Cold War
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Q1) During the Korean War,the American invasion at Inchon
A)was aimed at preventing Chinese communists from entering the war.
B)was a military debacle.
C)led to a fight between General Douglas MacArthur and President Harry Truman.
D)prompted President Truman to try to push communists out of North Korea.
E)was ultimately thwarted due to the surprise intervention of the Chinese navy.
Q2) When he ran for president in 1952,Dwight Eisenhower refused to speak out against Senator Joseph McCarthy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The election of 1952 saw
A)a contest between two war heroes,neither of whom had ever held elective office.
B)President Harry Truman run for another term.
C)Richard Nixon forced to step down from the Republican ticket.
D)Joseph McCarthy run for president.
E)television play a significant role in the campaign.
Q4) Alger Hiss was in part convicted by Whittaker Chambers' "________ papers."
Q5) Describe the major goals of the Truman administration in the Cold War,and explain how it sought to achieve those goals.
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Chapter 28: The Affluent Society
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Q1) The rise of rock musicians such as Elvis Presley was an example of the limited willingness of white audiences to accept black musicians.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In his economic agenda,President Dwight Eisenhower
A)cut back public welfare programs.
B)lowered federal support for farm prices.
C)generally followed the lead of the right wing of his party.
D)allowed the federal deficit to rise due to high military spending.
E)maintained the wage and price controls of the Truman administration.
Q3) The first significant computer of the 1950s was the ________.
Q4) Like many early white rock musicians,Elvis Presley drew heavily from black traditions in A)jazz.
B)rhythm and blues.
C)country western.
D)gospel.
E)folk.
Q5) Where would one most likely find the poor in America in the 1950s? Why did they remain poor?
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Chapter 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism
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Q1) Discuss the evolution of the civil rights movement.Did the federal government lead or follow in the movement? What forces most often initiated change? What divides could be found within the movement? Why did they exist?
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding the 1968 Tet offensive is NOT true?
A)It began on a Vietnamese holiday.
B)It saw the communists fighting on the grounds of the American embassy in Saigon.
C)It saw American troops inflict enormous casualties on the communists.
D)It suggested to the American public something of the brutality of the fighting in Vietnam.
E)It saw Saigon fall to the communists.
Q3) President Johnson increased popular support for the ________ program by making it available to all elderly Americans.
Q4) Within the later Johnson administration,the most powerful voice for scaling down the war in Vietnam was that of Secretary of Defense ________.
Q5) President Johnson managed to pass Kennedy's proposed tax cut in 1964. A)True B)False
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Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority
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Q1) In 1972,President Richard Nixon's visit to China
A)was designed to bring the United States closer to Chiang Kai-shek.
B)was opposed by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
C)moved the United States into a deeper conflict with the Soviet Union.
D)came after Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations.
E)aroused deep animosity from the majority of Chinese communists.
Q2) The AIDS epidemic weakened the gay rights movement in the early 1980s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the early 1970s,the United States suffered its first fuel shortage since World War II. A)True
B)False
Q4) Throughout the Vietnam War,deferments from the military draft were increasingly easy to obtain for those in college.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In the early 1960s,the Free Speech Movement came into being at the ________ to help secure the political rights of students.
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Chapter 31: From the Age of Limits to the Age of Reagan
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Q1) In the late 1970s,members of the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion
A)complained the federal government ignored the American West.
B)favored restrictions on new development in the West.
C)were inclined to support liberal politicians.
D)portrayed the West as a victim of government control.
E)mobilized in favor of stricter immigration controls in the West.
Q2) A widely discussed demographic phenomenon that began in the 1970s was
A)the decline of population in the Sunbelt.
B)rising populations in northern and eastern industrial regions.
C)the growth of populism in the Northeast.
D)decreased suburbanization in the South and West.
E)the population growth of states in the Southeast and Southwest.
Q3) How did Presidents Carter and Reagan differ in their handling of foreign policy?
Q4) The Iran-contra scandal did serious damage to Reagan's presidency.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The 1988 election results gave the Republican Party control of the presidency and both houses of Congress.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) In 1998,following charges that President Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship with a White House intern,his public approval rating
A)immediately dropped to historic lows.
B)gradually dropped more precipitously as details emerged.
C)remained largely unchanged.
D)rose slightly and then dropped sharply.
E)rose and remained high.
Q2) The terrorist network that was formerly led by Osama Bin Laden and was responsible for the September 2001 attacks is called ________.
Q3) In 2010,there were an estimated 1.2 million Americans living with the AIDS virus.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Since the 1960s,the number of middle-class African Americans has sharply increased.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How has the Internet changed American society and the American economy? Do you believe these changes are permanent?
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