Social Studies Methods for Secondary Teachers
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This course explores effective strategies and best practices for teaching social studies to secondary school students. It emphasizes curriculum development, lesson planning, and assessment tailored to diverse learners in grades 6 12. Through a blend of theory and practical application, students examine how to foster critical thinking, historical inquiry, civic engagement, and interdisciplinary connections within the social studies classroom. The course also addresses the integration of technology, culturally responsive teaching, and current issues impacting social studies education, preparing future educators to create inclusive and dynamic learning environments.
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American Pageant Volume 2 16th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Chapter 1: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) Most radical Reconstruction regimes in the South
A) expanded the legal property rights of women.
B) established public-school systems.
C) were controlled by freed slaves.
D) were troubled by graft and corruption.
E) refused to permit southern whites to hold office.
Answer: A, B, D
Q2) In President Andrew Johnson's view, the Freedmen's Bureau was
A) a flawed but necessary agency.
B) acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.
C) a tolerable compromise with the radical Congress.
D) a potential source of Republican patronage jobs.
E) a meddlesome federal agency in the Souththat should be killed.
Answer: E
Q3) Hiram Revels
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 2: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896
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Q1) In the late nineteenth century, the Republican party was associated with the cultural values of
A) religions derived from the Puritan tradition.
B) a highly permissive personal morality
C) toleration of moral and cultural differences in an imperfect world.
D) government involvement in moral and economic affairs.
E) belief in a common set of American moral values.
Answer: A, D, E
Q2) In late-nineteenth century elections, Democrats could generally count on the support of
A) the white South.
B) northern industrial cities.
C) immigrant groups.
D) the Midwest.
E) Catholics and Lutherans.
Answer: A, B, C, E
Q3) Farmers' Alliance
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 3: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
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Q1) In the textiles mills of the industrializing South, all of the following are true statements except
A) rural black and white southerners landed plumb jobs in the new mills.
B) entire families worked long hours in the mills.
C) most workers were paid half the rate received by northern workers for the same tasks.
D) payment was typically made in credit to the company store.
E) workers were called "hillbillies" or "lintheads" by employers.
Answer: A
Q2) Most women workers of the 1890s worked
A) to achieve financial independence.
B) for the cultural glamour of being a working woman in American society.
C) for economic necessity.
D) to accumulate their retirement savings.
E) because their husbands preferred that they work.
Answer: C
Q3) trust
Answer: Answers will vary.
Q4) consumer goods
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 4: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
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Q1) The religious denomination that was most positively engaged and associated with the New Immigration was
A) Roman Catholics.
B) Baptists.
C) Episcopalians.
D) Christian Scientists.
E) Presbyterians.
Q2) dime novels
Q3) Henry James
Q4) Mary Baker Eddy
Q5) In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women
A) became more difficult to obtain.
B) was confined to women's colleges.
C) became much more common.
D) resulted in the passage of the Hatch Act.
E) blossomed especially in the South.
Q6) William Dean Howells
Q7) Booker T. Washington
Q8) Little Poland/Little Italy
Q9) Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Chapter 5: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896
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Q1) John Wesley Powell
Q2) Match each individual with his role in the Pullman strike:
A.Richard Olney
B.Eugene V. Debs
C.George Pullman
D.John P. Altgeld
1)Head of the American Railway Union that organized the strike
2)Governor of Illinois who sympathized with the striking workers
3)United States attorney general who brought in federal troops to crush the strike
4)Owner of the "palace railroad car" company and the company town where the strike began
A) A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
B) A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4
C) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
D) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-l
E) A-2, B-4, C-l, D-3
Q3) Nez Percé
Q4) William Jennings Bryan
Q5) Frederick Jackson Turner
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Chapter 6: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909
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Q1) What do you consider the most important domestic and foreign-policy consequences of the Spanish-American War? Why?
Q2) Assess the U.S. military performance in the Spanish-American War. Why did the United States win? How could Spain have possibly won the war?
Q3) American involvement in the affairs of Latin American nations, at the turn of the century, usually stemmed from
A) the need to defend these nations against German or British economic influence and interference with American plans.
B) the American desire to expand the colonial holdings and expand U.S. economic influence in Latin America.
C) the fact that they were chronically in debt.
D) the desire to control the flow of Latin American immigrants into the United States.
E) a desire to strengthen Latin American democracy.
Q4) Pan-American Conference
Q5) Theodore Roosevelt
Q6) Russo-Japanese War
Q7) Platt Amendment
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Chapter 7: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
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Q1) Ida Tarbell
Q2) The results of the 1912 election
A) represented a complete repudiation of the political and economic principles of progressivism.
B) gave Woodrow Wilson a resounding electoral victory in the presidential contest, but a narrower popular vote victory for Wilson, especially in states outside the old Confederacy.
C) left both houses of Congress in the hands of the Republicans.
D) markedthe end of the political career of William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C.
E) included a negligible and disappointing popular vote total for the Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs.
Q3) Yosemite National Park
Q4) Lochner v. New York
Q5) Victor L. Berger
Q6) Women's Christian Temperance Union
Q7) Theodore Dreiser
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Q8) General Federation of Women's Clubs
Q9) conservation
Q10) "dry" and "wet" states (or counties)
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Chapter 8: Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War,
1913-1920
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Q1) President Wilson's position at the Paris Peace Conference was weakened by
A) his refusal to attend the conference personally.
B) Republican party victories in the 1918 midterm elections.
C) his lack of popular support among people outside the United States.
D) his failure to appoint a leading Senate Republican to the conference delegation.
E) his paralyzing stroke.
Q2) Progressive party
Q3) Committee on Public Information
Q4) When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, the most serious shortcoming in the country's financial structure was that
A) federal paper money was not backed by sound gold or silver.
B) heavy state and federal regulation of big business and trusts that handicapped the development of business in America.
C) the banking system was too heavily regulated by the federal government.
D) the U.S. dollar was rigidly tied to gold.
E) money for lending was inelastic and heavily concentrated in New York City.
Q5) Meuse-Argonne offensive
Q6) John J. Pershing
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Chapter 9: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
1920 1929
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Q1) red scare
Q2) During the 1920s and after, many American immigrant ethnic groups
A) rapidly assimilated into the mainstream of American life.
B) sought to escape urban poverty by migrating to rural areas.
C) lived in neighborhoods with their own churches or synagogues, newspapers, and theaters.
D) maintained a greater loyalty to the old country than to the United States.
E) sought political autonomy and official recognition by the U.S. government.
Q3) Marcus Garvey
Q4) With 5 million members at its peak in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was known for all of the following except
A) secret rituals.
B) lack of support in the Midwest and the Bible Belt.
C) flag-waving parades.
D) the blazing cross.
E) the bloodied lash.
Q5) Bolshevik revolution
Q6) Eighteenth Amendment
Q7) Sigmund Freud
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Chapter 10: The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920 1932
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Q1) The nonbusiness group that realized the most significant, lasting gains from World War I was
A) labor.
B) blacks.
C) unions.
D) women.
E) veterans.
Q2) Senator Robert La Follette's Progressive party advocated all of the following except
A) government ownership of railroads.
B) relief for farmers.
C) opposition to antilabor injunctions.
D) opposition to monopolies.
E) increased power for the Supreme Court.
Q3) Manchuria
Q4) Washington Disarmament Conference
Q5) Nine-Power Treaty
Q6) "Hoovercrats"
Q7) Andrew Mellon
Q8) Muscle Shoals Bill
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Chapter 11: The Great Depression and the New Deal
1933 1939
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Q1) the "three Rs"
Q2) Agricultural Adjustment Act
Q3) After Franklin Roosevelt's failed attempt to pack the Supreme Court
A) Roosevelt was unable to make any changes in the Court.
B) the Democrats lost the next election in 1940.
C) Congress permanently set the number of justices at nine.
D) much New Deal legislation was ruled unconstitutional.
E) the Court began to rule that New Deal programs were constitutional.
Q4) Civilian Conservation Corps
Q5) Pearl Buck
Q6) The Works Progress Administration was a major ____ program of the New Deal; the Public Works Administration was a long-range ____ program; and the Social Security Act was a major ____ program.
A) relief; recovery; reform
B) reform; recovery; relief
C) recovery; relief; reform
D) relief; reform; recovery
E) reform; relief; recovery
Q7) Brain Trust
Q8) Liberty League
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Chapter 12: Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
1933 1941
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Q1) One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was
A) the formal recognition of the Soviet Union.
B) joining the League of Nations.
C) establishing military bases in China.
D) his support of the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
E) his commitment to Philippine independence.
Q2) America's neutrality policy during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 contributed to A) Hitler conquering Spain and establishing Nazi occupation of Spain during World War II.
B) the Loyalists from winning the war.
C) Roosevelt and Francisco Franco becoming personal friends and strategic allies.
D) the Soviets successfully defending the Spanish Republic from Spanish Fascist forces.
E) Spain becoming a Fascist dictatorship after Franco's victory.
Q3) Benito Mussolini
Q4) ____ The only European nation to pay off its World War I debts to the United States, invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939-1940.
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Chapter 13: America in World War II 1941 1945
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Q1) Should the Allied victory in World War II be seen as proof of the strength of democracy? Support your answer with specific evidence regarding the course and conduct of the war.
Q2) Why, with major wars in Europe and the Pacific, did American troops see their first active combat in World War II in North Africa? What were the strategic objectives of that campaign?
Q3) Henry Stimson
Q4) In waging war against Japan, the United States relied mainly on a strategy of
A) heavy bombing from Chinese air bases.
B) invading Japanese strongholds in Southeast Asia.
C) fortifying China by transporting supplies from India over the Himalayan hump.
D) island hopping across the South Pacific while bypassing Japanese strongholds.
E) turning the Japanese flanks in New Guinea and Alaska.
Q5) V-J (Victory in Japan) Day
Q6) Executive Order No. 9066
Q7) Korematsu v. United States
Q8) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Q9) A. Philip Randolph
Q10) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Q11) island-hopping strategy
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Chapter 14: The Cold War Begins 1945-1952
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Q1) UNESCO
Q2) House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Q3) Explain the United States' tremendous success story in postwar Japan versus its failure in China. Who was responsible for the fall of China to the communists? Did American postwar foreign policy toward Nationalist China and its leader Jiang Jieshi play a crucial role in the fall of China? Alternatively, were the keys to the "loss of China" to be found in the shortcomings of the Nationalist government and the political and military strength of Mao Zedong and his communist armies?
Q4) Though he was decidedly unpopular when he left the presidency, President Truman has since come to be viewed as one of America's ten greatest presidents. Explain why his popularity was so low in 1952 and why he is so well rated in retrospect. What is your evaluation of President Truman as president? Defend you view with specific examples illustrating Truman's performance.
Q5) What were the fundamental causes of the spectacular prosperity of the United States in the decades immediately after World War II? To what extent was the economic boom a result of factors internal to the United States, and to what extent was it a result of the devastation of much of Europe and Asia?
Q6) Harry S Truman
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Chapter 15: American Zenith 1952-1963
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Q1) The impact of mass media on religion was reflected in the rise of religious televangelists like
A) Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon.
B) Betty Friedan and Josephine Baker.
C) David Riesman and John Kenneth Galbraith.
D) Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson.
E) Billy Graham and Oral Roberts.
Q2) John F. Kennedy
Q3) policy of boldness
Q4) white collar/blue collar
Q5) Which of the following was not true of the changing nature of work in the 1950s?
A) Science and technology drove economic growth.
B) There were fewer jobs in the military-related aerospace industry.
C) White collar workers were surpassing blue collar workers in numbers.
D) Labor unions reached a peak and then began to decline.
E) Job opportunities were opening to women in the white collar work force.
Q6) Dien Bien Phu
Q7) Josephine Baker
Q8) The Affluent Society
Q9) National Defense Education Act
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Chapter 16: The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973
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Q1) Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should
A) negotiate an immediate end to the Vietnam War.
B) withdraw U.S. troops to safe enclaves.
C) withdraw American forces from Vietnam.
D) escalate the bombing of North Vietnam.
E) continue the war in pursuit of an honorable peace.
Q2) In 1971, a group of Vietnam War veterans in the U.S.
A) tossed their medals in front of the Capitol building to protest against the war.
B) fought the antiwar movement with a demonstration on behalf of U.S. soldiers.
C) protested the lack of medical care and benefits for returning soldiers.
D) encouraged young men in Times Square, NY, to enlist in the U.S. military.
E) supported expanded roles for women in the military.
Q3) counterculture
Q4) energy crisis
Q5) Operation Rolling Thunder
Q6) Janis Joplin
Q7) J. William Fulbright
Q8) Thomas Eagleton
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Chapter 17: Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980
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Q1) Congressman Gerald Ford had become vice president of the United States when
A) Nelson Rockefeller resigned the vice presidency to become governor of New York.
B) Spiro Agnew resigned on corruption charges and Nixon appointed Ford under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
C) he was selected to replace Spiro Agnew as Nixon's vice president in the 1972 campaign.
D) Nixon was impeached and Congress needed to select a new president.
E) the Twenty-Fifth Amendment made the Speaker of the House vice president in case of potential impeachment.
Q2) Why did Roe v. Wade become the most controversial of all the Supreme Court decisions of the 1970s? How did the controversy over abortion compare to other rights debates of the time, such as those over affirmative action and criminal suspects' rights?
Q3) malaise speech
Q4) What do you think lay at the root of the Watergate scandal? Who was responsible? Explain why it ballooned into a national crisis.
Q5) Thurgood Marshall
Q6) SALT II treaty
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Chapter 18: The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992
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Q1) Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
Q2) Why did the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill affair expose such a sharp and often bitter gender gap in American politics? How did the specific issue at stake in the hearings: allegations of sexual harassment: relate to the wider set of issues that divided many men and women in this period?
Q3) identity politics
Q4) In response to the collapse of the Soviet Union, President George Bush called for a "new world order" where
A) Russia would join the democratic West in containing communist China.
B) the United States would serve as policeman for the world.
C) the U.N. Security Council would assert sovereignty over the rival nation-states.
D) NATO would guarantee security and peace in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
E) democracy would reign supreme and diplomacy would replace weaponry.
Q5) Why was the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill affair so polarizing? What did the radically differing perspectives on the Thomas nomination say about views of gender, race, and ideology?
Q6) Planned Parenthood v. Casey
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Chapter 19: America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,
1992-2000
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Q1) H. Ross Perot
Q2) What was the primary political legacy of the Clinton administration? Do you agree with the text that Clinton "did more to consolidate than to reverse the Reagan-Bush revolution against New Deal liberalism"? Did President Clinton's signing of the Welfare Reform Bill in 1994 illustrate a persuasive example of Clinton consolidating the domestic policies of the Reagan-Bush administration? Why or why not?
Q3) Ralph Nader
Q4) Toni Morrison
Q5) Two of Clinton's early political blunders occurred in the areas of
A) gun control and the environment.
B) deficit reduction and foreign trade.
C) military preparedness and relations with Latin America.
D) gays in the military and health care.
E) sexual relations with his staff and appointments to the Supreme Court.
Q6) Why have so many attainments in American culture in recent decades come from minorities and immigrants? Is it fair to speak of "minority literature" or "minority art," or is such work simply excellent American art that constitutes part of the American tradition?
Q7) Monica Lewinsky
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Q1) In what ways has "the promise of American life" regarding liberty, equality, and democracy been fulfilled for most U.S. citizens, and in what ways does that promise remain an incomplete task to be pursued?
Q2) The fall of 2011 saw the development of a diverseprotest movement that dramatized theissue of rising inequality across the nation which was called
A) Occupy Wall Street.
B) We Are the 1 Percent.
C) We Are the 99.9 Percent.
D) Nationalize Wall Street Banks.
E) Stop Globalization.
Q3) Dick Cheney
Q4) Among Bush's advisers who pushed most strongly for the invasion of Iraq were
A) Secretary of State Colin Powell and the State Department.
B) Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and the Central Intelligence Agency.
C) former President George H.W. Bush and the foreign policy realists.
D) Vice President Richard Cheney and administration neoconservatives.
E) former Bush administration National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.
Q5) stem cell research
Q6) weapons of mass destruction
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