U.S. History to 1877
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U.S. History to 1877 explores the political, social, economic, and cultural development of the United States from its pre-Columbian origins through the end of Reconstruction. The course examines key events such as European colonization, the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, expansion and reform in the early Republic, the Civil War, and the societal changes during Reconstruction. Students analyze primary documents and diverse perspectives to better understand the forces that shaped the nation's foundation and growth, emphasizing themes of conflict, diversity, and change in early American history.
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AMERICA A Narrative History 10th Edition by David
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) Which of the following was NOT true of Portuguese seagoing efforts?
A) had well-trained, expert sailors
B) early settlements included Newfoundland and the New England coastline
C) used three-masted ships called caravels
D) initially explored the coastline of West Africa
E) eventually initiated trade with China and India
Answer: B
Q2) John Cabot's crossing of the Atlantic in 1497 resulted in his:
A) sighting of the Pacific
B) sailing around the tip of South America
C) discovery of a shortcut to China
D) exploration of Florida
E) making landfall in present-day Canada
Answer: E
Q3) The introduction of Indian foods, such as corn and potatoes, spurred a dramatic increase in Europe's population.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Englands Colonies
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Q1) George Carteret
A)Carolina
B)Georgia
C)Maryland
D)Massachusetts Bay
E)New Jersey
F)New Netherland
G)Pennsylvania
H)Plymouth
I)Rhode Island
J)Virginia
Answer: E
Q2) Englishmen had a very well-developed sense of liberty as a result of the Magna Carta and the establishment of Parliament.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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Q1) The English revivalist who preached to thousands and so impressed Benjamin Franklin was:
A) James Davenport
B) Jonathan Edwards
C) Evander Osteen
D) George Whitefield
E) William Tennent
Answer: D
Q2) The witch craze in Salem started when:
A) a slave named Tituba cursed the village minister
B) Indians attacked and looted the village
C) several people died of a mysterious illness
D) adolescent girls began to exhibit strange afflictions
E) the town minister was caught in a sex scandal
Answer: D
Q3) Belief in witchcraft was widespread throughout Europe in the seventeenth century.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Q1) What were the various effects of the Glorious Revolution in America?
Q2) In the South, British troops and colonial militia fought the:
A) Iroquois
B) Cherokees
C) Shawnees
D) Hurons
E) Creeks
Q3) In 1766, in response to American protests, Parliament:
A) gave Americans representation in the House of Commons
B) removed British troops from the colonies
C) blamed George III for its mistaken policies
D) issued an official apology
E) repealed the Stamp Act
Q4) Which is true of the Boston Tea Party?
A) Mohawk Indians destroyed the tea.
B) Benjamin Franklin supported it.
C) Americans destroyed forty-six tons of tea.
D) It forced the British to repeal the tea tax.
E) Most Bostonians did not support it.
Q5) In what ways did the French and Indian War pave the way for the Revolution?
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1783
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Q1) Discuss the social effects of the Revolution. In what areas was the Revolutionary promise or spirit most fulfilled? In what areas was it least fulfilled?
Q2) Elite Virginians despised Lord Dunmore because of his:
A) harsh treatment of captured rebels
B) offer of freedom to slaves who would join the British
C) abolition of the slave trade
D) belief in true racial equality
E) arrogant British manners
Q3) Lord Charles Cornwallis
A)author of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
B)wrote The American Crisis
C)surrendered his army to Washington at Yorktown
D)American commander in the South known as the "fighting Quaker"
E)was a brutal British leader in the South
F)major American peace negotiator
G)arrogant British general defeated at Saratoga
H)promised American slaves their freedom if they would join the British war effort
I)fought against Indians in Kentucky
J)ended Benedict Arnold's plot, hanged as a spy
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Chapter 6: Strengthening the New Nation
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Q1) What major compromises were made at the Constitutional Convention, and what issues did they settle? What issues remained unsettled?
Q2) Under President Adams, a war between the United States and France:
A) was an undeclared naval conflict
B) was ended by the XYZ affair
C) halted partisan divisions
D) ended in American victory
E) led to French attacks on the U.S. coast
Q3) The Supreme Court has final interpretive power over the Constitution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Edmond-Charles Genêt:
A) came to the United States to escape the revolutionary excesses of the French Revolution
B) encouraged Americans to attack English and Spanish vessels
C) quickly won the sympathy of Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists
D) was deeply involved in the XYZ affair
E) became a leading member of the Republican party
Q5) Examine the argument that the Alien and Sedition Acts destroyed John Adams's presidency.
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Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800-1815
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Q1) Lewis and Clark's expedition:
A) gave the United States a claim to Oregon
B) was a spectacular failure
C) fought against Spaniards in Texas
D) encountered no friendly Indians
E) concluded that the West was uninhabitable
Q2) Discuss the issues that led to the Marbury v. Madison case of 1803. What were the results of the decision, and what impact did it have on the Supreme Court and the country?
Q3) Marbury v. Madison was sparked by Jefferson's attempts to repeal the judgeships initiated by Adams's "midnight appointments."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Jefferson's Embargo Act:
A) forced a change in British policy
B) was effectively enforced by the navy
C) had widespread public backing
D) sought to stop all American exports
E) ended Jefferson's presidency on a successful note
Q5) What were the short-term and long-term results of the War of 1812?
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8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850
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Q1) Because they, too, had suffered discrimination, Irish immigrants tended to be sympathetic to blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Elias Howe
A)invented the telegraph
B)invented the sewing machine
C)with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company
D)wrote "Oh! Susanna"
E)immigrant piano maker
F)invented the primitive grain reaper
G)advocate of free public education
H)patented a process for vulcanizing rubber
I)improved the steamboat
J)used his memory to bring industrial technology from Britain to the United States
Q3) Irish immigrants to the United States tended to join the Republican party.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the various aspects of popular culture in antebellum America.
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Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828
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Q1) Following the War of 1812, political positions shifted with Republicans supporting many former Federalist ideas, like the banks, and Federalists supporting former Republican programs. Discuss this phenomenon.
Q2) The ruling in Dartmouth College v. Woodward related to:
A) monopoly law
B) the right to tax federal currency
C) constitutionality of a federal law
D) contract rights
E) interstate commerce
Q3) The Supreme Court in Gibbons v. Ogden settled a controversy over:
A) state-chartered colleges
B) voting rights
C) canal construction
D) federal land sales
E) steamboat commerce
Q4) Support for the Tariff of 1816 came primarily from the South.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In what ways did the Supreme Court act as a force for nationalism in this period?
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Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
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Q1) Osceola led the Seminole resistance to their removal from their lands.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Anti-Masonic party was the first to:
A) nominate a Catholic for president
B) endorse violence as a legitimate political tactic
C) carry several states in its first election
D) call for a total halt to immigration
E) hold a national nomination convention
Q3) Jackson's opponents called themselves Whigs to:
A) express their admiration for the British political system
B) state their belief in complete human freedom
C) confuse voters about their true political objectives
D) denounce what they saw as Jackson's tyrannical qualities
E) distinguish themselves from the National Republicans
Q4) Most Whigs were states' rights advocates.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did Jackson's early life shape his development into adulthood?
Q6) Describe the new party system that emerged in the 1830s.
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The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860
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Q1) Some free blacks were:
A) eligible to vote
B) immigrants from the Caribbean
C) local political leaders
D) people of mixed ancestry called mulattoes
E) considered equal to whites
Q2) To be called a "planter," one had to:
A) own at least twenty slaves
B) work alongside slaves
C) be engaged in the slave trade
D) own thousands of slaves
E) avoid involvement in politics
Q3) A black overseer on a plantation was known as a driver.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Visitors to the South often had a hard time telling poor whites apart from small farmers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What roles did religion, folklore, and family life play in the lives of slaves?
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Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860
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Q1) Many American Christians assumed that the United States had a God-mandated mission to provide the world with a shining example of republican virtue.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A Treatise on Domestic Economy argued that men and women should share equally in completing the work of the household's domestic sphere.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Using specific examples, discuss the objectives, membership, practices, and success of the nineteenth-century utopian communities.
Q4) All of the following are reasons Mormons generated hostility from non-Mormons EXCEPT:
A) they denied the legitimacy of civil governments
B) they refused to abide by local laws
C) they did not recognize the legitimacy of the U.S. Constitution
D) they denied they were Christians
E) they practiced "plural marriage"
Q5) Describe the southern defense of slavery before and after 1830.
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Chapter 13: Western Expansion, 1830-1848
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Q1) The Mexican ban on American immigration to Texas: A) was ineffective
B) halted the flood of immigrants to the area
C) went into effect in 1820
D) was necessary because Americans in Texas already numbered almost half the Mexican population there
E) caused the United States to break diplomatic relations with Mexico
Q2) Most of those who traveled westward in wagon trains:
A) made it from Missouri to California in a month
B) traveled in groups
C) were attacked by Indians
D) turned back due to the hardships
E) were headed for California's gold fields
Q3) The Donner party became stranded on the Oregon Trail mainly because:
A) of the succession of their own mistakes and poor decisions
B) they became caught in the crossfire of the Mexican war for independence
C) their party was too small to survive the journey
D) a broken compass led them astray
E) of annihilation by the Indians
Q4) Discuss the various Indian cultures throughout the West prior to the Civil War.
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860
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Q1) Millard Fillmore
A)was a candidate for the presidency in the 1860 election
B)led Pottawatomie Massacre
C)elected president of the Confederate States of America
D)died in July 1850
E)caned Charles Sumner
F)the "Little Giant" who succeeded in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed by breaking it into separate proposals
G)argued that Congress needed to protect the right of slave owners to take their property into the territories
H)was the chief justice for Dred Scott case
I)was the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate
J)was the president who supported the Compromise of 1850
Q2) A major reason the Democrat James Buchanan won the 1856 election was that:
A) the Republicans were mired in political scandal
B) the Democrats were the only remaining national party
C) the northern Whigs threw their support to the Democrats
D) slavery and sectional divisions were not an issue in the election
E) the Republicans did not have a candidate to run against him
Q3) Detail the Wilmot Proviso. What impact did it have on the debate over slavery?
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Chapter 15: The War of the Union, 1861-1865
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Q1) Lincoln stressed repeatedly that the "paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why did Confederate President Jefferson Davis's greatest challenges come from other southern politicians?
A) They all coveted the office of the presidency.
B) They were not enthusiastic supporters of the war.
C) Their insistence on states' rights made it difficult for the Confederate government to exert its authority.
D) They were all Republicans and Whigs.
E) They objected to Davis's efforts to end slavery.
Q3) All of the following are true about the Battle of Antietam EXCEPT:
A) the Confederates were outnumbered more than 3 to 1
B) it was the bloodiest single day of the war
C) McClellan vigorously pursued the retreating Lee
D) Lee hoped a victory would gain the Confederacy foreign recognition
E) it helped inspire Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Q4) Discuss the issue of conscription. How did the North and the South implement it?
Q5) Why did the South lose the war? What were its weaknesses and disadvantages?
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Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Q1) Johnson's Reconstruction plan:
A) completely repudiated Lincoln's
B) would restore the Union fairly quickly
C) gave the vote to all black men
D) aimed to keep elite planters in power
E) would leave the South completely unchanged
Q2) Alexander Stephens
A)was a northern free black and Union soldier who was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
B)was a senator from Massachusetts, a leading Radical Republican
C)asked that the Fifteenth Amendment be modified to include women
D)was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
E)was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
F)was a senator from Kansas who cast the deciding vote in favor of acquittal at Johnson's trial
G)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
H)opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
I)was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S. Senate representing Georgia in 1865
J)his would-be assassin got cold feet and wound up tipsy in the hotel bar
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Q1) Who developed the first alternating current electric system?
A) George Westinghouse
B) John D. Rockefeller
C) Andrew Carnegie
D) Thomas Edison
E) Alexander Graham Bell
Q2) All of the following factors helped accelerate economic growth after the Civil War
EXCEPT:
A) the abundance of natural resources in the United States
B) the development of labor-saving machinery
C) federal and state policies aimed at limiting foreign competition
D) the use of prison labor by railroad companies
E) innovative, bold leadership from energetic entrepreneurs
Q3) The Knights of Labor allowed all occupations to join EXCEPT:
A) lawyers
B) doctors
C) bankers
D) policeman
E) those who sold liquor
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Chapter 18: The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
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Q1) Twenty-five percent of the cowboys who participated in the Texas cattle drives were African Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why was Helen Hunt Jackson's book A Century of Dishonor so influential?
A) It affected American attitudes toward Indians in a way similar to how Uncle Tom's Cabin mobilized the abolitionist movement a generation earlier.
B) It provoked an intensification of efforts to exterminate the Native American population.
C) It forced the New South to acknowledge racial equality.
D) It mobilized black opinion to fight discrimination in the South.
E) It inspired the preservationist movement by focusing attention on the decline of the buffalo.
Q3) The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged the development of thriving western farms.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The frontier Indian wars began with the closing of the frontier in 1890.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900
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Q1) Trace the issues and events surrounding the election of 1888. How was it that the person who won the popular vote still lost the election?
Q2) Why was the Interstate Commerce Commission created?
A) to expand American exports
B) to regulate railroads
C) to encourage increased imports of foreign goods
D) to boost the dairy industry
E) to clean up corruption in politics
Q3) One of the causes of the 1893 depression was failure of:
A) the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
B) the stock market
C) the commodity price index
D) housing starts in 1891 and 1892
E) President Cleveland to regulate the railroads
Q4) Ellis Island was located right outside the port of:
A) Boston
B) San Francisco
C) New York City
D) Philadelphia
E) Charleston
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Chapter 20: Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913
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Q1) William Randolph Hearst
A)was secretary of state; called Spanish-American War "a splendid little war"
B)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1900
C)wrote Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis
D)negotiated an agreement with Japan concerning the future of Korea
E)was elected vice president in 1900
F)owned the New York Journal
G)proposed returning Queen Liliuokalani to Hawaiian throne
H)wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History
I)acquired Alaska for the United States
J)captured Manila Bay
Q2) One reason the United States went to war against Spain was that:
A) the leaders of the Democratic party pushed for war
B) Cuban cigar manufacturers in Florida insisted that war was necessary to protect their markets
C) there was strong support among the American people for going to war
D) the shipping profiteers in New England believed their prosperity depended on war
E) Theodore Roosevelt insisted his Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine demanded war
Q3) How did Hawaii become part of the United States?
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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
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Q1) William Howard Taft:
A) was Roosevelt's choice as his successor
B) was described by many journalists as "the ultimate politician"
C) found solid support from voters only in the South and Southwest
D) was, in the Republican tradition, opposed to a lower tariff
E) eventually was elected president as a member of the Progressive party
Q2) Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?
A) Eugene V. Debs
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) William Howard Taft
D) Woodrow Wilson
E) Grover Cleveland
Q3) During the Progressive Era:
A) reformers were generally pessimistic about finding solutions to social ills
B) voter turnout increased
C) many groups-blacks, the poor, the unorganized-had little influence
D) conservative politicians destroyed any semblance of a welfare state
E) Roosevelt proved that the president ultimately has his hands tied
Q4) Describe the five major themes of progressive reform.
Q5) Who were the muckrakers, and what impact did they have on American society?
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22: America and the Great War, 1914-1920
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Q1) Many immigrant groups in the United States supported the Central Powers in the European war.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the various initial American reactions to the start of World War I.
Q3) Concerning global issues, Wilson:
A) was clueless
B) touted his extensive experience
C) was the first president to take on this issue
D) refused to show concern
E) had strong beliefs and principles
Q4) Women in "war work" were usually able to keep their jobs after the war.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe Wilson's Fourteen Points, discussing not only the details but the overall philosophy behind them as well.
Q6) Describe the economic mobilization on the American home front.
Q7) The Republican candidate for president in 1916 was Charles Evans Hughes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
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Q1) Jazz:
A) was a European innovation emerging from modern classical music
B) blended several musical traditions
C) was invented by Benny Goodman
D) helped calm the fears of rural fundamentalists
E) inspired rebellious youth to violence
Q2) Conservative moralists saw the flappers as a positive influence on society.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The consumer culture generated bewildering changes in everyday life.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The 1920s "New Era" was created by advances in all of the following EXCEPT:
A) communications
B) transportation
C) government-funded programs
D) business organization
E) the spread of mass consumerism
Q5) Describe the defensive temper of the 1920s. What factors contributed to it?
Q6) Discuss the meaning and significance of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Chapter 24: The Reactionary Twenties
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Q1) William Jennings Bryan:
A) believed evolution should be taught in science classes
B) prosecuted John Scopes in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case for teaching evolution
C) was the mayor of Dayton, Tennessee
D) was a vocal supporter of the Ku Klux Klan
E) advocated Prohibition
Q2) When not able to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government convicted him of:
A) illegal immigration activities
B) drug trafficking
C) contempt of Congress
D) tax evasion
E) prostitution
Q3) Calvin Coolidge derisively called President Hoover:
A) "the best president money could buy"
B) "a fool"
C) "the best president in modern times"
D) "a decent and honorable person"
E) "Wonder Boy"
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Q1) Which is true of the 1936 presidential election?
A) FDR was reelected, but Republicans made big gains in Congress.
B) Huey Long ran one of the strongest third-party campaigns in history.
C) FDR defeated Alf Landon in a landslide.
D) Concerns over the coming war in Europe dominated the campaign.
E) FDR won every state but Texas.
Q2) Who served as secretary of agriculture under FDR?
A) Henry Morgenthau
B) Arthur Laffer
C) Milton Friedman
D) John Maynard Keynes
E) Henry A. Wallace
Q3) Describe the First Hundred Days of FDR's presidency. What, if any, accomplishments did he have?
Q4) Describe the impact the Great Depression had on popular culture in America.
Q5) Why did Roosevelt attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court? Did he achieve his goals?
Q6) Eleanor Roosevelt was a shy person who shunned attention, but she did much work behind the scenes to raise support for her husband's New Deal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: The Second World War, 1933-1945
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Q1) In early 1942, the biggest challenge the United States faced in the Atlantic was:
A) German-American disloyalty
B) German aircraft carrier attacks
C) German blitzkrieg
D) German espionage
E) German submarine warfare
Q2) The Atlantic Charter stated definitively that the United States would remain neutral in Britain's war against Germany.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements about the attack on Pearl Harbor is NOT true?
A) It was one part of a larger Japanese offensive launched into Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
B) A specific attack on Pearl Harbor had been long expected by American officials.
C) The attack killed more than 2,400 U.S. servicemen and sank nineteen ships.
D) The attack ignored onshore facilities and oil tanks.
E) The Japanese missed the U.S. aircraft carriers in the attack.
Q4) Describe the Atlantic Charter and explain its significance.
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Chapter
27: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952
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Q1) Trace the major developments in the cold war from 1945 to 1948.
Q2) The person who lost the most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was:
A) Richard Nixon
B) Alger Hiss
C) Whittaker Chambers
D) Harry Truman
E) Douglas MacArthur
Q3) Israel's creation in 1948 was followed immediately by a war with its Arab neighbors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Hiss-Chambers case:
A) involved charges of atomic espionage
B) brought Senator Joseph McCarthy to national prominence
C) involved a homosexual scandal in the State Department
D) resulted in Hiss's being convicted of lying about espionage
E) resulted in a lengthy prison term for Chambers
Q5) The Servicemen's Readjustment Act was also known as the GI Bill of Rights.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 28: Cold War America, 1950-1959
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Q1) Jack Kerouac's style of writing is commonly grouped into this type of literature:
A) travel books
B) short stories
C) satire
D) Beats
E) literary criticism
Q2) Dulles's policy of "roll back" involved:
A) liberating people under Communist rule
B) massing troops on the borders of Communist countries
C) constant provocations of the Soviets
D) regular flights over Soviet territory
E) the abandonment of the containment policy
Q3) Before the Second World War, approximately how many people graduated from college in the United States each year?
A) about 260,000
B) about 500,000
C) about 160,000
D) about 1 million
E) about 750,000
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Chapter 29: A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968
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Q1) During the 1964 election:
A) Republicans continued to make gains in the Deep South
B) Republicans made gains in both houses of Congress
C) voters approved Johnson's pledge to escalate the war in Vietnam
D) Goldwater lost but did better than expected
E) voters expressed their desire for even more radical domestic reform
Q2) In what city did Mayor Connor order police to unleash their dogs and clubs on civil rights demonstrators?
A) Birmingham, Alabama
B) New Orleans, Louisiana
C) Memphis. Tennessee
D) Charlotte, North Carolina
E) Houston, Texas
Q3) The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:
A) his vice president, Lyndon Johnson
B) his brother Robert
C) his wife, Jackie
D) FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
E) Chief Justice Earl Warren
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Chapter 30: Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) In April 1970, Nixon extended the war when he sent troops into:
A) Laos
B) China
C) Cambodia
D) Thailand
E) North Vietnam
Q2) Discuss the various aspects of President Nixon's Vietnam policy. How was Nixon's policy different from those of his predecessors?
Q3) John Dean
A)was shot and left paralyzed in 1972
B)was secretary of state in 1975
C)founded NOW
D)founded SDS and authored the Port Huron Statement
E)was convicted for the My Lai Massacre
F)gave testimony before a Senate committee that linked Nixon directly to the Watergate cover-up
G)was one of the organizers of the Weather Underground
H)was a philosophy major who led UC Berkeley's free-speech movement (FSM)
I)lost the presidential election of 1976
J)led the United Farm Workers
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Chapter 31: Conservative Revival, 1977-1990
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Q1) The Grenada invasion resulted in:
A) a dangerous U.S.-Soviet confrontation
B) massive anti-war protests across America
C) a big drop in Reagan's approval ratings
D) an easy American victory
E) the commitment of UN forces just as in Korea
Q2) The Iran-Contra affair involved the illegal sales of arms to the Contra rebels in Iran.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed:
A) indecisive
B) upbeat
C) humorless
D) to be a deep thinker and expert on the details of policy
E) capable of getting Congress to pass a liberal reform program
Q4) Despite Ronald Reagan's poor church attendance the religious Right supported him over Jimmy Carter in 1980.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 32: Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present
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Q1) In endorsing same-sex marriage, President Obama:
A) knew the courts would rule in its favor
B) sided with the Tea Party
C) understood the issue had powerful political implications
D) kept a campaign promise
E) followed the lead of Russia
Q2) The conservative mood of the mid-1990s especially manifested itself in a number of court rulings that limited:
A) capital punishment
B) government spending
C) church-state separation
D) affirmative action
E) sexual freedom
Q3) The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did all of the following EXCEPT:
A) paralyze the United States in fear and disunity
B) kill about 3,000 people
C) include the Pentagon as a target
D) destroy the twin towers of the World Trade Center
E) turn the lower end of Manhattan into a hellish scene
Q4) Briefly assess Clinton's achievements in domestic policy.
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