United States History for Educators Practice Questions
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United States History for Educators is designed to provide prospective and current teachers with a comprehensive overview of major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present. Emphasizing the skills and knowledge needed for effective teaching, this course explores significant events, movements, and figures, while integrating diverse perspectives and the evolution of civic ideals. Participants will analyze primary sources, interpret historical narratives, and examine strategies for fostering historical thinking and inquiry in the classroom, all with an eye toward meeting educational standards and engaging diverse student populations.
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Liberty Equality Power A History of the American People 7th Edition by John M. Murrin
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Chapter 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe
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Q1) The first crop produced by African slave labor in the Caribbean was ____________________.
Answer: Sugar
Q2) Each of the following could be referred to as a conquistador except
A)Hernán Cortés.
B)Francisco Pizarro.
C)Vasco da Gama.
D)Francisco de Coronado.
E)Hernando de Soto
Answer: C
Q3) The Aztec capital, ____________________, was more populated than any western European city.
Answer: Tenochtitlan
Q4) ____________________ was the Inca capital.
Answer: Cuzco
Q5) During the long history of the Atlantic slave trade, nearly every African shipped overseas had first been enslaved by other Africans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Colonization in North America, 1600-1680
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Q1) The Jesuits focused their missionary efforts on the Iroquois Five Tribes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In the English Reformation,
A)the monastic orders expanded their landholdings and increased church taxes.
B)the number of English Catholics significantly increased.
C)Henry VIII proclaimed himself the "only Supreme Head" of the Church of England.
D)the Pope appointed Henry VIII his agent in England.
E)Non-Separatists openly broke with Calvinism.
Answer: C
Q3) ____________________ was governor of Plymouth almost continuously from 1620 to his death in 1656.
Answer: William Bradford
Q4) Samuel de Champlain founded ____________________.
Answer: Quebec
Q5) After victory in the Irish wars of the 1560s, Sir ____________________ sought to colonize Newfoundland for England.
Answer: Humphrey Gilbert
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Chapter 3: Empires, Indians, and the Struggle for Power in
North America, 1670-1720
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Q1) After capturing Acadia in 1710, the British renamed it ____________________.
Answer: Nova Scotia
Q2) The Navigation Act of 1660 dealt primarily with products going into the colonies.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) By 1700, the population of England's mainland colonies was doubling every ____ years.
A)2
B)5
C)15
D)25
E)40
Answer: D
Q4) The only New England staple desired in Europe was ____________________. Answer: fish
Q5) By 1700, the predominant crop of the Middle Atlantic colonies was ____________________.
Answer: wheat
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Chapter 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent,
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Q1) George Washington commanded the Virginia contingent during the defeat of General Braddock's forces in western Pennsylvania.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Examine the Great Awakening. What were its results?
Q3) Paper money not backed by gold or silver was known as ____________________ money.
Q4) The Shepherd's Tent in New London to train awakened preachers was founded by A)George Whitefield.
B)James Davenport.
C)Gilbert Tennent.
D)Hugh Bryan.
E)John Winthrop.
Q5) After 1750, Oxford and Cambridge Universities continued to meet the colonies' need for Anglican churchmen.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) Many Chesapeake planters turned to wheat as a second crop. A)True
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Chapter 5: Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776
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Q1) ____________________ colonies sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congress.
Q2) The purpose of George Grenville's revenue policies was to
A)force the colonies to pay the entire British debt from the French-Indian War.
B)reward the colonies that assisted England during the French-Indian War
C)centralize and increase British control over all of the colonies.
D)encourage voluntary participation of the colonies in determining their own tax burden.
E)encourage the colonies to declare independence.
Q3) The actual monetary loss resulting from the tea destroyed in Boston Tea Party was small.
A)True B)False
Q4) The primary purpose of the Townshend Revenue Act was not to generate revenue. A)True B)False
Q5) The idea that the British Parliament represented the needs and interests of all the empire's subjects was known as virtual representation.
A)True
B)False
Q6) North Carolina's political problem in the backcountry was
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary Republic, 1776-1789
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Q1) George Washington's attack on Trenton resulted in substantial patriot losses.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Massachusetts constitution that was ratified in 1780 is still in effect and is the oldest constitution in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The idea of the republican mother argued that women were
A)equal to men in the fight for political authority.
B)the true educators of patriotism for their children.
C)guaranteed the same property rights as men.
D)subordinate to men in all ways.
E)required to fight in the military.
Q4) Southern delegates to Congress all opposed the Northwest Ordinance.
A)True B)False
Q5) Rhode Island refused to participate in the Philadelphia Convention.
A)True B)False
Q6) Describe John Adams's ideas regarding the separation of powers.
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Chapter 7: Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815
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Q1) "Mad" Anthony Wayne defeated the northwestern Indian tribes at the Battle of A)Tippecanoe.
B)Thames.
C)Fallen Timbers.
D)Fort Mims.
E)New Orleans.
Q2) What was the Whiskey Rebellion? What were its causes, course, and repercussions?
Q3) Jay's Treaty was unanimously praised in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The debate over the president's title was
A)many weeks long.
B)settled by the Constitution, which outlawed titles of all kinds.
C)not resolved until after Washington's administration had ended.
D)started by Jefferson who favored the title "His Elective Highness."
E)settled by popular ballot.
Q5) The British agreed to remove troops from American territory in the ____________________ Treaty.
Q6) Spain gave the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi River in
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Chapter 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850
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Q1) By 1818 the National Road
A)ran from Washington D.C to Atlanta.
B)was a smooth, crushed rock thoroughfare.
C)had dramatically reduced the cost of moving goods inland.
D)signaled the decline in steamboat traffic.
E)all of these choices
Q2) All the following regarding southern farmers who moved into the Northwest is true except they
A)favored free-range livestock
B)remained tied to the river trade
C)often left the south seeing slavery blocked opportunities for them
D)devoted most of their efforts to developing large cultivated farms
E)did not bring slaves with them.
Q3) The engine of economic growth in the North and West was international trade.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The canal that linked the Hudson River with Lake Erie was the
Q5) Explore changes in the local rural economies of the United States in the early nineteenth century.
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Chapter 9: The Old South, 1790-1850
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Q1) Which of the following states was not a major producer of cotton?
A)Alabama
B)Texas
C)Mississippi
D)Louisiana
E)North Carolina
Q2) By 1820 there were roughly ____________________ independent African American churches.
Q3) Explore the various slave rebellions of the early nineteenth century.
Q4) Examine the slave culture that flourished in the nineteenth-century United States.
Q5) The slave who plotted a revolt while he was a leading member in a Methodist congregation was ____________________.
Q6) In 1860, only ____________________ percent of slave owners owned 20 or more slaves.
Q7) In the 1830s, the South produced three-fourths of the world's supply of ____________________.
Q8) The largest cities were in the North.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850
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Q1) Compare the cultures of the northern and southern United States in the period from 1820 to 1850.
Q2) Describe the significance of newspapers in the early nineteenth century.
Q3) In 1835, most Americans had access to newspapers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Nineteenth-century minstrel shows
A)were traveling productions in which white men in "black face" imitated African-American songs and dances.
B)were most popular with female audiences.
C)were the first theatrical entertainments to include black performers as regular troupe members.
D)were popular only in the large seaport cities of the Northeast.
E)were popular only in the South.
Q5) The first full-blown camp meeting took place in Georgia in 1808. A)True B)False
Q6) Most southern clergy endorsed relationships based on dominance and submission. A)True B)False
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Chapter 11: Whigs and Democrats, 1815-1840
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Q1) The creation of the second party system was complete in the election of
Q2) The winner of the crowded presidential election of 1824 was
A)Henry Clay.
B)Andrew Jackson.
C)John Quincy Adams.
D)William Crawford.
E)James Monroe.
Q3) The issue that led to the final and complete break between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun was
A)the tariff of 1830.
B)"nullification."
C)the Peggy Eaton affair.
D)Indian removal.
E)the Bank of the U.S.
Q4) When Henry Clay used his influence as Speaker of the House to win the presidential election for John Quincy Adams in 1824, Andrew Jackson's supporters labeled their alliance a(n) ____________________.
Q5) The ____________________ Bill completed the Jacksonian separation of bank and state.
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860
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Q1) Many of the reforms urged by Whig evangelicals had to do with domestic and personal life rather than with politics.
A)True
B)False
Q2) By the 1830s, in the northern states
A)many free blacks were openly questioning their subordinate position in society.
B)radical Whig evangelicals questioned racism.
C)official segregation by race was illegal.
D)Quakers were the strongest critics of racial segregation.
E)black children were not allowed to attend school.
Q3) By 1860, every slave state except the Carolinas and ____________________ operated prisons on the Auburn model.
Q4) Abolitionism found its greatest regional support in ____________________.
Q5) In the 1830s Democrats viewed blacks
A)as potential voters.
B)as non-threatening.
C)as racist caricatures.
D)with sympathy.
E)as potential equals.
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Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or
Slavery 1845-1860
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Q1) Most Whigs supported war with Mexico.
A)True
B)False
Q2) General Winfield Scott's nickname was
A)"Blood and Guts."
B)"Old Fuss and Feathers."
C)"Grizzly."
D)"Rough and Ready."
E)"Old Hickory."
Q3) President James Polk was prepared to declare war against Mexico even before news of hostilities arrived in Washington.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The popular leader of American forces in Mexico, who later was elected to the presidency, was ____________________.
Q5) Fifteen years after Mexican independence in 1821, the mission system came to dominate the region.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860
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Q1) Most immigrants before 1830 were
A)Irish, Catholic, and unskilled laborers.
B)British, Protestant, and skilled workers.
C)German, Protestant, and unskilled laborers.
D)Italian, Catholic, and skilled workers.
E)Russian, Jewish, and unskilled workers.
Q2) By the late 1850s, the United States was the second-leading industrial producer in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jefferson Davis led an effort to pass a federal law allowing slavery in all territories.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Organization of the Nebraska territory was necessary in order to A)expand slavery in the West.
B)stop the Republican Party.
C)establish reservations for Native Americans.
D)get Lincoln elected President.
E)build a railroad across the area.
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Chapter 15: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862
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Q1) European monarchists and conservatives were distressed at the idea of Southern secession leading to the breakup of the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Crittenden Compromise
A)promised to protect slavery in all territories south of 36° 30'.
B)guaranteed more representation to southern states in the House of Representatives.
C)denied the right of slaveholders to be compensated for runaway slaves.
D)argued for popular sovereignty on the slavery question.
E)received strong support in the South.
Q3) Southerners considered the Republican pledge not to interfere with slavery in the states meaningless.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The U.S. Secretary of State during the Civil War was ____________________.
Q5) The innovative new weapon that proved crucial in the battle of the ironclads was the ____________________.
Q6) The Virginia Theater seemed to favor the ____________________.
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Chapter 16: A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865
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Q1) The Confederate incursion into Maryland in September 1862 went well at the start.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Examine the outbreak of class tensions in both Northern and Southern society during the Civil War.
Q3) Lincoln supported the order of Major General John C. Fremont freeing the slaves of all Confederate sympathizers in Missouri.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the North Democrats generally
A)supported the draft.
B)did not take a stand on the draft.
C)pushed for a provision that allowed wealthy men to buy their way out of the draft.
D)supported the draft for blacks but not for whites.
E)opposed the draft.
Q5) Women had few opportunities for advancement during the war.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Q1) The main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to
A)destroy the Republican Party in the South.
B)deny freedmen equal protection under the law.
C)return black Americans to slavery.
D)dismantle the Democratic Party.
E)take the South out of the Union.
Q2) One of Grant's major problems as president was that he put too much trust in people under him.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Abraham Lincoln never encouraged freed people to emigrate to all-black countries like Haiti.
A)True B)False
Q4) Politicians at all levels universally embraced civil service reform.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The removal of ____________________ from the post of secretary of war triggered the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
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Q6) Compare and contrast the Lincoln Reconstruction plan with the Wade-Davis Bill.
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Chapter 18: A Transformed Nation: the West and the New
South, 1865-1900
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Q1) The five "civilized tribes"
A)sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
B)were nomadic hunters who followed the buffalo across the plains.
C)were the first organized group to openly oppose slavery in the United States.
D)received millions of additional acres of land from the federal government in the 1860s.
E)moved to Mexico after the Civil War.
Q2) The Foreign Miners Tax of 1850 was intended to protect Mexican land claims in California.
A)True
B)False
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A)dealt realistically with the problems of southern society.
B)were not read outside the South.
C)criticized lynching.
D)encouraged a diversified economy in the New South.
E)romanticized plantation society of the Old South.
Q4) Industrialization of the west added to its ethnic diversity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
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Q1) Founded in 1867, the Patrons of Husbandry was also known as the
Q2) Who was the author of the utopian romance Looking Backward?
A)Henry George
B)Harriet Beecher Stowe
C)Mark Twain
D)Edward Bellamy
E)Upton Sinclair
Q3) The important nineteenth-century labor organizer who led the American Federation of Labor was ____________________.
Q4) The Great Railway Strike and the Pullman Strike both took place during periods of economic downturns.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________________, the plant manager for the Homestead Steel plant, was almost assassinated by an anarchist during a labor dispute.
Q6) William McKinley ran a ____________________ campaign, inviting various delegations to his Ohio home to hear carefully crafted speeches on a host of topics.
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Chapter 20: Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920
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Q1) Robert Hunter estimated in 1904 that ____ percent of the Northern industrial population lived in poverty.
A)5
B)10
C)15
D)20
E)25
Q2) Few Americans attended the Columbia Exposition.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In African American communities one would find which of the following?
A)funeral homes.
B)newspapers.
C)grocery stores.
D)doctor's offices.
E)all of these choices
Q4) Conservatives were concerned about the antagonism that existed between feminists and labor activists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Progressivism, 1900-1917
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Q1) The ____________________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages.
Q2) W. E. B. Du Bois
A)opposed Booker T. Washington's accommodationist philosophy with regard to race relations.
B)encouraged the African American community to compromise with white racists.
C)opposed the organization of the NAACP.
D)called for segregation of the races.
E)supported black nationalism.
Q3) The nation's first settlement house was in which of the following cities?
A)New York City
B)Chicago
C)Boston
D)Philadelphia
E)Atlanta
Q4) What led to the emergence of the NAACP? Describe the organization, mentioning both its goals and its tactics for meeting them.
Q5) A race riot in ____________________ caused some progressive whites to join the Niagara movement to form the NAACP.
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Chapter 22: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
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Q1) Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy included
A)protection of the rights of nonwhite, nonindustrial nations.
B)respect for the sovereignty of Latin American nations.
C)noninterference in the affairs of Western Hemispheric nations.
D)recognition of claims to Russian and Japanese territory.
E)U.S. military action to maintain order and control, often at the expense of social justice.
Q2) U.S. control of the city of ____________________ helped to weaken the Mexican government of Victoriano Huerta
Q3) Explain the "frontier thesis." How was it significant?
Q4) Multinational corporations were fixtures in the U.S. economy by 1915.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Spanish minister to Washington, Depuy de Lome outraged U.S. public opinion when he
A)ordered the execution of Cuban rebels.
B)ordered the attack on the U.S. battleship Maine.
C)supported terrorist attacks on the United States.
D)raped an American woman.
E)insulted President McKinley.
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Chapter 23: War and Society, 1914-1920
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Q1) One could say the struggle to have the Treaty of Versailles ratified killed Wilson.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The international organization conceptualized by Woodrow Wilson as an organization that would pursue international peace and security was the ____________________.
Q3) During World War I the U.S. Railroad Administration
A)performed poorly in coordinating rail shipments.
B)shifted the rail system from private to public control.
C)concentrated primarily on ensuring profits for the railroad companies.
D)was disbanded by Congress.
E)ensured equal opportunity for all races in railroad employment.
Q4) In 1919, over 300,000 ____________________ workers went out on strike demanding and eight-hour day and recognition of their union. Strikers were met by violence and intimidation from employers who succeeded in turning public opinion against them.
Q5) Discuss the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. Why was it significant?
Q6) When World War I broke out the largest foreign-born population in the United States came from ____________________.
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Chapter 24: The 1920s
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Q1) What contributed to the depression in the farm industry after the war? What did farmers do to try to combat this depression? What was the government's response?
Q2) The ____________________ Pact outlawed war as a tool of national policy.
Q3) Calvin Coolidge
A)raised taxes and increased government regulation of business.
B)lowered taxes and decreased government regulation of business.
C)lowered taxes but increased government regulation of business.
D)raised taxes but decreased government regulation of business.
E)raised taxes on the rich but reduced them for the working class.
Q4) The following early supporters of Prohibition later withdrew their support except A)rural white Protestants
B)feminists
C)progressive reformers
D)middle class urbanites
E)None of these choices.
Q5) Discuss the rise of advertising and mass marketing. How did these innovations influence the development of the consumer society of the 1920s?
Q6) Disillusioned white writers of the 1920s are called the ____________________.
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) Known as the "radio priest," Father Coughlin was also
A)A critic of the New Deal.
B)Founder of the National Union of Social Justice.
C)An advocate of strong government.
D)increasingly anti-Semitic in his radio shows.
E)All of these choices
Q2) Roosevelt's opponent in the 1936 presidential election was ____________________.
Q3) For the farmers of the Great Plains, the New Deal programs offered little, as their major problem was ecological.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The commanding military officer who attacked the bonus marchers in Washington was
A)Dwight D. Eisenhower.
B)John G. Pershing.
C)Douglas Mac Arthur.
D)William Westmoreland.
E)William Grant
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Chapter 26: America During the Second World War, 1939-1945
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Q1) The atomic bombs were viewed as simply bigger, more effective firebombs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the U.S. government's plan to relocate people of Japanese ancestry was ____________________.
Q3) All of the following demonstrated the preeminence of the military in the Washington power structure in the 1940s except the
A)creation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
B)building of the Pentagon complex to house the War Department.
C)creation of dozens of new agencies and bureaucracies to coordinate the war effort.
D)decision to institute the draft.
E)development of radar technology.
Q4) It took only six weeks for Hitler's army to seize control of Europe's entire Atlantic coastline.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In ____________________ Congress officially apologized for Japanese internment.
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Q6) By V-J Day, government spending had reached ____________________ billion.
Chapter 27: The Age of Containment, 1946-1953
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Q1) Truman's greatest accomplishment regarding civil rights was the order to desegregate the military.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expelled 13 member organizations because of
A)their refusal to accept a CIO-negotiated contracted.
B)the requirements of the Taft-Hartley Act.
C)anticommunism.
D)their resistance to black members.
E)pressure from the Truman White House.
Q3) The term "containment" first appeared in an article published in ____________________.
Q4) The Truman Doctrine was formulated in response to the civil war in
Q5) According to FHA lending policies, only ________________ were seen as good credit risks.
Q6) The ____________________ Plan involved massive aid to Europe to stabilize those countries' economies and prevent the spread of communism.
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Chapter 28: America at Midcentury, 1953-1963
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Q1) The National Liberation Front in Vietnam was
A)a group of South Vietnamese nationalists and Communists who opposed the Diem government.
B)an organization of pro-French colonialists who supported the return of French rule.
C)a Christian missionary group dedicated to liberating Vietnam from Buddhism.
D)an anti-Communist movement in North Vietnam.
E)a women's rights organization.
Q2) Catholic Bishop ____________________ hosted an Emmy-winning TV program called Life Is Worth Living.
Q3) Eisenhower's administration fought communism by all the following means except
A)increasing the size and power of the CIA.
B)giving economic aid to friendly nations.
C)funding Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, Radio Asia, and other propaganda agencies.
D)threatening the Soviet Union with nuclear attack if U.S. security were threatened.
E)refusing to support any government that did not have democratic principles.
Q4) Trace and evaluate the Eisenhower administration's Native American policies.
Q5) The new conservative magazine was ____________________.
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Chapter 29: America During a Divisive War, 1963-1974
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Q1) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is significant for women as well as people of color because
A)it demanded equal rights for all Americans.
B)its Title VII added the word "sex" to the legislation barring employment discrimination.
C)it prohibited companies from discriminating against gay workers.
D)it was enacted as a result of women's movement activism.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) Lyndon Johnson's policy in Vietnam
A)demoralized North Vietnam and brought about "a peace with honor."
B)abandoned South Vietnam to "go it alone" in the war against communism.
C)outlawed the use of chemical weapons and fire bombs.
D)instituted the use of napalm.
E)won overwhelming support in the U.S.
Q3) In 1965, the United States invaded the Dominican Republic.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Analyze the growth and nature of protest movements, especially among young people, during the late 1960s.
Q5) Examine the goals and achievements of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society."
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Chapter 30: Uncertain Times, 1974-1992
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Q1) The winner of the 1976 presidential election was A)Gerald Ford.
B)Jimmy Carter.
C)Walter Mondale.
D)Robert Dole.
E)Richard Nixon.
Q2) The independent, self-financed candidate in the 1992 presidential election was billionaire
A)Donald Trump.
B)Ross Perot.
C)John Rockefeller.
D)Allan Frost.
E)Al Franken
Q3) The popular image of Gerald Ford was that he was A)elitist and arrogant.
B)a strong and powerful leader.
C)consumed with gaining political power.
D)genial and unpretentious
E)paranoid and suspicious.
Q4) ____________________ served as Jimmy Carter's first secretary of state.
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Chapter 31: Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the
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Q2) The majority of Spanish-speaking Americans in the United States are from A)Mexico.
B)Puerto Rico.
C)Honduras.
D)El Salvador.
E)Spain.
Q3) Because of its controversy, the Human Genome Project was ended in 1999.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ____________________ launched Sundance Film Institute.
Q5) By 2000, ____________________ states gained seats in the House of Representatives.
Q6) Housing suburbs built farther away than ever from city cores been labeled "____________________" by demographers.
Q7) The CBS television network replaced traditional comedies with edgier shows during the 1970s.
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Chapter 32: A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2014
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Q1) In 2006, President Bush issued his first veto of a bill on the issue of wiretaps.
A)True
B)False
Q2) President Clinton failed to intervene in ____________________ where a genocidal civil war resulted in the death of 500,000 Tutsis.
Q3) New Right activists and the Bush administration enjoyed considerable success in the area of
A)judicial appointments.
B)oil exploration.
C)immigration reform.
D)overhauling Social Security.
E)lowering federal spending.
Q4) Barack Obama's campaign slogan was Hope and ____________________.
Q5) George W. Bush's initiatives in office were considerably more timid than his campaign rhetoric.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The U.S. invasion of Iraq in May, 2003 was called ____________________.
Q7) TARP gave ____________________ dollars to companies that were "too big to fail".
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