United States History for Educators Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
United States History for Educators provides a comprehensive overview of American history from pre-colonial times to the present, emphasizing key political, economic, social, and cultural developments. Designed specifically for future educators, the course explores foundational events, influential figures, and major movements that have shaped the nation's past and continue to influence its present. Through critical analysis, engaging discussions, and the use of primary sources, students will develop historical literacy and pedagogical strategies necessary for effectively teaching U.S. history in elementary and secondary classrooms.
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AMERICA A Narrative History 10th Edition by
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
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Q1) Elizabeth I
A)conquered the Inca Empire
B)wrote The Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
C)led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe but was killed in the Philippines
D)began the Protestant Reformation
E)was the captain of the Santa Maria
F)led the first French effort to colonize the New World
G)defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588
H)explored what is now the southeastern United States
I)a priest who advocated for humanitarian treatment of natives
J)founded the first British colony in the New World at Roanoke Island
Answer: G
Q2) The English attempt to establish a colony on Roanoke Island resulted in:
A) a severe blow to Spanish power
B) a permanent English presence in North America
C) a severe blow to English power
D) the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh
E) the disappearance of the colonists
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Englands Colonies
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Q1) John Winthrop
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: D
Q2) Nathaniel Bacon was an indentured servant who led a Virginia rebellion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) New Netherland became one of the most ethnically diverse American colonies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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Q1) One of the most controversial elements of the Great Awakening was:
A) women who rose to speak during religious services
B) the revolutionary approach of the New Light theology
C) the democratizing of religion through revivalism
D) the acceptance of confrontation as an element of worship
E) the fearsome imagery of many of the sermons
Answer: A
Q2) One result of the Great Awakening was that it spurred an increase in the number of:
A) slave rebellions
B) suicides
C) marriages
D) witch crazes
E) colleges
Answer: E
Q3) In the New World, people were generally safe from disease and epidemics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Q1) As a result of the Boston Massacre:
A) dozens of Americans were killed by the British
B) the Sons of Liberty adopted peaceful methods
C) Samuel Adams defended the British soldiers
D) all but two of the British defendants were acquitted
E) Americans now quietly paid their taxes
Q2) John Locke's writings justified revolution in some cases.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Samuel Adams
A)was a British general in the French and Indian War
B)surrendered Fort Necessity to the French
C)wrote Common Sense
D)architect of the Albany Plan of Union
E)warned citizens of Lexington of a British military advance
F)wrote Two Treatises on Government
G)was a British war minister during the French and Indian War
H)organized the Sons of Liberty
I)proposed the Stamp Act
J)was the governor of the Dominion of New England
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1783
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Q1) Desertion was a big problem for Washington's army during the Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Benedict Arnold became notorious late in the war by:
A) recruiting slaves into the American army
B) questioning Washington's fitness for command
C) defecting to the British
D) selling weapons to Indians
E) trying to become a military dictator
Q3) The news of Yorktown inspired the British to:
A) recruit more soldiers
B) end the war
C) replace George III
D) sign a peace treaty with France
E) replace their commanders
Q4) Under the Articles of Confederation, some legislative measures required different majorities for approval.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain why 1777 has been referred to as the "year of setbacks" for the British.
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Chapter 6: Strengthening the New Nation
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Q1) In early 1789, the new Congress gathered in the national capital, which was:
A) Philadelphia
B) New York City
C) Boston
D) Washington, D.C.
E) Baltimore
Q2) The XYZ affair came about as part of the so-called Quasi War with France that Adams inherited as president.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Just before he left office, Adams:
A) repealed Hamilton's tax policies
B) questioned the fair outcome of the election
C) cemented Federalism within the judiciary
D) destroyed his official records
E) renewed his friendship with Jefferson
Q4) Anti-Federalists favored a decentralized federal system of government. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800-1815
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Q1) President Madison's attempts to deal with British and French interference with American trade:
A) were far more effective than Jefferson's
B) showed his belief in peace at any price
C) boosted the domestic economy
D) revealed that Napoléon could be trusted
E) led to war with the British
Q2) Which war hawk loudly proclaimed that his state of Kentucky was ready to march on Canada and acquire its lucrative fur trade?
A) Felix Grundy
B) Henry Clay
C) John Randolph
D) John C. Calhoun
E) Andrew Jackson
Q3) The naval battle on Lake Erie resulted in:
A) the death of Tecumseh
B) American control of Canada
C) the end of British naval supremacy
D) Commodore Perry's glorious victory
E) a British invasion of New York
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Chapter 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850
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Q1) What factors account for the tremendous growth in cotton cultivation from 1790 to 1860?
Q2) In terms of political behavior, the Irish:
A) seldom voted
B) generally supported Democrats
C) idolized John Quincy Adams
D) started a new party for immigrants
E) were easily manipulated into voting against their interests
Q3) Samuel Slater's contribution to the economy was that he:
A) invented the steam engine
B) was the first to employ child labor
C) opened a successful textile mill in Rhode Island
D) started the Industrial Revolution in England before he moved to the United States
E) convinced President Jefferson of the benefits of manufacturing
Q4) Irish immigrants to the United States tended to join the Republican party.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the transportation revolution that followed the opening of the Erie Canal.
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Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828
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Q1) The chief advocate for the program for economic development called the American System was:
A) Henry Clay
B) John Calhoun
C) Daniel Webster
D) James Monroe
E) James Madison
Q2) The American System included support for all of the following policies EXCEPT:
A) high tariffs
B) free public schools
C) a national bank
D) internal improvements
E) high prices for western lands
Q3) The first judicial ruling that declared a federal law to be unconstitutional came from:
A) McCulloch v. Maryland
B) Gibbons v. Ogden
C) Cohens v. Virginia
D) Dartmouth College v. Woodward
E) Marbury v. Madison
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Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840
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Q1) Martin Van Buren
A)offered as a toast at a Jefferson Day dinner: "Our Union-It must be preserved!"
B)was the husband of the woman snubbed by wives of cabinet members
C)called the "Little Magician"
D)was the director of the Bank of the United States
E)resigned the vice presidency in 1832
F)was Jackson's opponent for president in 1832
G)won the presidency with his "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign
H)as a Massachusetts senator, said "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable"
I)was a presidential candidate for the Anti-Masonic party in 1832
J)was the 1840 Whig vice presidential candidate
Q2) William Henry Harrison:
A) was a leader of the states' rights wing of the Whigs
B) was known as the "Little Magician"
C) had defeated the Shawnees at Tippecanoe
D) directed the Bank of the United States until Jackson destroyed it
E) like Jackson, was born in frontier poverty
Q3) How did Jackson's early life shape his development into adulthood?
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The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860
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Q1) Slave owners in the antebellum South acquired additional slaves from:
A) Africa
B) Brazil
C) the domestic slave trade
D) the West Indies
E) Asia
Q2) Why was organized resistance to slavery by slaves risky?
A) Most slaves supported slavery.
B) Southern whites possessed overwhelming authority and firepower.
C) Slaves were pacifists.
D) Slaves did not possess an alternative vision of what should replace slavery.
E) Slaves believed that disorganized resistance was far more effective.
Q3) Tobacco was the first major cash crop of the South.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A black overseer on a plantation was known as a driver.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss agricultural diversity as it relates to the Old South. Why did cotton become so important, and what significance did other crops hold for the region?
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Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860
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Q1) Discuss the concept of Deism and its influence on the development of American society.
Q2) Regarding the penitentiary established in 1816 at Auburn, New York, all the following statements are true EXCEPT: A) discipline was severe B) prisoners were not allowed to talk to one another C) it was an institution that primarily emphasized punishment D) its system and methods were widely copied across the nation E) prisoners performed labor and produced goods that could be sold for a profit
Q3) 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
Q4) Margaret Fuller edited the Dial, a transcendentalist journal.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the southern defense of slavery before and after 1830.
Q6) Evaluate the goals, methods, and leadership of the abolitionist movement. Which of the methods were most effective? Why?
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Chapter 13: Western Expansion, 1830-1848
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Q1) In 1849, Congress created the Department of the Interior to supervise the distribution of land, the creation of new territories and states, and the "protection" of the Indians and their reservations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which leader is described as a president without a party?
A) William Henry Harrison
B) Sam Houston
C) James K. Polk
D) John Tyler
E) Henry Clay
Q3) Polk's nickname of "Young Hickory" most reflected his:
A) association with Jackson and support for Jacksonian policies
B) toughness in dealing with his enemies
C) common origins in North Carolina
D) relative youth for a presidential candidate
E) enthusiastic support for territorial expansion
Q4) Why were many Americans opposed to the Mexican-American War? How significant was their opposition?
Q5) Trace the development of the Oregon Country prior to the Mexican-American War.
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Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860
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Q1) As a result of the Compromise of 1850, California entered the Union as a free state.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act impact the settlement of Kansas?
A) The vagaries left about the status of slavery discouraged settlement.
B) Popular sovereignty encouraged violence-prone supporters and opponents of slavery to flood Kansas.
C) It ensured that Kansas would be admitted into the Union as a free state with a population deeply committed to abolition.
D) It made Kansas a slave state with a majority population of slaveholders.
E) This is a trick question. The act had no impact on settlement of Kansas.
Q3) Author Harriet Beecher Stowe's background was indicative of the abolitionist movement's:
A) weak moral compass
B) symbolic support of the Fugitive Slave Act
C) powerful religious underpinnings
D) willingness to accept slavery in some modified form
E) gradually weakening strength
Q4) 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) What was the military strategy of each side at the start of the Civil War? How and why did it change as the war continued?
Q2) Why did the South lose the war? What were its weaknesses and disadvantages?
Q3) The military death toll in the Civil War was roughly:
A) 1 million
B) 140,000
C) 375,000
D) 750,000
E) 2 million
Q4) Lincoln replaced McClellan as Union commander because McClellan was overly aggressive.
A)True
B)False
Q5) All of the following were advantages the North held over the South EXCEPT:
A) more experienced military leaders
B) a larger population
C) industrial development
D) transportation resources
E) naval strength
Q6) Discuss how the Civil War was "the most traumatic event in American history."
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Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Q1) All of the following are reasons why Republicans lost control in the South EXCEPT:
A) electoral fraud
B) white supremacist violence
C) the Panic of 1873
D) the growing weakness of Grant's administration
E) black voters switched to support the Democrats
Q2) During Reconstruction, African Americans :
A) passively awaited developments
B) attempted to establish schools
C) normally joined integrated churches
D) terrorized their former masters
E) refused to work for wages
Q3) When the votes were first counted in the 1876 presidential election:
A) no candidate had an Electoral College majority
B) Hayes led Tilden in popular votes
C) it was clear that a clean election had occurred
D) the Democrats immediately conceded defeat
E) the Supreme Court ordered a new election
Q4) What were the major economic issues between 1868 and 1876?
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1860-1900
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Q1) Terence V. Powderly
A)founded Standard Oil
B)was president of the Homestead Steel Works
C)led the Knights of Labor
D)wrote "The Gospel of Wealth"
E)was a presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America
F)founded a mail-order business
G)coined the phrase "social dynamite"
H)organized the Workingmen's Party of California
I)was a labor organizer executed for murder
J)consolidated the steel industry into the United States Steel Corporation
Q2) Write an essay that explains the significance of railroad expansion in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Discuss how these railroads were financed, who the people were behind the expansion, and how they affected the economic development of the country in the late nineteenth century.
Q3) Westinghouse's system of transmitting electricity over long distances lost the "battle of the currents."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
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Q1) The fight for survival in the trans-Mississippi West made men and women:
A) more equal partners than were their eastern counterparts
B) have a mutual hatred for Native Americans
C) come to an understanding that women would play a subservient role on the frontier
D) realize their mistakes that led them to follow a very nomadic lifestyle
E) mentally instable
Q2) Frederick Jackson Turner
A)editor of the Atlanta Constitution
B)made improved plow for plains farmers
C)a livestock dealer who helped establish Abilene, Kansas, as the first successful cow town
D)the foremost promoter of black migration to the West
E)founded American Tobacco Company
F)said that the Indian wars were the result of broken promises by Americans
G)wrote that the frontier had shaped American national character
H)led massacre of 200 Indians at Sand Creek
I)barbed-wire promoter
J)author of A Century of Dishonor
Q3) Describe the role of women in the New West.
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Chapter 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900
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Q1) Tenement houses in New York City:
A) were cramped, yet offered more privacy than apartments
B) were urban, yet their courtyards offered children a sense of nature
C) had higher mortality rates than among the general population
D) were clean
E) usually had two to three families in each building
Q2) Which region of the United States had the greatest proportion of urban dwellers?
A) the Northeast
B) the South
C) the middle Atlantic
D) the Far West
E) the Great Plains
Q3) Around 1900, saloons did all of the following EXCEPT:
A) offer mail services
B) provide public restrooms for poor people
C) serve alcohol
D) provide refuges for the homeless
E) serve as a great place for immigrant men to meet women
Q4) Describe the explosive growth of urbanization in the late nineteenth century. What factors led to this growth, and where did the largest growth take place?
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Chapter 20: Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913
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Q1) Describe the controversy surrounding the building of the Panama Canal. How were the obstacles in the canal controversy overcome?
Q2) What were the reasons for American expansionism at the turn of the twentieth century? What justifications did Americans offer for expansionism?
Q3) Who shouted, "Kill all the gringos"?
A) Porfirio Díaz
B) Pancho Villa
C) Victoriano Huerta
D) Valeriano Weyler
E) Francisco Madero
Q4) Social Darwinist ideas justified policies of imperial expansion.
A)True
B)False
Q5) McKinley was reelected in 1900 despite losing the popular vote to William Jennings Bryan.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How did Hawaii become part of the United States?
Q7) What was the Open Door policy, and how did it come about?
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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
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Q1) Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform:
A) proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration
B) accepted gigantic corporations as a fact of modern economic life
C) was the creation of a writer named Herbert Croly
D) was the reason he won the 1912 election
E) was vehemently opposed by Louis Brandeis
Q2) The first place in the United States to extend equal voting rights to women was:
A) Massachusetts
B) New York
C) the New Mexico Territory
D) the Oregon Territory
E) the Wyoming Territory
Q3) Describe the five major themes of progressive reform.
Q4) Booker T. Washington was the most prominent black leader in the early twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Show how the two men eventually found themselves running against each other for president.
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Chapter 22: America and the Great War, 1914-1920
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Q1) What was the virulent menace that Americans faced in the postwar period that caused more casualties than the war itself?
A) communism
B) socialism
C) the Spanish flu
D) the atomic bomb
E) the cholera outbreak
Q2) One of the following pairs consists of two countries that were NOT members of the Triple Entente:
A) Italy and France
B) France and Great Britain
C) Great Britain and Russia
D) Russia and France
E) Italy and Austria-Hungary
Q3) Why did America enter the war in Europe when it did? Why did it not enter before?
Q4) Why did the reservationists and the irreconcilables oppose the Treaty of Versailles? How effective was their opposition?
Q5) Discuss the various initial American reactions to the start of World War I.
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Chapter 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
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Q1) Gertrude Stein
A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
C)wrote Three Lives
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)was the NAACP field secretary
F)was a silent film star
G)denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)was the leader of Negro nationalism
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight
Q2) The Waste Land, a poem that became the favorite of many modernist readers because of its sense of disillusionment and its suggestion of a burned-out civilization, was written by:
A) Franz Boas
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Ezra Pound
D) Gertrude Stein
E) E. E. Cummings
Q3) Describe the defensive temper of the 1920s. What factors contributed to it?
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Chapter 24: The Reactionary Twenties
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Q1) Democratic presidential nominee Alfred Smith was hurt in 1928 by the fact that he was:
A) a New Yorker and a Catholic
B) a boring public speaker
C) a member of the Ku Klux Klan
D) a supporter of Prohibition
E) an actor
Q2) What had the progressivism of the prewar period turned into by the 1920s? What factors led to this transformation?
Q3) Calvin Coolidge was notorious for his love of whiskey, poker, and women.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Kellogg-Briand Pact endorsed future wars.
A)True
B)False
Q5) While Warren G. Harding presided over what can be argued as the most corrupt administration in American history, he was never personally linked to any official wrongdoing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 25: The Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Q1) 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
Q2) John L. Lewis
A)author of The Grapes of Wrath
B)created the Share-the-Wealth program
C)served as secretary of labor
D)was a BIA commissioner
E)was the Republican presidential candidate in 1936
F)was a CIO leader
G)proposed to pay $200 a month to those over 60 who retired and promised to spend the money
H)was interior secretary
I)was the "radio priest"
J)headed the FERA and the WPA
Q3) How did the nation's perceptions of the role of government-its powers and responsibilities-change in the 1930s?
Q4) Describe the impact the Great Depression had on popular culture in America.
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Chapter 26: The Second World War, 1933-1945
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Q1) Describe the Atlantic Charter and explain its significance.
Q2) In 1940, the Battle of Britain:
A) saw the British defeat a massive German land invasion of the British Isles
B) was the single greatest defeat that Britain faced during World War II
C) was mostly a propaganda war between Germany and Britain that saw little actual bloodshed
D) saw the British turn back a massive German air attack and force Germany to postpone its invasion plans
E) saw Winston Churchill earn distinction by shooting down fifty German fighters
Q3) Franklin D. Roosevelt
A)American admiral in the Pacific
B)Republican appointed secretary of war in 1940
C)Democratic presidential candidate in 1940
D)elected vice president in 1944
E)directed the construction of atomic bombs
F)was in charge of all U.S. forces in east Asia
G)lost the presidential election in 1940
H)drew up the Atlantic Charter with an American president
I)senator who led the committee that coined term "merchants of death"
J)lost the presidential election in 1944
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Chapter 27: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952
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Q1) During the presidential election of 1948, Republicans saw little hope for victory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to:
A) declare martial law
B) temporarily seize those industries
C) say government had no role in labor-management disputes
D) break the strikes with unemployed veterans
E) freeze transportation and energy prices
Q3) The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT:
A) provide educational benefits for veterans
B) provide housing loans for veterans
C) help prevent a postwar depression
D) pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military
E) provide medical treatment for veterans
Q4) What did Truman mean by a Fair Deal? How did it compare to FDR's New Deal?
Q5) Trace the major developments in the cold war from 1945 to 1948.
Q6) Describe the social and economic effects of demobilization.
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Chapter 28: Cold War America, 1950-1959
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Q1) Earl Warren
A)wrote Invisible Man
B)wrote The Affluent Society
C)advocated "massive resistance" to integration
D)challenged bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama
E)wrote The Crack in the Picture Window
F)was a U-2 spy-plane pilot
G)proclaimed the creation of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam
H)was a suburban home builder
I)was an Arkansas governor
J)was a Supreme Court chief justice
Q2) The GI Bill of Rights provided financial assistance for home loans and college expenses.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the civil rights movement in the 1950s. What civil rights did blacks achieve in that decade?
Q4) How did the Red Scare of the 1950s finally come to an end? With its demise, was this the end of the anti-Communist crusade in America?
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Chapter 29: A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968
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Q1) Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson:
A) had a humble and modest character
B) was a fairly typical southern conservative
C) may have been involved in the assassination
D) like Kennedy, had been born into wealth and privilege
E) genuinely cared about the disadvantaged in society
Q2) Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to:
A) the unemployed
B) all Americans
C) the elderly
D) single mothers and their children
E) the handicapped
Q3) The result of the 1960 election:
A) was likely determined by African American votes in a few southern states
B) was a popular vote landslide victory for Kennedy
C) saw Democrats regain control of the South
D) was determined when Kennedy swept the West Coast
E) was challenged in the courts by the Republicans
Q4) Discuss the rise of Malcolm X and his influence on the black power movement in America.
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A) integration of swimming pools and public parks
B) interracial dating
C) racial profiling by police
D) busing
E) rising rates of crime in the inner cities
Q2) George Wallace
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
Q3) Detail all aspects of the counterculture in the United States during the 1960s.
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Chapter 31: Conservative Revival, 1977-1990
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Q2) The Sunbelt includes the southern and western states.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sandra Day O'Connor
A)championed women's roles as wives and mothers
B)was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1980
C)led the Moral Majority
D)was the former governor of California
E)was budget director in the Reagan administration
F)was the main actor in the Iran-Contra affair
G)was a Supreme Court justice
H)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988
I)was a vice-presidential candidate in 1984
J)said, "[My opponent] will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."
Q4) What were the main foreign policy achievements of the Carter administration? Where did Carter fail?
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A)was an Alaska governor and Tea Party favorite
B)carried Florida by 537 votes in 2000
C)became House Speaker as a result of the 2006 election
D)was the independent counsel who prosecuted Bill Clinton
E)finished third in the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections
F)authored the Contract with America
G)was appointed secretary of state by Barack Obama
H)was the Federal Reserve Board chairman
I)was appointed secretary of defense by Barack Obama
J)was a central figure in a major sex scandal
Q2) Between 1997 and 2006, home prices rose very impressively in Sunbelt states.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush:
A) emphasized how different a president he would be from his father
B) promised he would be known as the environmental president
C) stated his opposition to "nation building" overseas
D) promised to attack and "take out" Saddam Hussein
E) accused Al Gore of being a tool of the oil industry
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