United States History II Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
United States History II explores the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the United States from the end of the Civil War (1865) to the present day. The course examines significant events and themes such as Reconstruction, industrialization, the Gilded Age, Progressive Era reforms, the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary America. Through the study of primary and secondary sources, students gain insight into the forces that have shaped modern American society, understanding both the triumphs and challenges faced by the nation in its journey to the present.
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Q1) Ghana,Mali,and Songhay were early empires in which region of the African continent?
A)Southern Africa
B)Eastern Africa
C)Northern Africa
D)Western Africa
E)Central Africa
Answer: D
Q2) John Cabot established the Northwest Passage in 1497.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) The two nations that dominated exploration from 1491 to 1600 were Portugal and Spain.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Contact, colonization, and Exchange in the
Atlantic World, 1492-1600
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Q1) Native peoples rejected all aspects of Catholicism that Spanish missionaries offered.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church because he
A)believed that Martin Luther professed the true faith.
B)did not want his children to be raised as Catholics.
C)desired an annulment so that he could marry again.
D)resented sending part of his country's wealth to Rome in tithes.
E)caught his Catholic wife in an adulterous relationship.
Answer: C
Q3) The repartimiento system was a method of forcing native Indians to labor for the Spanish.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) Capital to explore trade routes and establish new markets in America was raised through which of the following means?
A)The sale of wool
B)The establishment of joint-stock companies
C)Investment by the French in English ventures
D)Direct support from the English crown
E)Piracy on the high seas
Answer: B
Q2) The young women who instigated the witchcraft craze were drawn to the supposed magic of which Salem resident?
A)Sara Good,a poor beggar
B)Sarah Osborne,an elderly,sick woman
C)Tituba,a slave woman
D)Mary Phyis,the governor's wife
E)Both A and B
Answer: C
Q3) By 1720,blacks composed 20 percent of the population in the Chesapeake region.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) The situation of the American colonies in the 1760s could best be described by which of the following?
A)Enforcement of earlier Navigation Acts seriously undermined the colonial economy.
B)Immigration and an economic depression contributed to unrest on the frontier.
C)Laws such as the Woolen Act and the Molasses Act ensured that most of the colonies' wealth was returned to the mother country.
D)None of these statements are true.
Q2) After 1763,Spain becamefriendlierwith Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding Thomas Paine's Common Sense is accurate?
A)It convinced the American public of the need for independence.
B)It sold more than 100,000 copies in a few months.
C)It borrowed heavily from the Declaration of Independence.
D)All of these
E)Only A and B
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) What act prohibited armed groups in Massachusetts from gathering in public?
A)Riot Act
B)Protest Act
C)Espionage Act
D)Sedition Act
E)Shays Act
Q2) Which of the following was authorized under the Articles of Confederation?
A)Each state had an equal vote in Congress.
B)Congress could levy taxes.
C)Congress could raise troops when needed.
D)Individual states coined their own money.
E)All of these
Q3) The three land ordinances passed by Congress in the 1780s dealt with settlement in
A)the Northwest Territory.
B)the Southwest Territory.
C)Tennessee Valley.
D)Louisiana.
E)Florida.
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Chapter 6: Forging a New Nation, 1790-1828
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Q1) In response to the Quasi-War with France in the late 1790s,Congress expanded the army and authorized the navy to protect merchant ships.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Embargo of 1807 prohibited exportation to A)France.
B)England.
C)Canada.
D)Spain.
E)all countries.
Q3) The initial reaction in the United States to revolution in France was supportive. A)True
B)False
Q4) The party favoring commercial development and a national bank was the Federalist Party.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Market Revolution and Social Reform,
1800-1860
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Q1) The Oneida Association serves as an example of a
A)secret political organization.
B)Quaker congregation.
C)utopian society.
D)women's rights group.
E)craft guild.
Q2) Thomas Cole helped found the Hudson River School,which was dedicated to painting
A)famous New Yorkers.
B)the American landscape.
C)wild birds.
D)America's vanishing wildlife.
Q3) Which of the following states is located in the region sometimes called the Old Southwest and played a key role in the rise of the Cotton South in the early nineteenth century?
A)Arkansas
B)Georgia
C)Alabama
D)Tennessee
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Chapter 8: The Peculiar Institution: the Old South and
Slavery, 1800-1860
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Q1) What was the first state to pass an abolition law?
A)Pennsylvania
B)Virginia
C)New Jersey
D)North Carolina
E)New York
Q2) What did the American Colonization Society,which purchased land in Africa for free blacks,name the new country?
A)Ghana
B)Ivory Coast
C)Republic of the Congo
D)Cameroon
E)Liberia
Q3) Slaves could legally marry and form families.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some free blacks in the South also owned slaves.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) Martin Van Buren was the first presidential candidate to go out on the campaign trail,inventing a new style of politics.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Andrew Jackson vetoed the rechartering of the Bank of the United States because he believedit
A)prevented state banks from lending money.
B)refused to accept deposits of federal revenue.
C)went against states' rights.
D)constantly meddled in national politics.
E)had been responsible for his losing thousands of dollars years earlier.
Q3) The Freemasons formed in response to the growth of secret political societies;their efforts grew them into an influential third party
A)True
B)False
Q4) John Tyler was a member of the Whig Party,yet once he became president in 1841,he actively resisted Whig legislation in Congress.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion,
1820-1860
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Q1) Osceola was the leader of the Cherokees who resisted the forced march from native homelands and was captured and died in captivity
A)True
B)False
Q2) The U.S.Supreme Court twice ruled in favor of the Cherokees and against their removal from their lands
A)True
B)False
Q3) The United States government became directly involved in westward expansion in all of the following ways EXCEPT
A)It sent scientists and engineers to explore western lands
B)It promised free land to anyone who wanted to settle the frontier
C)It sent military troops to safeguard desired lands and defend settlers from Indian attacks
D)It set policies for transforming a territory to a state
Q4) The Louisiana Purchase tripled the size of the United States
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) The controversy over Kansas taught the nation which of the following about popular sovereignty?
A)It offered an effective solution to the problem of slavery.
B)It could easily lead to violence within a territory.
C)It was wholeheartedly accepted by the South.
D)It was a solution supported by both the North and the South.
E)It was more popular in the South than in the North.
Q2) Who was the original organizer of the Compromise of 1850?
A)John C.Calhoun
B)Henry Clay
C)Lewis Cass
D)Zachary Taylor
E)John Tyler
Q3) Clay's Omnibus Bill included all of the following provisions except A)slavery would be permitted in the District of Columbia.
B)a stronger fugitive slave law would be put into effect.
C)California would be admitted as a free state.
D)slavery would be permitted in the other territories acquired from Mexico.
E)the slave trade would be ended in Washington,D.C.
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) What percent of the Union army was comprised of immigrants?
A)10 to 15
B)15 to 20
C)20 to 25
D)25 to 30
Q2) Andrew Stephens was President of theConfederacy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
A)Freed all slaves
B)Freed only northern slaves
C)Freed slaves that lived in the rebel territories
D)Freed slaves once the war ended
Q4) Who was the founder of the American Red Cross?
A)Clara Barton
B)Dorothea Dix
C)Phoebe Pember
D)John Sullivan
E)Jane McClellan
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and
Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) Blacks dominated southern legislatures in the decade after the Civil War
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress to oversee blacks' transition from slavery to freedom
A)True
B)False
Q3) Northern support for Reconstruction waned as northerners believed that the South would be better off when whites were dominant.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of these did not occur during the Civil War?
A)Lincoln's proposed 10% plan
B)The Thirteenth Amendment
C)The Wade-Davis Bill
D)The Fourteenth Amendment
Q5) In 1880,southern farmers produced between 5 and 6 million bales of cotton.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Which of the following men favored a U.S.expansionist policy in the late nineteenth century?
A)Mark Twain
B)James G.Blaine
C)Samuel Gompers
D)Henry Cabot Lodge
E)Theodore Roosevelt
Q2) The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of which policy?
A)Manifest Destiny
B)Monroe Doctrine
C)Open Door Policy
D)Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Q3) Passed in 1901,the Platt Amendment _____.
A)encouraged trade with China
B)dictated the terms of the Panama Canal Zone
C)established protectorate status in the Philippines
D)barred Cuba from allying itself with another foreign power
Q4) No one was aboard the USS Maine when it exploded in the Havana Harbor in 1898.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Change and Resistance: Industrialization,
urbanization, and Farm Protest, 1865-1910
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Q1) Andrew Carnegie cut the cost of steel rail in half by switching to the Bessemer process.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1902,the Department of Justice filed suit under the Sherman Antitrust Act against the Northern Securities Company,which had been created in 1901 as a merger of companies in which industry?
A)Steel
B)Railroad
C)Coal
D)Banking
E)Oil
Q3) In the 1892 election,what party took over control of both houses of Congress?
A)the Democratic Party
B)the Populist Party
C)the Republican Party
D)the Socialist Party
Q4) J.P.Morgan founded the Standard Oil Company.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) What was the focus of the Sixteenth Amendment?
A)It provided for separate but equal public facilities.
B)It allowed an income tax.
C)It guaranteed women the right to vote in federal elections.
D)It provided for the direct election of senators.
E)It established Prohibition.
Q2) What Wisconsin politician was the leading symbol of state reform during the Progressive Era?
A)Robert M.LaFollette
B)D.W.Griffith
C)Woodrow Wilson
D)Theodore Roosevelt
E)William Jennings Bryan
Q3) Ida Wells Barnett concentrated her reform efforts on which of the following?
A)temperance
B)lynching
C)tenement housing
D)child labor
E)sanitation
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
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Q1) The Red Scare refers to which of the following?
A)submarine warfare
B)an influenza epidemic
C)an economic recession
D)fear of communist infiltration
Q2) William Jennings Bryan led the effort that blocked ratification of the Treaty of Versailles by the Senate.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why did the U.S.not establish an embargo against warring European nations after the outbreak of war?
A)Because the large population of German immigrants in the U.S opposed it
B)Because it did not have a large enough naval fleet to maintain an embargo
C)Because U.S.defense experts considered espionage a stronger and safer strategy
D)Because a blockade would have harmed the U.S.economy
Q4) Which of these was NOT part of the U.S.war effort during World War I
A)Meatless days
B)Wheatless days
C)Fishless days
D)Victory gardens
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Q1) What was the Spirit of St.Louis?
A)an airplane
B)a baseball stadium
C)a book
D)a movie
E)a train
Q2) Who championed the crusade against evolutionism and helped the prosecution in the Scopes trial?
A)Williams Jennings Bryan
B)Clarence Darrow
C)Florence Kelley
D)Aimee Semple McPherson
E)John T.Raulston
Q3) In 1927,Ford attempted to regain market share from General Motors by doing all of the following except
A)advertising extensively.
B)introducing a new Model A.
C)offering credit to car buyers.
D)dismantling the assembly line.
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Chapter 19: A Nation in Crisis: the Great Depression and the
New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) Huey Long was a Louisiana senator who proposed an agenda to redistribute income to "make every man a king."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Almost three million people abandoned their farms in Oklahoma,Kansas,and South Dakota during the Dust Bowl.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the effect of the Fair Labor Standards Act?
A)It ensured equal pay for men and women.
B)It established a minimum wage and maximum workweek.
C)It negotiated a truce between industry and striking workers.
D)It provided employment opportunities to African Americans.
Q4) The popularity of radio suffered during the tough economic times of the Depression. A)True
B)False
Q5) The Revenue Act of 1932 was designed to raise money through tariffs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) Which of the following statements does not accurately describe the war in the Pacific?
A)U.S.victories at Coral Sea and Midway shattered the illusion of Japan's invincibility.
B)After securing Guadalcanal,Americans began leapfrogging islands to move on Japan.
C)The United States adopted a two-pronged attack that would culminate in a final attack on Japan.
D)Kamikaze attacks had a significant impact on morale but did little damage to the U.S.fleet.
Q2) On December 7,1941,Japanese planes destroyed the battleship Arizona in an attack that occurred where?
A)Hawaii
B)the Philippines
C)the South Pacific
D)the Sea of Japan
Q3) The national debt increased only slightly between 1941 and 1945.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
1945-1960
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Q1) Who served as President Eisenhower's secretary of state?
A)John Foster Dulles
B)George Humphrey
C)Robert McNamara
D)Charles Wilson
Q2) Which African American athlete broke the color line in Major League Baseball?
A)Hank Aaron
B)Josh Gibson
C)Satchel Paige
D)Jackie Robinson
Q3) The States' Rights Party,or Dixiecrats,was formed primarily to oppose new laws governing unions and the workplace.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Between 1944 and 1950,how many of the new houses built in the United States were built in suburban areas?
A)fewer than 20 percent
B)roughly 33 percent
C)roughly 60 percent
D)more than 80 percent
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) In April 1970 Antiwar protests increased after American troops invaded which country to cut off enemy supply lines to Vietnam?
A)Cambodia
B)China
C)North Vietnam
D)Thailand
Q2) The movies Easy Rider and Hair celebrated the counterculture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) President Nixon was forced to resign during his first term in office following the Watergate break-in.
A)True
B)False
Q4) At what university did a violent confrontation between antiwar protesters and National Guard troops result in the death of four students?
A)Kent State
B)Princeton
C)University of Mississippi
D)University of California at Berkeley
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) The federal budget deficit increased dramatically during Ronald Reagan's presidency.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which president was dubbed the "great communicator"?
A)George H.W.Bush
B)Jimmy Carter
C)Gerald Ford
D)Ronald Reagan
Q3) All of the following contributed to the economic recession of the early 1970s except
A)Government spending on the Great Society programs and the Vietnam War
B)Declining worker productivity
C)Rapidly escalating influx of immigrants
D)Soaring energy costs
E)Rising global competition
Q4) Stagflation refers to high inflation and high employment.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) In 2013,the Supreme Court struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Results of the close presidential election of 2000 were called into question due to irregularities in what state?
A)California
B)Florida
C)Tennessee
D)Texas
Q3) The dot-com bubble refers to a period of time in which speculative investors poured money into
A)construction-related stocks.
B)Internet-related stocks.
C)real estate.
D)savings bonds.
Q4) A federal government budget surplus was realized under which president?
A)George H.W.Bush
B)George W.Bush
C)Bill Clinton
D)Barack Obama
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