Western Civilization (with a U.S. focus)
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Western Civilization (with a U.S. focus) explores the historical development of Western societies from their ancient roots to the present, emphasizing major events, ideas, and institutions that have shaped the modern world. This course places particular emphasis on the connections between European history and the evolution of the United States, examining the philosophical, political, cultural, and economic influences that Europe imparted to the American experience. Students will analyze key moments such as the rise of democracy, the scientific revolution, enlightenment thought, and the transatlantic exchange, while exploring how these phenomena influenced the formation and growth of the U.S. and its place within Western tradition.
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The Unfinished Nation A Concise History of the American People 8th Edition by Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures Key
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Q1) In 1680,the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish settlers after the Spanish
A) attempted to convert the Pueblos to Catholicism.
B) banned intermarriage between Spaniards and Pueblos.
C) demanded tribute from the Indians.
D) began to export Pueblos out of the colony to be sold as slaves.
E) made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
Answer: E
Q2) The colony of Virginia was named in honor of
A) Virginia Dare.
B) Queen Mary.
C) QueenElizabeth.
D) Humphrey Gilbert.
E) Walter Raleigh.
Answer: C
Q3) The internal African slave trade was not well established until Europeans began to demand slave labor for the New World.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands Key
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Q1) The New York colony
A) banned slavery from its inception.
B) made a commitment to representative assemblies.
C) saw its population grow slowly for its first fifty years.
D) emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch.
E) had its founding proprietors from the Carolina colony.
Answer: D
Q2) The Mayflower Compact set forth the principles of the Puritan religion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In 1620,the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America
A) hoped to create their ideal close-knit Christian community.
B) enjoyed a particularly mild winter their first year.
C) came over the objections of the Virginia colony.
D) were seeking to escape military service in England.
E) intended to settle at Cape Cod.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America Key
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Q1) Commerce in early colonial America relied in large part on A) silver.
B) gold.
C) paper currency.
D) barter.
E) credit.
Answer: D
Q2) English America recognized no distinctions between pure Africans and people of mixed race.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) By the late seventeenth century,European and African immigrants outnumbered natives along the Atlantic coast.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Key
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Q1) Up until the 1760s,how did the British governance of the colonies shape the general attitudes of Americans regarding their rights and responsibilities within the British Empire?
Q2) By the 1750s,American colonial assemblies
A) had claimed the right to levy taxes.
B) were petitioning the king to charter new colonies to the west.
C) consisted of colonists all approved by royal governors.
D) existed only to implement the policies of the English Parliament.
E) felt little loyalty to the English government.
Q3) In North America as a result of the Seven Years' War,England
A) confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased its political control of the settled regions.
B) shifted its interest away from the Caribbean colonies.
C) lost some of its global commercial supremacy.
D) granted more political autonomy to the American colonies.
E) confirmed its commercial supremacy and shifted its interest away from the Caribbean colonies.
Q4) Creole refers to people of European ancestry born in the Americas.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution Key
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Q1) Under the Articles of Confederation,
A) no legislation could be passed without all states voting on the issue.
B) there could be no amendments to the Articles.
C) each state had one vote in Congress.
D) the executive had the power to veto legislative decisions.
E) all states had to approve any important measure.
Q2) of the American Revolution,the British
A) began a policy of "total war" that resulted in several cities being burned to the ground.
B) made a focused effort to win public support in the northern colonies.
C) badly overestimated the support of American Loyalists.
D) mounted their largest military assault against the Continental army.
E) concentrated their efforts on capturing individual Patriots.
Q3) In 1780,Massachusetts sought to revise the power of the governor by
A) allowing the legislature to set his salary.
B) taking away his authority to veto legislation.
C) permitting him to sit in the legislature.
D) granting him the power to tax.
E) having him elected directly by the people.
Q4) What impact did the American Revolution have on the rights and status of women?
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Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Key
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Q1) Once enacted,Hamilton's program failed to bring about many of the effects he had intended and quickly lost the support of the most influential segments of the population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,it was asserted that
A) the federal government had the right to void state laws.
B) states had the right to nullify federal laws.
C) the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution was unjust.
D) the Republicans had betrayed the spirit of the Constitution.
E) the Supreme Court had no constitutional authority to invalidate federal laws.
Q3) Before the new Constitution could go into effect,it had to be ratified by all thirteen existing states.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Who were the primary authors of The Federalist Papers,and what was the significance of these publications?
Q5) In what ways was the Adams administration an expression of Federalist philosophy? In what ways was it not?
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era Key
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Q1) What evidence supports the claim that American technology underwent a "revolution" between 1790 and 1820?
Q2) What was the significance of Eli Whitney to the development of the American economy during the first decades of the nineteenth century?
Q3) The idea of the "republican mother" presumed that it was important that women be educated.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Lewis and Clark expedition was organized over President Jefferson's objections. A)True
B)False
Q5) During William Henry Harrison's governorship of the Indiana Territory,
A) he refused to sign new treaties with Indian tribes.
B) violence between the United States and Indian tribes declined.
C) he used threats and bribery as a means to acquire Indian lands.
D) he thwarted plans by Indian tribes to elect a separate Indian governor of the territory.
E) all Indian tribes were driven west of the Mississippi River.
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Key
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Q1) In the early nineteenth century,the westward movement of white Americans was encouraged by all of the following EXCEPT for
A) the exhaustion of agricultural lands in the East.
B) the federal government's policy toward Indian tribes in the West.
C) the expansion of a slave labor in the South.
D) the spread of the plantation system in the South.
E) the lure of mineral mining in the mountainous regions of the West.
Q2) By 1820,American steam-powered shipping
A) stimulated agriculture in both the West and the South.
B) All these answers are correct.
C) increased the transport of manufactured goods westward.
D) had reached as far up the Ohio River as Pittsburgh.
E) carried more cargo on the Mississippi than all other forms of river transport combined.
Q3) The "era of good feelings" following the War of 1812 reflected
A) the need for Americans to band together in the wake of economic depression.
B) increased political divisions in the United States federal government.
C) declining violence in the West between the United States and Indian tribes.
D) rising nationalism and optimism in the United States.
E) renewed good relations between the United States and the European continent.
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Q1) By the 1830s,political parties were generally regarded as
A) a desired and essential part of the democratic process.
B) an aberration.
C) unnecessary to the political process.
D) being in the control of special interest factions.
E) a dangerous threat to the democratic process.
Q2) As president,Andrew Jackson believed the power of the federal government
A) should be expanded.
B) should be reduced.
C) should be reduced, and yet was supreme over individual states.
D) should be expanded and was supreme over individual states.
E) was supreme over individual states.
Q3) Which statement regarding the American electorate during the 1820s is true?
A) Changes in voting rights first occurred in New England states and then spread west.
B) Married white women had the right to vote but could not hold elected office.
C) Older states began to expand their property ownership requirements.
D) The right to vote was expanded to include many more white males.
E) The right to vote was restricted to property owners.
Q4) Characterize the presidency of Martin Van Buren.
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution Key
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Q1) Before 1860,the American middle-class
A) had to cook their meals over an open hearth.
B) were typically renters.
C) rarely employed servants.
D) usually had women holding part-time employment outside of the home.
E) became the most influential cultural form of urban America.
Q2) Between 1840 and 1860,the overwhelming majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States came from
A) Italy and Russia.
B) Ireland and Germany.
C) Ireland and Italy.
D) England and Russia.
E) England and Ireland.
Q3) As the immigrant labor force in New England textile mills grew in the 1840s,
A) the workday grew longer and wages increased.
B) the workday grew shorter and wages declined.
C) piece rates replaced a daily wage.
D) women and children were more likely to earn more than men.
E) safety conditions began to improve.
Q4) Describe the immigrant experience in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s.
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Chapter 11: Cotton,Slavery,and the Old South Key
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Q1) Which of the following statements about the poorest class of white southerners is FALSE?
A) They suffered from pellagra, hookworm, and malaria.
B) They supported themselves by foraging or hunting.
C) They were known variously as "crackers" or "sand hillers."
D) They often felt affinity with slaves as members of another oppressed class.
E) They were forced to resort at times to eating clay.
Q2) During the first half of the nineteenth century,the "cotton kingdom"
A) still had not adopted the cotton gin, despite the time and resources that could be saved.
B) did not rely on large numbers of slaves imported directly from Africa.
C) was the dominant source of the income of the lower South.
D) saw wealthy planters outnumber small planters.
E) was already losing ground to other staples, such as rice and tobacco.
Q3) What were the differences between being a slave in the city and a slave in the country?
Q4) Between 1800 and 1860,was slavery in the American South becoming stronger or weaker? Explain.
Q5) Prior to 1860,how did the role and status of southern women compare to that of northern women?
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform Key
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Q1) Discuss the various ideas of and divisions within the antislavery movement.
Q2) The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
A) felt every individual should balance society's expectations with one's own instincts.
B) was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
C) argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
D) argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
E) established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
Q3) During the nineteenth century,the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the
A) absence of basic knowledge about disease.
B) difficulty of medical experimentation.
C) low social status of medical professionals.
D) absence of regulations in the medical profession.
E) apathy of the general population towards preventive health.
Q4) What were the motives for the founding of the many communal living societies in the first half of the nineteenth century?
Q5) How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Key
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Q1) In the election of 1860,
A)white southerners concluded that their position in the Union was hopeless.
B)John Bell and John.C.Breckinridge,taken together,bested Lincoln in the popular vote.
C)Stephen Douglas received a larger popular vote than Abraham Lincoln.
D)the Republicans won a narrow majority in Congress.
E)the Republicans called for a suspension of plans for a transcontinental railroad
Q2) The political party that came into being largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the
A) Know-Nothings.
B) Populist Party.
C) Republican Party.
D) Jayhawk Party.
E) Abolitionist Party.
Q3) The Kansas-Nebraska Act included an explicit repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why did the United States go to war with Mexico in 1846?
Q5) Why were the Democratic presidents of the 1850s so ineffectual?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War Key
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Q1) Which of the following statements about George B.McClellan is FALSE?
A)He ran against Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1864.
B)He was found to have,in Lincoln's opinion,a wholly inadequate grasp of strategy,acting too slow for Lincoln's tastes.
C)He was eventually replaced by General Henry W.Halleck.
D)He originally served as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
E)He served briefly as chief of staff but returned to the field in March 1862.
Q2) During the Civil War,as a result of new technology in weapons,
A) infantry troops began to fight standing in line formations.
B) soldiers were forced to carry rudimentary gas masks.
C) the Gatling gun became the primary combat weapon.
D) organized infantry did not fight in formation.
E) battlefields became more organized.
Q3) Which of the following federally-chartered corporations did the Union create to build the transcontinental railroad?
A) Central Pacific
B) Union Pacific
C) Western Pacific and Central Pacific
D) Western Pacific
E) Union Pacific and Central Pacific
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South Key
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Q1) During Reconstruction,the term "scalawags" referred to
A) white Southerners who still embraced their former affiliation with the Confederacy.
B) free black Southerners.
C) Northerners who moved south.
D) Southerners who moved north.
E) Southern white Republicans.
Q2) Describe "Jim Crow."
Q3) As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,
A) they were hampered by the fact that no thought had been given to the task until the end of the war.
B) Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners.
C) Conservatives sought many conditions to readmit the former Confederate states.
D) President Lincoln suggested that no conditions be put on the former Confederate states.
E) moderates believed the South should be readmitted without any concessions on black rights.
Q4) Compare the conditions of African Americans living in the South in the 1850s with those of the 1870s.
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West Key
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Q1) Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE?
A) At the time of the Mexican War, Hispanics greatly outnumbered Anglo-Americans.
B) Descendants of the original settlers engaged primarily in cattle and sheep ranching.
C) Taos Indians, allied with Navajos and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847.
D) The Anglo-American population grew rapidly once the railroads began traveling to the Southwest.
E) The Spanish had had settlements in the area since the seventeenth century.
Q2) The Comstock Lode primarily produced
A) gold.
B) silver.
C) lead.
D) copper.
E) zinc.
Q3) What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis," and what are the criticisms of it?
Q4) Compare the myths and the realities of the American cowboy.
Q5) Describe the origins and development of the Texas cattle industry.
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy Key
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Q1) The Pennsylvania Steel Company was created by
A) the United States military.
B) the Pennsylvania Railroad.
C) the Pennsylvania Steel Workers Union.
D) the state government of Pennsylvania.
E) steam engine manufacturers in the region.
Q2) "Scientific management" was seen as a way to increase the decision-making abilities of employees in the workplace.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of A) diagonal integration.
B) vertical and horizontal integration.
C) central integration.
D) horizontal integration.
E) vertical integration.
Q4) The American oil industry emerged in the late nineteenth century largely in response to the needs of the steel industry.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: The Age of the City Key
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Q1) In 1882,the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were
A) Mexicans.
B) Irish.
C) Japanese.
D) Slavs.
E) Chinese.
Q2) In what ways did the traditional cultural beliefs and values practiced by new immigrants both help and hinder their adjustment to life in America?
Q3) Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from A) scientists.
B) theologians.
C) educators.
D) All these answers are correct.
E) both theologians and educators.
Q4) In late-nineteenth-century cities,it was not uncommon for the very wealthy to live in the heart of the city.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire Key
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Q1) Chester A.Arthur
A)had long been a fierce opponent of Roscoe Conkling.
B)supported the Pendleton Act as part of civil service reform.
C)upset reformers by supporting the political "spoils system."
D)quickly replaced most of James Garfield's appointees.
E)was a political novice when he assumed the presidency.
Q2) What statement regarding the national Grange movement is FALSE?
A) At their peak, Grange supporters controlled the legislatures of most Midwest states.
B) It was greatly strengthened by the end of the economic depression in the late 1870s.
C) The political inexperience of many Grange leaders hurt the movement.
D) It attempted to teach new scientific farming techniques to its members.
E) It sought to regulate the power and practices of railroads and warehouses.
Q3) In 1896,the Populists refused to join with the Democrats.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did the campaigns of William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan differ in 1896,and why did McKinley win?
Q5) What was "yellow journalism" and how significant was it in the events of 1898?
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Chapter 20: The Progressives Key
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Q1) At the turn of the twentieth century,progressive activists
A) believed in the importance of social cohesion.
B) asserted that it was the right of individuals to act as they chose.
C) held a strong commitment to improving racial justice.
D) believed that organizations stunted individual growth and stifled creativity.
E) believed that people's character was hardwired at birth.
Q2) Theodore Roosevelt did not run for another term as president in 1908 because
A) he had lost much of his public popularity.
B) the Constitution prevented him from doing so.
C) he was denied the nomination of his party.
D) he felt he had accomplished everything he wanted to do as president.
E) in 1904 he had promised not to run again.
Q3) Many progressives believed that the first target of reform should be
A) municipal governments.
B) the judicial system.
C) Congress.
D) the federal bureaucracy.
E) state governments.
Q4) In what ways was Theodore Roosevelt a progressive reformer,consistent with the progressivism of his time?
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Q1) Between 1914 and 1916,the United States gradually transformed itself from a neutral country into an arsenal of the Allies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The most prominent exponent of black nationalism following World War I was
A)Claude McKay.
B)Marcus Garvey.
C)Booker T.Washington.
D)W.E.B.Du Bois.
E)Malcolm X.
Q3) The Zimmermann telegram proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany against the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The majority of American soldiers who fought in World War I were volunteers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In 1918,more than 1,500 people were arrested for criticizing the government. A)True
B)False
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Q1) The practice of "welfare capitalism" in the 1920s involved most industrial workers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1920s,the development of practical radio communication was furthered by
A) its ability to receive more than just simple pulses.
B) both the theory of modulation and the use of vacuum tubes.
C) All these answers are correct.
D) the use of vacuum tubes.
E) the theory of modulation.
Q3) In 1920,the first commercial radio station to broadcast in the United States was in A) Chicago.
B) Pittsburgh.
C) Philadelphia.
D) Cleveland.
E) New York City.
Q4) Compare the ideas and social commentary of artists and writers in the 1920s with the artists and writers of the 1820s-1850s.
Q5) How did the status of organized labor change between 1919 and 1929?
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Q1) In the year prior to its crash,the stock market had been soaring upward.
A)True
B)False
Q2) During the 1930s,American literature
A) adopted a more pessimistic, although no less radical, approach to society in the later 1930s.
B) faced censorship laws that suppressed criticisms of American politics and culture.
C) offered a greater degree of social commentary than did either radio or movies.
D) saw most popular books and magazines focus on the Great Depression.
E) saw photographic magazines lose much of their readership due to the high cost of each issue.
Q3) Prior to 1932,Franklin Roosevelt had never held elective office.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In 1928,Herbert Hoover predicted an end to poverty in America was near.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How was the American family affected by the Great Depression?
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Q1) How might the New Deal have been more successful?
Q2) In the American West,New Deal programs
A) drew considerable opposition for their environmentalist bias.
B) disproportionately benefited the region, with more funding than any other part of the country.
C) focused on the few large cities.
D) were limited and had a minimal impact on life.
E) led to a change in existing racial relations.
Q3) The New Deal program that created utility cooperatives for rural Americans was the
A) Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.
B) Rural Electrification Administration.
C) Resettlement Administration.
D) Civilian Conservation Corps.
E) Farm Security Administration.
Q4) What did the New Deal accomplish in the 1930s? What did it not accomplish? Why did it fail to end the Depression?
Q5) What was the significance of the result of the 1936 elections?
Q6) What impact did the New Deal have on women and minorities?
Q7) What was the significance of the result of the 1936 elections?
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Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 Key
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Q1) In 1938,Anschluss
A) caused an uproar in the United States.
B) was created at the Munich Conference.
C) came to be identified with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
D) led France to put its military on alert.
E) was proclaimed by Hitler.
Q2) How might the Roosevelt administration be labeled isolationist? How and why might it be labeled internationalist?
Q3) President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"
A) limited land purchases by U.S. companies in neighboring countries.
B) was abandoned by the United States at the start of World War II.
C) expanded initiatives begun under Herbert Hoover.
D) gave nations allied against fascism preferential loan rates.
E) was designed to keep the peace in western Europe.
Q4) The Munich Conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over A) Belgium. B) Poland.
C) Austria.
D) Czechoslovakia.
E) Hungary.
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Q1) )During World War II,the United States Army chief of staff was
A)George S.Patton.
B)Dwight D.Eisenhower.
C)Omar Bradley.
D)Douglas MacArthur.
E)George C.Marshall
Q2) The costliest battle in the history of the United States Marines Corps was the Battle of A) Okinawa.
B) Leyte Gulf.
C) Guadalcanal.
D) Iwo Jima.
E) Midway.
Q3) During World War II,Native Americans
A) were pushed out of white society and back onto the reservations.
B) saw war work spread to almost every Indian reservation in the United States.
C) were excluded from military service.
D) saw government war contracts bring a higher standard of living to many reservations.
E) saw the war undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions.
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Q1) The end of the war in 1945 saw the onset of serious inflation,but no serious labor strife.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the last months of 1949,events in the Soviet Union and China included
A) All these answers are correct.
B) the death of Joseph Stalin.
C) the collapse of Mao Zedong's government to communist forces.
D) Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon.
E) both the collapse of Mao Zedong's government to communist forces, and the death of Joseph Stalin.
Q3) The Yalta accords were less a settlement of postwar issues than a set of loose principles.
A)True
B)False
Q4) President Truman was not willing to risk war with the Soviets by undertaking an American military response to Stalin's 1948 decision to blockade Berlin.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Between 1945 and 1950,10 percent of all the new businesses in the United States began in Los Angeles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Eisenhower administration responded to Fidel Castro's coming to power in Cuba by
A) None of these answers is correct.
B) blockading Cuban ports.
C) establishing a military presence in Guantanamo Bay.
D) ending diplomatic relations, blockading Cuban ports, and establishing a military presence in Guantanamo Bay.
E) ending diplomatic relations.
Q3) In 1954,the United States Senate voted to
A) charge Senator McCarthy with slander and libel.
B) expel Joseph McCarthy from the Senate.
C) censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct unbecoming a senator."
D) convict Senator McCarthy of perjury.
E) fine Senator McCarthy.
Q4) Who were the leading domestic critics of the America of the 1950s? What were their major criticisms?
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Q1) Regarding foreign policy,was Lyndon Johnson more in line with Franklin Roosevelt,Woodrow Wilson,or Theodore Roosevelt? Explain your choice.
Q2) Martin Luther King Jr.confined his civil rights campaigns to the South.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ngo Dinh Diem was a Buddhist who had turned against his fellow Buddhists in order to fight the communists in Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
Q4) President Johnson dispatched troops to the Dominican Republic to support a democratic government that was holding out against supporters of Fidel Castro.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What steps did Lyndon Johnson take to expand the liberal state? Which steps seemed to be successful,and why? Which did not seem to be successful,and why?
Q6) In what areas of presidential leadership did John Kennedy most excel? Where was he most limited or unsuccessful?
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Q1) The Nixon administration abolished the Office of Economic Opportunity and created the Environmental Protection Agency.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Was the new youth culture truly a "revolution" in America? What were its limits?
Q3) In 1973,the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
A) raised the price of oil by 500 percent.
B) both refused to ship oil to all nations that supported Israel, and raised the price of oil by 500 percent.
C) All these answers are correct.
D) refused to ship oil to all nations that supported Israel.
E) helped to precipitate a fuel shortage in the United States.
Q4) President Richard Nixon's appointments to the Supreme Court
A)both included the first nomination of a female justice,and were twice rejected by the Senate.
B)included the first nomination of a female justice.
C)were twice rejected by the Senate.
D)culminated in the successful appointment of G.Harrold Carswell to the Court.
E)All these answers are correct
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Q2) In 1979,Iranians who took American hostages demanded,in return for their release, A) the removal of all American troops from Saudi Arabia.
B) the removal of all westerners from Iran.
C) a large ransom payment.
D) the United States' return of the shah of Iran.
E) an end to the United States' support of Israel.
Q3) In the 1980s,record national budget deficits resulted from A) increased military spending.
B) All these answers are correct.
C) increased health care costs.
D) large tax cuts.
E) increased entitlement spending on programs such as Social Security.
Q4) The 1981 tax cuts were the largest to that point in American history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What were President Carter's major political successes and failures?
Q6) What were the assets and liabilities faced by Gerald Ford's presidency?
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Q2) All of the following are true of the Iraq War EXCEPT that
A) Iraq's rumored supply of "weapons of mass destruction" was uncovered by American troops in 2005.
B) George W. Bush declared victory in the Iraq war in May 2003.
C) over 4,000 American soldiers died in Iraq after Bush's "mission accomplished" speech. D) support for the war steadily declined in the years after the first claim of victory.
E) Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003.
Q3) In 1999,nearing the end of his presidency,Bill Clinton
A) both saw his personal popularity higher than when he took office, and faced another crisis in the Balkans.
B) faced another crisis in the Balkans.
C) All these answers are correct.
D) had endured many scandals and setbacks throughout his administration.
E) saw his personal popularity higher than when he took office.
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