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978-0393668940 Chapter 16
CHAPTER 16 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 TRUE/FALSE 1. The South emerged from the Civil War with a strong, diversified economy. 2. Reconstruction of former Confederate states only began after the war. ANS: F DIF: Difficult REF: Page 732 OBJ: […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 17
CHAPTER 17 Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860–1900 TRUE/FALSE 1. In a capitalist democracy like America, a common source of social instability is the tensions between equal political rights and unequal economic status. 2. The number of inventions […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 18
CHAPTER 18 The New South and the New West, 1865–1900 TRUE/FALSE 1. The number of cotton mills in the South more than doubled between 1880 and 1900. 2. Despite the growth of industry in the postwar South, in 1900 it […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 19
CHAPTER 19 Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865–1900 TRUE/FALSE 1. Between 1865 and 1900, the urban population of the United States dramatically increased. 2. The spread of mass transit was a major factor in the growth of the suburbs. ANS: […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 20
CHAPTER 20 Seizing an American Empire, 1865–1913 TRUE/FALSE 1. The United States practiced global imperialism well before the European powers. 2. Social Darwinist ideas were used to justify policies of imperial expansion. ANS: T DIF: Easy REF: Page 937 OBJ: […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 21
CHAPTER 21 The Progressive Era, 1890–1920 TRUE/FALSE 1. Among the varied sources of progressivism were populism and the Mugwumps. 2. Muckrakers were journalists who worked first and foremost for politicians—an arrangement that often perpetuated political and corporate corruption. ANS: F […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 22
CHAPTER 22 America and the Great War, 1914–1920 TRUE/FALSE 1. On both sides of the Great War, many soldiers experienced “shell shock,” now known as post–traumatic stress disorder, due to the experience of trench warfare. 2. Many immigrant groups in […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 23
CHAPTER 23 A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929 TRUE/FALSE 1. The 1920s pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular rural America. 2. In the 1920s, the progressive wings of the Republican and Democratic parties grew stronger and […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 24
CHAPTER 24 The Reactionary Twenties TRUE/FALSE 1. The second Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization. 2. Fundamentalists argued that the Bible ought to be taken literally rather than interpreted. ANS: T DIF: Moderate REF: […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 25
CHAPTER 25 The New Deal, 1933–1939 TRUE/FALSE 1. The federal government expanded its regulatory power over Wall Street as part of the First New Deal. 2. Early in his presidency, Roosevelt ended Prohibition, in part to regain federal tax revenues […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 26
CHAPTER 26 The Second World War, 1933–1945 TRUE/FALSE 1. Hitler portrayed himself as Germany’s savior from the humiliation of having lost the Great War. 2. An incident at the Marco Polo Bridge in 1937 triggered a full-scale war between Japan […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 27
CHAPTER 27 The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952 TRUE/FALSE 1. Harry Truman was famously short-tempered and outspoken. 2. A number of historians today believe the cold war was an unavoidable consequence of ideological differences between the United States […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 28
CHAPTER 28 Cold War America, 1950–1959 TRUE/FALSE 1. During Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, moderate republicanism involved the promise of restoring the authority of state and local governments. 2. Dwight D. Eisenhower tried to reduce Social Security and other entitlement programs. […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 29
CHAPTER 29 A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960–1968 TRUE/FALSE 1. By the time of the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy had far more experience in national politics than did Richard Nixon. 2. Kennedy’s father played a major […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 30
CHAPTER 30 Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s TRUE/FALSE 1. The term “the New Left” was adopted to emphasize the strong alignment between the grassroots democracy of the 1960s and the orthodox Marxism of the 1930s. 2. Consistently friendly exchanges […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 31
CHAPTER 31 Conservative Revival, 1977–1990 TRUE/FALSE 1. In his 1977 inaugural address, President Carter admitted he had no grand vision and highlighted America’s limitations rather than its potential. 2. Jimmy Carter took measures early in his presidency to demonstrate his […]
978-0393668940 Chapter 32
CHAPTER 32 Twenty-First-Century America, 1993–Present TRUE/FALSE 1. By 2019, most of the country’s population was living in rural areas rather than cities or suburbs. 2. By 2019, for the first time in the nation’s history, the majority of immigrants came […]
History Chapter 18 The New South And The New West This Covers Economic
CHAPTER 18 The New South and the New West, 1865–1900 This chapter covers economic and agricultural developments in the New South and West after the Civil War. The chapter opens by outlining attempts to diversify the southern economy with textile […]
History Chapter 19 Political Stalemate And Rural Revolt This Covers Stunning Transformation The
CHAPTER 19 Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865–1900 This chapter covers a stunning transformation in the late nineteenth century. An agricultural society long rooted in the soil and little involved in global issues had become an urban and industrialized nation […]