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978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 28 Part 2
50. Prior to the twentieth century, what was humanity’s primary economic activity? a. developing medical solutions b. acquiring food, clothing, and shelter c. printing books d. inventing time-saving technologies e. investing in stocks 51. By the early twenty-first century, what […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 28 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Explain what events eroded support for President Bush’s policies during his second term. 2. Describe the economic practices that contributed to the crisis of 2008. 3. Understand the changes voters hoped for when they elected […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 27 Part 2
MSC: Understanding OBJ: 4. Discuss how divisive political partisanship affected the election of 2000. 73. In 1998, Congress brought impeachment charges against President Clinton because he a. had an extramarital affair with a White House staff member. b. authorized a […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 27 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the major international initiatives of the Clinton administration after the Cold War. 2. Explain the forces that drove the economic resurgence of the 1990s. 3. Examine the cultural conflicts that emerged in the 1990s. […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 26 Part 2
ANS: A TOP: The Rising Tide of Conservatism DIF: Moderate REF: Full p. 1036 | Seagull p. 1054 MSC: Analyzing OBJ: 4. Discuss the roots of the rise of conservatism in the 1970s. 67. What setback did the advocates of […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 26 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the major policies of the Nixon administration on social and economic issues. 2. Explain how Vietnam and the Watergate scandal affected popular trust in the government. 3. Examine the ways in which the opportunities […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 25 Part 2
DIF: Moderate REF: Full p. 999 | Seagull p. 1003 MSC: Understanding OBJ: 5. Analyze how the Vietnam War transformed American politics and culture. 67. Why was liberation theology so popular in Latin America in the 1960s? a. The Second […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 25 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the major events in the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. 2. Explain the major crises and policy initiatives of the Kennedy presidency. 3. Examine the purposes and strategies of Johnson’s Great Society […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 24 Part 2
MSC: Remembering OBJ: 3. Examine the major thrusts of the civil rights movement in this period. 67. Most likely why did the U.S. Supreme Court not order the immediate implementation of its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 24 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the main characteristics of the affluent society of the 1950s. 2. Explain the ways in which the 1950s were a period of consensus both in domestic and foreign affairs. 3. Examine the major thrusts […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 23 Part 2
67. In the aftermath of World War II a. most women were able to retain their jobs. b. the divorce rate plummeted. c. the majority of soldiers went back to work. d. the government managed to control prices. e. Truman […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 23 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the events and ideological conflicts that prompted the Cold War. 2. Explain how the Cold War reshaped the ideas of American freedom. 3. Explain the major initiatives of Truman’s domestic policies. 4. Analyze the […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 22 Part 2
c. Since nearly 40 percent of the population was of Japanese descent, the evacuation order would have been impractical. d. Most persons of Japanese descent in Hawaii actually served in military units. e. At the time, the federal government did […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 22 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Explain the steps that led to American participation in World War II. 2. Examine the ways the United States mobilized economic resources and promoted popular support for the war effort. 3. Discuss the visions of […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 21 Part 2
66. What was the focus of the 1936 election? a. whether Herbert Hoover should be reelected despite the Great Depression b. the impending war and the aggression of Nazi Germany c. the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in China d. Franklin […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 21 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Explain the major policy initiatives of the New Deal in the Hundred Days. 2. Identify the main proponents of economic justice in the 1930s and explain the measures they advocated. 3. Examine the major initiatives […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 20 Part 2
67. Regarding public education, in 1922, Oregon became the first state to a. require students to be instructed only in English. b. ban private schools. c. formally segregate its schools. d. allow women to earn postgraduate degrees. e. allow students […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 20 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify who benefited and who suffered in the new consumer society of the 1920s. 2. Summarize the ways in which the government promoted business interests in the 1920s. 3. Explain why the protection of civil […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 19 Part 2
MSC: Understanding OBJ: 4. Assess the way in which the war affected race relations in the United States. 65. Eugenics aimed to a. “improve” the quality of the population. b. justify gender equality. c. provide a scientific basis to promote […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 19 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Discuss the ways in which Progressive presidents promoted the expansion of American power overseas. 2. Explain how the United States got involved in World War I. 3. Examine how the United States mobilized resources and […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 18 Part 2
DIF: Difficult REF: Full p. 702 | Seagull p. 717 MSC: Understanding OBJ: 3. Compare and contrast the democratic and antidemocratic impulses in Progressivism. 66. Henry George introduced a slate of political changes known as the Oregon System. The system […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 18 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Explain why the city was so central a place for the Progressive movement in the United States. 2. Assess the ways in which the labor and women’s movements challenged nineteenth-century notions of American freedom. 3. […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 17 Part 2
63. The American Federation of Labor’s founder, Samuel Gompers, used the idea of “freedom of contract” to a. argue against interference by judges with workers’ right to organize unions. b. argue for the right of workers to form political parties […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 17 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Understand the origins and significance of Populism. 2. Explain how the liberty of blacks after 1877 gave way to legal segregation across the South. 3. Examine how the boundaries of American freedom grew narrower in […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 16 Part 2
a. Henry L. Dawes b. John Elk c. Chief Joseph d. Saum Song Bo e. Jacob Riis 68. Which of the following statements accurately describes the response of many everyday Americans to the new social order of the Gilded Age? […]
978-0393418262 Test Bank Chapter 16 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Describe the factors that combined to make the United States a mature industrial society after the Civil War. 2. Illustrate how the economic development of the Gilded Age affected American freedom. 3. Describe how reformers […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 15 Part 2
72. What made the Burlingame Treaty unique? a. It was actually a declaration of war against China. b. It recognized the sovereignty of China. c. It declared all of East Asia’s ports to be America’s sphere of influence. d. It […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 15 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the visions of freedom the former slaves and slaveholders pursued in the postwar South. 2. Describe the sources, goals, and competing visions for Reconstruction. 3. Describe the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 14 Part 2
76. The U.S. Sanitary Commission a. was the first major organization to be run entirely by women. b. raised money for the families of soldiers on both sides. c. coordinated war donations on the northern home front. d. was the […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 14 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Explain why the Civil War is considered the first modern war. 2. Describe how a war to preserve the Union became a war to end slavery. 3. Explain how the Civil War transformed the national […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 13 Part 2
75. The Republican Party founded in the 1850s strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that ________ had begun advocating in 1846. a. David Wilmot b. Stephen Douglas c. John C. Calhoun d. Roger Taney e. Henry […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 13 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the major factors contributing to U.S. territorial expansion in the 1840s. 2. Explain why the expansion of slavery became the most divisive political issue in the 1840s and 1850s. 3. Identify the combination of […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 12 Part 2
69. Which book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson? a. An Appeal to Reason b. Society in America c. Twelve Years a Slave d. Uncle Tom’s Cabin e. Slavery as It Is ANS: […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 12 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the major movements and goals of antebellum reform. 2. Describe the different varieties of abolitionism. 3. Explain how abolitionism challenged barriers to racial equality and free speech. 4. Identify the diverse sources of the […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 11 Part 2
72. In which role was a slave most likely to experience the harshest conditions? a. doing fieldwork on a sugar plantation in southern Louisiana b. doing fieldwork on a rice plantation in South Carolina c. manning a riverboat on the […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 11 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Explain how slavery shaped social and economic relations in the Old South. 2. Identify the legal and material constraints on slaves’ lives and work. 3. Explain how family, gender, religion, and values combined to create […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 10 Part 2
a. They deserved to receive all the rights of American citizenship. b. They should remain slaves or be freed and sent abroad. c. They should be pushed west of the Mississippi River. d. They should all be freed but remain […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 10 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the social bases for the flourishing democracy of the early mid-nineteenth century. 2. Describe the efforts made in this period to strengthen the economic integration of the nation and identify the major crises that […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 9 Part 2
c. Individualism was strictly un-American. d. The key to living as an individual was division of labor between interconnected parties. e. “Individual” was another word for “traitor.” 72. During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism a. came under […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 9 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the main elements of the market revolution. 2. Explain how the market revolution sparked social change. 3. Explain how the meanings of American freedom changed in this period. 4. Describe how the market revolution […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 8 Part 2
69. Why did Jefferson use the U.S. Navy against North African states? a. French pirates held American merchant ships hostage, and Jefferson sent in the navy after his agreeing to pay a ransom failed to fix the problem. b. Jefferson […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 8 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the issues that made the politics of the 1790s so divisive. 2. Explain how the competing views of freedom and global events promoted the political divisions of the 1790s. 3. Identify the achievements and […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 7 Part 2
d. They emphasized the need for the nation to have one single interest that superseded all others. e. They reinforced the belief that westward expansion was essential to freedom. 72. Anti-Federalists included a. Patrick Henry and John Adams. b. George […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 7 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Identify the achievements and problems of the Confederation government. 2. Explain how the major disagreements and compromises molded the final content of the Constitution. 3. Explain how the Anti-Federalist concerns raised during the ratification process […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 6 Part 2
d. he owned just one household slave. e. he owned more than 100 slaves. 62. Which statement is true about the founding fathers and slavery? a. Only the northern founding fathers owned enslaved people. b. All the founding fathers supported […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 6 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Explain how equality became a stronger component of American freedom after the Revolution. 2. Describe how the expansion of religious liberty after the Revolution reflected the new American ideal of freedom. 3. Explain how the […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 5 Part 2
a. He led the British troops that fought Washington throughout the Northeast. b. He served as a representative in the Continental Congress from New York. c. He was a silversmith who spoke eloquently against taxation without representation. d. He headed […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 5 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Describe the roots and significance of the Stamp Act controversy. 2. Identify the key events that sharpened the divisions between Britain and the colonists in the late 1760s and early 1770s. 3. Identify the key […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 4 Part 2
c. The revivals inspired a renewed sense of national unity. d. The revivals helped to expand the circulation of newspapers and pamphlets in the colonies. e. The revivals inspired slaves to cling more closely to their African religions. 70. Which […]
978-0393418248 Test Bank Chapter 4 Part 1
TEST BANK Learning Objectives 1. Explain how African slavery differed regionally in eighteenth-century North America. 2. Identify the factors that led to distinct African-American cultures in the eighteenth century. 3. Identify the various meanings of British liberty in the eighteenth […]