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Anthropologists designate early human cultures by their

Tools

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The staple crops that were domesticated during the archaic period in Mesoamerican history were

Maize and beans

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The Neolithic Revolution is characterized by

the domestication of animals and the start of agriculture

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When Francisco Pizarro arrived in 1532, the Incan Empire was

one of the largest states in the world.

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Difficulties confront scholars trying to understand the ancient civilizations of the Americas because

Andean civilizations never developed writing

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What characterized the later phase of the Eastern Zhou (401-256 B.C.E.)?

political fragmentation and frequent warfare between rival states

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The Aztecs acquired their wealth from

earlier Mesoamerican people they conquered

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The development of writing first occurred during the

Bronze Age

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The Maya were primarily located in the

Yucatan Rain forest

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Teotihuacán's influence waned about 500 C.E. because of

factors that are still poorly understood

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A central feature of Aztec religion and political ideology was the belief in

Human sacrifice

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Which of the following shows the correct chronological sequence of historical eras?

Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, Iron

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Not much is known about the Indus River valley civilization because

it disappeared before 1500 B.C.E. and its writing is still undeciphered

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The Maya civilization was composed of cities that

competed for dominance

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The Paleolithic Age is characterized by

Hunting and fishing

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The occidental slave trade of the Europeans particularly disrupted

West and Centeral Africa

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According to Olaudah Equiano, slaves on a slave ship feared all of the following except

Catching a dreadful disease

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African slaves were particularly concentrated in

sugar plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean

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In general, the chief way that European slave traders obtained slaves was by

purchasing them from African rulers or middlemen

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Which of the following was the biggest "failure" of Charlemagne's reign?

He never solved the problem of creating a loyal bureaucracy.

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The most persistent problem in medieval European politics was

the competing claims of kings and powerful nobles.

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In medieval Europe what did vassals owe to their lord in return for protection and a fief?

military service and loyalty

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Feudal society is best characterized by

weak central government, vassals, and fiefs.

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Fiefs were

lands bestowed on noblemen in return for military aid.

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One of the main reasons Protestant criticisms of the church did not find support in Spain was because

Spanish church leaders had carried out clerical reforms earlier.

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Rousseau¿s doctrine of the general will led him to conclude that

People must forced to be free

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An advantage of the Copernican system was that

it explained planetary movement with more mathematical consistency and elegance.

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The origins of the Protestant Reformation in England were mainly in

Henry VIII¿s battle with the pope over his divorce.

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Enlightenment thinkers believed that

the progressive increase of knowledge was the key to making the world a more perfect place

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Francis Bacon¿s contribution to the Scientific Revolution can best be described as

the promotion of the potentially unlimited possibilities of empiricism.

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One of the dominant features of Renaissance thought was

the study of ancient Greek and Roman culture

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The Northern Renaissance was different from the Italian Renaissance because most of its leading figures

came from more diverse backgrounds and were more devoted to religious reforms.

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Renaissance thought was primarily concerned with all of the following except

agricultural production

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The dominant family of Renaissance Florence was the

Medici

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The Scientific Revolution was revolutionary in the sense that it

set the standard for evaluating knowledge in the Western world.

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Luther¿s ninety-five theses

challenged the practice of selling indulgences

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Charles V failed to stamp out Protestantism within the empire because

he was distracted by foreign wars.

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The Protestant faith

divided and redivided among a number of smaller denominations

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During the Enlightenment, salon culture

provided a pivotal role for women as purveyors of new ideas

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William Penn's purchase of land that eventually became ___________ ensured that Pennsylvania had open access to the Atlantic.

Delaware

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England issued the Proclamation of 1763 following an uprising led by ____________________.

Chief Pontiac

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Which of the following reasons does NOT help explain why the Stamp Act engendered more opposition than the Sugar Act?

The Stamp Act was the first to be passed with the express purpose of raising revenue from the colonies.

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Which of the following was not a provision of the Coercive Acts?

establishing the Anglican Church as the state religion in the Massachusetts colony

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In what way was the development of the Carolina colony similar to that of Virginia?

Carolina was founded as a commercial venture.

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Pennsylvania was called the ____________________.

The Holy experiement.

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Which statement best describes the experience of African Americans during the Revolutionary War?

African Americans supported the side that seemed most likely to deliver them from bondage.

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Georgia settlers demanded changes to the early colony. Which one of the following demands did the trustees NOT grant?

a local assembly

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Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts when he preached ____________________.

extreme Separatism from the Church of England.

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Massachusetts Bay spawned four new colonies, three of which became permanent. Which one of the following was neither an expansion area for Puritans nor a refuge for Puritan dissenters?

New York

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Which of the following men did not have a hand in the development of the Carolina colony?

Sir George Carteret

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What battle convinced the French to recognize the colonists'' new, independent republic and to join in the fighting against the British?

Saratoga

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Colonists disliked the concept of parliamentary sovereignty for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ____________________.

they wanted to return to the pre-Glorious Revolution era with a more powerful king.

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Two people who kept the Jamestown colony alive were ____________________.

John Smith and John Rolfe

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Sir Edwyn Sandys transformed the Virginia colony by instituting all of the following reforms EXCEPT ____________________.

extending the category of freeman to all adult males who had become members of the Congregational church

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The Pilgrims created the Mayflower Compact because they thought that ____________________.

they were north of their patent jurisdiction and had no authorization to form a civil government

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Which of the following did NOT play a role in eroding the bonds of empire?

colonial willingness to pay for the cost of fighting the French and Indian War

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Before 1680, most people who settled in the Port Royal area of Carolina were ____________________.

from Barbados; many of whom were quite wealthy, thanks to the thriving sugar industry there, and brought their slaves with them.

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What was the most significant decision of the First Continental Congress?

Delegates agreed to form a Continental Association to halt commerce with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed.

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Which the following statements are NOT accurate regarding local American militias during the Revolution?

These units were comprised mostly of African Americans.

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What British political party feared losing parliamentary power when George III took the throne?

The whigs

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Which of the following ideas was NOT set forth in William Penn's Frame of Government?

universal suffrage

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The rebelling colonists enjoyed all of the following advantages EXCEPT

the colonies had a larger, better-trained army than the British

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Free-Soil settlers in Kansas protested the first territorial elections because

proslavery Missouri residents crossed the border and voted illegally.

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A major legacy of the Mexican-American War was

a bitter sectional quarrel over the slavery issue.

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Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

The Know-Nothing party became a major political force.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was

poplular in the south

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The Free-Soil movement was launched by the

Wilmot Proviso

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U.S. interest in making Texas a state was spurred by

a propaganda campaign citing Great Britain's reported interest in Texas

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Which of the following did NOT encourage the internal slave trade?

the sewing machine

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The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case

lent support to the Republican claim that an aggressive slave power was dominating all branches of the federal government.

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Free" blacks were still subject to all of the following EXCEPT

Federal Income Tax

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Which of the following statements about the Cotton Kingdom is NOT true?

Cotton brought a uniform and steady prosperity to the lower South

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Stephen Douglas' response to Abraham Lincoln in the Freeport Doctrine was that slavery

could not exist without supportive legislation

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Which of the following did NOT constitute a major component of the Old South's social structure?

urban artisans

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Yeoman farmers

were mostly concentrated in the back-country regions where slaves and plantations were rarely seen

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How did Harriet Beecher Stowe describe the institution of slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

as an institution which threatened the family and the Cult of Domesticity

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The Compromise of 1850 included all of the following EXCEPT

repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

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In 1854, Know-Nothings took control of state government in

Massachusetts.

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Which of the following statements does NOT characterize planter society

Planters overwhelmingly descended from well-established families and inherited their wealth.

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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo contained all of the following provisions EXCEPT that

the United States would acquire southernmost parts of Arizona and New Mexico.

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The proslavery argument was based on all of the following propositions EXCEPT

colonization back to Africa was expensive.

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The issue which led to open conflict in 1846 between the United States and Mexico was

the Texas-Mexico boundary

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What political party swung the presidential election of 1844?

Liberty Party

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Solon, Pisistratus, and Clisthenes contributed to the development of Athenian government by

breaking down traditional allegiances.

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The two main factors that determined the character of Spartan society were

the conquest of Messenia and the enslavement of the Helots.

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Part of Rome's defensive problems during the crisis of the third century was due to an army

composed largely of Germanic mercenaries.

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The Roman imperial policy toward the Christians in the first and second centuries can best be described as

brutal and ruthless

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In the view of Confucian historians, the last rulers of any dynastic cycle tended to be

politically weak and morally culpable

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As a result of the third-century crisis, Roman society became more

regimented and rigid

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During the Song dynasty, foreign trade

spurred the demand for cash coinage

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The quality of administrators rose under the Song dynasty primarily because they

had to pass rigorous examinations.

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characteristic of Shang civilization?

Inscription on oracle bones, a rigidly stratified society, a mastery of bronze tech

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After the fourth century C.E., the Roman Empire

split into declining Western and still-flourishing Eastern halves

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Athens became the leader of the Delian League because

Sparta was part of a different sphere of influence at that time.

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Military commanders were less powerful in the Chinese court than they were in imperial Rome because

an appointment to command a Han army was given only for a specific campaign.

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The most influential philosopher of the Song era, Zhu Xi, is best known for

synthesizing Confucianism with Buddhist metaphysics

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Members of the literate bureaucracy, the scholar-bureaucrats, were called

shi.

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Which among the following was not a function of Han government?

strict control of subjects¿ everyday lives

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The Greek colonization movement around 750 B.C.E. occurred primarily because of the

overpopulation of Greek lands.

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The Great Wall of China was built

to protect settled lands against nomadic raiders

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The Golden Age of Athenian culture was

between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars

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The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 resulted in the establishment of ____________________.

colleges to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts

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Black Codes endorsed

Seperation of races in public places, forced apprenticeships, restrictions on employment of the black on anit vagrancy clause.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was significant because

it legislated bias by creating a bar to a specific immigrant group.

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Which of the following statements best describes the political machines of the late nineteenth century?

They gave out jobs, legal aid, food, and clothing in exchange for votes.

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Carpetbaggers were

Corrupt Northerners who moved to the South to take part in reconstruction

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What was the most significant contribution of the railroad to late-nineteenth-century industrializing America

It ended isolated, self-sufficient "island communities" and made possible a national market.

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The labor union in the late nineteenth century open to both skilled and unskilled workers was the

Knights of Labor.

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Samuel Gompers was best known for his work as president of the

American Federation of Labor.

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As one of the first actions of Radical Reconstruction, the First Reconstruction Act

placed the South under military rule.

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Greenbackers

supported the circulation of paper money to stimulate the economy.

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J. P. Morgan reorganized railroads using methods

vesting control in a voting trust, stabilizing rates and eminating rebates, slashing fixed costs and debt, issue new stock.

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In What Is to Be Done? (1902), Lenin argued for the creation of

a small elite group of professional revolutionaries

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According to Marx, historical change comes about primarily because of

conflict over resources

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Socialism arose as a political force for all of the following reasons except

the support it provided to nationalist sentiments

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By 1914, European workers increasingly

adopted liberal economic doctrines

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According to The Communist Manifesto, the revolutionary class was composed of

the proletariat

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By the end of the nineteenth century, married middle-class women were expected to

not work outside of the home

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For the factory worker, the first half of the nineteenth century was a period of

uncertainty and transiton

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In the first part of the nineteenth century, the emergence of factories affected urban artisans

by increasing their prosperity.

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The period 1850-1914 may properly be regarded as an era of European

domination.

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The establishment of the German Empire in 1871

upset the European balance of power.

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When Britain introduced cheap machine goods into India, the result was

the destruction of Indian craft industries.

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The Marquess of Ripon (1880-1884) served as viceroy of India and

fought to erase legal racial discrimination of the Indian population.

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Ram Mohan Roy's reforms for British India focused on

modernizing Indian thought and practices.

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The effect of World War I on European imperialism can best be described as

tension increased between colonies and their ruling nations.

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The British established control over Egypt primarily because

the newly created Suez Canal provided a strategic link to their Asian colonies.

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New Imperialism most commonly took the form of

capital investment in the colony.

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In nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India, Muslims generally

were more resistant to change than Hindus.

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The chief weakness of the Taiping movement was

the selfish nature of the rural gentry who led the movement.

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The Taipings supported

a vision of egalitarian society.

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The Opium War was fought

between China and Great Britain, because China banned opium

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The effect of the treaty ports on Chinese economic development can best be described as

largely negative; they inhibited the development of native industry and trade.

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Which of the following best describes China's path to modernization before the May Fourth Movement

China's Confucian ruling ideology blocked Westernization.

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All of the following statements characterized the progressives EXCEP

they believed big business was responsible for all that ailed urban American and sought to eliminate corporations and big business.

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Those in government at the turn of the century were unanimously against the big business trust.

false

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Which of the following statements does NOT characterize Mexican immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century?

Mexicans were the first ethnic group to be barred from immigrating to the United States.

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Henry Ford found greatest success in the auto industry when he

lowered prices per unit and offered a very basic model.

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By 1909, one percent of American industrial firms were producing nearly _____ of all manufactured goods

half

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The suffrage movement entered into a new, more organized phase with the 1890 formation of the

National American Woman Suffrage Association.

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Henry Ford solved his own labor problems by

doubling wages and decreasing the work week.

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Modern city zoning laws prevented Jim Crow-style segregation in the Northeast and Midwest.

false

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Theodore Roosevelt believed more strongly in trust regulation than in trust busting.

tru

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An examination of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire reveals

that industrialization came at the expense of safe working conditions.

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By 1920, fewer than one-third of all Americans lived on farms

true

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took part in both the Niagara Movement and the NAACP.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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Henry Ford copied the techniques of mass production from what industry?

meat packing

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Theodore Roosevelt's critics blamed the Panic of 1907 on his

policies which regulated business.

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Social reformer Margaret Sanger fought for

contraception.

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Progressives led a social-justice movement that sought to ameliorate conditions in all of the following areas EXCEPT

union organizing.

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Progressive reforms on the municipal level included all of the following EXCEPT

consolidating county and city governments.

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Theodore Roosevelt's greatest contribution to the conservation cause was his

establishment of the first comprehensive national conservation policy.

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Women graduated from medical schools in ever increasing numbers in the early twentieth century.

false

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Mass production caused American business managers to focus on speed and product at the expense of the worker.

true

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Congress attempted to protect women and curb prostitution with passage of the

Mann Act.

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Progressives sought to increase the power of the electorate with all of the following reforms EXCEPT

government ownership of the means of production

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When Hitler announced his intention to rearm Germany,

Britain and France did not object.

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The European Economic Community (EEC) was created primarily as

a common European market for people, goods, and capital.

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The primary consequence of the Potsdam conference was

the division of Europe into eastern and western zones of influence

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Germany failed to conquer the Soviet Union in 1941 for all of the following reasons except

the opening of a second front by the Allies.

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Which of the following contributed to the massive German inflation of the 1920s?

the allied reparations bill and continued postwar deficit

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Which best characterizes German policy during the July crisis of 1914?

consciously risking a general war

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Which best characterizes the effect of massive inflation on Germany?

It permanently traumatized the middle class.

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Which best describes France's occupation of the Ruhr?

It threatened the French economy and alienated the English

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Which of the following best characterizes Hitler's foreign policy?

He used opportunistic tactics to attain a preconceived goal of vast conquests.

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The Nazis tailored their appeal to

the lower middle class, which had been devastated by inflation.

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The beer hall putsch of 1923 in Munich

gave Hitler the opportunity to become a national figure.

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The Triple Alliance represented what change in German foreign policy?

a switch from an alliance with Russia to an alliance with Italy

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The second Moroccan crisis of 1911 resulted in

increased British fear and hostility toward Germany.

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The primary consequence of the Berlin airlift was

Germany was permanently split into eastern and western halves.

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The Battle of Britain resulted in

the German abandonment of invasion plans.

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Mussolini became the leader of Italy

by being legally appointed by the king

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By the terms of the Entente Cordiale,

Britain and France patched up colonial differences without making a formal alliance

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The events of 1956 proved that

European nations could no longer undertake fully autonomous actions.

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The war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles declared that Germany

was alone responsible for all loss and damage during World War I.

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Roosevelt's first moves in his New Deal program showed that he was

out to reform and restore, not drastically change the American economic system

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In the decade after World War II, the United States experienced

a significant increase in population

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President Wilson's secretary of state was

William Jennings Bryan

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Which new labor organization was created during the depression?

the Committee on Industrial Organization

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One of the reasons that Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1916 was that he promised to

keep the United States out of war

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The National Recovery Administration was one of the New Deal's earliest successes.

false

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was a social worker brought in by Roosevelt to direct the relief program, and became a proponent of work relief.

Harry Hopkins

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In 1916, the United States invaded Mexico again as a result of

unprovoked attacks on Americans by Pancho Villa

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Calvin Coolidge followed the policies of

the Harding administration

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By 1929, the per capita annual farm income was ______ the national average

less than half of

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The Civilian Conservation Corps was primarily designed to

provide jobs and experience for unemployed young men

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The feminist movement split in the 1920s over the issue of

the Equal Rights Amendment

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On the day Roosevelt took office, the American economy was

at the brink of collapse.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed

five Supreme Court justices.

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Massive increases in federal funding for education came about in response to

the launch of Sputnik

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A satirical examination of small-town life, morals, and culture of the 1920s was featured in books by

Sinclair Lewis

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The Treaty of Versailles

humiliated and devastated the Germans militarily and economically

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The Lodge reservations

were viewed by President Wilson as crippling the League of Nations.

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Contributing causes to the Great Depression included all of the following EXCEPT

too many consumers

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The United States'"right to intervene" in Latin America was stated in the

Roosevelt Corollary

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The Teapot Dome scandal damaged the reputation of the which president?

Warren G. Harding

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When the U.S. entered World War One, its military was

unprepared, lacking war plans, an adequate number of soldiers, and modern equipment

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The Red Scare was a wave of fear which targeted communism, labor, and

foreigners.

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After the Sussex incident in 1916, the Germans repeated their promise not to sink ships

of any type that belonged to a neutral country.

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As part of the Second Industrial Revolution, the key to the new affluence of the 1920s was

technology.

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When one of Roosevelt's advisors declared that "Capitalism was saved in eight days", he was referring to the

emergency banking holiday and new banking legislation

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'When General Victoriano Huerta came to power in Mexico, Wilson suggested the way to gain American recognition was

to form a just government based upon law, not just force

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Which two New Deal programs were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?

the NRA and AAA

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Why were progressives generally in favor of neutrality?

They believed that war would end reform and kill millions needlessly.

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In order to mobilize all sectors of the economy during World War I, Woodrow Wilson created the

War Industries Board

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Before becoming president, Franklin D. Roosevelt served in which of the following capacities?

governor of New York

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In the spring of 1918, American troops were sorely needed by the Allies because

the Germans had launched a massive assault in western Europe and were within fifty miles of Paris.

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What event finally led to American entry into the First World War?

interception of a telegram that promised German aid in exchange for a Mexican invasion of the United States

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The National Recovery Administration was based on

voluntary regulations for fair competition.

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As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover

established new bureaus to help make American business more efficient.

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The editor of American Mercury and the most famous critic of the intellectual climate of the 1920s was

H. L. Mencken.

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The August 1991 coup in the Soviet Union

was led by conservatives.

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Stalin's agricultural policies resulted in

the murder of millions of peasants.

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Stalin's Great Purges seemed to be primarily aimed at

old Bolsheviks who had been loyal to others

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Khrushchev's agricultural policies differed from Stalin's in that

restrictions on private cultivation were lifted

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Perestroika can best be defined as

a restructuring of economic and political institutions leading toward reform.

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Stalin's policy of collectivization was designed to

increase agricultural output through government ownership and control

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Glasnost can best be defined as

government openness to public discussion.

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In the struggle for power between Trotsky and Stalin, Trotsky urged

exportation of revolution to the world.

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War Communism"

authorized the government to take over most economic functions

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Stalin's industrial policies resulted in

unprecedented economic growth and new industries

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Stalin's power and influence lay in his

mastery of the crucial details of party structure.

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The Korean War

was technically a police action fought under U.N. auspices.

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Critics of undocumented aliens argued that they caused all of the following problems EXCEPT

they strengthened union labor protections

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In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson saw to the passage of Kennedy's proposed legislation for

a tax cut and a civil rights bill

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Which of the following statements about the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is NOT correct?

Congress declared war on North Vietnam

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John F. Kennedy ________ the coup that led to the overthrow and death of Ngo Dinh Diem

tacitly approved of

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The U.S.'s traditional policy of isolation was abandoned when the United States became a member of the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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In late 1961, the Kennedy administration encouraged civil rights activists in southern voter registration drives because

the freedom rides had resulted in violent confrontations

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Calls for "black power" first emerged from the

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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The American expert on the Soviet Union who advised the United States to "contain" communism was

George Kennan

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Following the September 11 attacks, the new American foreign policy asserted

the right to preventive use of force.

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Even though George H. W. Bush had the advantage of being the incumbent in the 1992 election, his campaign struggled because of the

economic recession.

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Which of the following places the final events of the Cold War in their proper chronological order?

student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square began; the Solidarity movement won power in free elections in Poland; the Berlin Wall fell; the USSR dissolved.

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Kennedy's desire to keep down inflation led to a confrontation over prices with which industry?

steel

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Which of the following statements does NOT describe the Students for a Democratic Society?

SDS formed a unified, hierarchical bureaucracy for student protest groups to emulate

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President Eisenhower supported American ground troop intervention in Indochina in 1954

false

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Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara developed the defense strategy of flexible response as an alternative to Eisenhower's Cold War policy of

massive retaliation.

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The Soviet Union's entrance into Afghanistan caused the United States to respond in all of the following ways EXCEPT

bombing Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan

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To receive Marshall Plan aid, countries had to pledge to renounce communism

false

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As a consequence of HUAC hearings, President Truman felt compelled to initiate a loyalty program

true

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The Korean War erupted when

North Korea invaded South Korea

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The Senate was unwilling to ratify the SALT II treaty in large part because

the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan, and détente seemed doomed

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Which of these leaders organized a successful grape boycott and sparked an outburst of ethnic consciousness among Mexican Americans?

César Chávez

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The Truman Doctrine allocated money to stop the spread of communism in

Greece and Turkey

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The United States was able to get a resolution from the United Nations Security Council to defend South Korea because

the Soviet Union was boycotting the Security Council.

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The Cuban missile crisis ended when

Khrushchev agreed to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba, and Kennedy promised that the United States would not invade Cuba.

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Khrushchev and Eisenhower agreed to mutual aerial surveillance at the 1955 Geneva Summit conference.

fasle

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The installation of a "hot line" between Washington D.C. and Moscow was a result of the

Cuban missile crisis.

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Which two events summarized much of the frustration that African Americans felt in the past two decades?

the beating of Rodney King and the response to Hurricane Katrina.

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The Taft-Hartley Act

angered organized labor

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The effect of the Baruch Plan was to

preserve an American monopoly on atomic weapons

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President George H. W. Bush was plagued domestically by problems with

the savings-and-loan bailout and the budget deficit

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The 1960 election was

the first to have televised presidential debates

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Two important successes of the first Clinton administration concerned

deficit reduction and free trade

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In 1946, Winston Churchill stated that an Iron Curtain had fallen across Europe running from the

Baltic to the Adriatic

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Which event best explains what prompted Johnson to seek legislation that would protect voting rights?

the march from Selma to Montgomery

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General Douglas MacArthur was relieved of his command because he

publicly disobeyed orders

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NSC-68

called for a massive expansion of American military power

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In 1992, H. Ross Perot was

a third party candidate who garnered a fair percentage of the popular vote.

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School dropout rates for Hispanics at the beginning of the 21st Century was

more than 50 percent

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The newly named cabinet department in 1947 was the Department of

Defense.

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The Great Leap Forward was

mass mobilization to achieve widespread economic development.

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was instituted by Mao in order to

create a truly egalitarian culture.

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The "Gang of Four"

included Mao's wife and came to power in 1971.

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The leader who emerged after Mao's death was

Deng Xiaoping.

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The abolitionists of the mid nineteenth century did all of the following EXCEPT

they founded the Brook Farm cooperative

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The Liberty party represented abolitionists'' first attempt to enter the political arena.

true

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The Declaration of Sentiments was issued

at the Seneca Falls Convention, which launched the women'''s rights movement.

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In the mid 1830s, the Temperance Society unanimously agreed that abstinence from alcohol should be extended to beer and wine as well as liquor

false

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The most influential supporter of the common school movement was

Horace Mann

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101 congressmen and senators signed the "southern manifesto" in response to the

Brown decision.

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Which event best explains what prompted Johnson to seek legislation that would protect voting rights?

the march from Selma to Montgomery

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Which of the following choices lists events of the early civil rights movement in chronological order?

desegregation of armed forces, Brown decision, Montgomery bus boycott, Little Rock crisis, student sit-ins

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Why did the Oneida community practice a form of free love?

The Second Coming of Christ had already occurred, and human beings were no longer obligated to follow old moral rules.

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The feminist movement split in the 1920s over the issue of

the Equal Rights Amendment

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The Supreme Court was deeply divided in its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

false

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The suffrage movement entered into a new, more organized phase with the 1890 formation of the

National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Independent party candidate George Wallace never had a serious following

false

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In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson saw to the passage of Kennedy's proposed legislation for

a tax cut and a civil rights bill.

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Prolonged adolescence in the 1920's led to new strains on the family in the form of youthful revolt

true

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Emerson preached that individuals could commune with a force that animated nature and the universe.

true

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Antislavery activism served as a catalyst for the women''s rights movement.

true

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Which of the following best describes Eisenhower's attitude towards civil rights?

He was in favor of it, but thought that it was attitudes, rather than laws, that most needed changing.

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The majority of Americans sympathized with the gay liberation movement after the onset of the AIDS epidemic

false

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The Oneida community upheld the tenets of traditional marriage

false

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Many progressives believed that women's votes would purify politics.

true

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Which of the following was not a case ruled on by the Supreme Court under Earl Warren during Kennedy's presidency?

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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Betty Friedan's National Organization for Women comprised the radical wing of the women's movement.

false

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All of the following statements about the colonization movement are true EXCEPT

Colonization Society members called for immediate and complete emancipation of southern slaves

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As president, Truman oversaw the passage of the first general civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

false

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Dorothea Dix worked tirelessly on behalf of

institutions for the mentally ill.

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One of the major setbacks for the National Organization for Women was the failure to win ratification of the ERA

true

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Where did the American Colonization Society send émigrés?

Liberia

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In late 1961, the Kennedy administration encouraged civil rights activists in southern voter registration drives because

the freedom rides had resulted in violent confrontations

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In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that separate schools had to be made equal.

false

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