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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Test Bank for The American Nation: A History of the United States, Combined
Volume, 15th Edition
Author: Mark C. Carnes
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Chapter 1. Beginnings
Chapter 2. Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas
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Chapter 3. The Making of Society in the Colonial Era
Chapter 4. America in the British Empire
K
Chapter 5. The American Revolution
Chapter 6. The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant
Chapter 7. Jeffersonian Democracy
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Chapter 8. National Growing Pains
Chapter 9. Toward a National Economy
Chapter 10. Jacksonian Democracy A
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Chapter 11. The Making of Middle-Class America
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Chapter 12. Westward Expansion
Chapter 13. The Sections Go Their Own Ways
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Chapter 14. The Coming of the Civil War
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Chapter 15. The War to Save the Union
Chapter 16. Reconstruction and the South
Chapter 17. The Conquest of the West
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Chapter 18. An Industrial Giant Emerges
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Chapter 19. American Society in the Industrial Age
Chapter 20. Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Chapter 21. From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877-1896
Chapter 22. The Age of Reform
Chapter 23. From Isolation to Empire
Chapter 24. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War
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Chapter 25. The Roaring Twenties
Chapter 26. The Great Depression and the New Deal: 1929-1939
Chapter 27. A Second World War: 1941-1945
Chapter 28. A New Enemy, Abroad and at Home: 1946-1960
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Chapter 29. From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975
Chapter 30. Running on Empty: 1975-1999
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Chapter 31. From Boomers to Millennials
Chapter 32. Shocks and Responses: 2000 to the Present
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The American Nation, 15e (Carnes)
Chapter 1 Beginnings
Multiple Choice Questions
1) What triggered the Paleolithic revolution?
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A) agricultural practice
B) the human use of fire
C) the creation of stone tools
D) human migration from Asia to the Americas
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Answer: C
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.1
Topic: The First Peoples
Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
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Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
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2) Why did Paleolithic people begin to move northeast in Asia?
A) Colder climates in Central Asia forced this migration.
B) They found themselves pushed out by Asiatic nomadic tribes.
C) The supply of big game was diminishing,
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D) The failure of agricultural communities forced their return to nomadic practices.
Answer: C
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.2
Topic: The First Peoples
Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
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institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
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3) Why is there so little evidence of Paleo Indian migrations along the North American Pacific
coastline?
A) Paleo-Indians traveled across modern-day Canada into the Midwest first.
B) The uninhabitable nature of that coast forced migrants to move quickly, without setting up
significant camps.
C) Early European explorers and settlers raided and destroyed much of the valuable evidence.
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D) Global warming raised the sea level of the Pacific Ocean, flooding migrant routes of the past.
Answer: D
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.3
Topic: The First Peoples
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Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
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4) Which of the following species became extinct as a result of the hunting practices of the
Clovis complex culture around 12,000 years ago?
A) horses
B) elephants
C) monkeys
D) buffalo
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Answer: A
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.4
Topic: The First Peoples
Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
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institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
5) One of the earliest sedentary communities in North America on the Mississippi River in
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Louisiana was founded __________ years ago.
A) 700
B) 1,700
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C) 3,700
D) 7,300
Answer: C
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.5
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Topic: The First Peoples
Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
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6) In contrast to most Archaic Indian bands in North America, the people at Poverty Point had a
social structure that was __________.
A) egalitarian
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B) hierarchical
C) nomadic
D) utopian
Answer: B
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.6
Topic: The First Peoples
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Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
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7) Which of the following best characterizes the transition from a nomadic existence to a settled
agricultural life for Archaic American Indians?
A) The melting of ice sheets forced this transition abruptly.
B) In almost all tribes, this transition involved a highly personal choice.
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Test Bank for The American Nation: A History of the United States, Combined
Volume, 15th Edition
Author: Mark C. Carnes
ST
Chapter 1. Beginnings
Chapter 2. Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas
UV
Chapter 3. The Making of Society in the Colonial Era
Chapter 4. America in the British Empire
K
Chapter 5. The American Revolution
Chapter 6. The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant
Chapter 7. Jeffersonian Democracy
IA
N
Chapter 8. National Growing Pains
Chapter 9. Toward a National Economy
Chapter 10. Jacksonian Democracy A
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Chapter 11. The Making of Middle-Class America
B
Chapter 12. Westward Expansion
Chapter 13. The Sections Go Their Own Ways
AP
Chapter 14. The Coming of the Civil War
ST
Chapter 15. The War to Save the Union
Chapter 16. Reconstruction and the South
Chapter 17. The Conquest of the West
PR
Chapter 18. An Industrial Giant Emerges
E
Chapter 19. American Society in the Industrial Age
Chapter 20. Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century
T
OV
Chapter 21. From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877-1896
Chapter 22. The Age of Reform
Chapter 23. From Isolation to Empire
Chapter 24. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War
ED
Chapter 25. The Roaring Twenties
Chapter 26. The Great Depression and the New Deal: 1929-1939
Chapter 27. A Second World War: 1941-1945
Chapter 28. A New Enemy, Abroad and at Home: 1946-1960
?
Chapter 29. From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975
Chapter 30. Running on Empty: 1975-1999
?
Chapter 31. From Boomers to Millennials
Chapter 32. Shocks and Responses: 2000 to the Present
,
The American Nation, 15e (Carnes)
Chapter 1 Beginnings
Multiple Choice Questions
1) What triggered the Paleolithic revolution?
ST
A) agricultural practice
B) the human use of fire
C) the creation of stone tools
D) human migration from Asia to the Americas
UV
Answer: C
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.1
Topic: The First Peoples
Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
IA
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
?_
2) Why did Paleolithic people begin to move northeast in Asia?
A) Colder climates in Central Asia forced this migration.
B) They found themselves pushed out by Asiatic nomadic tribes.
C) The supply of big game was diminishing,
AP
D) The failure of agricultural communities forced their return to nomadic practices.
Answer: C
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.2
Topic: The First Peoples
Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
PR
institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
OV
3) Why is there so little evidence of Paleo Indian migrations along the North American Pacific
coastline?
A) Paleo-Indians traveled across modern-day Canada into the Midwest first.
B) The uninhabitable nature of that coast forced migrants to move quickly, without setting up
significant camps.
C) Early European explorers and settlers raided and destroyed much of the valuable evidence.
ED
D) Global warming raised the sea level of the Pacific Ocean, flooding migrant routes of the past.
Answer: D
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.3
Topic: The First Peoples
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Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
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4) Which of the following species became extinct as a result of the hunting practices of the
Clovis complex culture around 12,000 years ago?
A) horses
B) elephants
C) monkeys
D) buffalo
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Answer: A
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.4
Topic: The First Peoples
Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
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institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
5) One of the earliest sedentary communities in North America on the Mississippi River in
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Louisiana was founded __________ years ago.
A) 700
B) 1,700
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C) 3,700
D) 7,300
Answer: C
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.5
AP
Topic: The First Peoples
Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
PR
6) In contrast to most Archaic Indian bands in North America, the people at Poverty Point had a
social structure that was __________.
A) egalitarian
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B) hierarchical
C) nomadic
D) utopian
Answer: B
Test Bank Item Title: TB_Q1.1.6
Topic: The First Peoples
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Learning Objective: Basic History: Demonstrate knowledge of the key events, people,
institutions, and chronology in U.S. history.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
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7) Which of the following best characterizes the transition from a nomadic existence to a settled
agricultural life for Archaic American Indians?
A) The melting of ice sheets forced this transition abruptly.
B) In almost all tribes, this transition involved a highly personal choice.
2
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