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CONTENTS
Chapter 1: First Founders 1
Chapter 2: European Footholds in North America, 1600–1660 17
Chapter 3: Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1600–1715 33
Chapter 4: African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation 50
Chapter 5: Colonial Diversity, 1713–1763 67
Chapter 6: The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763–1775 84
Chapter 7: Revolutionaries at War, 1775–1783 101
Chapter 8: New Beginnings: The 1780s 118
Chapter 9: Revolutionary Legacies, 1789–1803 135
Chapter 10: Defending and Expanding the New Nation, 1804–1818 152
Chapter 11: Society and Politics in t he “Age of the Common Man,” 1819–1832 169
Chapter 12: Peoples in Motion, 1832–1848 186
Chapter 13: The Crisis over Slavery, 1848–1860 202
Chapter 14: “To Fight to Gain a Country”: The Civil War 219
Chapter 15: Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865–1877 235
Chapter 16: Standardizing the Nation: Innovations in Technology,
Business, and Culture, 1877–1890 252
Chapter 17: Challenges to Government and Corporate Power, 1877–1890 269
Chapter 18: Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War: The 1890s 286
Chapter 19: Visions of the Modern Nation: The Progressive Era, 1900–1912 303
Chapter 20: War and Revolution, 1912–1920 319
Chapter 21: All That Jazz: The 1920s 335
Chapter 22: Hardship and Hope : The Great Depression of the 1930s 351
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Chapter 23: Global Conflict: World War II, 1937–1945 367
Chapter 24: Cold War and Hot War, 1945–1953 384
Chapter 25: Domestic Dreams and Atomic Nightmares, 1953–1963 401
Chapter 26: The Nation Divides: The Vietnam War and Social Conflict, 1964–1971 417
Chapter 27: Reconsidering National Priorities, 1972–1979 433
Chapter 28: The Cold War Returns—and Ends, 1979–1991 449
Chapter 29: Post-Cold War America, 1991–2000 465
Chapter 30: A Global Nation in the New Millennium 482
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All Chapters Included
Chapter 1 F i r s t Founders
All Answers Included
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) Clovis-like points prove that people were hunting widely in North America years
ago.
A) 14,000
B) 27,000
C) 50,000
D) 3,000
Answer: A
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1 Ancient America
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
2) Archaeologists working near Folsom, New Mexico, found evidence of .
A) large cities in North America
B) settled agriculture dating back 12,000 years
C) human activity dating back 10,000 years
D) a major battle between two groups of Native Americans
Answer: C
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1 Ancient America
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
3) Recent discoveries suggest which of the following?
A) that North America may have been the site of the world’s first settled agriculture
B) the possible presence of pre-Clovis inhabitants of North America
C) the likelihood that the first humans arrived in the Americas 50,000 years ago
D) the possible arrival in the Americas of humans from Africa prior to the arrival of humans
from Asia
Answer: B
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1 Ancient America
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
4) According to the most widely accepted theory, why were newcomers to North America
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eventually unable to return Siberia?
A) The Bering Land Bridge had been submerged.
B) The quality of the game they found living in North America made returning unattractive.
C) They were rejected by the peoples they left.
D) They were unable to find their way back across the wilderness.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1.1 The Question of Origins
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
5) How do archaeological finds in Cactus Hill, Meadowcroft, and Buttermilk Creek complicate
our understanding of the origins of human habitation of the Americas?
A) They suggest that the first humans may have arrived in the Americas 50,000 years ago.
B) They suggest that the first humans to arrive in the Americas may have been European.
C) They suggest that the earliest arrivals in the Americas arrived by boat.
D) They suggest the existence of immediate predecessors to the Clovis people.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1.1 The Question of Origins
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
6) The Bering Land Bridge allowed humans to travel from .
A) Asia to North America
B) Africa to Asia
C) Europe to North America
D) Europe to Asia
Answer: A
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1.1 The Question of Origins
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
7) Archaic Indians in North America domesticated .
A) horses
B) cattle
C) goats
D) dogs
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1: First Founders 1
Chapter 2: European Footholds in North America, 1600–1660 17
Chapter 3: Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1600–1715 33
Chapter 4: African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation 50
Chapter 5: Colonial Diversity, 1713–1763 67
Chapter 6: The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763–1775 84
Chapter 7: Revolutionaries at War, 1775–1783 101
Chapter 8: New Beginnings: The 1780s 118
Chapter 9: Revolutionary Legacies, 1789–1803 135
Chapter 10: Defending and Expanding the New Nation, 1804–1818 152
Chapter 11: Society and Politics in t he “Age of the Common Man,” 1819–1832 169
Chapter 12: Peoples in Motion, 1832–1848 186
Chapter 13: The Crisis over Slavery, 1848–1860 202
Chapter 14: “To Fight to Gain a Country”: The Civil War 219
Chapter 15: Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865–1877 235
Chapter 16: Standardizing the Nation: Innovations in Technology,
Business, and Culture, 1877–1890 252
Chapter 17: Challenges to Government and Corporate Power, 1877–1890 269
Chapter 18: Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War: The 1890s 286
Chapter 19: Visions of the Modern Nation: The Progressive Era, 1900–1912 303
Chapter 20: War and Revolution, 1912–1920 319
Chapter 21: All That Jazz: The 1920s 335
Chapter 22: Hardship and Hope : The Great Depression of the 1930s 351
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Chapter 23: Global Conflict: World War II, 1937–1945 367
Chapter 24: Cold War and Hot War, 1945–1953 384
Chapter 25: Domestic Dreams and Atomic Nightmares, 1953–1963 401
Chapter 26: The Nation Divides: The Vietnam War and Social Conflict, 1964–1971 417
Chapter 27: Reconsidering National Priorities, 1972–1979 433
Chapter 28: The Cold War Returns—and Ends, 1979–1991 449
Chapter 29: Post-Cold War America, 1991–2000 465
Chapter 30: A Global Nation in the New Millennium 482
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All Chapters Included
Chapter 1 F i r s t Founders
All Answers Included
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) Clovis-like points prove that people were hunting widely in North America years
ago.
A) 14,000
B) 27,000
C) 50,000
D) 3,000
Answer: A
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1 Ancient America
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
2) Archaeologists working near Folsom, New Mexico, found evidence of .
A) large cities in North America
B) settled agriculture dating back 12,000 years
C) human activity dating back 10,000 years
D) a major battle between two groups of Native Americans
Answer: C
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1 Ancient America
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
3) Recent discoveries suggest which of the following?
A) that North America may have been the site of the world’s first settled agriculture
B) the possible presence of pre-Clovis inhabitants of North America
C) the likelihood that the first humans arrived in the Americas 50,000 years ago
D) the possible arrival in the Americas of humans from Africa prior to the arrival of humans
from Asia
Answer: B
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1 Ancient America
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
4) According to the most widely accepted theory, why were newcomers to North America
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eventually unable to return Siberia?
A) The Bering Land Bridge had been submerged.
B) The quality of the game they found living in North America made returning unattractive.
C) They were rejected by the peoples they left.
D) They were unable to find their way back across the wilderness.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1.1 The Question of Origins
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
5) How do archaeological finds in Cactus Hill, Meadowcroft, and Buttermilk Creek complicate
our understanding of the origins of human habitation of the Americas?
A) They suggest that the first humans may have arrived in the Americas 50,000 years ago.
B) They suggest that the first humans to arrive in the Americas may have been European.
C) They suggest that the earliest arrivals in the Americas arrived by boat.
D) They suggest the existence of immediate predecessors to the Clovis people.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1.1 The Question of Origins
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
6) The Bering Land Bridge allowed humans to travel from .
A) Asia to North America
B) Africa to Asia
C) Europe to North America
D) Europe to Asia
Answer: A
Learning Objective: What types of evidence are used to explain the arrival of humans in North
America?
Topic: 1.1.1 The Question of Origins
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
7) Archaic Indians in North America domesticated .
A) horses
B) cattle
C) goats
D) dogs
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