Question 1

The federal food stamp program and the launching of Head Start federally funded preschool programs were initiatives President John F. Kennedy's Great Society.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

All of the following are examples of how the West affected American history EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  new wealth and opportunity. 
B)  upward social mobility. 
C)  settlement of the Sun Belt. 
D)  more open elite system.

Question 3

History is the recording, narrating, and interpretation of past human actions and events.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Which of the following was a tactic used by white supremacists to disenfranchise African American voters?

Accepted Answer

A)  The grandfather clause 
B)  A poll tax 
C)  White primaries 
D)  All of these

Question 5

Jacksonian democracy was characterized by the ideal of the self-made individual. Thus, wealth and power obtained by special privilege

Accepted Answer

A)  was envied by the frontier society. 
B)  offended the frontier people. 
C)  put fear of failure in frontier people. 
D)  all of these.

Question 6

Modern liberalism is a product of elite response to the economic depression in the United States and the rising threats of fascism and communism abroad.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

As the expanding American economy created new sources of wealth, power in the United States shifted to those groups and individuals who

Accepted Answer

A)  acquired the new economic resources. 
B)  held on to the old sources of wealth. 
C)  worked hard for the owners of the means of production. 
D)  joined the unions.

Question 8

How do historians bring the component of perspective into historical analysis and interpretation?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

In the years following its inception, the financial support and policy guidance for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was provided by whites rather than blacks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Explain how an historical narrative of the Vietnam War can be used to inform a political analysis of the war as a political, not a military, defeat.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Explain how an historical narrative of the...

Question 11

Traditionally, historians viewed the Reconstruction Congress as vindictive against the South, and the Reconstruction Era is considered

Accepted Answer

A)  fair, equitable, and just. 
B)  undocumented and unimportant. 
C)  destructive, oppressive, and corrupt. 
D)  damaging to the esteem of former slaves.

Question 12

Compare and contrast the philosophies and social policies of Roosevelt's New Deal and Johnson's Great Society.

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

Explain the focus of the institutionalist perspectives on national histories.

Accepted Answer

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Question 14

Charles Beard argued that the economic interests of the national elite were not important to understanding the U.S. Constitution.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

In the years between 1916 and 1918, an estimated half-million African Americans moved to the North to fill the labor shortage in industrial cities caused by WWI. Most migrating African Americans arrived in big Northern cities to find

Accepted Answer

A)  acceptance and equality. 
B)  more poverty and segregation. 
C)  integration and economic independence. 
D)  jobs for which they were not trained.

Question 16

For the most part, the quest for the American past has been carried on in the spirit of critical analysis.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Roosevelt's New Deal philosophy was based on the idea that government has the responsibly to

Accepted Answer

A)  provide an economic safety net for citizens. 
B)  grant civil rights to African Americans. 
C)  protect economic elites at the expense of the masses. 
D)  eliminate capitalism.

Question 18

Even before 1860, Northern industry had been altering the course of American life. Which of the following was (were) part of the economic transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an industrial nation?

Accepted Answer

A)  Canals and steam railroads 
B)  The rise of corporations and the stock market 
C)  The introduction of machinery in factories 
D)  All of these

Question 19

The "Jim Crow" laws were designed to prevent the mingling of whites and blacks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The great man paradigm narrates history as the actions of the common people who respond to the world in which they live.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 6: Power and History

The federal food stamp program and the launching of Head Start federally funded preschool programs were initiatives President John F. Kennedy's Great Society.

All of the following are examples of how the West affected American history EXCEPT

History is the recording, narrating, and interpretation of past human actions and events.

Which of the following was a tactic used by white supremacists to disenfranchise African American voters?

Jacksonian democracy was characterized by the ideal of the self-made individual. Thus, wealth and power obtained by special privilege

Modern liberalism is a product of elite response to the economic depression in the United States and the rising threats of fascism and communism abroad.

As the expanding American economy created new sources of wealth, power in the United States shifted to those groups and individuals who

How do historians bring the component of perspective into historical analysis and interpretation?

In the years following its inception, the financial support and policy guidance for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was provided by whites rather than blacks.

Explain how an historical narrative of the Vietnam War can be used to inform a political analysis of the war as a political, not a military, defeat.

Traditionally, historians viewed the Reconstruction Congress as vindictive against the South, and the Reconstruction Era is considered

Compare and contrast the philosophies and social policies of Roosevelt's New Deal and Johnson's Great Society.

Explain the focus of the institutionalist perspectives on national histories.

Charles Beard argued that the economic interests of the national elite were not important to understanding the U.S. Constitution.

In the years between 1916 and 1918, an estimated half-million African Americans moved to the North to fill the labor shortage in industrial cities caused by WWI. Most migrating African Americans arrived in big Northern cities to find

For the most part, the quest for the American past has been carried on in the spirit of critical analysis.

Roosevelt's New Deal philosophy was based on the idea that government has the responsibly to

Even before 1860, Northern industry had been altering the course of American life. Which of the following was (were) part of the economic transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an industrial nation?

The "Jim Crow" laws were designed to prevent the mingling of whites and blacks.

The great man paradigm narrates history as the actions of the common people who respond to the world in which they live.