History - Survey Courses

Compare and contrast Eisenhower's reaction to the Arab-Israeli conflict to that of the Hungarian uprising.

The entry of the United States into World War I in April 1917

After establishing Constantinople as their new capital, the Ottomans went to war with the

"The Chicago school" of urban sociology and accounts of the "lady murderesses" Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner reflected societal concerns about

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A source must be cited within a speech even if it is cited in your bibliography

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Compare and contrast the character of backcountry settlements with that of older rural communities in eighteenth-century America.

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After 1943, the United States advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces from

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Which of the following was not a problem faced by the Confederation Congress?

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During the immediate postwar years, Native Americans

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How did the United States defeat Japan?

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How did the 1924 National Origins Act limit immigration into the US?

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The two Live Aid concerts (which introduced the song "We Are the World") in 1985 raised more than $80 million for famine relief in

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What field of science most influenced racial thinking at the end of the nineteenth century?

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From 1500-1650, Indian religious life

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What combination of factors accounted for the ultimate abandonment of Reconstruction?

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Southern political strategies of the 1850s depended on __________.

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How did American foreign policy for Europe differ from the policy pursued in North and South America?

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a. U.S. foreign policy for Europe was based on a desire for outposts to African and Asian markets, while the policy pursued in North and South America was based on Pan-American unity against the nations of the Old World.
b. U.S. foreign policy for Europe was based on a desire for outposts to African and Asian markets, while the policy pursued in North and South America promoted trade and tried to avoid diplomatic entanglements.
c. U.S. foreign policy promoted trade and tried to avoid diplomatic entanglements in Europe, while its policy in North and South America was based on the Monroe Doctrine.
d. U.S. foreign policy for Europe was based on the Monroe Doctrine, while the policy pursued in North and South America was based on coveting outposts on sea-lanes to other countries.

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Which of the following best describes the geography and resources of Ancient Greece?

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How did China and Japan have different "destinies" in the twentieth century? Did they react differently to pressures from the West?

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Students should recognize that China and Japan shared a common heritage in many ways, but in the modern period they were on a "collision course." Students should discuss Chinese and Japanese rising populations as well as the social and economic changes facing each country. In China in 1908, the Empress Dowager Cixi died and the Qing dynasty collapsed. Sun Yat-sen took over the government, but his government was powerless in the face of local military strongmen called warlords. Sun Yat-sen resigned and a powerful warlord, Yuan Shikai, took over. By World War I, Japan's economy was growing rapidly. Japan also used the war as an opportunity to seize territory in China. In 1915 Japan presented China with the Twenty-One Demands, which would have made China a Japanese protectorate. The Chinese violently protested these Twenty-One Demands, and thirty years of fighting began between the two countries. The peace treaty at the end of the First World War allowed Japan to keep former German territory in China, triggering a student-led protest movement called the May Fourth Movement.

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Which of the following describes the context within which writers in the Roman Empire produced their works?

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The Boxer Rebellion

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The Hudson River and Manhattan Island were explored and claimed by Henry Hudson, who sailed in the service of the

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Who were the greatest international sea traders of the ancient Near East?

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According to the Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh, the world was created by the

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The Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade (1973)

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The policy of colonial assimilation is mainly associated with

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According to the introductory video in section 3.2, the __________controlled New York before it became an English colony

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Farmers demonstrated for higher food prices by ________

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Tournaments came to be viewed as problematic for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ________

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The Hanseatic League was ______________.

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What did archeologists discover beneath the Pyramid of the Sun?

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What does this photograph of a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Mississippi demonstrate about the power of nonviolent protest?

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Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? Should have been removed from office?

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The typical Republican voter in the South during Reconstruction was a

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The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed in

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The Korean War was a "limited war" in that

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By the early 1960s, the Soviet Union and Communist China were becoming estranged because

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What was the narodnik movement?

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How did conditions in the nation's central cities compare to its emerging suburbs in the postwar decades?

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Why was the conversion of the Turks to Islam important for the future of the Muslim world? Why were the Turks attracted to Islam?

A. Turks attraction to Islam
1. not clear why Turks generally were attracted to Islam
2. needed no new religious justification for warfare
3. first Turkic people to subscribe to Islam were the Karkhanids
a. made the move as a result of the favorable impression they derived from raiding Islamic territory
B. Conversion had consequences for the future
1. Turks would bring to the Islamic world a vital infusion of manpower and expertise in war
2. Altigin, a Turk who had adopted Islam while serving as a slave in Persia, founded at Ghazni in Afghanistan a Muslim state that was to exert great influence in the future
3. Seljuk, a Turkic chief who dreamed ofconquering the world, ruled a small state, cobbled together by conquest, in Central Asia
a. decision to become a Muslim was of enormous significance
b. his descendants supplied some of the Islamic world's most effective frontiersmen

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In Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court

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The dominant form of healthcare treatment in the U.S. is:

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The distinctive pattern of settlement in the Chesapeake was shaped by the demands of growing ________

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Second Vatican Council

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The vibrant community of black artists in Harlem in the 1920s built in significant ways on

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Which of the following was true about Terman's study of genius?

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Compare and contrast American and British views on the events leading up to the American Revolution. Be sure to identify specific events and explain how the Americans and the British saw those events

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. The British saw the Seven Years’ War as part of their global struggle for empire against their chief rival, France.
b. The Americans called the same war the French and Indian War and saw the war as getting rid of the French and Indian presence to make way for American expansion.
c. The British saw the Proclamation of 1763 as protecting the American colonists from Indian attacks.
d. The Americans saw the Proclamation as preventing them from expanding west, which was the main reason they supported the British in the French and Indian War.
e. The British saw the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend duties, and Tea Act as fair because the colonies should contribute to their own defense.
f. The Americans saw the taxes as unfair because they had no political representation in Parliament.
g. The British saw the Coercive Acts as just punishment for the wanton destruction of British property in the Boston Tea Party.
h. The Americans called the Coercive Acts the Intolerable Acts because the acts were unreasonably harsh and unfair.

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The earliest theoretical philosophers in human history were the