U.S. History Week 32: The Challenges of the 21st Century, 2000-2013

 

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U.S. History Week 32

The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

I designed a quiz related to chapter 32 at the bottom of this article.

Directions for the quiz:

1. Scroll down & click on the first thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
2. Choose an answer for each question.
3. Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
4. The correct answer is on the screen following the question.
5. Compare your answers with those provided.
6. If you cannot easily see the correct answer, check the captions.

An interactive version is available on Kahoot!

Search for this week’s topic by Katrena to find it.

Review the following Chapter 32 pages:

• Introduction
• The War on Terror
• The Domestic Mission
• New Century, Old Disputes
• Hope and Change
• Key Terms
• Summary

Review the following resources:

• Presidents of the United States of America
• U.S. Political Map
• United States Population Chart
• Further Reading

Practice learning Chapter 32 Key Terms on Quizlet.

Week 32 Videos:

• Crash Course: Terrorism, War, and Bush (15:26)
• Crash Course: Obamanation (15:39)
• Crash Course: Hurricane Katrina (15:03)
• The Time a Senator Spoke for 24 Hours Straight (6:13)

Review the following information featuring the U.S.:

• Washington (7:32)

Additional Resources:

• Chapter 32 Review Questions
• Chapter 32 Critical Thinking Questions
• Chapter 32 Partial Answer Key

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U.S. History Week 32 The Challenges of the 21st Century 

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After the September 11, 2001 attacks,
the United States vowed to wage a war on ___.
Answer choices include:
terror, poverty, drugs, all Communist countries

The correct answer is terror.

The leader of the Taliban, ___, was hunted
as the person responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
Answer choices include: Gerhard Schroder,
Yasser Arafat, Todd Beamer, Osama Bil Laden

The correct answer is Osama Bin Laden.

In October 2001, Bush created the Department of ___
to centralize departments protecting against domestic threats.
Answer choices include: Agriculture,
Food & Drug Administration, Homeland Security, Transportation

The correct answer is Homeland Security.

Some men suspected of terrorist activities were sent to ___
for questioning in ways not allowed in the United States.
Answer choices include: Iran, Puerto Rico, China, Cuba

The correct answer is Cuba.

The biggest tax cuts during George W. Bush’s Administration
went to people with ___.
Answer choices include:
the highest income, moderate income, the lowest income, no income

The correct answer is the highest income.

To help bolster education in America,
some areas offered an option of charter schools.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

The correct answer is 12 million.

Many people in New Orleans died after levees failed
without adequate support during ____ in 2005.
Answer choices include: Hurricane Katrina,
Mardi Gras, Whit Monday, the rainy season

The correct answer is Hurricane Katrina.

Who was America’s first female Speaker of the House?
Answer choices include: Cora Bell Reynolds Anderson,
Anita Hill, Nancy Pelosi, Sonia Sotomayor

The correct answer is Nancy Pelosi.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, banks often encouraged
___ mortgages where recipients were unable to pay,
leading to the Great Recession of 2008.
Answer choices include:
prime, fixed rate, small creditor, subprime

The correct answer is subprime.

In the early 2000s, many focused on illegal immigration,
including unaccompanied children, along the ___ border.
Answer choices include: U.S. - Mexico,
U.S. - Canada, U.S. - Spain, U.S. - Great Britain

The correct answer is U.S. - Mexico.

Between 1998 and 2012, __ states banned
same-sex marriage by statute or constitutional amendment.
Answer choices include: 3, 13, 23, 30

The correct answer is 30.

The United States produces approximately
___ percent of greenhouse gases.
Answer choices include: 3, 16, 23, 36

The correct answer is 36.

___ is a 2006 Nobel Peace Prize-winning documentary
about the realities & dangers of climate change.
Answer choices include:
Burden of Dreams, An Inconvenient Truth,
Ancient Apocalypse, Nanook of the North

The correct answer is An Inconvenient Truth.

Who was America’s first African American President?
Answer choices include: Jesse Jackson,
Ben Carson, Barack Obama, Joe Biden

The correct answer is Barack Obama.

Where was Barack Obama born?
Answer choices include:
California, New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii

The correct answer is Hawaii.

Barack Obama was the first presidential candidate to
significantly & successfully utilize ___ while campaigning.
Answer choices include: social media,
automated telephone messages, TV, artificial intelligence

The correct answer is social media.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
was the first significant overhaul of U.S. healthcare since ___.
Answer choices include: 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995

The correct answer is 1965.

Many Congressional sessions were significantly
slowed by multiple ____ during Obama’s Administration.
Answer choices include filibusters, debates, votes, pandemics

The correct answer is filibusters.

By 2013, approximately ___ Americans have been forced
 to switch from full-time to part-time work
or have left the job market completely.
Answer choices include:
3 million, 4 million, 34 million, 43 million

The correct answer is 34 million.

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Week 12 U.S. History: Cotton is King - The Antebellum South 1800-1860

 

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U.S. History Week 12

Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860

I designed a quiz related to chapter 12 at the bottom of this article.

Directions for the quiz:

1. Scroll down & click on the first thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
2. Choose an answer for each question.
3. Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
4. The correct answer is on the screen following the question.
5. Compare your answers with those provided.
6. If you cannot easily see the correct answer, check the captions.

An interactive version is available on Kahoot!
Search for this week’s topic by Katrena to find it.

Review the following Chapter 12 pages:

• Introduction
• The Economics of Cotton
• African Americans in the Antebellum United States
• Wealth and Culture in the South
• The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
• Key Terms
• Summary

Practice learning Chapter 12 Key Terms on Quizlet.

Week 12 Videos:

• Crash Course: The Rise of Cotton (12:10)
• The Louisiana Rebellion of 1811 (12:06)
• The Impact of Nat Turner’s Rebellion Still Felt Today (4:04)
• The True Story Behind “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (7:23)
• The Ostend Manifesto (5:05)
• The American Who Proclaimed Himself President of a Latin American Country (6:35)

Review the following information featuring the U.S.:

• Maine (6:35)
• Andy Johnson and His Father’s Statue
• The Private Sorrow of Eliza McCardle Johnson

Additional Resources:

• Chapter 12 Review Questions
• Chapter 12 Critical Thinking Questions
• Chapter 12 Partial Answer Key

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U.S. History Week 12
Cotton is King: The Antebellum South 1800-1860 

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The years after the War of 1812 and before
the Civil War are known as the ___ Period.
Answer choices include: Reconstruction,
Antebellum, Progressive, Colonization

The correct answer is Antebellum.

What was the South’s major cash crop of the Antebellum Period?
Answer choices include: sugar, tobacco, rice, cotton

The correct answer is cotton.

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852?
Answer choices include: James Hammond,
J.N. Wilson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eli Whitley

The correct answer is Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Located at the mouth of the Mississippi
River, ___ became an important
and diverse American city in the early 1800s. 
Answer choices include: Savannah,
New York City, Houston, New Orleans

The correct answer is New Orleans.

The trading of enslaved people within the
United States was called ___ slave trade.
Answer choices include: central,
domestic, Atlantic, international

The correct answer is domestic.

Approximately __% of enslaved persons in America labored
in cotton fields during the Antebellum Period.
Answer choices include: 75, 50, 25, 10

The correct answer is 50.

Enslaved people found solace in ___.
Answer choices include: Christian faith,
storytelling, music, All of these

The correct answer is all of these.

Slaveholders would use ___ to prevent enslaved persons
from disobeying their wishes.
Answer choices include:
threats of selling the person,
physical abuse,
punishment gear,
any of these

The correct answer is any of these.

More free Black people lived in the South than in the North.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

Upper Southern states had harsher laws that divested free
Black people of their rights than Deep Southern states.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

Whose rebellion in Virginia caused the
state’s legislators to consider ending slavery?
Answer choices include: Manuel Andry,
William Ellison, Nat Turner, Charles Desiondes

The correct answer is Nat Turner.

When did Congress ban further
importation of enslaved Africans?
Answer choices include: 1808, 1828, 1848, 1868

The correct answer is 1808.

Between 1820 & 1860 during the second middle passage,
at least ____ enslaved people were sold in the domestic market.
Answer choices include: 10,000; 50,000; 100,000; 1 million

The correct answer is 1 million.

The majority of White people in the South owned slaves.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is false.

Many elite planters who owned numerous slaves
often held local and national political offices.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

Small landowners were called ___ farmers, which were what
Jefferson had envisioned for the American dream.
Answer choices include: yeoman, plantation, tenant, mercantile

The correct answer is yeoman.

Vocal groups committed to ending slavery were called ___.
Answer choices include: white supremacists,
abolitionists, the gentry, expansionists

The correct answer is abolitionists.

The Ostend Manifesto promoted the
idea of overthrowing ___ for security reasons.
Answer choices include: Cuba, Mexico, Canada, Haiti

The correct answer is Cuba.

In 1855, William Walker led a group of mercenaries
to gain control of ___ to re-institute slavery.
Answer choices include: Brazil, Panama, England, Nicaragua

The correct answer is Nicaragua.

Many wealthy southern landowners believed they
should have veto rights against the the nation’s majority, called ___.
Answer choices include: simple majority,
qualified majority, democracy, concurrent majority

The correct answer is concurrent majority.

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