The second half of the survey covers a century and a half in which the country changed faster than at any point before it, and that pace is the study problem. USA Narrative History Since 1865, Volume 2, 7th Edition by James West Davidson carries you from the end of Reconstruction through industrialization, two world wars, the Cold War and the politics of the last few decades, and each of those transformations has its own economy, its own migration story and its own argument about the role of government. Students who revise it as a single timeline find that the questions ask about causes running across those chapters.
Why this test bank helps
An answer without its cause is not much use in the second half of the survey, where most questions are about why something changed when it did. Every item here is followed by a written rationale setting out the causal argument — the labor demand behind a migration, the legal decision that opened or closed a path, the economic shift that produced a political realignment — and explaining why a plausible answer belongs to a different decade.
What’s inside
- Questions organized chapter by chapter across the volume, from Reconstruction’s end to contemporary America.
- Several formats — multiple choice, true/false, chronological ordering and short interpretive prompts.
- A written rationale under every question, naming the cause and the period it belongs to.
- Coverage of the final chapters on recent decades, which courses reach late and students revise least.
- One organized PDF, ready to download as soon as checkout completes.
Topics covered
- Reconstruction and the New South — the amendments and their enforcement, sharecropping, disfranchisement and the legal architecture of segregation.
- Industry and labor — corporate consolidation, mass production, strikes and unions, and the debates over regulation.
- The West and the city — Native dispossession and reservation policy, railroads and mining, mass immigration and urban political machines.
- Populism and Progressivism — agrarian protest and monetary politics, reform coalitions, and the expansion of state capacity.
- Empire and the First World War — overseas expansion, wartime mobilization, civil liberties at home and the peace settlement.
- Prosperity, depression and the New Deal — the 1920s economy and culture, the crash, relief and recovery, and the new federal role.
- World war and the Cold War — mobilization and its social effects, containment, anticommunism, and postwar suburban affluence.
- Rights and the recent past — the civil rights and women’s movements, Vietnam, the conservative turn, and the politics of a globalized economy.
Who it’s for
Students in the second half of the United States survey, the course beginning at 1865, working from this volume and edition — general-education students as well as majors preparing for upper-division work in modern American history.
How to use it (the right way)
Read the chapter, then note the one economic change and the one political change it turns on before attempting questions; the volume moves quickly and that summary keeps the periods distinct. Work a block closed-book and check the rationale for every item, since the near-miss options are usually true statements about the wrong decade. This is a study aid, to be used in line with your institution’s academic-integrity policy — for revision and self-testing, not as a shortcut around the coursework, and never as material taken into a graded assessment.
Sample question (shows the format — your download contains the full set)
Q. Which best explains the surge of African American migration out of the rural South between 1916 and 1920?
- A. Federal legislation that funded relocation for Southern tenant families.
- B. Wartime industrial labor demand in Northern cities combined with the collapse of European immigration, damage to the cotton crop, and the violence and disfranchisement of the Jim Crow South.
- C. The mechanical cotton picker, which made most field labor unnecessary.
- D. Land grants in the West that drew Southern farmers into homesteading.
Answer: B. The war cut off European immigration just as Northern factories expanded, so employers recruited Southern workers for the first time, and that pull met a powerful push from boll weevil damage, falling cotton prices, lynching and the closing off of political life. A describes a program that did not exist; migration was organized privately, through labor agents, railroads, churches and the Black press. C misdates the technology by roughly three decades, since mechanical pickers reshaped Southern agriculture after the Second World War and drove the later wave. D belongs to the nineteenth-century homesteading era and does not describe the urban, industrial destinations of this migration.
Edition & format
- Matches: USA Narrative History Since 1865, Volume 2, 7th Edition, by James West Davidson (ISBN 9780077780364).
- Format: Digital PDF, delivered instantly after checkout.
- Access: Lifetime — re-download from your account whenever you need it.
Volume 2 begins where Volume 1 ends, and editions renumber chapters. Please confirm the volume, edition and ISBN above match your syllabus before buying.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the current edition? It is prepared for the 7th Edition of Volume 2, ISBN 9780077780364. Volume 1 and later editions are separate listings.
How do I receive it? The download is released the moment checkout completes and remains available in your account.
Do all the questions include rationales? Yes. Every item explains the causal reasoning and identifies the period the wrong options actually describe.
Is using a test bank allowed? As a practice resource for private study it is like any other. Follow your institution’s academic-integrity policy and never use it in a graded assessment.
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