Presentism is ___ of / or about the past

True/False (T/F):  Based on the class lecture, we now know the U.S. Naval fleet was prepared that day “with its pants on” for a counter-offensive against Japan.

Historiography is:

T/F (True/False): All historians believe the U.S. government fairly honored treaties with Native-Americans, who were confined to “reservations” in the least-desirable lands. They also now believe American leaders also treated Chinese immigrants, who largely built the nation’s railroads especially warmly.

U.S. school children learn that World War I started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated in 1914, triggering a series of interconnected treaties. But in this course, we went back further, to: 

The reasons for this latter-1800s thriving economy were: 

Noted in class, while paraphrased, Roosevelt’s widow with foreknowledge of the atomic-bomb program the vice-president did not have, told incoming Truman:

T/F: According to an class lecture, U.S. newspapers sometimes shift racial references depending upon whom national policy supports. For example, Cubans are referred to as lighter-skinned during friendlier times, and “brown” when it is less so. 

Initiative, referenda, primaries and recalls are reflection of: 

Urbanization in the North is the growth of: