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- 1. Multiple Choice
The goal of this resolution was eventually achieved with the -signing of the Civil Rights Actpassage of Prohibition lawsratification of the Nineteenth Amendmentcreation of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps - 2. Multiple Choice
Like Joseph McCarthy, this group investigated people's loyalty to the United States and their interest in communism.
House Un-American Activities Committees (HUAC)
Anti-Communism League
Loyalty Police
Senate Pro-Democracy Committee
- 3. Multiple Choice
The U.S. had to use airplanes to supply this city after the Soviets blockaded the roads.
Paris
Saigon
Berlin
Argonne Forest
- 4. Multiple Choice
Where was the Dust Bowl?
New England
The Midwest
The Great Plains
The Southwest
- 5. Multiple Choice
Why did some people not like Franklin Roosevelt?
He created the national park system
He built the Panama Canal
He tried to pack the Supreme Court with judges who agreed with him
He ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 6. Multiple Choice
A speakeasy is
A place where people could drink alcohol during Prohibition
A type of weapon used for the first time in World War I
Another word for political machines
A famous speech by John F. Kennedy
- 7. Multiple Choice
Someone who starts their own business is an
Industrialization
Entrepreneur
Commerce
Trade Union
- 8. Multiple Choice
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall were ways
Regular people could have more power in politics
Monopolies were broken into smaller companies
The civil rights movement fought for equal rights
Tenements were cleaned up
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which president desegregated the military?
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
- 10. Multiple Choice
What was the Open Door Policy?
It allowed only the U.S. to trade in China
It allowed many countries to trade in China
It allowed Chinese people to immigrate to the U.S.
It stopped Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S.
- 11. Multiple Choice
When a country uses its financial (money) power to grow its power in other countries
Open door policy
Dollar Diplomacy
14 Points
Great Migration
- 12. Multiple Choice
What are the names of the branches (parts) of government in the U.S.?
Judicial (Supreme Court) and Executive (President)
Legislative (Congress) and Executive (President)
Executive (President), Legislative (Congress) and Judicial (Supreme Court)
Legislative (Congress) and Judicial (Supreme Court)
- 13. Multiple Choice
Checks and balances means
Power comes from the people and they use it by voting
The 3 branches of government have the power to stop each other from doing bad things
People choose representatives to make decisions for them
The government should not be allowed to get too powerful
- 14. Multiple Choice
The first 10 amendments (changes) to the Constitution are called
The Articles of Confederation
The Federalist Papers
The Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
- 15. Multiple Choice
An easy way to make steel was the __________________________ process
Carnegie
Bessemer
Rockefeller
Barley
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following contributed most to increased settlement of the Great Plains?The availability of buffaloThe discovery of precious metalsA series of federal land grantsA decrease in agricultural production
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhich situation does this cartoon from an early 1900s pamphlet illustrate?The deportation of many Chinese immigrants in the NorthwestThe recruitment of Chinese immigrants by large labor unions in the MidwestThe fear in the West of losing jobs to Chinese immigrantsThe lack of available resources in the East to support a large influx of Chinese immigrants
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhich sentence correctly completes this diagram?The Bracero program was introduced.The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.Russian radicals joined labor unions in the United StatesIrish families immigrated to the United States
- 19. Multiple ChoiceHow did the expansion of railroad transportation most benefit farmers in the United States?By raising the consumer prace of agricultrual productsBy increasing the variety of locally grown cropsBy providing farmers with affordable access to distant marketsBy encouraging farmers to form the first agricultural cooperatives
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe primary objective of the Dawes Act was to -promote cultural assimilation of American Indiansturn American Indian reservations into corporate farmlandend warfare between American Indians and the U.S. militarypromote American Indian investment in private industry
- 21. Multiple ChoiceDuring the nineteenth century, one way political bosses gained voter support was by -campaigning for women's suffrageadvocating the use of poll taxesmaking improvements in urban infrastructureproviding public assistance for former slaves
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhich statement best completes this list?Congress passed legislation imposing tariffs on imported beefMost of the cowboys on cattle drives were European immigrantsThe cattle industry was nationalized under the Department of AgricultureThe need to process large amounts of cattle made meatpacking a major industry
- 23. Multiple ChoiceThis cover from a nineteenth-century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from -a mostly rurual society to a mostly urban onea slave-owning society to one without slaverya foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionisma direct democracy to a representative one
- 24. Multiple ChoiceNineteeth-century nativist organizations advocated -limited federal military power through the oraganization of local militiasconserving natural resources through the creation of national parksglobalizing the economy through participation in free-trade agreementspromoting an ethnically homogeneous society through restrictions on immigration
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhich group of people most likely inspired the creation of this 1893 cartoon?Union leadersPhilanthropistsPolitical bossesNativists
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was the main reason for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800s?Congress passed a law requiring all public lands to be sold at auctionCongress passed a law allowing people to claim public land and convert it to private property through homesteadingSpeculators bought large parcels of land then built factory towns to attract new immigrantsNative Americans sold most of their tribal lands directly to railroad companies
- 27. Multiple ChoiceWhy did the Populist Party want free coinage of silver?To increase the amount of money in circulationTo reduce economic inflationTo raise campaign contribution limitsTo decrease the bargaining power of labor unions
- 28. Multiple Choice
Why are third parties (political parties that are not Democrats or Republicans) important in American history?
If they get a lot of votes, their best ideas get used by one of the main political parties
Third parties are the reason for World War I
Third parties are the reason for the Watergate scandal
Third parties were destroyed by the Democrats and the Republicans in violent attacks.
- 29. Multiple Choice
What was the Social Gospel movement?
Protestant ministers (Christian religious leaders) called for reforms like the end of child labor. They started the Salvation Army.
They advocated for a graduated income tax, direct election of senators, and the free coinage of silver.
They were writers that examined the rise of industry and the abuses that led to the accumulation of large fortunes.
They photographed conditions of the urban poor in tenements.
- 30. Multiple Choice
Why is the Zimmermann Telegram important?
Germany tried to convince Mexico to join its side in World War I in exchange for Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona, and Nevada.
It said that Archduke Franz Ferdinand had been assassinated and told the world that World War I was beginning.
It warned of unrestricted submarine warfare and one week later the sinking of the Lusitania happened.
It announced that General Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces were on their way to Europe.
- 31. Multiple Choice
Which of these is NOT true about the Teapot Dome scandal?
It happened when Warren Harding was president.
It was about oil that had been found in Wyoming.
It showed the president was corrupt.
It caused the stock market to crash in 1929.
- 32. Multiple Choice
Which one of these World War II terms is NOT matched with its correct definition?
Lend-Lease - the Americans lent or sold supplies and weapons to England and France
Appeasement - the British and the French gave Hitler whatever he wanted, hoping that this would stop a war
Bataan Death March - the Japanese killed thousands of American and Filipino prisoners on a very long walk
Rationing - creating propaganda to tell Americans what to do during the war
- 33. Multiple Choice
What were war bonds?
A way for Americans to save money during the war.
A way for Americans to loan money to the U.S. government to pay for the war.
A way for the U.S. government to borrow money from other countries to pay for the war.
A way for the U.S. government to give money to other countries to pay for the war.
- 34. Multiple Choice
Which one of these civil rights era things is NOT correctly matched with its definition?
Freedom rides - tried to desegregate public transportation
Affirmative action - required schools and businesses to accept people who were not white
Boycott - refuse to sell things to people who don't agree with you
Sit-In - sit down and refuse to get up until something changes
- 35. Multiple Choice
Which of these is NOT true about John F. Kennedy's administration?
He was the youngest elected president and the first Catholic
He promised a "New Frontier"
He started the Peace Corps and the space race
He was president when the Berlin Wall was built and when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened.
He was president when the Vietnam War ended.
- 36. Multiple Choice
The court ruled that a Japanese American man had to go to an internment camp because of Executive Order 9066.
White v. Regester
Sweatt v. Painter
Hernandez v. Texas
Korematsu v. United States
- 37. Multiple Choice
The court ruled that a man wasn't allowed in the "whites only" train. This made "separate but equal" legal.
Roe v. Wade
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mendez v. Westminster school district
- 38. Multiple Choice
The court's verdict ruled segregation in all American schools was illegal (against the law).
White v. Register
Edgewood v. Kirby
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
- 39. Multiple Choice
The court declared George W. Bush winner of the Florida recount and the next president of the U.S.
Schenck v. United States
Bush v. Gore
United States v. Nixon
Wisconsin v. Yoder
- 40. Multiple Choice
This court decision ruled that police officers have to tell accused people their rights. ("You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say may be used against you..."
Miranda v. Arizona
Tinker v. Des Moines
Munn v. Illinois
Sweatt v. Painter
- 41. Multiple Choice
The court's verdict was that citizens are not allowed to publish anti-war materials in a time of war.
Korematsu v. United States
Munn v. Illinois
Schenck v. United States
Hernandez v. Texas
- 42. Multiple Choice
In this case, the court's verdict was that students were allowed to anti-war black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
Tinker v. Des Moines
Sweatt v. Painter
Hernandez v. Texas
Roe v. Wade
- 43. Multiple Choice
The court ruled that parents are allowed to homeschool children for religious reasons.
Edgewood ISD v. Kirby
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
Brown v. Board of Education
Wisconsin v. Yoder
- 44. Multiple Choice
The court told the president of the United States he had to share his secret audio recordings of what happened in the White House.
Tinker v. Des Moines
Bush v. Gore
United States v. Nixon
White v. Regester
- 45. Multiple Choice
The court ruled that Mexican Americans had to be included on juries.
Hernandez v. United States
Mendez v. Westminster School District
Miranda v. Arizona
White v. Regester
- 46. Multiple Choice
Which application of new technology can be attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison?
Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances.
Light bulbs made it efficient for factory workers to work at night.
Diesel engines were used in the production of airplanes.
Sonar technology was used to track submarines.
- 47. Multiple Choice
Which of the following contributed to President Truman's decision to issue this order.
"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin."
President Harry S. Truman, Executive Order 9981,
July 26,1948
A lack of funding for veteran pensions
Declining enlistment rates during peacetime
Discrimination against minority service members
A desire to repeal the draft
- 48. Multiple Choice
The Evolution of Computer Memory Storage Capacity
1974 - Mass storage for computers is introduced.
1980 - Hard disk drives are introduced.
1984 - Computer storage expands to hold up to 92 megabytes (MB) of data.
1994 - Computer disk storage capacity expands from 100 megabytes (MB) to 2 gigabytes (GB).
2000 - Flash drives are introduced. Storage capacity is up to 4 gigabytes (GB).
What conclusion about the U.S. econmy is most supported by the information on this time line?
Government regulations prompted companies to develop alternative production techniques.
Decreased globalization prompted companies to innovate and improve existing products.
Decreased demand for new technology forced producers to reduce manufacturing costs.
Marketplace competition drove producers to innovate and improve products.
- 49. Multiple Choice
What was one factor that helped turn the Great Plains into the Dust Bowl in the 1930s?
Paying farmers to plant native grasses
Increased demand for tobacco after World War I
Numerous tornadoes occurring in the region
Intense drought in the region
- 50. Multiple Choice
There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights...The halls and...verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
How does this excerpt reflect a significant turning point in American history?
It depicts the reaction to victory in the Spanish-American War.
It portrays the changing social norms of the Jazz Age.
It describes the experiences of immigrant workers during the Gilded Age.
It details the industrial progress of the post-World War I era.
- 51. Multiple Choice
What was the overall goal of U.S. military intervention in Vietnam from 1964-1973?
Eliminating trade barriers between the United States and Southeast Asia
Isolating the Soviet Union by improving Chinese relations with the United States
Promoting economic growth in the Pacific region
Preventing communism from spreading throughout Southeast Asia
- 52. Multiple Choice
While my solutions were a little less complex than those offered by FDR, . . . I played a kind of New Deal cowboy who never hesitated to tackle many of the same problems.
—Gene Autry, country-and-western singer and actor
Why were country-and-western performers such as Gene Autry popular with U.S. radio audiences during the 1930s?
Their art related to the struggles of the period.
They shared stories of individuals who became wealthy.
They promoted work programs for rural communities.
Their art brought attention to global human rights issues.
- 53. Multiple Choice
Which occurrence was a result of the shift in the number of births that began in 1946?
The decline of family farming
The spread of new diseases
The growth of the suburbs
The reduction of defense spending
- 54. Multiple Choice
It’s a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it’s likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. . . . The oil and natural gas that we rely on for 75 percent of our energy are simply running out. In spite of increased effort, domestic production has been dropping steadily at about 6 percent a year. Imports have doubled in the last 5 years.... Unless profound changes are made to lower oil consumption, we now believe that early in the 1980s the world will be demanding more oil than it can produce.
President Jimmy Carter, address to the nation, April 18, 1977
Which course of action did President Carter propose in order to solve this problem for the next generation?
Contract with foreign nations to build wind turbines
Reduce federal spending on solar cell energy research
Drill fewer offshore wells to conserve marine life
Develop alternative energy sources
- 55. Multiple Choice
Which statement best explains how bank failures contributed to the Great Depression?
People lost their savings because the government did not insure bank deposits.
Business could not be done when President Franklin Roosevelt declared a bank holiday.
The interest rates on bank loans were too high.
Foreign investors did not invest enough in U.S. banks.
- 56. Multiple Choice
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated in Memphis
April 4, 1968
The Daily Star
How did the event in this headline impact the Civil Rights movement?
The focus of the movement shifted to the struggle of migrant workers.
The movement lost credibility with the American public.
The focus of the movement shifted to protesting U.S. involvement in foreign wars.
The movement lost an important national leader.
- 57. Multiple Choice
As social conditions become more equal, the number of persons increases who, although they are neither rich enough nor powerful enough to exercise any great influence over their fellow-creatures, have nevertheless acquired or retained sufficient education and fortune to satisfy their own wants. They owe nothing to any man, they expect nothing from any man; they acquire the habit of always considering themselves as standing alone, and they are apt to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own hands.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
Which American value is described in this excerpt?
Individualism
Populism
Liberty
Laissez-faire
- 58. Multiple Choice
In the World War II era, what was the major reason for Jewish immigration to the United States?
To seek guaranteed universal suffrage
To escape famine and drought caused by natural disaster
To seek better educational opportunities
To escape state-sponsored genocide
- 59. Multiple Choice
Magneto Assembly Line at Ford Motor Company, 1913
How did this enhance the automobile industry?
By speeding up production of automobiles at lower costs
By requiring only licensed workers to produce the automobiles
By ensuring high-quality automobiles for consumers at higher prices
By developing new designs to test automobile safety standards
- 60. Multiple Choice
In November 1942, the National War Labor Board (NWLB) adopted the policy of “equal pay for equal work,” which had not been standard practice in industry.
What was the most likely purpose of this National War Labor Board order?
To prevent unions from discriminating against unskilled workers during the war
To weaken the “Rosie the Riveter” image for women working on the home front
To double the output of equipment needed to support U.S. troops overseas
To ensure fair treatment for women in the workplace during the war
- 61. Multiple Choice
Selected Events in the History of the Gold Standard
March 1933-The Emergency Banking Act gives President Franklin Roosevelt the power to control domestic and foreign exchange gold movements.
April 1933- President Roosevelt formally suspends the gold standard.
May 1933- President Roosevelt takes actions to increase the money supply by changing the ratio of dollars to gold and fixing the value of dollars to silver.
January 1934- Congress passes the Gold Reserve Act, permanently fixing the value of gold relative to dollars.
What was the goal of the actions on this time line?
To ensure deposits into customer savings accounts
To increase government regulation of business
To end speculation in the stock market
To stabilize the national economy
- 62. Multiple Choice
This excerpt is from a book written by a Norwegian man who immigrated to the United States in the late 1800s:
Then west by train on road and route not known to us. We saw mountains, which must have been the Alleghenies, and felt much depressed. Was that America? Had we been fooled? We expected to see flat ground with no timber or boulders to clear. When we came far enough to see that kind of country our spirits rose again.
—Andreas Ueland, Recollections of an Immigrant
These immigrants were relieved when they saw the type of land they were expecting because they -
hoped to establish farms
wanted to build factories
planned to mine for gold
wanted to work for the railroad
- 63. Multiple Choice
In 2015 the New York City Mayor’s office reported that the city had recently accomplished the following:
• Reduced carbon emissions by one-fifth and achieved the city’s cleanest air in 50 years
• Upgraded building codes to prepare for extreme weather like flooding and high winds
• Added nearly one million trees and six million square feet of reflective rooftop to the city landscape
Which challenges prompted New York City to take these actions?
Increasing threats to large urban areas by foreign and domestic terrorism
A widening gap in income levels between socioeconomic groups in society
Escalating costs of providing health care and social services for senior citizens
Aging infrastructure and pollution caused by high population density
- 64. Multiple Choice
How did Bill Gates earn the title “World’s Richest Man”
By creating social media sites
By investing in global satellite communications
By developing computer software
By creating innovations in cell phone technology
- 65. Multiple Choice
Organization Description
1 Members armed themselves and were willing to take necessary means to protect their homes and families.
2 Leaders enforced the use of nonviolence among those engaging in sit-ins and other protest activities.
3 Leaders worked with existing laws and within the court system to increase the rights of African Americans.
Which organizations correctly complete this table?
1 NAACP 2 Black Panthers 3 SNCC
1 SNCC 2 CORE 3 Black Panthers
1 Black Panthers 2 SNCC 3 NAACP
1 CORE 2 NAACP 3 AIM
- 66. Multiple Choice
II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
—President Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points
Which of the causes underlying World War I was this provision of the Fourteen Points intended to prevent?
Nationalism and militarism
Blockades and unrestricted submarine warfare
Secret treaties and alliances
Imperialism and self-determination
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