Benchmark READY!

Benchmark READY!

This review will make you Benchmark READY!

Benchmark Review

• This material will be from starting the beginning of the year!

• You are going to have to reach back far in your brains, but you will remember this!

Multiple Choice

What court case helped desegregate classrooms?

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Briggs V. Elliot

• Elmore V. Rice

• Pearson V. Clarendon County

Multiple Choice

Which nation was NOT in the Allied Powers? (WW2)

• USA

• Japan

• France

• Great Britain

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Which invention/inventor helped speed up of the production of goods?

• Lightbulb/Edison

• Graham Bell/Telephone

• Henry Ford/Assembly Line

• Wright Bros./Airplane

Multiple Choice

Yellow journalism was the cause of the Spanish-American War.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Womens suffrage means?

• Womens right to work

• Womens right to vote

• Stopped the sale of alcohol

• Created businesses for Women

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Because of the U.S and the Soviet Union competing against each other (Cold War), this inspired the Space Race. True or False?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Levittown, a little neighborhood outside of the city, is an example of what?

• Progressivism

• Industrialism

• Suburbanization

• Desegregation

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What best describes the Great Depression?

• Rapid increase in unemployment

• It created jobs for Americans.

• It caused a war.

• It caused the government to tax the poor.

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What two words best describes the process of Immigration?

• Fun and exciting

• Quick and easy

• Resourceful and Informational

• Uncomfortable and dangerous

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What did labor unions do?

• Protect big businesses

• Protect the rights of workers

• Decrease unemployment

• Ended segregation

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The Railroad industry was started by who?

• Thomas Edison

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Benjamin Watson

• Jaylen Brown

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The U.S didn't join WW2 immediately, but something happened to make them join the war. What took place?

• Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

• The Great Depression started.

• Hitler invaded the U.S.

• The U.S. invented nuclear bombs.

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Which inventors increased the speed of communication?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Wright Brothers

• Benjamin Franklin

Multiple Choice

Yellow-journalism caused what war?

• WW2

• WW1

• Spanish-American War

• Civil War

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The 19th amendment supported which group of people?

• Confederates

• Women

• Bootleggers

• African-Americans

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Due to the invention of the assembly line, this increased the number of what?

• Automobiles (cars)

• Televisions

• Radios

• Telephones

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Germany and ________ were two fascist countries during WW2.

• U.S.A.

• England

• Japan

• Russia

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Which historical figure listed below is most closely related with the bus boycott?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks

• George W. Bush

Multiple Choice

September 11, 2001, terrorist attack the United States. Planes destroyed the Twin Towers and Pentagon. How did the U.S. react?

• It caused them to focus on fighting terrorism.

• It created an arms race with France and Iraq.

• It started a Cold War with Russia.

• It caused the nation to become more isolationist.

Benchmark READY

• Get some good sleep!

• Eat a good breakfast!

• Read over your questions and answers carefully!

• Take short breaks every 12 questions! (Stretch, bathroom, walk, deep breathing)