STAAR Review Part 2 1920-1945

Multiple Choice

What was the issue at the center of the Scopes Trial?

• The legality of segregation in schools
• Teaching evolution in schools
• How many terms the President should have
• Term limits for court justices

Multiple Choice

The developments on this list contributed to what development of the 1920's and 1930's?

• F

• G

• H

• J

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• A

• B

• C

• D

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What two ideas were being fought over in the Scopes Trial?

• Nazism vs Communism
• Capitalism v Communism
• Modernism vs Traditionalism
• Modernism v Classicalism

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After the Great Migration this was an awakening of African American culture in the 1920s.

• The Harlem Renaissance
• The Great Awakening
• The March on Washington
• The Tin Pan Alley Movement

Multiple Choice

The two men at the center of the Scopes Monkey Trial

• Woodrow Wilson and Henry Cabot Lodge
• Richard Lee and Louis Armstrong
• William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow
• John Scopes and Marcus Garvey

Multiple Choice

What natural resource was involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal?

• Coal

• Oil

• Timber

• Steel

Multiple Choice

What Civil Rights leader of the 20s believed in a separatist approach to race relations?

• Marcus Garvey

• William DuBois

• Booket T. Washington

• Martin Luther King Jr.

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What radical group created the "Red Scare" in the 1920s?

• Pacifists

• Anarchists

• Communists

• Nativists

Multiple Choice

How did the Great Depression affect American society?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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"Section 202. (a) Every qualified individual shall be entitled to receive.. . on the date he attains the age of sixty-five,.. . and ending on the date of his death, an old-age benefit. . ."

 

A major purpose of this section of Federal legislation was to

• assure adequate medical care for the elderly

• guarantee an annual income to experienced employees

• provide economic assistance to retired elderly workers

• reward workers for their support of the union movement

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The purpose of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) was

• to insure bank deposits in the United States.

• to provide job opportunities in national parks.

• to reduce farm surpluses and raise agricultural profits.

• provide electrical power to an underdeveloped region of the U.S.

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What were two basic causes of the Dust Bowl during the early 1930s?

• strip mining and toxic waste dumping

• over farming and severe drought

• clear-cutting of forests and construction of railroads

• overpopulation and urban sprawl

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A major criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs to combat the Great Depression was that these programs

• reduced the power of the federal government.

• provided too much protection for big business.

• ignored the plight of homeowners with mortgages.

• made people dependent on the federal government.

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What did RRR stand for in Roosevelt's New Deal?

• Revert, Reduce, Recover

• Restore, Recover, Readjust

• Relief, Recovery, Reform

• Reform, Restore, Reclaim

Multiple Choice

Which statement best explains one effect of the New Deal?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Multiple Choice

Which title correctly replaces the question mark?

• F

• G

• H

• J

Multiple Choice

Why was the bill in this cartoon important to President Franklin D. Roosevelt?

• F

• G

• H

• J

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In this New Deal program, workers constructed things like roads, bridges, public buildings and parks but it also employed artists and performers...

• Tennesee Valley Authority

• FDIC

• FERA

• Works Progress Administration

Multiple Choice

France and Britain initially adopted this policy in response to Hitler's territorial expansion

• appeasement

• praise

• extermination

• interventionism

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Japan attacked the US at Pearl Harbor because the US refused to

• declare war on China

• sell Japan oil, scrap metal, etc.

• drop atomic bombs

• buy oil from Japan

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The U.S. military strategy that brought them closer to Japan was called ________.

• guerrilla warfare

• Leap frogging

• Island Hopping

• Blitzkrieg

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The ______ allowed the U.S. president to aid American Allies during the war.

• Marshall Plan

• Neutrality Acts

• Truman Doctrine

• Lend-Lease Act

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the secret assignment to create the atom bomb?

• the New York Project

• Operation Overlord

• the Manhattan Project

• Operation Barbarossa

Multiple Choice

After the battle of _______ the Japanese navy was unable to launch anymore offensive operations.

• Iwo Jima

• Okinawa

• Coral Sea

• Midway

Multiple Choice

Why did Americans grow Victory Gardens during World War II?

• To exchange for extra ration coupons at grocery stores

• To sell the food for profit to the government

• To make sure they had enough food as the nation rationed

• If they grew a certain amount of food they could skip military service

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of posters such as Rosie the Riveter?

• To make sure Victory Gardens were grown

• To motivate proper use of the Ration Books

• To motivate women to find work in factories as men were drafted

• To encourage women to take on combat roles overseas

Multiple Choice

Which describes Executive Order 9066?

• To create a draft lottery system for military service

• It officially brought the U.S. into World War II

• It forced Japanese-Americans into internment camps against their will

• It forced the repatriation of Mexican Americans to reduce job competition

Multiple Choice

How did the Battle of Midway alter the course of the war in the Pacific?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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What was the significance of the event depicted in the photograph?

• A

• B

• C

• D