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Multiple Choice

Something that has never been made before; it often helps society improve and be more efficient.

• Invention

• grocery store

• pool party

Multiple Choice

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, successfully flew the first powered airplane near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. This event marked the beginning of the era of aviation.

• Future

• Present

• Past

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Improved the standard of living

Gave more flexibility in employment

Wages doubled, cars are affordable

Multiple Choice

Efficiency means?

• Completing tasks slowly with high expenses
• Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.
• Wasting effort to achieve minimal productivity
• Achieving minimum productivity with maximum effort

Multiple Choice

How has the device shown in this photography helped businesses in the US and around the world?

• By decreasing the number of imported products

• It has caused delays, increased costs, and hindered communication.
• By improving the speed in which purchases can be made, therefore increasing efficiency

• By increasing the time needed to produce and sell goods

Multiple Choice

What refers to new ideas about how to do something as well as the equipment needed to do it? 

• Technology 
• Biology
• Astrology
• Zoology 

Multiple Choice

What are some key differences between the technology and culture of the Nineties and today?

• Increased internet usage

• Less reliance on technology

• More social interactions in person

• Fewer entertainment options

Multiple Choice

Guess what groundbreaking healthcare law Barack Obama inked into history?

• Affordable Care Act

• Medicare for All

• Children's Health Insurance Program

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Multiple Choice

Who did Barack Obama appoint to the Supreme Court in 2009, marking a historic moment?

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Sonia Sotomayor

• Elena Kagan

• Neil Gorsuch

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2008 involved the election of the first ​ ​

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president.

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African American

female

Hispanic

immigrant

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Match the following

• 3rd President of the US

• 4th US President

• 5th US President

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

James Monroe

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• James Monroe

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The ​

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people choose the US President every ​

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years, by ​

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in the presidential election.

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American

four

voting

republican

six

democrats

shouting

Multiple Choice

Which presidents form the Mount Rushmore?

• Thomas Jefferson - George Washington - Abraham Lincoln - Theodore Rooselvelt

• Barack Obama - George Washington - Donald Trump - Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt - John Kennedy - Bill Clinton - Abraham Lincoln

• George Bush - George Washington - Ronald Reagan - Thomas Jefferson

Reorder

Reorder the following Presidents in the correct order:

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• James Monroe

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2

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4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Multiple Choice

This table shows the number of votes received in the state of Florida by the three leading candidates in the 2000 presidential election.

Which of the following best describes Ralph Nader’s effect on the election in Florida?

• He contested the recounting of election ballots in federal court.

• His presence as a third-party candidate discouraged voter turnout.

• He persuaded state officials to abandon the punch-card method of voting.

• His candidacy drew crucial votes away from the other candidates.

Multiple Choice

Ronald Reagan was a

• U.S president.
• U.S senator.
• Mayor.
• Govenor

Multiple Choice

Who did JFK defeat to win the 1960 Election?

• Richard Nixon
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Lyndon Johnson
• Harry Truman

Multiple Choice

What was significant about Barack winning the Presidency in 2008?

• He was the first African-American to win a presidential election.
• It wasn't significant at all.
• Barack didn't win the Presidency in 2008.
• He was the eight African-American to win a presidential election.

Open Ended

Why was the 2008 presidential election significant to U.S. history?

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes one reason the year 2008 was significant?

• First Lady Hillary Clinton testified before Congress on health care reform.

• Barack Obama was the first African American to be elected president.

• Ross Perot was the first third party candidate to win a presidential debate.

• President George W. Bush announced a war on terrorism.

Multiple Choice

What is the significance of the 2008 election that Barack Obama is describing here?

• a minority candidate was elected president

• naturalized immigrants had access to multilingual ballots

• federal courts ordered voter recounts to stop

• religious beliefs played a significant role in the presidential campaign

Multiple Choice

What was the primary goal of the 2009 Affordable Care Act?

• to eliminate state medical programs

• to expand access to health insurance

• to nationalize medical care for the elderly

• to ease restrictions on healthcare providers

Multiple Choice

What was the primary goal of the 2009 Affordable Care Act?

• To eliminate state medical programs

• To expand access to health insurance

• To nationalize medical care for the elderly

• To ease restrictions on healthcare providers

Multiple Choice

Under the Affordable Care act, you can remain on your parents insurance plan until what age?

• 21
• 24
• 26
• 32

Multiple Choice

What was the main goal of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) passed in 2010?

• To reduce healthcare costs

• To provide access to health coverage

• To eliminate health insurance

• To increase taxes on healthcare

Multiple Choice

This list describes some effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010.

1. Americans gained increased options for purchasing private health insurance outside the workplace.

2. Some employer-sponsored insurance plan prices increased slightly, but only temporarily.

3. Americans could receive government subsidies to help pay for the cost of health insurance.

4. Coverage limits, or maximum amounts that insurance companies would pay for medical treatment during a person’s lifetime, ended.

Which effect would LIKELY be opposed by a person who believes that the national debt is too high?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

(2021) What was one intended effect of this government action?

• To reduce the use of gasoline by consumers

• To reduce traffic on interstate highways

• To improve the life expectancy of consumers

• To increase the use of railroads

Multiple Choice

Bill Clinton's affordable healthcare plan never passed and was attacked for being "big government".  

• True 
• False 

Multiple Choice

Which initiative was a major focus of Clinton's healthcare reform efforts?

• Universal healthcare coverage

• Privatization of Medicare

• Reduction of pharmaceutical patents

• Expansion of Medicaid to all citizens

Open Ended

Why was the Affordable Care Act created?

• The response clearly explains that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was created to improve access to healthcare, make healthcare more affordable, and reduce the number of uninsured individuals in the United States.

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eliminates trade barriers between the USA, Canada, and Mexico.

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Trading between countries is ​

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trade.

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international

importing

exporting

pound

trading

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Match the correct Word to it's definition.

• goods or materials that are shipped to other nations to be sold

• goods or materials that are brought into a nation from abroad

• ​a tax levied on a particular type of import or export

Export

Import

Tariff

• Export

• Import

• Tariff

Multiple Choice

International trade free of government control and trade barriers

• Free trade
• Trade barrier
• Voluntary trade
• Embargo

Multiple Choice

When a US citizens calls a company to get customer support and they end up talking to someone in another country because they charge less to do the job, this is an example of:

• Import

• Export

• Outsourcing

• Diffusion

Match

Match the following

• Life Expectancy

• Exports

• Imports

• Literacy Rate

• GDP per capita

How long people generally live.

Goods sold to other nations.

Goods purchased from other nations.

How many people can read in a region.

The average income a nations citizens.

• How long people generally live.

• Goods sold to other nations.

• Goods purchased from other nations.

• How many people can read in a region.

• The average income a nations citizens.

Multiple Choice

What are the positive roles of technological advances and free enterprise on the economy?

• Increased production through robotic assembly

• Decreased competition

• Reduced telecommunications efficiency

• Limited information transportation

Match

 

Which economic effect ocurred as a result of each technological inovation?

• Electric power:​

• Steel production:

• Petroleum-based products:

• Satellite communications:

Lengthened the workday through the use of lightbulbs

Facilitated the expansion of the Transcontinental Railroad

Improved transportation through the use of the internal combustion engine

Improve the transfer of information across long distances

• Lengthened the workday through the use of lightbulbs

• Facilitated the expansion of the Transcontinental Railroad

• Improved transportation through the use of the internal combustion engine

• Improve the transfer of information across long distances

Open Ended

How has the internet made a positive impact on the economy?

Multiple Choice

Which military need contributed to development of the technology described in this excerpt?

• Faster, more accurate responses during combat

• Stronger, more dependable weapons for soldiers

• Lighter, more fuel-efficient cargo planes

• Larger, more powerful nuclear submarines

Multiple Choice

Which effect is the result of the information shown in the graph?

• A decreased need for computer automation

• An increased need for human supervision

• An increase in production efficiency

• A decrease in consumer demand

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes how these improvements were originally developed?

• The government upgraded the infrastructure for telecommunications.

• The government provided tax incentives to automobile companies.

• The government invested funds into aerospace technology.

• The government provided subsidies to agricultural businesses.

Multiple Choice

What are the main environmental issues caused by the high use of oil and gas for energy?

• Pollution

• Deforestation

• Climate Change

• Water Scarcity

Open Ended

In the Generation Genius video that you watched, name and describe an environmental problem that humans have created and what solution(s) was/were developed to correct the problem.

Multiple Choice

Based on the excerpt, how might population growth affect the environment?

• Less farming will lead to cleaner waterways.

• Extensive reforestation will lead to cleaner air.

• Alternative fuel usage will pollute the air.

• Habitat destruction will disrupt ecosystems.

Match

Match the following

• assimilation

• acculturation

• syncretism

adapting to a new culture while losing nearly all of one's original culture

adapting to a new culture while keeping some or most of your original culture

the blending of two or more cultures

• adapting to a new culture while losing nearly all of one's original culture

• adapting to a new culture while keeping some or most of your original culture

• the blending of two or more cultures

Multiple Choice

What is the best explanation for the change in world population shown on the graph between 1950 and 2000?

• family planning services became more widespread
• there were several majors wars in Asia and Africa
• improvements in medicine and agriculture were accompanied by rising birth rates in less developed countries
• a dramatic increase in the number of famines and natural disasters occurred in the last half of the twentieth century

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Choose the right label for the image given.

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Social Factors

Economic Factors

Physical Factors

Political Factors

Multiple Choice

How does culture spread?

• Language

• Government and economy

• War, trade, colonization and immigration

Multiple Choice

the spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior to other societies.

• religion
• diffusion
• urbanization
• acculturation

Open Ended

Oliver and Ethan are working on a project about fashion history. List 4 major events/items/timeline of how blue jeans diffused all over the planet.

Multiple Choice

Which claim is BEST supported by this excerpt?

• Foreigners think negatively of how Americans are portrayed on television.

• International aid organizations prioritize sharing American culture through television.

• Television is an important tool for the diffusion of American culture abroad.

• American television shows are less influential globally than they were in the twentieth century.

Multiple Choice

This information provides the strongest evidence of which trend?

• The increasing reluctance to travel to the United States

• The growing interest in celebrating local cultures

• The expansion of U.S. popular culture

• The increasing rate of international tourism

Open Ended

What trend has been observed in the percentage of Spanish speaking citizens over the last several decades?

Open Ended

Based on the map evidence, how did you reach your conclusion about the ten-year change in population?

Multiple Choice

What percentage of the population is Hispanic?

• 61%

• 18%

• 13%

• 6%

Open Ended

How would you describe the U.S. to someone based on this data?

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals?

• To protect immigrant children from discrimination.

• To provide immigrant mother's with jobs.

• To provide immigrant children with free education.

• To protect immigrant children from deportation.

Multiple Choice

What is the primary goal of immigration policies?

• To stop all forms of migration.

• To regulate who enters and leaves a country.

• To encourage only skilled workers to migrate.

• To completely open borders without any restrictions.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the impact of immigration policies on migration?

• They have no significant impact on migration patterns.

• They only affect illegal immigration.

• They can either encourage or restrict migration, depending on the policy.

• They are solely focused on economic migrants.

Multiple Choice

What are some controversies associated with immigration in the U.S. regarding illegal immigration?

• Preventing illegal immigration

• Providing healthcare to immigrants

• Increasing border security

• Offering citizenship to all immigrants

Open Ended

What motivates people to immigrate to a country?

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This list describes the 19th century experiences of immgrants from ​

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What regions are the source of MOST RECENT immigration to the United States?

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The movement of people from ​

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to ​

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is called Rural - Urban Migration

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Rural

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Rocinha

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Rio

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During the late 1800s, the US saw an increase in immigrants from ​

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​ arriving at ​

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. Other groups of immigrants also include ​

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.

Match

Match the following

• Former slaves migrating to the west

• White Middle Class leaving cities for the suburbs

• African Americans moving north and west

Exodusters

White Flight

Great Migration

• Exodusters

• White Flight

• Great Migration

Multiple Choice

What is the best description of the chart?

• Latin America had a steady decrease in immigration

• Immigration from Communist countries stopped

• Immigration in non-European countries increased.

• Quotas decreased immigration

Multiple Choice

The demographic structure of the United States changed in the late 19th century with the arrival of -

• Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe seeking industrial jobs.

• Political refugees coming to the United States from the former Spanish colonies.

• Migrants from Mexico seeking agricultural jobs during a worldwide depression.

• German immigrants fleeing Europe prior to the outbreak of the First World War.

Multiple Choice

Based on this table and your knowledge of U.S. history, which conclusion could be made about U.S. immigration between 1960 and 2000?

• International trade agreements banned migration from certain regions.

• Military conflicts prevented migration from certain regions.

• Immigration law changes allowed more migration from certain regions.

• Changes in climate influenced migration from certain regions.

Multiple Choice

Which factor best explains the population change in California, Texas, and Florida during this time period?

• An increase in the number of coal-mining jobs

• Fewer environmental protection laws

• A lack of a sales tax on consumer goods

• An increase in the number of economic opportunities

Multiple Choice

What were 2 reasons for the population patterns shown on this graph?

• More passenger trains and better subway systems in the Sun Belt

• More government regulation and fewer natural disasters in the Sun Belt

• More job opportunities and lower cost of living in the Sun Belt

• More cultural diversity and better funding for public education in the Sun Belt