US History Final Review

The Zimmerman Telegram was one of the causes of

• The Spanish American War
• World War I
• World War II
• The Korean Conflict

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869 in what location?

• Abilene, Kansas
• Denver, Colorado
• Promontory Point, Utah
• Benton, LA

Laws that made segregation and discrimination legal in the United States were called

• Klan Laws
• Blue Laws
• Granger Laws
• Jim Crow Laws

In the United States, the main purpose of antitrust legislation is to

• Protect the environment
• Eliminate monopolies
• Eliminate labor unions
• Promote better labor-management relations

What invention of Henry Ford’s made the mass production of automobiles and other products possible?

• Interchangeable parts
• Moving assembly line
• Metric conversion tools

THe Red Scare can be described as fear about what

• The spread of communism to America.
• The outbreak of World War III.
• A fear of firetrucks

The War Powers Act is a law that requires the president to do what?

• Report to Congress within 48 hours after ordering combat troops into battle and withdrawing them after 60 days unless given Congressional approval to leave them longer.

• To immediately declare war on any country that attacks the U.S.

• Report to Congress within 48 hours any threat made on the U.S. by another nation, and to send troops into battle for 60 months to control the threat.

The political cartoonist who was William “Boss” Tweed’s enemy was

• James Blaine
• Thomas Nast
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Jack Johnson

Members of the Populist Party were mostly

• Businessmen
• Farmers
• Industrialists
• Democrats

Which court case was responsible for America becoming separate but equal?

• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Army vs. McCarthy
• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Santa Claus vs. Easter Bunny