STAAR Review Mar 18

Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages. 

• Nativists
• Political bosses
• Miners
• Labor leaders

Which group provided basic services for immigrants & the poor for votes & made illegal fortunes

• Nativist
• Labor Unions
• Political Machines
• Robber Barons

A student learning about US history is instructed to write a paper about W.E.B. Du Bois and race relations in the US. Which of the following facts would be most relevant to the student's assignment?

• The Selma -to-Montgomery protest marches helped secure voting rights for minority citizens.

• The NAACP was organized to help secure full legal equality for minority citizens.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawed many forms of discrimination in the housing market.

• The March on Washington helped rally nationwide support for the Civil Rights movement.

Which of these contributed to the ratification of the 18th Amendment?

• Veteran soldiers protesting to obtain benefits

• The growing political influence of women

• Politicians campaigning for education reform

• The growing number of workers organizing into labor unions

The issue addressed in this political cartoon was later settled by --

• the creation of the Temperance Society

• the repeal of the 18th Amendment

• the initiation of the Settlement House movement

• the ratification of the 19th Amendment

What was Prohibition?

• A complete ban on the sale of food
• A complete ban on the sale of alcohol
• A complete ban on the sale of clothes
• A complete ban on the sale of cars

The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 had to do with teaching of Fundamentalism and ______.

• school
• Evolution
• life
• religion

_______________ were young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting.

• Expatriates
• Jazzers
• Flappers
• Scats

Oct. 29, 1929, Black Tuesday

• Black Friday

• The Great Depression Happened

• Stock Market Recovers

• Stock Market Crash

The name given to the area of the southern Great Plains severely damaged by droughts and dust storms during the 1930’s

• The Dust Super Bowl

• The Dust Bowl

• The Great Depression

• Stock Market