PRACTICE TEST - U.S. HISTORY STAAR 2016

Which Andrew Carnegie quotation best explains why he funded libraries like the one in this photograph?

• “Under the law of competition, the employer of thousands is forced into the strictest economies, . . . and often there is friction between the employer and the employed.”

• “The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is... great.”

• “The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.”

• “This, then, is . . . the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance.”

Which of the following is the best title for this list?

• Issues Contributing to the Outbreak of World War I

• Principal Reasons for U.S. Entry into World War II

• Consequences of Twentieth-Century European Isolationism

• Economic Rivalries Between Cold War Superpowers

Why did Chicano migrant workers establish the United Farm Workers?

• To exert influence on foreign policy

• To obtain fair wages and improve labor conditions

• To attain the right to vote in federal elections

• To change citizenship requirements

What was the initial response of the U.S. government to the attacks of September 11, 2001?

• To impose economic sanctions on Libya for sponsoring terrorist activities

• To begin military operations in Afghanistan

• To reopen military bases in Europe that had been closed after the Cold War

• To form a coalition to eliminate training bases in Pakistan

This confrontation centered around —

• disagreement over the use of taxes to fund public education

• the refusal of federal courts to hear cases concerning civil rights violations

• the denial of First and Fifth Amendment freedoms by southern state legislatures

• resistance by state and local governments to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling

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

• the creation of the Temperance Society

• the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment

• the initiation of the Settlement House movement

• the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

Which statement correctly completes this timeline?

• The Centers for Disease Control petitioned Congress to eliminate waste treatment plants.

• The federal government created the Environmental Protection Agency to oversee environmental issues.

• The automobile industry began researching alternative energy sources.

• The president ordered the Public Health Service to deal with environmental pollution.

Which statement best completes this list?

• Congress passed legislation imposing tariffs on imported beef.

• Most of the cowboys on cattle drives were European immigrants.

• The cattle industry was nationalized under the Department of Agriculture.

• The need to process large amounts of cattle made meatpacking a major industry.

The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to —

• promote cultural assimilation of American Indians

• turn American Indian reservations into corporate farmland

• end warfare between American Indians and the U.S. military

• promote American Indian investment in private industry

The event described in this headline resulted in —

• decreased federal funding of student loans

• increased support for the antiwar movement

• the reinstatement of the draft

• an end to federal investigations of student organizations