US History STAAR

Read the list and answer the question that follows:

-Growth of social media

-Increaseduse of cell phones

-Election of First African American president

What time period is represented by this information?

• 1970's

• 1980's

• 1990's

• 2000's

Which action did Congress take to help protect native plants and animals from extinction?

• Passed the Endangered Species Act

• Constructed the Hoover Dam

• Passed the Community Reinvestment Act

• Established the Department of Energy

What were two economic effects of World War II on the home front (United States)?

• -Increased number of women working industrial jobs

  -increased income tax rates

• -increased number of labor union strikes

  -increased production of consumer goods

• -Decreased size of the national debt

  -Decreased efforts to recycle metal for the military

• -Decreased government funding for nuclear weapons

How did the United States respond to the launch of Sputnik I in 1957 by the Soviet Union?

• By increasing health care benefits and pensions for the military

• By implementing the Marshall Plan

• By increasing funding for math and science

What effect did the sinking of the Lusitania have on World War I?

• Germany joined the Central Powers.

• U.S. public opinion shifted against Germany.

• Germany refused to join the League of Nations.

• U.S. leaders proposed a military alliance with Germany.

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 US military

• promote American Indian investment in private industry

These photographs provided evidence that one goal of the Carlisle Indian School was to-

• restore US citizenship to American Indians

• encourage the study of American Indian religious practices

• protect American Indians from nativism policies

• assimilate American Indians into US culture

Which word best explains the changes shown in these photographs?

• Immigration

• Assimilation

• Nullification

• Nativism

Plessy and the other members of his organization were trying to challenge

• the Brown v. Board of Education case

• Segregation and the Jim Crow laws

• Reconstruction

• equal pay for equal work

What was one of the results of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.

• The Supreme Court never made a ruling.

• The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.