STAAR Review Quiz Fall 2022

Which statement describes one reason the year 2008 was significant?

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

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

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

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

Goal 1: Addressing Climate Change and Improving Air Quality

Goal 2: Safeguarding America’s Waters

Goal 3: Cleaning Up Communities and Advancing Sustainable Development

Goal 4: Ensuring the Safety of Chemicals and Preventing Pollution

Which government entity is responsible for achieving these goals?

• National Park Service

• Department of Homeland Security

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Federal Emergency Management Agency

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Twenty-Fourth Amendment

• Twenty-Sixth Amendment

What was one reason why these amendments were added to the Constitution?

• To guarantee due process of law

• To expand the authority of the states over the federal government

• To limit the freedom of expression

• To expand the rights of individuals to participate in the government

Which goal was the focus of LBJ's Great Society?

• To increase taxation

• To privatize education

• To expand voting rights

• To fight social inequality

Selected features of the Homestead Act of 1862:

• Adult citizens were granted 160 acres of public land.

• People claiming the land were required to improve the land by building a home and farming the land.

• After 5 years on the land, the person claiming the land paid a registration fee and officially owned the land.

What was one effect of the act described in this list?

• The debt of the federal government increased.

• The population of settlers in the American West increased.

• The number of conflicts with American Indians decreased.

• The demand for natural resources decreased.

Ideas from President Wilson’s Fourteen Points, 1918:

1. Open and public peace treaties

2. Freedom of the seas outside territorial waters

3. Removal of trade barriers among all nations

4. Arms reductions

5. An association of nations

Which statement describes the purpose of this plan?

• To establish a new era of isolationism

• To punish countries that are defeated in war

• To prevent multinational countries from breaking apart

• To create conditions that prevent future global conflicts

Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001

• Allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to search for “tangible things” without probable cause

• Allows search warrants to be issued for any U.S. citizen believed to be involved in terrorist activities

This act has caused conflict between —

• individual rights and the authority of the government to maintain national security

• equal protection under the law and protection of minorities against discrimination

• economic stability and increased government spending on military readiness

• promotion of free-trade policies and protections for workers in domestic industries

NATO was created in response to concerns about —

• the Soviet Union and Communism

• Italy and Nazism

• Germany and fascism

• Japan and militarism

• Passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act

• Ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment

• Passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act

In which historical time period were these laws enacted?

• The Great Society

• The Progressive Era

• The Great Depression

• The Jazz Age

The demographic structure of the United States changed in the late nineteenth 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