STAAR Review

Which statement describes one reason the year 2008 was significant?

• First Lady Hillary Clinton testified before Congress on health reform

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

• Ross Perot was the first third party candidate to win

• President George W Bush announced a war on terrorism

Match each environmental purpose with the correct law or agency

• To protect animals threatened with extinction

• National Park Services

• to improve air, water, and land quality

• Endangered Species Act

• To preserve natural and cultural resources in national parks and monuments

• Environmental Protection Agency

Determine which description explains the amendment. Drag each correct answer next to the amendment.

• eliminated poll taxes in federal elections

• 18th Amendment

• lowered voting age to 18

• 24th Amendment

• taxes

• 19th Amendment

• Prohibition

• 16th Amendment

• women suffrage

• 26th Amendment

What was on eeffect of the event described in this headline?

• increased support for gender equality in labor union membership

• decreased support for socialism by labor union members

• increased federal government involvement in labor union activities

• decreased federal government surveillance of labor union leaders

How did the Great Depression affect American Society?

• The price of agricultural goods decreased, causing an increase in demand for farmland

• Manufacturing wages increased, causing businesses to concede to labor union demands

• Demand for luxury goods increased, causing overproduction in manufacturing

• Businesses were forced to close, causing widespread unemployment

How did the Battle of Midway alter the course of the war in the Pacific?

• By stopping the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• By halting the progress of Japanese expansion

• By preventing the continued use of Japanese kamikaze planes

• By defending the Philippines from Japanese conquest

Match the significance of the ruling to the Supreme Court case.

• allowed "separate but equal" facilities

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• ended segregation in public schools

• Hernandez v Texas

• Mexican Americans cannot be excluded from juries

• Brown v Board of Education

"President Clinton awarding the Medal of Honor to Vernon Baker, January 1997"

What was the significance of the event depicted in this photograph?

• The US government officially desegrated the armed forces

• The US government extended veteran benefits to African Americans

• The US government honored an African American veteran for bravery during World War II

• The US government created a new military commendation for veterans of foreign wars

"China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers, that is South Vietnam went, it would not only give them an improved geographic position...... but would also give the impression that the wave of the future in southeast Asia was China and the Communists" - President John F Kennedy

Which idea reflected in these remarks formed the basis for US involvement in Vietnam?

• Nuclear deterrence

• Flexible response

• Domino Theory

• Iron Curtain

NATO was created in response to concerns about-

• the Soviet Union and Communism

• Italy and Nazism

• Germany and facism

• Japan and militarism