2nd Set of Practice Questions

This photograph shows an event that took place in 1997. What was the significance of the event depicted in the photograph?

• The U.S. government officially desegregated the armed forces.

• The U.S. government extended veterans benefits to African Americans.

• The U.S. government honored an African American veteran for bravery during World War II.

• The U.S. government created a new military commendation for veterans of foreign wars.

Read the list and answer the question that follows.

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

This list presents the work of a civil rights advocate.

Selected Accomplishments of Dolores Huerta

• Secured disability insurance for California farmworkers

• Directed a national grape boycott to protest the dangers of pesticides for farm workers

• ____________?______________

Which accomplishment correctly completes this list?

• Organized armed resistance to protest police brutality against farmworkers

• Negotiated to secure better working conditions for farmworkers

• Filed a federal lawsuit to fight segregation against farmworkers in public facilities

• Seized corporate farmland to protest discrimination against farmworkers

Which idea reflected in these remarks formed the basis for U.S. involvement in Vietnam?

• Nuclear deterrence

• Flexible response

• Domino theory

• Iron Curtain

This photograph shows a 1934 painting by an artist with the Public Works of Art Project during the Great Depression.

What is the MOST LIKELY reason the Public Works of Art Project commissioned this painting?

• To promote optimism for U.S. economic progress during the Great Depression

• To demand federal worker safety laws during the Great Depression

• To encourage competition for U.S. technological superiority during the Great Depression

• To question the success of nationalizing industries during the Great Depression

NATO was created in response to concerns about —

• the Soviet Union and Communism

• Italy and Nazism

• Germany and fascism

• Japan and militarism

Read the list and answer the question that follows.

• 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

This image shows an advertisement from 1920. The image supports which statement about U.S. society during the early 1900s?

• New technologies made daily life easier for consumers.

• Consumers resisted change in favor of traditional products.

• Harmful economic cycles caused consumers to resist new technology.

• The manufacture of new products encouraged consumers to stay home.

Study the diagram and answer the question that follows.

Industry in the late 1800s expanded. --> Job opportunities became available. -->

________________?_______________

Which trend of the late 1800s correctly replaces the question mark in this cause-and-effect diagram?

• The number of immigrants from Europe declined.

• The government passed laissez-faire laws.

• People moved from rural to urban areas.

• Settlement houses lost federal funding.

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

Which issue was discussed in the writings of Jacob Riis?

• Discrimination against African Americans in U.S. cities

• Harsh conditions of tenement housing in U.S. cities

• Growing conflict between rural regions and U.S. cities

• Increasing efforts to reduce Chinese immigration to U.S. cities