Practice STAAR Final Fall 2023

Which ideas were included in the original US Constitution?

Select TWO correct answers.

• Separating governmental powers

• Establishing a court system

• providing access to a lawyer if requested

• Providing access to trial by jury

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1a

Which ideas were added to the Constitution through the Bill of Rights?

Select TWO correct answers.

• Separating governmental powers

• Establishing a court system

• Allowing peaceful protests

• Providing access to trial by jury

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1a

Political machines like Tammany Hall controlled political power by rigging votes and bribing voters.

What is another way the political machines kept their political power?

• By passing civil service exams

• By introducing reforms

• By giving jobs and contracts to their supporters

• By lobbying for literacy tests

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3a

“In plain sight of a hundred fellow‑workmen, Martin Stoffel was cut into small pieces at the Philadelphia Caramel Works ... Before the machinery could be stopped, Stoffel had been literally chopped to pieces."

Which action taken by American workers was MOST successful in fixing problems like the one stated above?

• workers taking over the factory from the owner

• joining a labor union

• getting rid of child labor

• protests the government tariffs

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3b

How did the Dawes Act created by the Federal government try to assimilated Native Americans?

Select TWO correct answers

• Sent Native children to boarding schools

• Put Native artifacts into museums

• Deny basic access to public services

• Divide Native lands into individual plots

• Allow Natives to return to their native land

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25b

Which image below would be connected with the Bessemer Process?

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26a

Why did Progressive reformers support the goal shown in the cartoon above?

• Alcohol cost too much money

• alcohol abuse led to many problems

• too many alcohol monopolies

• they thought patriotic celebrations got too exciting

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3c

The people in this cartoon represent what group of US society that had to pay income tax?

• Poor immigrants

• Wealthy business owners

• middle-income earners

• elected government officials

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5a

Match the following

• No, still working on it

• Women are equal to men after?

• Women's Suffrage

• Examples of protest

• hunger strikes and picketing

• 19th amendment

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6a

Organize the government action in response to the Pullman Strike into the correct categories.

Groups:

(a) Helped Private Business

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(b) Helped Workers

• President created Labor Day

• Sent troops to break the strike forcefully

• Union leaders were arrested and jailed

• Courts ruled boycotts and strikes illegal

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15b