STAAR Review - 1

Read the list and answer the question that follows. 

• High levels of military enlistment

• Active recruitment of women into the defense industry

• High levels of industrial production

• Which Era is associated with these characteristics?

• Spanish-American War

• World War II

• Roaring Twenties

• Great Depression

Select the correct answer in each row.

Which ideas were included in the original U.S. Constitution and which were added through the Bill of Rights?

Groups:

(a) Included in the Original Constitution

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(b) Added through Bill of Rights

• Allow peaceful protests

• Establishes a court system

• Separates government powers

• Trial by Jury

This table of contents is from a book published in 1915.

Which chapter titles identify the MOST DIRECT reasons that the United States declared war on Germany in 1917?

Select THREE correct answers.

• The Supreme Crime Against Civilization: The Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania

• Destroying the Priceless Monuments of Civilizations

• Facing Death in the Trenches

• How "Neutral" Waters are Violated

• The Deadly Submarine and its Stealthy Destruction

Which statement describes one way that the Bessemer process contributed to the economic development of the United States?

• The demand for iron decreased, and iron mines closed.

• The increase in telephone lines reduced the time to communicate over long distances. 

• The mass production of steel allowed the construction of taller buildings. 

• The development of vaccines lowered the cost of medical care. 

Which situation motivated the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol?

• The need to generate revenue after removing protective tariffs in the 1920s

• The need to ration the consumption of agricultural goods in the 1940s

• The need to reduce the federal deficit after the Cold War

• The need to promote economic recovery during the Great Depression

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

What was one result of the activism shown in these photographs?

• It reduced the ability of the courts to decide the constitutionality of suffrage.

• It prompted lawmakers to reinstate poll taxes for voting.

• It reduced the influence of special interest groups devoted to expanding suffrage.

• It brought national attention to problems associated with voting.

Which concern directly contributed to U.S. involvement in the Korean War during the 1950s?

• Containing the spread of communism

• Improving political relations with China

• Deterring the use of nuclear weapons

• Resisting the rise of fascism in Asia

NATO was created in response to concerns about —

• the Soviet Union and Communism

• Italy and Nazism

• Germany and fascism

• Japan and militarism

What was one result of the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the 1930s?

• State governments took over the responsibility of protecting minority rights.

• The federal government was no longer responsible for protecting natural resources

• State governments could no longer control their budgets

• The federal government provided aid to people suffering from unemployment