U.S. History STAAR Practice Test

corrupt city government officials promising to provide services and jobs in exchange for votes

• Tenement

• Immigration

• Urbanization

• Political Boss

Which of the following people wrote "How the Other Half Lives", describing the deplorable conditions in U.S. urban areas?

• Boss Tweed

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

• Alger Hiss

first federal law restricting Asian immigration to the U.S.

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

the process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture

• assimilation

• urbanization

• immigration

• americanization

Political movement that was opposed to big business and bad urban conditions

• Civil Rights movement

• Progressive Movement

• Women Suffrage Movement

• Prohibition Movement

Business owners who paid workers low wages and too home huge profits became known as...

• Presidents

• Muckrakers

• Robber Barrons

• Nativist

added to the Monroe Doctrine; U.S. would make Europeans leave the Western hemisphere

• Marshall Plan

• Lend Lease Act

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Treaty of Versailles

Which of the following territories were acquired by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War?

• Guam

• Hawaii

• Puerto Rico

• Philippines

Journalism that led to the Spanish-American War by exaggerating the truth

• Political Journalism

• Yellow Journalism

• Freelance Journalism

• Social Media Post

Harsh punishment of Germany after WWI; forcing payment for war damages which is also known as...

• reparations

• diplomacy

• war bonds

• rationing