STAAR- US History Review

What was a "Hooverville?"

• Where homeless people settled during the GD

• Towns founded in Panama by Herbert Hoover

• A place on the White House lawn, where Hoover played "Hooverball"

• Anywhere Herbert Hoover slept

What were local laws used to segregate African-Americans after Reconstruction called?

• Dixiecrat Laws

• Uncle Sam Laws

• Smoot-Hawley Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

Who were African-American pilots that distinguished themselves in WWII?

• American Hornets

• Dirty Dozens

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Flying Tigers

What was FDR's plan to add judges to the Supreme Court?

• Jamming the Judiciary

• Packing the Court

• Cramming the Court

• Stuffing the Supremes

What is the program for elderly people receiving money called?

• Old Folks Homes

• Social Security

• Assisted Living

• Dad-o's Dole

What was the policy of containing communism after WWII commonly referred to as?

• détente

• Ike's Policy

• deterrence

• The Truman Doctrine

What was a letter to Mexico from Germany asking them to attack the U.S. Then Germany would support Mexico getting the lands lost in the Mexican cession?

• Zimmerman Telegram

• "Grito de Villa"

• New York Times article

• Hindenburg Ultimatum

Where did Dr. Martin Luther King get the idea for non-violent resistance to segregation?

• Winston Churchill

• Malcolm X

• Thomas Jefferson

• Mahatma Gandhi

What program are relief, recovery, and reform most closely associated with?

• The New Deal

• The Fair Deal

• The Square Deal

• The Great Society

Who had the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Douglas MacArthur