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WorksheetsYear Review 2017-2018
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 55mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is seen in the picture and was attacked on 9/11?
a)
World Trade Center
b)
Pentagon
c)
White House
d)
Capitol Building
2.
Who was the extremist responsible for 9/11?
a)
Kim Jong-il
b)
Saddam Hussein
c)
Adolf Hitler
d)
Osama bin Laden
3.
How did many people react to the 9/11 terrorist event?
a)
People became disappointed by the US not stopping the attack.
b)
They became terrorists towards each other.
c)
People united to show the rest of the world how strong we are as a country.
d)
People started resisting X-Ray machines at the airport.
4.
Who was president of the United States when the attacks occurred on September 11, 2001
a)
Barack Obama
b)
Jimmy Ford
c)
William Bill Clinton
d)
George W. Bush
5.
Which tower was hit first?
a)
North
b)
South
6.
Government control of people and the economy is called
a)
NATO
b)
fascism
c)
capitalism
d)
communism
7.
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britan?
a)
Harry Truman
b)
Nikita Khrushchev
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Joseph Stalin
8.
Who believed there were communist spies in the U.S.?
a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Harry Truman
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Joseph McCarthy
9.
What was the symbol of the differences between communist and non-communist nations?
a)
NATO
b)
Iron Curtain
c)
Arms Race
d)
Superpowers
10.
What does N.A.T.O. stand for?
a)
North American Tribal Organization
b)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
c)
North Atlantic Tours Overseas
d)
Northern American Treaty Overseers
11.
A race among nations to build more powerful weapons was called
a)
Arms race
b)
Finish Weapons Quickly Race
c)
Peacetime Race
d)
gun control order
12.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a)
When the Soviet Union shipped missiles to the U.S. so the U.S. could declare war on Cuba
b)
When Cuba tried to buy land from the U.S.
c)
when the Cubans partnered with the Soviet Union to plan an invasion of the U.S.
d)
when the Soviet Union secretly placed missiles in Cuba pointed towards the U.S.
13.
What was it called when the U.S. dropped supplies in East Berlin?
a)
Space Race
b)
Arms Race
c)
NATO
d)
Berlin Airlift
14.
Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal
a)
allow children to work.
b)
to pay black people less than white people.
c)
to return a slave.
d)
to segregate schools.
15.
After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to
a)
let African Americans ride the bus.
b)
deny someone of a job because of their race.
c)
fire someone for not doing their job.
d)
kick someone out of the military.
16.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
a)
Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people
b)
Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal
17.
Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
a)
Lyndon B. Johnson
b)
John F. Kennedy
18.
The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage
a)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
b)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
19.
Person who was killed on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee after trying to help black sanitation workers receive better working conditions
a)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
b)
Robert Kennedy
20.
Keeping things or people SEparate
a)
prejudice
b)
union
c)
confederate
d)
segregation
21.
What court case stated, "We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherintly unequal."
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Tinker v. Des Moines
d)
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
22.
Which Civil Rights leader also became the 1st African American to serve on the US Supreme Court?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Martin Luther King Jr.
c)
Thurgood Marshall
d)
Rosa Parks
23.
Where did Dr. King deliver his famous "I Have a Dream " speech?
a)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
b)
Albany Movement rally
c)
Memphis, TN garbage workers' strike
d)
at the March on Washington
24.
What famous case influenced the Boycott?
a)
Brown v. Board of Education
b)
Andrew v. Board of Education
c)
Roe v. Wade
d)
Roe v. The United States
25.
What did JFK contribute to in 1957?
a)
Vietnam War.
b)
Space Race.
c)
Korean War.
d)
Civil War.
26.
Where was JFK assassinated?
a)
Jacob Kerns House.
b)
Saint Paul, MN
c)
Dallas, TX.
d)
Pizza Hut.
27.
Which amendment abolished slavery?
a)
16th
b)
15th
c)
14th
d)
13th
28.
What ended segregration in public places and banned employment discrimination?
a)
a. the Voting Rights Act of 1965
b)
b. the Civil Rights Act of 1964
c)
c. the Fair Housing Act of 1968
d)
d. the Jim Crow laws
29.
This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest
a)
Tornados
b)
Dust Bowl
c)
Black Tuesday
d)
Hurricanes
30.
The President who was mostly blamed for worsening the Great Depression
a)
Roosevelt
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Hoover
d)
Jefferson
31.
The name given to the programs enforced by FDR to ensure relief, recovery and reform.
a)
Stock Market
b)
Great Depression
c)
Margin
d)
New Deal
32.
This President enforced both New Deals and saw America through the Great Depression and World War II.
a)
Eisenhower
b)
Truman
c)
Hoover
d)
Roosevelt
33.
On October 29, 1929 share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and partially caused the Great Depression.
a)
Black Thursday
b)
Black Tuesday
c)
Black Friday
d)
Black Sunday
34.
A time in America following the roaring 20's where America experience rising unemployment that did not end until the onset of World War II.
a)
New Deal
b)
Roaring 20's
c)
Great Depression
d)
Cold War
35.
The most popular home appliance in the 1930's
a)
Television
b)
Radio
c)
Movies
d)
Telephone
36.
Who had to take full blame for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles?
a)
Britain
b)
Ottoman Empire
c)
Germany
d)
Russia
37.
The Spanish-American war was the United States fighting which country?
a)
Spain
b)
Cuba
c)
Italy
d)
Great Britain
38.
The main reason for the Spanish - American War was control over the country of _______.
a)
Cuba
b)
Puerto Rico
c)
Haiti
d)
Jamaica
39.
Spain ended up sinking which US boat?
a)
USS Maine
b)
USS Delaware
c)
Lusitania
d)
Titanic
40.
The reason for high cattle prices in the East was___________.
a)
low demand
b)
high supply
c)
high demand
41.
The reason cattle were cheap in Texas was because of ______________.
a)
high supply
b)
low supply
c)
high demand
42.
The first cattle trail was_____________.
a)
The Chisholm Trail
b)
The Great Western Trail
c)
The Texan Trail
43.
The Great Western Trail took cattle _____________.
a)
East
b)
South
c)
North
44.
Cattle were herded along trails and then put on ________________.
a)
planes
b)
boats
c)
trains
45.
The Panama Canal connects which two bodies of water?
a)
Atlantic/Indian
b)
Pacific/Atlantic
c)
Pacific/Indian
d)
Atlantic/Artic
46.
The United States wanted a quick ocean route from
a)
the east to the west
b)
the north to the south
c)
North America to South America
d)
the east to the south
47.
Why did immigrants leave their homeland?
a)
There were no opportunities or resources in their homeland.
b)
They wanted gold and glory.
c)
They faced war, prejudice, and oppression.
d)
Both A and C
48.
Which is a reason people came to America?
a)
Baseball
b)
Colleges
c)
Job opportunities
d)
Vacation
49.
He invented the telephone in 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
The Wright Brothers
50.
He invented the electric light bulb in 1879 at his laboratory in New Jersey called Menlo Park.
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
The Wright Brothers
51.
Who invented the first airplane that could successfully hold a human and an engine in 1903.
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
The Wright Brothers
52.
How did Alexander Graham Bell change the world?
a)
He helped Southern Farmers live a better life
b)
He made it a lot easier for people to travel
c)
He made it easier for people to communicate
d)
He made it easier to work at night and increased the amount of work that a person could do in a day.
53.
How did Thomas Edison change the world?
a)
He made it easier to work at night and increased the amount of work that a person could do in a day
b)
He made it a lot easier for people to communicate
c)
He made it a lot easier for people to travel.
d)
He helped southern farmers live a better life
54.
Who was the African American scientist who created more than 300 products from peanuts and sweet potatoes?
a)
The Wright Brothers
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
Thomas Edison
55.
Carver invented over 300 uses for which plant?
a)
The peanut plant.
b)
The tomato plant.
c)
The cabbage plant.
56.
Which territories did the US Gain at the end of the Spanish American War?
a)
Cuba, Guam, Philippines
b)
Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico
c)
Philippines, Cuba, Spain
d)
Spain, Cuba, Guam
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