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Important People US History STAAR

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

President from 1981-1989/ Encouraged business activity -Reaganomics

a)

Bill Clinton

b)

Barack Obama

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

Richard Nixon

2.

Mexican American physician & surgeon founder of G.I. Forum

a)

J. P. Morgan

b)

Phyllis Schlafy

c)

Hector P. Garcia

d)

Cesar Chavez

3.

Arrested for refusing to give up seat on a bus (Bus Boycott) 1955-1956

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Phyllis Schlafy

c)

Betty Friedan

d)

Jackie Kennedy

4.

1835-published Democracy in America Laissez Faire-Liberty-Individualism-Egalitarianism

a)

Harry S. Truman

b)

FDR

c)

Omar Bradley

d)

Alexis de Tocqueville

5.

President 1913-1921 supported League of Nations proposed Fourteen Points post-war peace plan

a)

FDR

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

JFK

d)

Woodrow Wilson

6.

President from 1945-1953 used atomic weapons on Japan to end WWII

a)

FDR

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

7.

President from 1993-2001 NAFTA/ Balanced federal budget/

a)

Bill Clinton

b)

Harry S. Truman

c)

George W. Bush

d)

Teddy Roosevelt

8.

Clergyman, activist, & leader of Civil Rights Movement non-violence approach

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Cesar Chavez

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Omar Bradley

9.

President 1921-1923 called for a "Return to Normalcy" associated with scandal Teapot Dome

a)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

Warren G. Harding

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Calvin Coolidge

10.

President from 1969-1974 Detente- Watergate- resigned from office /impeachment

a)

George W. Bush

b)

Bill Clinton

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Warren G. Harding

11.

President 1961-1963 supported Space Race avoided nuclear showdown-Cuban Missile Crisis

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

12.

Conservative activist -Campaigned against Equal Rights Amendment

a)

Phyllis Schlafy

b)

Barbara Bush

c)

Hillary Clinton

d)

Betty Friedan

13.

Leader in Women's Liberation Movement organized NOW (National Organization of Women) wrote the Feminine Mystique

a)

Phyllis Schlafy

b)

Betty Friedan

c)

Eleanor Roosevelt

d)

Jackie Kennedy

14.

1st African American to be elected President appointed first Latin Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Jesse Jackson

c)

Barack Obama

d)

Malcolm X

15.

Leader of Chicano Movement organized farm workers wanted to eliminate racism against Mexican -Americans

a)

Dolores Huerta

b)

Hector P. Garcia

c)

Sonia Sotomayor

d)

Cesar Chavez

16.

Republican Senator that accused Americans of being communists "Witch-Hunt"

a)

George Marshall

b)

John J. Pershing

c)

Joseph McCarthy

d)

Hector P. Garcia

17.

President that coined the term "Big Stick Diplomacy" trust buster/ Panama Canal/ conservationist

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

William Howard Taft

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Woodrow Wilson

18.

President 1933-1945 provided American people with hope during Great Depression/ also served during WWII placed Japanese Americans in camps

a)

JFK

b)

FDR

c)

Hoover

d)

Eisenhower

19.

Named Commander of American Expeditionary Force during WWI led forces at Battle of Argonne Forest

a)

John J. Pershing

b)

George Marshall

c)

George S. Patton

d)

Chester W. Nimitz

20.

First Lady that inspired millions during the Great Depression and was instrumental in Human Rights

a)

Eleanor Roosevelt

b)

Jackie Kennedy

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Oprah

21.

Army Chief of Staff that created the Marshall Plan

a)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

George S. Patton

c)

George Marshall

d)

Joseph White

22.

First female Supreme Court Justice appointed by Ronald Reagan -conservative

a)

Sonia Sotomayor

b)

Hillary Clinton

c)

Sandra Day O'Connor

d)

Betty Friedan

23.

President associated with 9/11 and vowed to fight the War on Terror

a)

George H. W. Bush

b)

Obama

c)

George W. Bush

d)

John F. Kennedy

24.

First Latin Supreme Court Justice appointed by Obama

a)

Dolores Huerta

b)

Lesley Martinez

c)

Janice Morales

d)

Sonia Sotomayor

25.

President that promoted peace when in 1978 agreement between Israel and Egypt (Camp David Accords)

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

JFK

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

Jimmy Carter

26.

President associated with detente easing tensions with the Soviet Union

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Jimmy Carter

c)

MLK

d)

JFK

27.

She was a social activist that helped women in minorities in Chicago during the Progressive Era

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Jane Fonda

d)

Francis Willard

28.

An entrepreneur that promoted philanthropy Gospel of Wealth (business in steel)

a)

Oprah Winfrey

b)

Sam Walton

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Andrew Carnegie

29.

Entrepreneur -journalist- television mogul that helped Obama become president 2008

a)

Hillary Clinton

b)

Kim Karadasian

c)

Oprah Winfrey

d)

Jance Addams

30.

President associated with the escalation of troops in Vietnam 1964

a)

JFK

b)

Truman

c)

LBJ

d)

FDR