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Post-Test Review

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During Reconstruction, these Northerners were accused of taking advantage of the South.

a)

bootleggers

b)

carpet baggers

c)

African Americans

d)

immigrants

2.

What did African Americans gain as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

a)

citizenship

b)

freedom from slavery

c)

the right to vote for adult males

d)

equal rights

3.

Frederick Douglass fought for the adoption of ____ which would guarantee voting rights for all citizens.

a)

civil liberties

b)

human rights

c)

constitutional amendments

d)

slavery laws

4.

The election of 1876 and compromise of 1877 marked the end of the period known as ___?

a)

The Civil War

b)

Reconstruction

c)

The Spanish American War

d)

World War II

5.

Which amendment ended slavery?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

19th

6.

Which amendment guaranteed the right to vote for all adult male citizens?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

19th

7.

Which amendment defined citizenship in the United States?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

19th

8.

In the late 1800s, the American Indian population was reduced to due to warfare and ___.

a)

assimilation

b)

disease

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

WWI

9.

Who believed that African Americans deserved full political, civil, and social rights, and was a founder of the NAACP?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Charles Drew

d)

Jane Addams

10.

American Indians were not considered U.S. citizens until:

a)

1865

b)

1898

c)

1924

d)

1941

11.

Who believed that African Americans could achieve equality through vocational education?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Robert Oppenheimer

d)

Jane Addams

12.

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

19th

13.

____ laws were passed in many southern states to deliberately keep black and white people separate in public places

a)

equal rights

b)

whites equal blacks

c)

Jim Crow

d)

Nuremburg

14.

The separation of a race or a group (affecting mostly African Americans in the South) is known as

a)

immigration

b)

segregation

c)

population

d)

vocational education

15.

Which of the following was NOT a reason for increased immigration to the U.S.?

a)

religious freedom

b)

escape from oppressive governments

c)

adventure

d)

segregation

16.

___ resulted in unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, education, work, and government.

a)

equal rights laws

b)

Jim Crow laws

c)

the 19th amendment

d)

Prohibition

17.

Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist famous for his paintings of the Great Migration north?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Chief Joseph

d)

Jacob Lawrence

18.

Crowded, dirty, dangerous apartment buildings were one of the challenges faced by growing cities. They were called:

a)

settlement houses

b)

political machines

c)

ghettos

d)

tenements

19.

People in power breaking the law was one of the challenges faced by growing cities. This was called:

a)

settlement houses

b)

political corruption

c)

ghettos

d)

tenements

20.

Who was the writer who portrayed the strength of poor migrant workers in the 1930s? (The Grapes of Wrath)

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Sitting Bull

d)

John Steinbeck

21.

Who is credited with inventing the telephone?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Orville Wright

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

22.

Who is credited with inventing the radio?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Orville Wright

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

23.

Which was not a result of the Great Depression?

a)

25% of Americans did not have jobs

b)

many banks closed

c)

people over-speculated on stocks

d)

many Americans were hungry and homeless

24.

Who perfected the use of the assembly line in industry?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Orville Wright

d)

Henry Ford

25.

After the disaster of the ____ strike, labor unions were almost outlawed in the U.S.

a)

Progressive Movement

b)

political machine

c)

Homestead

d)

Home Front

26.

The ____ helped to create workplace reforms such as improved safety conditions, minimum wage, and restrictions on child labor.

a)

Axis Powers

b)

Progressive Movement

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

political machines

27.

Dealing with ___ (unfair treatment) was a daily challenge faced by immigrants to the U.S.

a)

suffrage

b)

education

c)

settlement houses

d)

discrimination

28.

When a group has been given the right to vote, they have ___.

a)

suffrage

b)

education

c)

settlement houses

d)

discrimination

29.

The Women's Suffrage Movement improved ___ opportunities for women as well as gaining voting rights.

a)

educational

b)

segregation

c)

discrimination

d)

reservation

30.

American Indians were moved off of their land to ___ in the 2nd half of the 19th century.

a)

assimilation

b)

segregation

c)

discrimination

d)

reservations

31.

Forcing American Indians to change their names, appearance, language, and culture.

a)

assimilation

b)

segregation

c)

discrimination

d)

reservation

32.

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and ___ were some of the leaders of the Women's Suffrage Movement.

a)

Maya Angelou

b)

Bessie Smith

c)

Alice Paul

d)

Georgia O'Keeffe

33.

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and ___ were some of the leaders of the Women's Suffrage Movement.

a)

Rosie the Riveter

b)

Bessie Smith

c)

Lucy Burns

d)

Jane Addams

34.

___ was a founder of the NAACP.

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Alice Paul

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Hideki Tojo

35.

Which was NOT a cause of the Spanish American War?

a)

rebels in Cuba wanted their independence

b)

American business interests (sugar, tobacco, bananas) in Cuba

c)

Yellow Journalism

d)

the Lusitania was sunk by Germany

36.

When was the Spanish American War?

a)

1865

b)

1898

c)

1914

d)

1939

37.

Which was NOT a result of the Spanish American War?

a)

U.S. became a world power

b)

Cuba gained independence from Spain

c)

the U.S. gained possession of Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico

d)

trench warfare was outlawed

38.

When did the U.S. enter WWI?

a)

1865

b)

1898

c)

1917

d)

1939

39.

Which U.S. president wrote a 14 point plan for peace after WWI, which included the concept of a League of Nations to keep peace after the war?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

40.

Which amendment outlawed the transportation, manufacture, and sale of alcohol?

a)

18th

b)

14th

c)

21st

d)

19th

41.

Which amendment made it legal again to transport, manufacture, and sell alcohol?

a)

18th

b)

14th

c)

21st

d)

19th

42.

Prohibition was the time when:

a)

it was NOT legal to make or sell alcohol in the U.S.

b)

it was legal to make and sell alcohol in the U.S.

c)

no one went to speakeasies

d)

bootleggers could not get jobs

43.

people who smuggle alcohol

a)

bootleggers

b)

renaissance

c)

tariffs

d)

stock

44.

places to (illegally) drink alcohol during prohibition

a)

bootleggers

b)

speakeasies

c)

overspeculation

d)

stock

45.

alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWII

a)

Axis Powers

b)

Allied Powers

c)

Central Powers

46.

What was the Holocaust?

a)

killings of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994

b)

the systematic killing of Jews by Nazi Germany

c)

the "Night of the Broken Glass"

d)

The genocide in Kosovo in the late 1990s

47.

American involvement in World War II brought an end to _____.

a)

The Great Depression

b)

The Great Migration

c)

The Great Recession

d)

The Great War

48.

"Rosie the Riveter" was a representation of all the _________ who stepped up and joined the war effort to help make supplies.

a)

Women

b)

Men

c)

Children

d)

Immigrants

49.

Japanese Americans were sent to _________ camps, due to the distrust of the American government fearing they were spies.

a)

internment

b)

concentration

c)

death

d)

work

50.

The Zimmermann telegram led to which country entering WWI?

a)

USA

b)

Germany

c)

Serbia

d)

Austria- Hungary

51.

people who smuggled alcohol during Prohibition

a)

bootleggers

b)

renaissance

c)

tariffs

d)

carpetbaggers