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WorksheetsAmerican history final
Total questions: 59
Worksheet time: 2hrs 58mins
What did the Homestead Act of 1862 offer settlers?
160 acres of land for a small fee.
A new 2 bedroom home.
A new apartment in the city.
To force assimilation, Native Americans were forced to move onto land called what?
Reservations
Concentration camps
Internment camps
The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to prevent what?
Prevent freed slaves from exercising their new rights.
Get white men more jobs.
Show the effects of reverse discrimination.
What was Lincoln's top priority in the Civil War?
Keep the Union together.
Punish the Confederate States.
Destroy southern cities.
These were laws in the South during Reconstruction intended to keep African Americans from exercising their new rights:
Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes
Reconstruction Acts
Rights Prevention Acts
What did the Supreme Court say in Plessy v. Ferguson?
Separate but equal (segregation) was OK.
No more segregation.
You have to be read your rights when arrested.
What did Andrew Carnegie think rick people should do with some of their money?
Help society
Invest in foreign countries
Invest in stocks
A slum dwelling in the city with very poor conditions around the year 1900 was called what?
Tenement
Ghetto
Subsidized housing
Which of the following is NOT a reason for the development of labor unions in the late 1800s?
Management's desire for better negotiations.
Very dangerous working conditions.
Very low pay.
Very long hours.
What did Theodore Roosevelt mean when he said, "Speak softly and carry big stick."?
Negotiate to try to get what you want, but if that doesn't work use the military.
Talk quietly to be hear more clearly.
Beat up other nations until they listen.
What book by which author sparked support for the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Evolution by Charles Darwin
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
"Those that are better survive and succeed, the weak lose" is related to which theory?
Social Darwinism
Competitive Edge
Socialism
Which of the following is not a cause of WW1?
Poor economy
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
What was the spark that ignited WW1?
Assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand
Germany's invasion of Poland.
Germany's invasion of France.
Identify which of the following pulled the U.S. into WW1 (select more than one).
Unrestricted submarine attacks and the sinking of the Lusitania.
Zimmerman Telegram.
Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
The threat of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union.
Which of these is the treaty that ended WW1?
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris
Berlin Accords
What are reparations and which country had to pay reparations?
Payment for damages caused during war. Germany
Forced repairs for damage. France
Military food rations. United States
Which of the following is NOT a new weapon or invention created for WW1?
Radar
machine gun
tank
poison gas
What was the major method of battle used in WW1?
Trench warfare
Air strikes
Atomic bomb
What was President Wilson's plan to maintain world peace after WW1?
14 Points
United Nations
Peace Corps
Publishers like Hearst and Pulitzer who sensationalized the news became known as what?
Yellow Journalists
Tabloid writers
Sensationalists
How did the U.S. get control of the Canal Zone in Panama?
Supported a rebellion against Colombia and payed money to France and Panama.
Defeated the Panamanian army.
Negotiated a settlement with Russia.
A woman of the 1920s who broke away from the past and traditional roles, wore short skirts, short hair, smoked, drank, and had fun similar to men is called what?
Flapper
Tramp
Tom Boy
What was the John Scopes Monkey Trial?
A case against a teacher who taught evolution instead of creationism. It shows the struggle between science and religion.
A case against a man for abusing monkeys.
A case against a man for selling monkeys.
What is Prohibition?
Outlawing of alcohol by the 18th Amendment.
Outlawing of alcohol by the 21st Amendment.
Outlawing of prohibiting behaviors.
What was a negative consequence of Prohibition?
Organized crime became very prevalent
Alcoholism rose drastically.
Elicit drug use became more prevalent.
Which group of immigrants did the Exclusion Act keep out of the U.S.?
Chinese
Italian
Irish
Which of the following is NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
Favorable balance of trade with Mexico.
Stock market crash.
Margin buying (buying stock on credit).
Overproduction
Communities of people made homeless by The Great Depression were called this:
Hovvervilles
Homeless shetlers
Shanty Town
Which of the following is the event that pulled the U.S. into WW2?
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
Sinking of the Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram
What did the U.S. do to Japanese Americans during WW2?
Forced them to live in internment camps.
Forced them to fight against Japan.
Killed them all in a mass genocide.
What was D-Day?
The Allied invasion of France where many men died trying to take back the beaches from Germany.
The day the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.
The day the U.S. won the Battle of the Bulge.
What is appeasement and how does it relate to Hitler?
Appeasement is giving up something to try to keep someone happy. It relates to Hitler because Great Britain and France tried to give up small pieces of land to keep Hitler happy and not start WW2.
Appeasement is repayment for war damages and Hitler had to pay France and Great Britain.
Appeasement is a lightning attack and Hitler used it in his Blitzkrieg.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The project to develop the atomic bomb.
The project to rebuild the World Trade Centers
A farm project in central Kansas.
What did President Truman promise in the Truman Doctrine?
The U.S. promised to help defend countries who were fighting against communism.
No more colonization of the Western Hemisphere.
The U.S. would pay to rebuild Europe after WW2.
How did the need for workers during WW1 and WW2 change the role of minorities and women?
Women and minorities were given the opportunity to work in jobs they had never been allowed to work in before.
Women and minorities were given management jobs.
Women and minorities became owners of companies.
What is McCarthyism?
The unfounded accusing of many people being communist.
Large support for the communist party in the U.S.
A form of Japanese totalitarianism.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
When the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin, the U.S. and Great Britain flew in supplies to West Berlin residents.
The helicopter rescue of people trapped in East Berlin.
The heaving bombing of East Berlin.
Bringing down this wall was a major step in the fall of communism:
Berlin Wall
Great Wall of China
Iron Curtain
Which of the following are two leaders of the Soviet Union during the end of the Cold War and the fall of communism?
Gorbachev and Yeltsin
Lenin and Stalin
Marx and Engels
What was Sputnik?
The first satellite in space which was launched by the Soviet Union.
The name of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The first manned flight in outer space.
What was Vietnamization?
Turning over fighting in Vietnam to the South Vietnamese Army.
Making U.S. soldiers take classes about Vietnam to become more Vietnamized.
Using more Vietnamese made weapons in battle.
How did television coverage of the Vietnam War impact support at home?
Support went down because T.V. brought the horrors of war into people's homes every night and people didn't like it.
It made helicopter travel more popular.
It made Vietnam a popular tourist destination.
What type of protests did Martin Luther King Jr. encourage?
Peaceful protests
Violent uprisings
Whatever was required to get civil rights changed.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Soviet Union threatened to put nuclear missiles in Cuba and the U.S. intervened to stop it.
Cuba shot missiles at Puerto Rico.
Cuba and Canada joined forces to keep nuclear missiles out of the U.S.
What did the Supreme Court say in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education?
No more segregation. Separate but equal is NOT ok.
You must be read your rights if arrested.
Everyone must get the same education.
What is the counterculture of the 1960s?
Hippies who did not follow cultural and historical norms. They wore alternative clothing, lived in communes, experimented with drugs, etc.
Executive women who wanted equal pay.
Athletes who refused to stand during the National Anthem.
What is OPEC?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counties
An organization of executives.
An organization Jewish freedom fighters.
What did OPEC do that caused the gas crisis in the 1970s?
Refused to sell oil to the U.S. (oil embargo)
Shut down its refineries
Shut down U.S. refineries.
Why did President Nixon resign?
The Watergate Scandal where members of his reelection team were arrested while breaking into Democrats headquarters to place listening devices.
Bad press over the Vietnam War.
Sex scandals relating to interns.
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Which theory states, "if one country in an area falls to communism, other countries in that area will fall to communism, also."?
Domino Theory
Containment
War of Attrition
The U.S. policy in which the U.S. would not allow communism to spread to any other countries was called what?
Containment
Domino Theory
Vietnamization
What group and what leader were behind the 9/11 attacks?
Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden
Taliban and Putin
ISIS and Barack Obama
How did the U.S. government respond to the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001?
The U.S. attacked Afghanistan in a military operation called Enduring Freedom.
The U.S. partnered with Russia to attack China.
The U.S. used atomic bombs on the Middle East.
The wars in Korea and Vietnam were an attempt to stop the spread of what?
Communism
Nuclear weapons
Capitalism
Why did Iranian students take Americans hostage?
The U.S. allowed the Shah to come to the U.S. for cancer treatment and did not make him go back to Iran for trial.
They were trying to negotiate better treatment for Middle East countries.
The were trying to negotiate higher oil prices.
Which of the following is NOT a location where planes were crashed on 9/11/2001?
Rhode Island
New York City
Washington, D.C.
Shanksville, PA
Who is the first African American president of the U.S.?
Barack Obama
Jesse Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr.
