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Review Assignment #1

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
a)
guarantees African Americans free speech
b)
Outlawed slavery in the United States
c)
gave African Americans the right to vote
d)
rejoined the South and the North
2.

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

a)

granted citizenship and equality

b)

granted African Americans the right to vote

c)

Abolished (ended) slavery, thereby freeing African Americans

d)

Gave landowners the right to sharecrop

3.
Which of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction?
a)
Reunite the North and the South
b)
Rebuild the South
c)
Develop the system of sharecropping
d)
Determine what to do with African Americans
4.
Which of the following was not a part of the Freedman's Bureau?
a)
Helped reconnecting slaves with their families
b)
Helped create African American Colleges
c)
Helped feed slaves
d)
Forced African Americans to become sharecroppers
5.

Laws passed by southern states soon after the Civil War. These laws legalized segregation, and limited the freedoms of African Americans

a)

Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws

b)

14th Amendment

c)

Freedman's Bureau

d)

Reconstruction

6.
Until the 1800s, how did most families get the items they needed for daily life?
a)
They made tools, clothing, materials, and food by hand.
b)
They bought them from factories.
c)
They bought them on the Internet.
d)
They bought them from stores.
7.
What was the purpose of labor unions?
a)
Negotiate as a group for bigger factories
b)
Negotiate as a group for better working conditions
c)
Negotiate as a group for a political revolution
d)
Negotiate as a group for a social revolution
8.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny 
b)
Monroe Doctrine 
c)
Great Awakening 
d)
Louisiana Purchase
9.

system in which poor farmers (African Americans) rented land and tools from white landowners; owed them a share of the crop

a)

sharecropping

b)

imperialism

c)

internment

d)

rentarmers

10.

What program allowed a person to claim 160 acres of land in the western territories, if they lived there for 5 years?

a)

The Homestead Act

b)

The Dawes Act

c)

The Morrill Act

d)

The Land Grab Act

11.

Companies who control all the different businesses/phases of producing a product to control profits; (Carnegie Steel)

a)

Horizontal Integration

b)

Vertical Integration

c)

Big Business Model

d)

Maximum Profit Idea

12.

Companies who specialize in one area of business; take over other businesses that same as theirs; leads to one supplier of a good (Standard Oil)

a)

Horizontal Integration

b)

Vertical Integration

c)

Big Business Model

d)

Maximum Profit Idea

13.
Another term for monopoly during the period 1865-1900 was
a)
Big Business
b)
Trust
c)
Giant of Industry
d)
Forbes 500
14.

Writers, journalists, photographers and cartoonists that dig up and expose the bad things going on in society

a)

Suffragists

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Students

d)

Chaffinators

15.
Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
16.
1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 
a)
Upton Sinclair 
b)
Lincoln Steffens 
c)
Jacob Riis 
d)
Frank Norris 
17.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is credited with exposing the unsanitary conditions in the food industry and helping to pass the
a)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
b)
18th Amendment
c)
Pure Food and Drug Act
d)
Equal Rights Amendment
18.

This allowed women to vote nationally

a)

17th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

19.
Yellow Journalists were:
a)
writers who exposed period problems in hopes of achieving reform
b)
writers who wrote in yellow to bring attention to Spanish abuses
c)
newspaper reporters and illustrators who exaggerated stories in order to sell newspapers and fuel a war with Spain
d)
writers who opposed American imperialism and aimed to keep America neutral
20.

Imperialism is __________.

a)

when a powerful nation uses its resources to help a weaker nation

b)

when a weaker nation invites a powerful nation to help it industrialize

c)

when a powerful nation takes over a weaker nation

d)

when weak nations join together to fight a strong nation

21.

belief that a country should maintain a strong military and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote its interested

a)

imperialism

b)

nationalism

c)

militarism

d)

alliances

22.

Why did many Americans and Congress not want to sign the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

It forced us to join the League of Nations

b)

It forced us to ally with Germany

c)

It forced us to sell supplies to Russia

d)

It forced us to fight against John Cena in the Wrestlemania

23.

Natural disaster that happened during the Great Depression; severe drought in the midwest and overuse of the soil led to massive crop failures

a)

Dust Bowl

b)

Jazz Bowl

c)

Dirt Bowl

d)

Depression Bowl

24.
The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as:
a)
The time period in which African Americans joined the war effort during World War I
b)
A time period when African Americans came to the city to look for jobs
c)
A time period in which African Americans fought against the discrimination in New York City
d)
A time period where African Americans celebrated their culture and roots through music, art, and literature
25.
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.
26.

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

a)

Sweatt v. Painter

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Mendez v. Kirby ISD

27.
Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?
a)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
b)
Securities and Exchange Commission
c)
Tennessee Valley Authority
d)
Social Security Admistration
28.
The ____ was an agency formed to insure bank deposits up to a certain amount.
a)
Social Security
b)
SEC
c)
FDIC
d)
Tennessee Valley Authority
29.
What is nationalism?
a)
Shame for past transgressions
b)
An agreement based on mutual benefit
c)
Irrational hatred toward a specific group of people
d)
Pride in one's country or people
30.
One given justification for the use of the bomb was it would...
a)
Scare the Germans into surrender
b)
Stop the spread of Chinese Communism
c)
Save American lives lost in an Invasion of Japan
d)
Eliminate people of the lower end of the social darwinistic  line
31.
What does the term genocide mean?
a)
the killing of all the pets in a country
b)
The murder of all the children in a country
c)
The murder of a particular gender of people like all the males
d)
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
32.

Which of the following was a reaction by the United States to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese?

a)

Building long-range V1 and V2 rockets

b)

Recognizing the right of women to vote

c)

Lowering taxes to improve economic conditions

d)

Creating internment camps for Japanese Americans

33.
Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?
a)
Alexander Bell
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Theodore Roosevelt
34.
What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?
a)
Spain and Portugal
b)
England and France
c)
Germany and Italy
d)
United States and Soviet Union
35.
What was the term 'iron curtain' used  to describe the division of?
a)
North and South Vietnam
b)
East and West Asia
c)
North and South Korea
d)
East and West Europr
36.
Why did the United States become involved in the Korean War?
a)
to contain communism
b)
to colonize Korea
c)
to spread communism
d)
to Christianize Koreans
37.

What country had to admit guilt for WWI according to the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

Germany

b)

Russia

c)

Austria-Hungary

d)

Italy

38.

Which country was encouraged to attack the US in the Zimmerman Telegram?

a)

Germany

b)

Italy

c)

Mexico

d)

Russia

39.

What is the name for information designed to influence opinion?

a)

yellow journalism

b)

media

c)

muckraking

d)

propaganda

40.

When war broke out in 1914, the U.S. followed a policy of _________.

a)

Naivety

b)

Involvement

c)

Capitalism

d)

Neutrality

41.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
laws that made segregation legal
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
42.

Which plan for Reconstruction required a 50% oath of loyalty, creation of the Freedman's Bureau, and punishment of the South, and passage of the 13th amendment?

a)

Johnson's Plan

b)

Lincoln's 10% Plan

c)

Radical Republicans Reconstruction Plan

d)

Democrats Plan

43.

Which of the following is NOT an example of civil disobedience?

a)

The "Greensboro Four" starting a sit-in at a whites only Lunch counter

b)

Freedom riders entering whites only waiting rooms in Alabama

c)

Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks refusing to give up their seat for a white passenger

d)

Blacks attacking whites at the voting booths

44.

Which court case that declared segregation in schools LEGAL?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Marbury vs. Madison

45.

Which national organization that helped fight for equal rights for African Americans through lawsuits?

a)

LULAC

b)

NCAA

c)

NRA

d)

NAACP

46.

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1964

47.

Prohibits racial discrimination in voting (voting people, voting)

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

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