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Unit 5 New Directions Test Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the system that allowed newly freed slaves to farm but kept them in debt and poverty.

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

d)

Independence

2.

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and these all promoted segregation and allowed blacks to have fewer rights.

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Nineteenth Amendment

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Committee of Public Information

3.

In this ruling, the Supreme Court upheld Jim Crow laws by creating the established “Separate but equal” defense.

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Espionage and Sedition Acts

4.

He founded the Tuskegee Institute.

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Booker T. Washington

5.

Not only was this person the first African American to earn a PHD at Harvard, he founded the NAACP and helped launch the Niagara movement in the hopes of ending segregation.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

William Howard Taft

6.

Quite the character, this man hoped for segregation from white people for African Americans and tried to encourage them to start their own businesses.

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Booker T. Washington

7.

For her part of the women’s movement, she promoted suffrage on a state by state basis.

a)

Carrie Chapman Catt

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

8.

Susan B. Anthony and this woman were early suffragettes and didn’t allow men to join their groups.

a)

Carrie Chapman Catt

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

9.

This amendment would finally give women the right to vote.

a)

15th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

Equal Rights Amendment

10.

Many Americans were opposed to early attempts at American Imperialism because as a tradition, our values did not support this idea.

a)

Colonialism

b)

Independence

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

19th Amendment

11.

Americans went to war against Spain for many reasons, including yellow journalism that promoted the war, the need to protect our investments in Cuba, and the explosion of this battleship.

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

Spanish American War

c)

Espionage and Sedition Acts

d)

U.S.S. Maine

12.

During this war, yellow fever killed more Americans than anything else.

a)

Civil War

b)

Spanish American War

c)

World War I

13.

As part of the treaty that ended the Spanish American War, Cuba and the Philippines were given this, despite resisting American rule and being made a territory of the US.

a)

Independence

b)

Colonialism

c)

Sharecropping

14.

He was the president that wanted an association of nations, even before World War I.

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

William Howard Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

15.

He would have said this as president: "Today, more than ever before, American capital is seeking investment in foreign countries, and American products are more and more generally seeking foreign markets."

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

William Howard Taft

16.

This feisty president not only oversaw the creation of the Panama Canal, he also justified US interventions in Latin American through his own “Corollary”; an update to the Monroe Doctrine.

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

William Howard Taft

c)

Teddy Roosevelt

d)

Woodrow Wilson

17.

He wanted American influence to promote peace, freedom and democracy throughout the world.

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

William Howard Taft

18.

This was one of the final actions that would catapult the Americans into World War I.

a)

Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare

b)

U.S.S Maine

c)

Jim Crow Laws

19.

For the most part, the United States kept out of World War I for a long time as we practiced our policy of ____________.

a)

Colonialism

b)

Isolationism

c)

Independence

d)

Espionage and Sedition Acts

20.

The result of the US entry into World War I, would see the tide of the war change and this country’s defeat: ______________.

a)

Germany

b)

Spain

c)

Japan

d)

Serbia

21.

African Americans and _______________ would step in to fill the void left in America’s factories and helped manufacture the war materials needed to win the war.

a)

Women

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Selective Service Act

22.

This government department was in charge of creating propaganda in order to encourage Americans to support the war efforts.

a)

Railroad Administration

b)

Selective Service Act

c)

Committee of Public Information

d)

Espionage and Sedition Acts

23.

Part of the American growth in government departments and spending, was the Food Administration, the War Industries Board, and this which was meant to control the transportation of goods and services across country.

a)

Committee of Public Information

b)

Espionage and Sedition Acts

c)

Railroad Administration

d)

Selective Service Act

24.

The draft that was a required enlistment.

a)

Selective Service Act

b)

Committee of Public Information

c)

Espionage and Sedition Acts

25.

The passage of these pretty much put down any efforts Americans may have wanted to put forth in disagreeing with the War.

a)

Espionage and Sedition Acts

b)

Selective Service Act

c)

Jim Crow Laws