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WorksheetsUS History STAAR Review
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 16hrs 15mins
Sec. of Interior Albert Fall illegally leased Navy oil reserves from this are for his personal gain
Bolder Dam
Texas
Teapot Dome
Buying stocks on credit and hoping to make enough to pay it off with a profit
Speculation
Buying on the margin
Birth of Black literature and art in New York City in the 20s
Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem Renasiance
Black Liberation Movement
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created a trade bloc between what 3 countries?
U.S., Canada, Mexico
U.S., Mexico, Cuba
Mexico, Panama, Guatemala
Puerto Rico, Cuba, U.S.
What was the reason New Orleans flooded heavily because of Hurricane Katrina?
Because of the water.
The city was too far inland.
The city is at a very high elevation.
The failure of the city's levees and its low elevation.
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon had two major immediate effects. What were they?
Little pigs are cute.
Contract with America
Espionage & Sedition Act
The War on Terror and the passage of the USA PATRIOT ACT.
President Franklin Roosevelt won the election of 1932. The country was in the Great Depression, and Roosevelt introduced the New Deal. Which was the MOST important goal of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs?
to strengthen the economy
to avoid going to war
to improve public education
to end racial discrimination
The Great Depression that began in 1929 hit farmers especially hard. Farmers had not been doing well in the 1920s and several years of severe drought turned the land into a "dust bowl." What was an immediate result of this?
Many farmers decided to grow crops that did not use as much water.
The government built large dams in the West for irrigation.
Many farmers and their families lost their farms and moved west.
The government helped farmers by buying their land and equipment.
In 1929 the Great Depression started in the United States. In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president and he promised a "New Deal" to the American people. Which of the following BEST describes the role of the government during the New Deal?
) The government wanted people to take care of themselves and not use the government.
The New Deal led to the government being more involved in the economy of the country.
The government wanted people to let the government provide everything they needed.
The New Deal led to the government being less involved in the economy of the country.
This New Deal program insured the public's deposits to make sure that the bank runs never happened again
PWA
WPA
SSA
FDIC
The New Deal pulled America out of its economic mess! Several New Deal agencies, such as the CCC, WPA, and the TVA, were important because ____________________.
they built bridges, dams, and other useful projects
they helped create jobs and put Americans back to work
they offered assistance to farmers
they provided electricity to a poor region
Which action prompted the United States to officially enter World War II?
The German use of blitzkrieg tactics in Europe.
Japanese military actions in Indochina.
German submarine attacks on U.S. merchant ships.
The Japanese bombing of a U.S. military base.
What was one reason Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor?
The U.S. strategy of island hopping had disrupted Pacific trade routes.
The Japanese naval fleet had been defeated at the Battle of Midway.
Japanese Americans had been relocated to internment camps.
U.S. trade sanctions had caused shortages of oil, gas, and rubber.
The World War II poster publicizes a national campaign at
creating agricultural products to relieve an economic depression.
encouraging a healthy diet for future soldiers.
lowering the cost of living by creating a surplus of food.
supporting the war effort by reducing demand for commercially grown food.
The Navajo Indians were known as "Wind Talkers" and they....
developed the atomic bomb
translated secret messages for Allied Powers
translated secret messages from the Axis Powers
What organization became famous when they investigated communist influences in the movie industry?
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
FBI
ATF
HLS
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 mostly in part because 18 yr olds were old enough to fight in a war but not vote
1st amendment
19th amendment
26th amendment
21st amendment
Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.
Sweatt v. Painter
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mendez v. Kirby ISD
Which legislation did away with poll taxes and literacy tests intended to prevent African Americans from exercising their Fifteenth Amendment rights?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board of Education 1954
Voting Rights Act of 1965
You didn't even go over this sir.
A form of nonviolent protest African Americans used to protest segregation in buses
march
boycott
sit in
activist
This part of the Education Amendments prohibited schools from discriminating based on gender
Title X
Title XI
Title XX
Title IX
How was the Black Panther Party different from Martin Luther King's strategy to gain rights?
They gave whites gifts so that whites would like them.
They started a Move to Africa movement.
Sir, I haven't even watched the movie.
They were willing to arm themselves and use any means necessary to protect themselves and the African community.
Who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Lyndon B. Johnson
W.E.B. Dubois
The 1970's energy crisis resulted from an oil embargo and price manipulations by-
OPEC
NATO
United Nations
NAFTA
What agency protects the environment from pollution?
EPA
SALT
HUD
National Parks Service
How did Reagan's administration fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua?
By selling weapons to Iran
By placing a tariff on oil
By increasing taxes
By cutting Great Society programs
What was the outcome of the SALT I talks?
It created a ceasefire between the U.S. and North Vietnam
The US and USSR reduced how many ballistic missiles they had
The U.S. and China opened a trading treaty
Communist China was admitted as a full member of the U.N.
How did the oil embargo effect the U.S. during the 1970s?
The U.S. used its own energy reserves to fight the embargo
Prices of everything increased and gas shortages happened
The U.S. was forced to abandon Israel as prices went down
It caused the stagflation outbreak in the U.S.
Nixon's plan to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam
Vietnamization
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Geneva Plan
Paris Peace Accords
What was Reagan's economic policy called, that called for lowering taxes & decrease business regulations?
Reaganomics
Reganomics
NAFTA
GATT
Territories gained as a result of the Spanish-American war include Puerto Rico, Guam and-
Cuba
Spain
Philippines
The "Open Door" policy refers the U.S. demand for open trade with what nation?
China
India
Japan
Britain
The United State's Big Stick Diplomacy allowed the country to build what?
Suez Canal
Erie Canal
Panama Canal
Interstate highway system
