Worksheets1st Semester Review CP US History Part 1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
During World War II the government took which measures to ensure the fair distribution of scarce goods?
Issue ration books
Host can food drives
Cancel all income taxes
Allow banks to be open for 24 hours
Which of the following helped in assimilating recent immigrants?
W.E.B. Dubois and the NAACP
Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of Saint Louis
Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Crusade
Jane Addams and Hull House
President Roosevelt added on to the Monroe Doctrine in response to…
The Panama Canal
To prevent European intervention in Central-South America
Spanish efforts to get rid of rebels in Cuba
A special treaty with Japan
Which group gained political support by supporting improvements in urban infrastructure during the 19th century in cities?
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Suffrage Movement
Political Bosses
Union Movement
What did the Selective Service Act do for Word War I?
It forced all immigrants into camps
It created the Veterans Administration
It increased the amount of people eligible for military service
It divided the Armed Service into 5 branches
Which of the following was a result of publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
Government regulations requiring meat and food inspections.
Federal troops would be called out to break strikes
Railroads would be controlled by the government
Laws required private businesses to diversify hiring
Which of the following resulted in a stalemate during the first world war?
Airplanes & Submarines
Trenches & Machine Guns
Tanks & Chemical Attacks
Militarism and Imperialism
How did FDR try to reassure the American Public during the Great Depression?
Walk-on cameos in Hollywood Films
Radio speeches called fireside chats
Town hall meetings for government leaders
A reduction in all taxes including the income tax
Which age had the most government support for the growth of big business?
Gilded Age
Progressive Age
Imperialism
1920s
A direct cause of Japanese surrender during WWII
The invasion of Normandy beach
The US dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Soviet Union helped the US attack Japan for an extra 2 years
US sanctions against Japan led to their surrender
During WWI, the federal government was willing to suspend freedom of expression by passing:
The FDIC
The Espionage Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act
The New Deal
The Dust Bowl was mainly caused by…
flash flooding and intense deforestation.
prolonged drought and poor farming practices.
high winds and railroad construction.
severe heat and rapid suburban development.
What role did Navajo soldiers play during WWII?
Radar technology inventions
Encryption of radio transmissions
Spying on the Japanese
German soldier exchange program
Which agency was created to conserve natural, historic, and scenic objects and wildlife throughout our country in 1916?
U.S. Geological Survey
National Park Service
Bureau of Reclamation
U.S. Border Patrol
Which amendments protecting rights were violated when the Japanese Americans were searched and citizens were put into internment camps during WWII?
Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
Second and Third Amendments
Tenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments
First and Seventh Amendments
State level reformers wanted to promote the principle of direct democracy during which era?
Imperialism
Progressive Era
Gilded Age
1920s
Which of the following is true about Puerto Rico?
It became a state.
Promised independence as a part of Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
Ceded to the United States as a result of the Spanish-American War.
Became a territory of the US because of the World War I.
What area was settled mostly because of a series of federal land grants?
California Territory
Puerto Rico Territory
Hawaii Territory
Great Plains Territory
Why did “bread lines” occur in the 1930s?
Military pensions were not being paid
Increase in agriculture exports
Widespread business failures
Selective Service participation
Consequence of the Teapot Dome Scandal:
Nixon resigns
Communists witch hunts during the Red Scare
The 21st amendment was passed
Cabinet members were jailed for corruption
The Food and Drug Administration was partially a response to what events?
Muckrakers like Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle
Laissez-Faire policies
Populist Movement Reforms
Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy
To provide resources for a growing population is a main reason for which of the following:
Federal government building the Hoover Dam.
Charles Lindbergh’s Journey Across the Atlantic.
The closing of banks.
The building of the Statue of Liberty.
Which of the following is the main reason why the federal government practiced repatriation in the 1930s?
To protect the homeland
Treaty obligations
To reduce workers looking for jobs
To promote citizenship
How were US troops involved in the invasion of Normandy during WWII?
Flying support planes shooting down Nazi blimps.
Landing on the beaches to fight against Nazis on the European mainland.
Bombing runs over Japanese controlled islands
Fighting Italian troops in Northern Africa.
Which group would oppose social Darwinism because it promoted the idea that people in the lower classes were not capable of economic success?
Progressives
Imperialists
Eugenics Promoters
Populists
