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US Mid-term Review

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the term Gilded Age refer to?

a)

people were buying gold as an investment

b)

gold was the nation's currency

c)

some were wealthy but most were poor

d)

much was spent by cities for the welfare of the poor

2.

What role did Chicago play in industrialization?

a)

settlement houses that attracted immigrants

b)

automobile industry attracted workers

c)

Railroad hub that connected farmers and manufacturing

d)

free housing for employed African-Americans.

3.

What attracted people to cities?

a)

poor sanitation in rural areas

b)

economic opportunities

c)

free land for immigrants

d)

higher taxes

4.

What Supreme Court Case dealt with the issue of separating passengers on railways in New Orleans?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Marybury v Madison

c)

Brown v Board of Education

d)

Schenck v United States

5.

What caused citizens of Memphis to leave in mass panic and led to Quarantine of some places?

a)

Great Migration

b)

new immigration quotas

c)

Exodusters

d)

Yellow Fever

6.

What prevented African Americans from voting after the Civil War? (multiple right answers)

a)

Literacy test

b)

poll tax

c)

15th Amendment

d)

KKK

7.

What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws?

a)

encourage industrial development in the South

b)

to establish welfare programs for the poor

c)

to prevent immigration in the Southern states

d)

prevent African-Americans from gaining full citizenship rights

8.

What is Benjamin "Pap" Singleton known for?

a)

politician who advocated for the rights of the KKK

b)

attorney in the Plessy v. Ferguson case

c)

former slave who assisted southern blacks in moving to Kansas (Exodusters)

d)

opened vocational schools for African-Americans

9.

What event led to the Pendleton Act?

a)

Assassination of Pres. Garfield by Guiteau

b)

Stanford oil and other illegal practices by monopolies

c)

Sinclair's muckraking book The Jungle

d)

violation of African-Americans civil rights

10.

What was the impact of political machines on cities?

a)

growth of trusts and monopolies

b)

control of government contacts and elections

c)

larger minority participation in elections

d)

limited rights for women and minorities

11.

How did the government respond to Standard Oil?

a)

regulated monopolies and trust (Sherman antitrust Act)

b)

gave them a government contract for the Tea Pot Dome

c)

placed an embargo on foreign oil

d)

allowed them tax exemption status and free use of public lands

12.

In Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech he... (multiple correct answers)

a)

was not willing to send troops

b)

insisted on loan repayment from WWI

c)

freedoms were: from fear, from want, for speech, for worship

d)

wanted to build up America's navy and army

13.

Which of the following are true of the Lend-Lease Act? (multiple responses are correct)

a)

used an analogy about a neighbor's house on fire

b)

placed an embargo on trade with Allied Powers

c)

was an economic declaration of war

d)

America gave armaments and supplies to Britain

14.

What America's foreign policy concerning Hitler in the 1930's?

a)

Big Stock Policy

b)

Dollar Diplomacy

c)

appeasement

d)

neutrality

15.

What was America's response to the Tripartite Act?

a)

oil embargo against Japan

b)

removal from the League of Nations

c)

US declared war on the Axis Powers

d)

sent military aid to China

16.

What did the Axis Powers have in common in the 1930s?

a)

Civil Wars in their countries

b)

loose immigration policies

c)

totalitarian leaders

d)

anti-Semitic

17.

What foreign policy is associated with the Munich Pact/Conference?

a)

isolation

b)

appeasement

c)

neutrality

d)

aggression

18.

Before Russia was an ally of the United States...

a)

he made a pact with Hitler

b)

he was neutral

c)

he invaded China

d)

he held democratic elections

19.

The Atlantic Charter said what was the goal of the war?

a)

NAFTA

b)

end of communism

c)

World Peace

d)

Freedom

20.

What ended the Great Depression?

a)

WWII

b)

New Deal programs

c)

your mom

d)

Dawes Plan

21.

What event lead to America's entrance into WWII?

a)

discovery of concentration camps

b)

German invasion of Poland

c)

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

d)

sinking of the Lusitania by Germans

22.

Why did farmers support bimetallism?

a)

it would regulate the steel industry

b)

more money in circulation would make it easier pay off bank loans

c)

lower prices of farm machinery

d)

profit from mining and minerals on their land

23.

Why was Anti-trust legislation needed?

a)

unfair pricing, lack of competition

b)

to regulate the stock market

c)

to improve working conditions

24.

Andrew Carnegie...

a)

was the boss of a political machine in Scotland

b)

was the winner of the first ever "Who wants to be a Millionaire?"

c)

had a monopoly on steel and was a philanthropist

d)

had a monopoly on oil and was a philanthropist

25.

Asian immigrants entered America from

a)

Angel Island in California

b)

Ellis Island in NYC

c)

Angel Island in NYC

d)

Ellis Island in California

26.

European immigrants entered America from

a)

Angel Island in California

b)

Ellis Island in NYC

c)

Angel Island in NYC

d)

Ellis Island in California

27.

The purpose of Jacob Riis's book entitled How the Other Half Lives was...

a)

to end the use of settlement houses in major cities

b)

to encourage the government to take action to fight social injustice caused by poverty

c)

to support the mission of labor unions to reduce the hours people worked in factories

d)

to promote quotas on the number of immigrants coming into the country

28.

To what is this cartoon most likely referring?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Pendleton Act

c)

Red Scare

d)

Open Door Policy

29.

The author of this cartoon is pointing out the hypocrisy of what idea?

a)

Open Door Policy

b)

Nativism

c)

Imperialism

d)

Progressivism

30.

The woman in this photograph is protesting what action by President Wilson?

a)

denying women the right to join the army

b)

sending troops to Europe to fight in World War I

c)

advocating for the Fourteen Points

d)

refusing to support women’s suffrage

31.

Which statement best describes the purpose of the Platt Amendment?

a)

A tariff would be placed on all Cuban products imported into the United States.

b)

The United States could intervene in Cuba when necessary.

c)

Cuba would be provided complete independence and autonomy.

d)

Cuba would prevent the United States from building naval bases on its territory.

32.

Which group of ideas were part of President Theodore Roosevelt's "Square Deal"?

a)

government owned businesses, conservation, and women's suffrage

b)

laissez-faire government, civil rights, and military build up

c)

consumer protection, women's suffrage, and government owned businesses

d)

trust-busting, conservation, and consumer protection

33.

With what would the artist of this cartoon most likelydisagree?

a)

the Lend Lease Act

b)

the Neutrality Acts

c)

the Moral Embargo

d)

the Kellogg-Briand Pact

34.

Based on this cartoon, what conclusion can be drawn regarding labor strikes during the

Industrial Age?

a)

Strikes were the fault of industry leaders.

b)

Strikes strengthened the power of unions.

c)

Strikes resulted in immigration quotas.

d)

Strikes had the potential to hurt the economy.

35.

I also ask this Congress for authority and for funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies

of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressor nations. Our most

useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves. They do not need manpower, but

they do need billions of dollars’ worth of the weapons of defense." FDR Four Freedoms Speech

Based on this passage, what are the limits to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's willingness to support the war effort?

a)

Roosevelt was not willing to commit American troops.

b)

Roosevelt was focused on fighting in the Pacific.

c)

Roosevelt was insistent on foreign loan repayment.

d)

Roosevelt did not want to build up weapon arsenals.

36.

Which did President Franklin Roosevelt use as an argument to convince the American public to support the United States' entry into World War II?

a)

the Atlantic Charter

b)

the Quarantine Speech

c)

the Four Freedoms Speech

d)

the Lend Lease Act

37.

What conclusion can be drawn from this cartoon?

a)

Labor unions are unlikely to win against big businesses.

b)

Labor unions are often corrupt and arrogant.

c)

Large corporations are not prepared to fight against labor unions.

d)

Large corporations use tools like the strike to destroy labor unions.