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Semester A Review Quiz

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What piece of technology is the biggest reason for the growth of the West?

a)

the telegraph

b)

the railroad

c)

electricity

d)

irrigation systems

2.

What is the name of the law that encouraged Native Americans to assimilate into white society by farming individual plots of land?

a)

The Emancipation Proclamation

b)

The Indian Removal Act

c)

The Chinese Exclusion Act

d)

The Dawes Act

3.

What is this poster an example of?

a)

The Homestead Act

b)

The Dawes Act

c)

The Dreamers Act

d)

The NRA

4.

Laissez faire was the idea that the government should keep its hands off what?

a)

Civil Rights

b)

the West

c)

the economy and business

d)

a woman's right to choose

5.

What is nativism?

a)

a dislike for or distrust of foreign-born people

b)

a dislike for Native American Indians

c)

a belief that animals should be left in their native habitats

6.

Which of these is an example of Nativism?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Gentleman's Agreement

c)

anti-immigration laws

d)

all of the above

7.

Corporate trusts could be a bad thing because they...

a)

had too much power in the government

b)

could control prices and make them unreasonably high

c)

sometimes restrained trade

d)

all of the above

8.

The man in this cartoon is...

a)

Al Capone, a gangster

b)

Teddy Roosevelt, a progressive president

c)

William Tweed, a boss of a political machine

9.

Why could political machines be bad?

a)

they formed monopolies with other machines

b)

they used government money illegally and rigged the elections

c)

they smuggled liquor during prohibition

d)

all of the above

10.

Labor unions were groups of workers who fought for...

a)

A) better wages

b)

B) fewer working hours

c)

C) Both A and B

d)

D) None of the above

11.

Which of the following was a muckraker?

a)

Joseph Glidden, who invented barbed wire and changed life in the West

b)

Jacob Riis, a writer and photographer who showed poor living and working conditions

c)

John Rockefeller, a big businessman who owned the Standard Oil Company

12.

Tenements were often...

a)

A) Crowded

b)

B) Unsanitary

c)

C) Apartment buildings

d)

D) all of the above

13.

Which of the following headlines is an example of yellow journalism?

a)

"Theodore Roosevelt shot by crank in Milwaukee street"

b)

"Alaska to be 49th state; Senate approval is 64-20"

c)

"Destruction of the warship Maine was the work of an enemy!"

14.

What did yellow journalism do to Americans in 1898?

a)

It made us want to go to war against Spain

b)

It made us want to become more Isolationist

c)

It made us hate newspapers

15.

The routes on the map show why we wanted ______________.

a)

to own all of South America

b)

to build the Panama Canal

c)

to make Hawaii a state

16.

All of the following are reasons America entered World War I EXCEPT...

a)

Germany used unrestricted submarine warfare to sink the Lusitania

b)

Archduke Frank Ferdinand was assassinated

c)

Germany wrote the Zimmerman Note to Mexico trying to get them to fight against America

d)

Russia had a revolution, making this a war for Democracy

17.

America became known as a world power after...

a)

we fought in World War I

b)

we purchased Alaska

c)

we made Hawaii a state

d)

we built the Panama Canal

18.

The Spanish-American War was a turning point because...

a)

it officially made America a country

b)

it's when we started using jet fighters

c)

it made us hate Cuba

d)

the US acquired new territories and military bases

19.

Which of the following is NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

a)

the banking industry wasn't regulated

b)

we gave all our money to Japan

c)

we produced too many consumer goods. driving prices down

d)

people spent more money than they had by using credit

20.

Which President refused to provide direct federal aid to the homeless during the Great Depression?

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

c)

Albert Schmuck

21.

What was the name of President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression?

a)

A Time of Change

b)

Everyman's Rights

c)

The Open Home

d)

The New Deal

22.

Which of the following is an example of how geography can affect people's lives?

a)

The Dust Bowl

b)

The Sherman Antitrust Act

c)

The Rough Riders

23.

True or False: FDR's New Deal plan included only one remedy for the problems of the Great Depression.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

Which of the following did NOT attempt to restore public confidence in financial institutions?

a)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

b)

Securities and Exchange Commission

c)

Works Progress Administration

25.

Which of the following extended support to the elderly?

a)

Agricultural Adjustment Agency

b)

Works Progress Administration

c)

Social Security Administration

26.

True or False: The Agricultural Adjustment Agency attempted to make crop prices rise by controlling the amount of crops grown.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Republican opponents of the New Deal claimed that it...

a)

went too far by having the government be responsible for the economy's welfare

b)

didn't go far enough and the government needed to take control of all businesses

c)

didn't help African Americans enough

28.

World War II marked the end of...

a)

The Dust Bowl

b)

The Spanish-American War

c)

The Great Depression

29.

True or False: The New Deal increased Americans' belief that the government is responsible for its citizens' well-being.

a)

True

b)

False