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WorksheetsSTAAR Review (People)
Total questions: 69
Worksheet time: 35mins
Which of the following Progressive Era figures founded the Hull House in Chicago to help poor immigrants during the late 19th century?
Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
William Jennings Bryan
WEB Dubois
Which Progressive Era activist fought for women's suffrage, and co-founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
Jane Addams
Ida B. Wells
Susan B. Anthony
Betty Friedan
Which African-American soldier was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery while fighting in Italy during World War II?
Douglas MacArthur
Alvin York
Chester Nimitz
Vernon Baker
Which Mexican-American soldier was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving his fellow soldiers during the Vietnam War?
Hector P. Garcia
Roy Benavidez
Cesar Chavez
Lionel Sosa
Which 1960s civil rights group advocated for armed self defense and revolution to end black oppression?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The Black Panthers
United Negro Improvement Association
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Which man commanded the 1st Army during D-Day, and helped liberate Paris from Nazi rule during World War II?
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Omar Bradley
Which populist politician was the democratic nominee in the 1896 presidential election, AND was the prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Trial?
Clarence Darrow
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Sanford Dole
Which man accumulated massive amounts of wealth in the STEEL industry during the Gilded Age? He also used the Gospel of Wealth doctrine to encourage the wealthy to use their money for the good of the public.
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
George Pullman
Which founding father signed the Declaration of Independence and used his own money to help finance the American Revolution?
Charles Carroll
John Jay
John Adams
Jonathan Trumbull
Which civil rights activist organized a nationwide boycott of grapes to fight discrimination against migrant workers? He helped found the United Farm Workers organization
Hector P. Garcia
Cesar Chavez
Roy Benavidez
none of these
Which President signed NAFTA into law and was impeached due to an affair with a White House intern?
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
Which of the following was First Lady during the 1990s and served as Secretary of State during President Obama's presidency? She became the first female candidate to gain the democratic nomination for President.
Laura Bush
Nancy Reagan
Michelle Obama
Hillary Clinton
Which man is known as the Father of Naval Aviation and was instrumental in the founding of the American aircraft industry?
Glenn Curtiss
Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
John Scopes
Which of the following was the defense attorney in the Scopes Trial?
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Which French writer came to the United States to observe our political and social institutions? He identified 5 characteristics that set Americans apart from the rest of the world (egalitariansim, individualism, populism, liberty, and laissez-faire.
John Locke
Alexis de Tocqueville
Montesquieu
none of these
Which man negotiated the annexation of Hawaii in 1898? He served as President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Hawaii after Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown.
Sanford Dole
William McKinley
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
Which of the following civil rights leaders advocated for Pan-Africanism and helped found the NAACP?
Booker T. Washington
WEB Dubois
Marcus Garvey
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which WWII figure organized the D-Day invasion as Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe? He later went on to become President and create the Interstate Highway System.
Douglas MacArthur
Harry Truman
Omar Bradley
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which of the following was the governor of Arkansas, and brought in the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the Little Rock 9 from desegregating a high school in Little Rock?
George Wallace
Lester Maddox
Orval Faubus
Which of the following was a group of Americans who volunteered to serve as pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the US entering the war?
Tuskegee Airmen
Flying Tigers
Navajo Code Talkers
none of these
Which of the following the auto industry with the assembly line, manufactured affordable cars (Model-T), and contributed to the automobile boom in the 1920s?
John D. Rockefeller
Walt Disney
Clarence Darrow
Henry Ford
Who wrote the Feminine Mystique, and co-founded the National Organization of Women?
Gloria Steinem
Betty Friedan
Phyllis Sclafly
Dolores Huerta
Which Mexican-American WWII soldier organized the American GI Forum to expend veteran benefits to Hispanic-American soldiers?
Cesar Chavez
Roy Benevidez
Hector P. Garcia
Dolores Huerta
Which civil rights activist led the Back to Africa movement and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
WEB Dubois
Malcolm X
Which man developed a small software business in his garage (Microsoft) that eventually employed numerous Americans and set the standard in computer software ?
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Jeff Bezos
Elon Musk
Which of the following was one of the founders of the modern Conservative movement, and the republican nominee for the 1964 Presidential election?
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Which evangelical preacher was a key player in the modern conservative movement?
Billy Graham
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Newt Gingrich
Which Massachusetts businessman was president of the Continental Congress in 1775, and was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
John Jay
John Peter Muhlenberg
Charles Carroll
Which 1920s president promised a "return to normalcy" (meaning life before WWI) and was president during the Teapot Dome scandal?
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Which of the following worked closely with Cesar Chavez and lobbied for farmworkers' rights?
Sonia Sotomayor
Dolores Huerta
Phyllis Schlafly
Betty Friedan
Which man negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
John Hancock
John Locke
John Peter Muhlenberg
John Jay
Which US President launched a "war on poverty" in the 1960s with his Great Society programs, AND escalated the Vietnam War?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Who founded the TV channel Black Entertainment Television?
Lionel Sosa
Sam Walton
Robert Johnson
Shirley Chisholm
Which US president navigated the nation through the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs invasion, and other Cold War events? He was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Which civil rights leader advocated for civil disobedience and nonviolent protests to improve rights for African-Americans? He gained national attention when he gave his "I have a dream" speech in 1963.
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Huey Newton
Martin Luther King, Jr.
__________ was listed as one of the most influential entrepreneurs, due to her world-renowned beauty company
Estee Lauder
Oprah Winfrey
Hillary Clinton
none of these
Which man became a national celebrity when he completed the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean?
Glenn Curtiss
Charles Lindbergh
Henry Ford
William Jennings Bryan
___________ was a republican senator who opposed the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. He supported isolationism after WWI and wanted to keep the US out of the League of Nations.
Alfred T. Mahan
Henry Cabot Lodge
Sanford Dole
Woodrow Wilson
____________ was Chief of Staff for the Army in WWII, and created the Marshall Plan to help rebuild Europe after WWII.
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Alvin York
George Marshall
___________ became the first African-American to be appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1967.
Clarence Darrow
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
None of these
__________ contributed to the Red Scare in the 1950s when he announced that communists were working in the State Department.
Richard Nixon
Alger Hiss
Joseph McCarthy
Harry Truman
____________ was a clergyman, and a soldier during the American Revolutionary War.
John Peter Muhlenberg
John Hancock
Charles Carroll
none of these
The _______ were a group of Native Americans who were recruited by the military to code/decode messages during WWII
Flying Tigers
Tuskegee Airmen
Navajo Code Talkers
Freedom Riders
Which US president gained initial fame during the Alger Hiss trial, and eventually became the first president to resign after the Watergate Scandal?
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon B. Johnson
Who commanded the US naval fleet in the Pacific during WWII?
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Chester Nimitz
Omar Bradley
__________ was the first African-American President. He was elected in 2008.
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Donald Trump
Bill Clinton
______________ was the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sonia Sotomayor
Hillary Clinton
Sandra Day O'Connor
___________ was arrested in 1955 for refusing to move to back back of her bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dolores Huerta
Ida B. Wells
Betty Friedan
Rosa Parks
____________ was the celebrated tank commander for the #rd Armored Division of the US army in WWII.
George Patton
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Marshall
____________ commanded the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I. He also led a search for Pancho Villa in 1916.
Alvin York
John Pershing
Theodore Roosevelt
George Patton
_________ increased military spending in the 1980s and created economic growth by broad tax cuts and deregulation of the economy.
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
George HW Bush
Ronald Reagan
_____________ led the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War, signed the Pure Food & Drug Act, and used his "Big Stick" diplomacy to expand American influence to other parts of the world.
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
____________ was First Lady during the Great Depression. She provided encouragement to poor Americans and was the first chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
Betty Ford
Lady Bird Johnson
__________ was President during the Great Depression and most of WWII. He is famous for his "New Deal" recovery programs, which expanded the role of the federal government
Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
__________ was a physician, writer, and educator who signed the Declaration Of Independence. He also attended the Continental Congress and was Treasurer of the US Mint.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Harrison
none of these
_________ was a conservative known for her anti-feminism campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
Phyllis Schlafly
Lady Bird Johnson
______________ wrote The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the Chicago meat-packing industry. His book led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act, AND the Pure Food & Drug Act
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
______________ was the founder of the largest advertising agency in Texas.
Sam Walton
Robert Johnson
Lionel Sosa
Billy Graham
______________ was the first Hispanic appointed to the United States Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sandra Day O'Connor
Betty Friedan
Sonia Sotomayor
___________ was president at the end of WWII, and made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He sent American troops to defend South Korea during the Korean War, and ended racial segregation in the military.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
__________ was the only colonial governor to support the colonist during the Revolutionary War. Because of this, he was allowed to stay in office after the war was over.
Benjamin Rush
Jonathan Trumbull Sr.
John Jay
John Hancock
The _____________ were America’s first squadron of African-American aviators during WWII
Flying Tigers
Navajo Code Talkers
Tuskegee Airmen
_________ was the pro-segregation Governor of Alabama and ran (unsuccessfully) for president 4 times.
Orval Faubus
Lester Maddox
George Wallace
___________ founded Wal-Mart
Estee Lauder
Robert Johnson
Sam Walton
Lionel Sosa
__________ was an advocate for women's suffrage, and was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Ida B. Wells
Phyllis Schlafly
Betty Friedan
Frances willard
________ was an African American reformer who advocated against lynching and for women's suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
Harriet Tubman
Ida B. Wells
none of these
________ was a Progressive President who signed the Federal Reserve Act, and was President during WWI
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Harry Truman
William Howard Taft
__________ was an American clergyman who signed the Declaration of Independence. He later became president of Princeton University.
John Peter Muhlenberg
John Witherspoon
John Jay
Jonathan Trumbull
_________ was the most decorated soldier in WWI. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Alvin York
John Pershing
Douglas MacArthur
Woodrow Wilson
