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STAAR Review (People)

Total questions: 69

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following Progressive Era figures founded the Hull House in Chicago to help poor immigrants during the late 19th century?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

William Jennings Bryan

d)

WEB Dubois

2.

Which Progressive Era activist fought for women's suffrage, and co-founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Betty Friedan

3.

Which African-American soldier was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery while fighting in Italy during World War II?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Alvin York

c)

Chester Nimitz

d)

Vernon Baker

4.

Which Mexican-American soldier was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving his fellow soldiers during the Vietnam War?

a)

Hector P. Garcia

b)

Roy Benavidez

c)

Cesar Chavez

d)

Lionel Sosa

5.

Which 1960s civil rights group advocated for armed self defense and revolution to end black oppression?

a)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

b)

The Black Panthers

c)

United Negro Improvement Association

d)

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

6.

Which man commanded the 1st Army during D-Day, and helped liberate Paris from Nazi rule during World War II?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

George Patton

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

Omar Bradley

7.

Which populist politician was the democratic nominee in the 1896 presidential election, AND was the prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Trial?

a)

Clarence Darrow

b)

William McKinley

c)

William Jennings Bryan

d)

Sanford Dole

8.

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.

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

George Pullman

9.

Which founding father signed the Declaration of Independence and used his own money to help finance the American Revolution?

a)

Charles Carroll

b)

John Jay

c)

John Adams

d)

Jonathan Trumbull

10.

Which civil rights activist organized a nationwide boycott of grapes to fight discrimination against migrant workers? He helped found the United Farm Workers organization

a)

Hector P. Garcia

b)

Cesar Chavez

c)

Roy Benavidez

d)

none of these

11.

Which President signed NAFTA into law and was impeached due to an affair with a White House intern?

a)

Ronald Reagan

b)

George W. Bush

c)

Barack Obama

d)

Bill Clinton

12.

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.

a)

Laura Bush

b)

Nancy Reagan

c)

Michelle Obama

d)

Hillary Clinton

13.

Which man is known as the Father of Naval Aviation and was instrumental in the founding of the American aircraft industry?

a)

Glenn Curtiss

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Charles Lindbergh

d)

John Scopes

14.

Which of the following was the defense attorney in the Scopes Trial?

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

Clarence Darrow

15.

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.

a)

John Locke

b)

Alexis de Tocqueville

c)

Montesquieu

d)

none of these

16.

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.

a)

Sanford Dole

b)

William McKinley

c)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

17.

Which of the following civil rights leaders advocated for Pan-Africanism and helped found the NAACP?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB Dubois

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

18.

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.

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Omar Bradley

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

19.

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?

a)

George Wallace

b)

Lester Maddox

c)

Orval Faubus

20.

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?

a)

Tuskegee Airmen

b)

Flying Tigers

c)

Navajo Code Talkers

d)

none of these

21.

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?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Walt Disney

c)

Clarence Darrow

d)

Henry Ford

22.

Who wrote the Feminine Mystique, and co-founded the National Organization of Women?

a)

Gloria Steinem

b)

Betty Friedan

c)

Phyllis Sclafly

d)

Dolores Huerta

23.

Which Mexican-American WWII soldier organized the American GI Forum to expend veteran benefits to Hispanic-American soldiers?

a)

Cesar Chavez

b)

Roy Benevidez

c)

Hector P. Garcia

d)

Dolores Huerta

24.

Which civil rights activist led the Back to Africa movement and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

WEB Dubois

d)

Malcolm X

25.

Which man developed a small software business in his garage (Microsoft) that eventually employed numerous Americans and set the standard in computer software ?

a)

Bill Gates

b)

Steve Jobs

c)

Jeff Bezos

d)

Elon Musk

26.

Which of the following was one of the founders of the modern Conservative movement, and the republican nominee for the 1964 Presidential election?

a)

Lyndon B. Johnson

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Barry Goldwater

27.

Which evangelical preacher was a key player in the modern conservative movement?

a)

Billy Graham

b)

Richard Nixon

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

Newt Gingrich

28.

Which Massachusetts businessman was president of the Continental Congress in 1775, and was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence

a)

John Hancock

b)

John Jay

c)

John Peter Muhlenberg

d)

Charles Carroll

29.

Which 1920s president promised a "return to normalcy" (meaning life before WWI) and was president during the Teapot Dome scandal?

a)

Calvin Coolidge

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Warren G. Harding

30.

Which of the following worked closely with Cesar Chavez and lobbied for farmworkers' rights?

a)

Sonia Sotomayor

b)

Dolores Huerta

c)

Phyllis Schlafly

d)

Betty Friedan

31.

Which man negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

a)

John Hancock

b)

John Locke

c)

John Peter Muhlenberg

d)

John Jay

32.

Which US President launched a "war on poverty" in the 1960s with his Great Society programs, AND escalated the Vietnam War?

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Lyndon B. Johnson

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

Richard Nixon

33.

Who founded the TV channel Black Entertainment Television?

a)

Lionel Sosa

b)

Sam Walton

c)

Robert Johnson

d)

Shirley Chisholm

34.

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.

a)

Lyndon B. Johnson

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

John F. Kennedy

35.

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.

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Huey Newton

d)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

36.

__________ was listed as one of the most influential entrepreneurs, due to her world-renowned beauty company

a)

Estee Lauder

b)

Oprah Winfrey

c)

Hillary Clinton

d)

none of these

37.

Which man became a national celebrity when he completed the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean?

a)

Glenn Curtiss

b)

Charles Lindbergh

c)

Henry Ford

d)

William Jennings Bryan

38.

___________ 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.

a)

Alfred T. Mahan

b)

Henry Cabot Lodge

c)

Sanford Dole

d)

Woodrow Wilson

39.

____________ was Chief of Staff for the Army in WWII, and created the Marshall Plan to help rebuild Europe after WWII.

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

George Patton

c)

Alvin York

d)

George Marshall

40.

___________ became the first African-American to be appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1967.

a)

Clarence Darrow

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

None of these

41.

__________ contributed to the Red Scare in the 1950s when he announced that communists were working in the State Department.

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Alger Hiss

c)

Joseph McCarthy

d)

Harry Truman

42.

____________ was a clergyman, and a soldier during the American Revolutionary War.

a)

John Peter Muhlenberg

b)

John Hancock

c)

Charles Carroll

d)

none of these

43.

The _______ were a group of Native Americans who were recruited by the military to code/decode messages during WWII

a)

Flying Tigers

b)

Tuskegee Airmen

c)

Navajo Code Talkers

d)

Freedom Riders

44.

Which US president gained initial fame during the Alger Hiss trial, and eventually became the first president to resign after the Watergate Scandal?

a)

Gerald Ford

b)

Richard Nixon

c)

Jimmy Carter

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

45.

Who commanded the US naval fleet in the Pacific during WWII?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

George Patton

c)

Chester Nimitz

d)

Omar Bradley

46.

__________ was the first African-American President. He was elected in 2008.

a)

Barack Obama

b)

George W. Bush

c)

Donald Trump

d)

Bill Clinton

47.

______________ was the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981

a)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

b)

Sonia Sotomayor

c)

Hillary Clinton

d)

Sandra Day O'Connor

48.

___________ 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

a)

Dolores Huerta

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Betty Friedan

d)

Rosa Parks

49.

____________ was the celebrated tank commander for the #rd Armored Division of the US army in WWII.

a)

George Patton

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

George Marshall

50.

____________ commanded the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I. He also led a search for Pancho Villa in 1916.

a)

Alvin York

b)

John Pershing

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

George Patton

51.

_________ increased military spending in the 1980s and created economic growth by broad tax cuts and deregulation of the economy.

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Gerald Ford

c)

George HW Bush

d)

Ronald Reagan

52.

_____________ 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.

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

William Howard Taft

d)

Woodrow Wilson

53.

____________ 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.

a)

Eleanor Roosevelt

b)

Hillary Clinton

c)

Betty Ford

d)

Lady Bird Johnson

54.

__________ 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

a)

Lyndon B. Johnson

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

Herbert Hoover

55.

__________ 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.

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Benjamin Rush

c)

Benjamin Harrison

d)

none of these

56.

_________ was a conservative known for her anti-feminism campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment

a)

Betty Friedan

b)

Gloria Steinem

c)

Phyllis Schlafly

d)

Lady Bird Johnson

57.

______________ 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

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

d)

Mark Twain

58.

______________ was the founder of the largest advertising agency in Texas.

a)

Sam Walton

b)

Robert Johnson

c)

Lionel Sosa

d)

Billy Graham

59.

______________ was the first Hispanic appointed to the United States Supreme Court

a)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

b)

Sandra Day O'Connor

c)

Betty Friedan

d)

Sonia Sotomayor

60.

___________ 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.

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

John F. Kennedy

61.

__________ 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.

a)

Benjamin Rush

b)

Jonathan Trumbull Sr.

c)

John Jay

d)

John Hancock

62.

The _____________ were America’s first squadron of African-American aviators during WWII

a)

Flying Tigers

b)

Navajo Code Talkers

c)

Tuskegee Airmen

63.

_________ was the pro-segregation Governor of Alabama and ran (unsuccessfully) for president 4 times.

a)

Orval Faubus

b)

Lester Maddox

c)

George Wallace

64.

___________ founded Wal-Mart

a)

Estee Lauder

b)

Robert Johnson

c)

Sam Walton

d)

Lionel Sosa

65.

__________ was an advocate for women's suffrage, and was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Phyllis Schlafly

c)

Betty Friedan

d)

Frances willard

66.

________ was an African American reformer who advocated against lynching and for women's suffrage

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

none of these

67.

________ was a Progressive President who signed the Federal Reserve Act, and was President during WWI

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Harry Truman

d)

William Howard Taft

68.

__________ was an American clergyman who signed the Declaration of Independence. He later became president of Princeton University.

a)

John Peter Muhlenberg

b)

John Witherspoon

c)

John Jay

d)

Jonathan Trumbull

69.

_________ was the most decorated soldier in WWI. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

a)

Alvin York

b)

John Pershing

c)

Douglas MacArthur

d)

Woodrow Wilson