WorksheetsSocial Studies Monster Review
Total questions: 154
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These helped transport goods and cattle quickly from West Texas to all over the United States
Rail Roads
Roads
Rivers
The reason for high cattle prices in the East was...
low demand
high supply
high demand
The reason cattle were cheap in Texas was because of ...
high supply
high demand
low supply
African Americans often faced less discrimination because ranchers were not interested in the color of their skin, but they were interested in their ...
skill
age
height
race
What does "temperance" mean?
Movement to allow women to vote
Movement to allow African Americans to vote
Movement to ban drinking
Movement to offer free education
When one person or corporation owns an entire industry, it is called
A corporation
A patent
A monopoly
An entrepeneur
How did transportation advances help to create a rise in big business?
Workers lived further away from factories.
Products could be transported to a new national market.
Mechanization decreased the need to transport goods over long distances.
Labor unions were disbanded after the railroad strikes.
The inventor of the telephone was
Andrew Carnegie
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Henry Bessemer
In WW1 what was the name of Austria Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire?
Central Powers
Allies
In what year did WW1 start
1912
1914
1916
1920
What caused the US to enter WW1?
Army tanks being blown up
US soldiers being killed
US ships being sank
Germany assassinated our president
What started WWI
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
invasion of Poland
bombing of USS Maine
space race/ or arms race
what ended WWI
an agreement for peace and no more fighting
rained dogs
Cats
Britain
who invaded Poland
Britain
Germany
America
Poland
What change in the 1920s caused cities to expand outward?
more automobiles
more immigrants
more skyscrapers
taller skyscrapers
Which of the following had the greatest influence on entertainment and the arts during the 1920s?
automobiles
television
newspapers
radio
What form of music became popular in the 1920s?
hip hop
rock and roll
country
jazz
Which African American became a famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
Billie Holiday
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
Making monthly payments until the full price has been paid
consumer goods
installment buying
mechanization
urbanization
renaissance
A young woman in the 1920's who dressed and behaved in an independent and modern way was called a
free bird
Betty Boop
Flapper
Bob
If you buy goods or services then you are a
Flapper
proprietor
business
consumer
An economic boom is when
an economy is healthy and growing rapidly
an economy is declining quickly
there is an explosion in a money factory
everyone has a job
Jazz originated in which southern city
Memphis
Nashville
Atlanta
New Orleans
The 19th Amendment allowed women
a chance to vote in political elections
an opportunity to run their own businesses
to wear new clothes called "flapper" dresses
This person was famous during the 1920's for being one of the best-known jazz composers
mass media
prohibition
bootlegging
Duke Ellington
jazz
This process made it possible to put together a car in pieces and also cut back on labor
mass media
assembly line
mass production
Duke Ellington
jazz
This is the making of large numbers of goods that are exactly alike
mass media
assembly line
mass production
Duke Ellington
jazz
Choose the answer that best describes the Dust Bowl.
When people get a lot of dust in their plates and bowls.
A period of time where a large part of the US experienced drought and huge dust storms.
When a dust storm came through Lubbock last year.
A general term for when objects become dirty.
What year did the Dust Bowl begin?
1930
2016
1954
1916
What human activity was a part of the cause of the Dust Bowl?
Driving
Building
Baseball
Overplowing
What environmental factor played a part in the cause of the Dust Bowl?
Snow
Drought
Hurricane
Rain
How long did the Dust Bowl last?
5 weeks
6 months
25 years
10 years
Identify a negative consequence of the Dust Bowl on farmers.
Farmers had no consequences
Farmers didn't have to work very hard anymore
Farmers could't pay their bills and possibly lost their farms
Farmers were worried there was too much rain
What group of people had the worst consequences from the Dust Bowl?
Farmers in the Great Plains
Doctors up North
People on the East Coast
People out West
What crop did most farmers in the Great Plains grow?
Corn
Cotton
Wheat
Pecans
What state did NOT experience the Dust Bowl?
Texas
Oklahoma
Florida
Kansas
The day Germany surrendered unconditionally to Allied Powers
D-Day
V-E Day
V-J Day
Battle of The Bulge
The Last Major German attack in Europe
Battle of the Bulge
V-J Day
D-Day
V-E Day
Allied Invasion of Normandy, France which was the major turning point in favor of the allied powers
V-E Day
V-J Day
D-Day
Pearl Harbor
A globally peace keeping organization founded to help countries keep peace and prevent another world war
Pearl Harbor
United Nations
Iwo Jima
D-Day
Major battle in the pacific where U.S. Marines captured a Japanese Island
Iwo Jima
D-Day
V-J Day
Pearl Harbor
Major battle in the pacific where U.S. Marines captured a Japanese Island
Iwo Jima
D-Day
V-J Day
Pearl Harbor
the official end of WW2 and the day that Japan surrendered to the United States
Pearl Harbor
Hiroshima
United Nations
V-J Day
What Americans did to limit their consumption of materials needed to support troops at war
Rationing
Consuming
Opportunity Cost
Working
Propaganda used to recruit and represent women who worked during WW2
Rationing
Rosie the Riveter
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anne Frank
First Lady of the United States who helped people believe in and trust the Tuskegee Airmen, and who recruited countries for the United Nations, and who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anne Frank
Harry Truman
Rosie the Riveter
President of the United States at The beginning of WW2
Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
President of The United States who made the decision to drop the Atomic Bombs
Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
A young girls whose family was persecuted in the Holocaust but became famous when her father published her diary
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rosie
Anne Frank
Eva Brawn
The Two locations of the atomic bombings
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Pearl Harbor
Iwo Jima
Famous group fo African American Pilots who never lost a bomber and who fought for equality in the Army and in America
Rosie The Riveter
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Tuskegee Airmen
Major Japanese attack on the United States
Iwo Jima
Pearl Harbor
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Choose all the countries in the Axis Powers
Germany
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Choose all the Countries in the Allied Powers
United States
France
Germany
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Leader of Germany
Adolf Hitler
Emporer Hirohito
Benito Musolini
Winston Churchill
Leader of Japan
Adolf Hitler
Emporer Hirohito
Benito Musolini
Winston Churchill
Leader of Italy
Adolf Hitler
Emporer Hirohito
Benito Musolini
Winston Churchill
Leader of Great Britain
Adolf Hitler
Emporer Hirohito
Benito Musolini
Winston Churchill
Leaders of the United States
Adolf Hitler
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
Leader of the Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler
Franklin Roosevelt
Josef Stalin
Winston Churchill
What year did Hitler take power in Germany?
1933
1945
1936
1939
What years did WW2 begin and end?
1933
1939
1945
1942
I wanted to find Communists in the US.
My work was part of the Red Scare.
My ideas became unpopular.
Who am I?
I was the leader of the USSR.
I wanted to put nuclear missiles on Cuba. I served as leader until 1964.
Who am I?
Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cesar Chavez
Thurgood Marshall
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedom Riders
March on Washington
Senator who ran for President and was later assassinated. His older brother was a US president who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.
Mary Washington
Jackie Kennedy
Cesar Chavez
Rosa Parks
Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.
Brown vs. the Board of Education
13th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jim Crow Laws
First African American Supreme Court judge. He was the attorney for Linda Brown with Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
President who was assassinated during a campaign visit in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald for his Civil Rights efforts
Robert Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
15th Amendment
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting (voting people, voting)
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1964
Separation of two or more races based on skin color
segregation
racism
oppression
facism
Leader who worked to improve treatment, pay, and working conditions for farm workers; you should know this one because you have already used three of these!
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Cesar Chavez
