WorksheetsUS History STAAR Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 23mins
Which of the following is considered a major turning point in the Vietnam War?
Gulf of Tonkin incident
Battle of Saigon
Tet Offensive
My Lai massacre
The term "muckraker", as used during the progressive age, means
a journalist who exposed corruption and scandal
a farmer with a lot of livestock
a politician that favored imperialist policies
a business owner of a monopoly
Also known as D-day, this took place on June 6th, 1944
Doolittle's raid on Tokyo
Munich Conference
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki
Normandy Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was
a success for President Kennedy
a failure for President Kennedy
the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis
in response to the failure of the Berlin airlift
Medicare/Medicaid, the War on Poverty, and Head start were all
a part of Kennedy's "New Frontier" domestic policy
a part of Johnson's "Great Society" domestic policy
eliminated during Jimmy Carter's administration
components of Roosevelt's "New Deal"
After World War I, President Harding promised a _______
Red Scare
"Return to Normalcy"
Prohibition movement
Detente
What happened on December 7, 1941?
German Blitzkrieg of Poland
Japanese massacre of Nanjing
Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
Executive order 9066 signed
The Spanish-American War
helped Cuba get independence
gave the Philippines their independence
awarded the US control of the Panama Canal
allowed Spain to take control of Florida
This piece of legislation banned discrimination based on race in public
Civil rights act of 1968
24th amendment
Affirmative Action
Civil rights act of 1964
True or false: The United States joined the League of Nations after World War I.
True
False
This man founded the NAACP
Martin Luther King Jr.
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B DuBois
Booker T. Washington
The 19th amendment guaranteed
directed election of Senators
the right to a free and appropriate public education
Women the right to vote
a federal minimum wage
"The Jungle", written by Upton Sinclair, exposed
the horrible conditions in the meat-packing industry
the plight faced by child laborers in coal mines
the harsh treatment of Cubans by the Spanish
the living conditions in tenements
Plessy vs. Ferguson reinforced what segregation policy?
"Don't ask, Don't tell"
"Social Darwinism"
"Separate but equal"
"Executive Privilege"
"Boss" Tweed was head of what Gilded age political organization?
Democratic Party
Tammany Hall
Republican Party
Knights of Labor
After the Korean War, Korea was divided by the
Seoul Wall
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Pyongyang Blockade
17th Parallel
Promontory Point completed which project?
Transcontinental Railroad
Hoover Dam
Interstate Highway System
Statue of Liberty
What was the purpose of the Sherman anti-trust act?
Broke apart monopolies and trusts
Outlawed labor unions
Imposed tariffs on imports
Outlawed immigration from China
What did the Pendleton Service Act do?
established a merit system for jobs in the government
provided benefits for WWI veterans
created the Great White Fleet
Made home loans easier to get
Nixon's strategy for exiting the Vietnam War was known as
tactical withdraw
ceasefire of Saigon
domino theory
Vietnamization
Which court case ended segregation in schools?
Brown vs. Board
Scopes "monkey" Trial
Tinker vs. Des Moines
Hernandez vs. Texas
This group was known for using violent or militant actions to achieve civil rights
The Black Panthers
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Dixiecrats
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Which of the following best describes "Manifest Destiny"?
America will always welcome immigrants
America will end racial segregation
America will help other places get independence
America will reach from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast
What did the 24th Amendment do?
Banned segregation
Ended the grandfather clause
Eliminated the poll tax
Lowered the voting age to 18
This was a "blank check" for Johnson to escalate the Vietnam War
War Powers Act
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
26th Amendment
Tinker vs. Des Moines
All of the following were causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT
overproduction
speculation
buying on credit
rise of nationalism
He had a monopoly on the oil industry with his company Standard Oil
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
JP Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Detente is
relaxing of tensions with China
easing relations with the USSR
preventing the spread of communism
building up defenses to protect the US
Who was the first woman in the Supreme Court?
Sonia Sotomayor
Thurgood Marshall
Nancy Reagan
Sandra Day O'Connor
The Great Migration was the
movement of African Americans from the South to the North
influx of new immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe
process of moving from cities to the suburbs
movement of people from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt
