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Semester #2 Final Overview and Preparation

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Bessemer process of steel manufacturing?

a)

Blowing air through molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities

b)

Blowing air through molten iron to remove oxygen and other impurities

c)

Blowing carbon through molten iron to remove air and other impurities

d)

Blowing nitrogen through molten iron to remove oxygen and carbon

2.

Which of the following is an example of horizontal integration?

a)

Verizon buys out competing companies of T-Mobile and AT&T

b)

Microsoft buys factories and mines to produce the new Xbox

c)

Standard Oil enters into a price-fixing arrangement for gasoline with BP Amoco

d)

Carnegie Steel sells the majority of its' product to one consumer, being reliant on them to stay profitable

3.

Which of the following statements best defines vertical integration?

a)

Sprint and T-Mobile decide to merge their companies into one new massive company

b)

Google splits into several different companies and divisions

c)

McDonalds buys several farms and trucking lines to control costs of their food

d)

Motorola goes out of business due to not having enough stock on the Stock Exchange

4.

Ideology that favored governmental regulation or oversight of business/property and advocated for equal distribution of wealth

a)

Communism

b)

Capitalism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Socialism

5.

Labor riots where several policemen were killed by a bomb thrown by an anarchist; resulted in decreased support of labor unions

a)

Stonewall Riots

b)

Haymarket Affair

c)

Homestead Strike

d)

1968 DNC Riots

6.

Organized a civilian government in Puerto Rico with the oversight of the United States

a)

Platt Amendment

b)

Foraker Act

c)

Insular Cases

d)

Teller Amendment

7.

Called for the United States to use military force in Latin America if its' economic interests were threatened

a)

Teller Amendment

b)

Roosevelt Corollary

c)

Bush Doctrine

d)

Platt Proposal

8.

Intercepted telegram from Germany to Mexico, asking Mexico to invade the southeastern United States

a)

Lusitania Letters

b)

De Lome Letter

c)

Zimmermann Note

d)

Open Door Notes

9.

Why did the Fourteen Points fail to be adopted by the United States and the Allied Powers at the end of WWI?

a)

Didn't acknowledge the anger felt by the Allies toward Germany

b)

Lack of popular support of President Wilson

c)

Hyperinflation and unstable political situation in Germany

d)

Distrust of the United States

10.

Punished Germany unfairly for its' aggressor status during World War I

a)

Yalta Conference

b)

Treaty of Versailles

c)

Treaty of Paris

d)

Paris Peace Accords

11.

Aimed to arrest and deport communists, socialists, and anarchists living in the United States after WWI

a)

Sacco and Vanzetti Case

b)

Palmer Raids

c)

Black Tuesday

d)

Volstead Acts

12.

Bob takes out a $20,000 loan from the bank in order to buy shares of stock to play the stock market

a)

Speculation

b)

Buying on margin

c)

Margin trading

d)

Insider trading

13.

All of the following were underlying causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT...

a)

Availability of easy credit for Americans

b)

Income inequalities and disparities between Americans

c)

Tariffs and war debt policies that cooled European demand for U.S. goods

d)

Widespread corruption in business and insider trading

14.

Insured deposits in American banks to restore citizens' confidence in the banking system and created the FDIC

a)

Glass-Steagall Act

b)

National Recovery Administration

c)

Social Security Act

d)

Agricultural Investment Act

15.

Group of WWI veterans that marched on Washington DC to demand early payment of their promised prize from their military service

a)

Bonus Army

b)

Selective Service Force

c)

National Recovery Army

d)

Reward Reserve

16.

All of the following are basic political principles followed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis EXCEPT...

a)

Intense nationalism

b)

Racial supremacy of the Aryan race

c)

Expansion of national boundaries

d)

Intense anti-semitism and anti-communism

17.

Event that draws the United States into fighting in World War II.

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

Normandy

c)

Midway

d)

Stalingrad

18.

What did Allied leadership decide during the Casablanca Conference?

a)

Accept only unconditional surrender from the Axis Powers

b)

Focus on taking out Japan before Germany

c)

Develop the atomic bomb to use against Nazi Germany

d)

Provide industrial support for the Soviet Union

19.

Supreme Court's verdict in Korematsu v. United States.

a)

Internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional on basis of national defense and security

b)

Internment of Japanese Americans was unconstitutional due to violation of 1st Amendment protections

c)

Segregation was constitutional as long as facilities for all races were of equal function

d)

Segregation was unconstitutional due to violating the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause

20.

What was the justification of the United States on using the atomic bomb against Japan at the end of WWII?

a)

Massive loss of lives on both sides, as evidenced from Okinawa and Iwo Jima

b)

Cost and casualties of developing the atomic bomb

c)

Intimidate the Soviet Union into non-aggression against American interests in Southeast Asia

d)

Curiosity on the atomic bomb's impact against a city

21.

Prevent the spread of communism and Soviet influence by confronting the spread of communism in other countries quickly and aggressively

a)

Containment

b)

Domino theory

c)

Mutually assured destruction

d)

Escalation

22.

Practice of making vicious accusations without any proof

a)

McCarthyism

b)

Escalation

c)

Red Scare

d)

Intimidation

23.

Ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities were of equal function; seen as an extension of Jim Crow segregation and discrimination

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Korematsu v. United States

d)

Marbury v. Madison

24.

Ruled that segregation in schools violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Korematsu v. United States

d)

Marbury v. Madison

25.

Caused Americans to turn against the Vietnam War, as they were being told for years that the war was close to being won.

a)

Credibility gap

b)

Tet Offensive

c)

Gulf of Tonkin

d)

1968 DNC Riots

26.

What was the Moral Majority?

a)

Conservative religious group that financed candidates who ran against liberal members of Congress

b)

Liberal religious group that financed candidates who ran against conservative members of Congress

c)

Republican religious group that financed candidates who ran against conservative members of Congress

d)

Democratic religious group that financed candidates who ran against liberal members of Congress

27.

What was the Strategic Defense Initiative proposed by President Reagan?

a)

System of laser and particle beams to shoot down incoming missiles

b)

Flying aircraft carriers to patrol U.S. airspace

c)

Use of mobile military forces to protect the borders

d)

None of the above

28.

What caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?

a)

Gorbachev's attempted reforms of glasnost and perestroika

b)

Revelations of corruption during the Chernobyl incident of senior leadership

c)

Declaration of independence from several Soviet republics

d)

Bankruptcy and insolvency of the Soviet Union

29.

What caused the Persian Gulf War?

a)

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, threatening U.S. oil imports of Middle Eastern oil

b)

Allegations that Iraq was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction

c)

Taliban's harboring of Al-Qaeda and bin Laden after 9/11 attacks

d)

Allegations of genocide by Iraqi forces to Kurds

30.

Why are the Stonewall Riots significant?

a)

Considered the start of the modern LGBTQ movement in the United States

b)

Brought issues of police brutality into the public conciousness

c)

Led to passage of significant civil rights reforms in southern states

d)

Marked a period of sustained violence in New York City for over 2 weeks