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SS Final Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Segregation laws .......

a)

made sure children went to school.

b)

kept black people and white people separate.

c)

made sure all people could vote.

d)

kept people from driving too fast.

2.

What were the laws that separated black people from white people called?

a)

Black laws

b)

Crow laws

c)

Jim Crow laws

d)

John Deere laws

3.

Which statement best summarizes the opinion concerning segregation in Brown v. Board of Education?

a)

The Fourteenth Amendment does not mention public education.

b)

Some earlier court decisions allowed schools to segregate students on the basis of race.

c)

It is unconstitutional for public schools to segregate students on the basis of race.

d)

An earlier court decision allowed “separate but equal” school facilities for white and African American children.

4.
According to the map, where were African Americans migrating from?
a)
The East
b)
The North
c)
The South
d)
The Midwest
5.
During The Great Migration, many southerners moved to big cities for what reason?
a)
to find more food
b)
because they didn't like growing cotton
c)
to find better jobs
d)
to get bigger homes
6.
What does it mean to migrate?
a)
To move from one place to another
b)
To sleep all winter
c)
To hunt for food
d)
To change houses
7.
Read the following sentence from King’s speech: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” How did Martin Luther King Jr. feel about the future of America?
a)
scared
b)
angry
c)
hopeful
d)
sad
8.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, what was the difference between "new" immigration and "old" immigration?
a)
"Old" immigrants were from South America, and "new" immigrants were from Africa.
b)
Old" immigrants were from Asia, and "new" immigrants were from South America.
c)
"Old" immigrants were from western Europe, and "new" immigrants were from eastern and southern Europe.
d)
"Old" immigrants were from eastern and southern Europe, and "new" immigrants were from western Europe.
9.
Before 1860, most immigrants came from ____________________.
a)
Southern and Eastern Europe 
b)
Northern and Western Europe
10.
Job opportunities
a)
Push Factors
b)
Pull Factors
11.
A "muckraker" is
a)
A journalist who exposed living conditions in the tenements and factories
b)
Someone who took bribes 
c)
someone who fought for women's rights
d)
a gardener
12.
Wrote "How the other half lives" exposing conditions in the slums
a)
Susan B. Anthony
b)
Boss Tweed
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Jane Addams
13.
Who exposed bad business practices in the OIL industry?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Ida Tarbell
14.

Laissez faire means?

a)

democracy

b)

The government does not get involved. "hands off approach"

c)

dictatorship

d)

communism

15.

Which of the following represents the best definition for temperance movement?

a)

a widespread effort by few people to increase the consumption of alcohol. (mid 1800's to early 1900's)

b)

a widespread effort by many people to reduce the consumption of alcohol. (mid 1800's to early 1900's)

c)

a widespread effort by many people to reduce the consumption of tobacco. (mid 1800's to early 1900's)

d)

the fight for equal rights such as education,voting, and workplace rights for women.

16.

What did the 18th Amendment accomplish?

a)

Granted all men the right to vote

b)

Granted all women the right to vote

c)

banned the sale and consumption of alcohol (prohibition)

17.

What did the 21st Amendment accomplish?

a)

It repealed the 18th Amendment by legalizing the sale and consumption of alcohol.

b)

It repealed the 15th Amendment

c)

It repealed the 19th Amendment by legalizing the sale and consumption of alcohol.

18.

Define Prohibition.

a)

A partial ban on the sale and consumption of tobacco

b)

A partial ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

c)

A total ban on the sale and consumption of tobacco

d)

A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

19.
Who initiated the Square Deal?
a)
Theodore Roosevelt
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
d)
Bill Clinton
20.

Founded in 1874, this organization advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point. Advocates of prohibition in the United States found common cause with activists elsewhere, especially in Britain.

a)

The Anti-Saloon League

b)

Women's Christian Temperance Union

c)

National American Woman Suffrage Association

d)

Settlement House Movement

21.
Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military
a)
holocaust
b)
nazism
c)
fascism
d)
rationing
22.

What theory caused the U.S. to enter the Vietnam War in order to stop the expansion of communism across Southeast Asia?

a)

Marshall Plan

b)

Domino Theory

c)

Open Door Policy

d)

Dollar Diplomacy

23.

What was Marshall Aid used for?

a)

Fuel

b)

Food

c)

Loans

d)

All of the above

24.
Which statement describes the Marshall Plan?
a)
An alliance designed to combine the forces of all democratic nations in Western Europe
b)
An economic plan to spend 12.5 billion dollars on reconstructing Western Europe
c)
A failed military plan to cripple communist influence in Western Europe
d)
A peace treaty with the Soviet Union that was ultimately rejected
25.
who was Herbert Hoover?
a)
a president during the Great Depression
b)
a cook  during the Great 
c)
a man who fought in the civil war
d)
worked in the stock market
26.
What caused the Great Depression?
a)
Dust Storms and rain drought
b)
Black Friday
c)
Stock Market crash
d)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
27.
Who was the president at the end of the Great Depression?
a)
(F.D.R)
b)
Herbert Hoover
c)
William Mckinley
d)
Abraham Lincoln
28.

This term describes all the presidents approach in regards to government involvement in the 1920s.

a)

Egalitarianism

b)

Laissez-faire

c)

Liberty

d)

Popular Sovereignty

29.
FDR made speeches called "_________________."
a)
fighter chats
b)
fireside chats
c)
freedom chats
d)
friendly chats
30.
What was the name of the plan that FDR started to get people back to work?
a)
Fireside Chats
b)
New Deal
c)
Little White House
d)
Great Depression
31.

Hoover or Roosevelt? Called on churches and charities to help the economy

a)

Hoover

b)

Roosevelt

32.

Hoover or Roosevelt? Only set up two agencies: RFC and another public works program, but it was too little too late.

a)

Hoover

b)

Roosevelt

33.

Hoover or Roosevelt? Create the New Deal which consisted of: relief, recovery, and reform

a)

Hoover

b)

Roosevelt

34.

Created a Bank Holiday where only banks with money could re-open.

a)

Hoover

b)

Roosevelt

35.

Created Alphabet Agencies to help those effected by the depression: CCC, SSA, FDIC

a)

Hoover

b)

Roosevelt

36.

Had fireside chats with the public in order to calm their nerves about the economy.

a)

Hoover

b)

Roosevelt

37.

He did not end the depression, but he made it better.

a)

Hoover

b)

Roosevelt

38.

tenements were:

a)

Poor run-down houses

b)

suburb housing

c)

Conditions of the rich

39.

Plessy v. Ferguson case said:

a)

Segregation will end

b)

separate but equal is not okay

c)

Separate but equal is ok as long as facilities are equal

40.

What was a fall out shelter?

a)

Helped Americans survive diseases such as typhoid and yellow fever

b)

Helped Americans survive a nuclear war

c)

Helped Americans survive hurricanes

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