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WorksheetsUSH - Term 1 Final Review
Total questions: 98
Worksheet time: 49mins
For historical study skills, which skill cross-checks material and considers details and evidence across multiple sources to strengthen and support a historical claim?
corroboration
multiple perspectives
close reading
contextualization
sourcing
For historical study skills, what is thoughtful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or patterns in order to develop a precise understanding of a text?
corroboration
multiple perspectives
close reading
contextualization
sourcing
For historical study skills, which skill asks, who wrote a document as well as the circumstances of its creation, when? for what purpose? are they a credible source?
corroboration
multiple perspectives
close reading
contextualization
sourcing
For historical study skills, which skill is locating a document in time and place in order to understand how these factors shape its content / message?
corroboration
multiple perspectives
close reading
contextualization
sourcing
For historical study skills, which skill requires students to evaluate the different viewpoints of an event?
corroboration
multiple perspectives
close reading
contextualization
sourcing
The federal law that split Indian reservation lands among individual Indians and promised US citizenships, resulted in many tribes losing reservation lands to settlers is called the...
Patriot Act.
Dawes Act.
Morrill Act.
Homestead Act.
This Act granted land to the states to sell and use monies for colleges to teach agricultural sciences is known as the...
Patriot Act.
Dawes Act.
Morrill Act.
Homestead Act.
The time period of 1860-1890, rapid growth in wages, but high poverty and inequality for many, wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, materialistic excess & extreme poverty is known as the...
Progressive Age.
Great Depression.
Roaring 20s.
Gilded Age.
Areas of federal land set aside for American Indians exclusively are...
national parks.
places where students learn American values.
reservations.
entrepreneurs.
The Act granting 160 acres of land available to free males over 21 in exchange for a fee and live 5 years on the land is known as...
the Dawes Act.
the Homestead Act.
the Morrill Act.
the Patriot Act.
The belief in the power of regular people and their right to have control over their government is...
Populism.
republicanism.
assimilation.
socialism.
Farmers wanted to remain on the gold standard in order to keep inflation low.
True
False
Nebraskan, Democratic presidential candidate in 1896 and 1900, famous for "Cross of Gold" speech that argued for the silver standard is known as...
Andrew Carnegie.
John Bunyan.
William Randolph Hearst.
William Jennings Bryan.
John D. Rockefeller.
An economic system in which there is competition between businesses, little government control or interference is known as...
mercantilism.
free enterprise.
socialism.
anarchy.
People who assume the financial risks and rewards of starting and operating a business are known as...
crazy.
entrepreneurs.
corporations.
socialists.
Businesses that sell ownership shares, the money invested in the business, investors receive shares of the profits made by the business as known as...
mercantilism.
crazy.
corporations.
socialists.
Farmers wanted inflation to increase so that...
the gold standard would remain in place.
they could increase the amount of their debt.
they could repay their debts easier.
silver would be used instead of gold.
Farmers organized socially by forming...
the Farmers' Alliance.
the Democratic Party.
the Populist Party.
the National Grange.
Farmers organized economically by forming...
the Farmers' Alliance.
the National Grange.
the Democratic Party.
the Populist Party.
After selling his company for $447 million, Andrew Carnegie used his wealth by...
donating to entrepreneurs.
donating to libraries, church organs, educational research, and spelling reform.
developing department stores.
encouraging the discoveries of Thomas Edison.
John D. Rockefeller improved the lives of consumers worldwide by...
integrating horizontally.
lowering the price of steel, which increased the American standard of living.
lowering the price of kerosene, which provided cheap light and heat.
paying his workers high wages.
Andrew Carnegie improved the lives of consumers worldwide by...
integrating horizontally.
lowering the price of steel, which increased the American standard of living.
lowering the price of kerosene, which provided cheap light and heat.
paying his workers high wages.
Andrew Carnegie hired the best employees he could find and paid them well.
True
False
Under the Pendleton Civil Service Act, potential government employees were required to take an exam to determine their skill and ability to perform the job.
True
False
Teddy Roosevelt helped create the national parks system in the United States.
True
False
Teddy Roosevelt did more harm to the Progressive movement than any other US President.
True
False
Supporters of women's suffrage also supported...
settlement houses.
increasing child labor.
lower wages and unsafe working conditions.
slavery.
male only colleges.
The Pendleton Civil Service Act improved government by...
abolishing the spoils system.
requiring a physical fitness test of all applicants.
encouraging the use of political machines.
reducing paperwork at the Department of Motor Vehicle.
making all medical records available on computers.
The Pendleton Civil Service Act required potential government employees to...
donate money to a candidate's political campaign.
donate money to a political machine.
take an exam to determine their qualifications.
vote for a particular candidate.
enlist in the military.
President T. Roosevelt held big business responsible by...
instituting the square deal.
instituting a trust busting campaign.
using the bully pulpit.
creating the Roosevelt Corollary.
President T. Roosevelt protected consumers by...
allowing the sale and manufacturing of medicine and food containing harmful ingredients.
forbid shipping companies from giving rebates.
setting rates for railroads.
requiring federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines.
Constitutional amendment banning manufacturing, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages is known as the...
16th Amendment.
17th Amendment.
18th Amendment.
19th Amendment.
The campaign of legal assault on trusts and monopolies is known as...
muckraking.
anti-trust.
square deal.
bully pulpit.
He became President when McKinley was assassinated, increased presidential power, and used his political power to advocate for Progressive reforms.
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
What was the reform movement concerned with curing problems of cities and industry?
Populism
Progressivism
New Freedom
Atlanta Compromise
What is the use of the presidency to speak out on vital issues?
New Freedom
Square Deal
Bully Pulpit
muckraking
What was the 1895 speech by Booker T. Washington declaring its OK for African Americans to experience freedom slowly and calmly?
New Freedom
Jim Crow
Progressivism
Atlanta Compromise
What was Wilson's plan to keep government limited and out of the economy, use reforms that would alter market rules, and focused on tariffs, banks, and trusts?
New Edition
New Jack City
New Freedom
New World Order
What was the 1896 Supreme Court decision finding states could segregate as long as the accommodations are separate but equal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board
Holiday Inn v. Kansas
Ohio v. Miranda
What is the constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote?
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
What created the modern-day merit-based system under which federal employees take a test and are selected for jobs based on their test performance?
New Freedom
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
19th Amendment
This was known as Roosevelt's balance of business, consumer, and labor interests.
Square Deal
New Deal
Atlanta Compromise
Bully Pulpit
He argued for African American educational and political rights immediately, attacked racism, and helped found the NAACP.
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Investigative journalists who wrote articles to bring about reform in an industry or government.
progressivism
muckrakers
square deal
anarchists
He led the Tuskegee Institute, argued that African Americans should use education and business to advance equality of the races.
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Who was the Democratic candidate who won the 1912 Presidential election due to a 3 way race dividing Republican votes?
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
This is a ship canal cut across the Isthmus of Panama by France and the United States.
Dollar Diplomacy
Roosevelt Corollary
Great White Fleet
Panama Canal
What means did the United States use between 1890-1914 to exert influence around the world?
Great White Fleet
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Roosevelt Corollary
Dollar Diplomacy
What is the policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force?
Yellow Journalism
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Roosevelt Corollary
Dollar Diplomacy
imperialism
What is the type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers?
Yellow Journalism
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Roosevelt Corollary
Dollar Diplomacy
imperialism
What is the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence?
Yellow Journalism
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Roosevelt Corollary
Dollar Diplomacy
imperialism
What is the US battleship that exploded and led to the Spanish American War?
Yellow Journalism
Great White Fleet
USS Maine
Dollar Diplomacy
imperialism
What was the addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting America's right to intervene in Latin American affairs?
Great White Fleet
Dollar Diplomacy
Roosevelt Corollary
imperialism
Panama Canal
What were the 16 American battleships, painted white, that was sailed around the world to display American naval power?
Spanish American War
Yellow Journalism
USS Maine
Great White Fleet
Dollar Diplomacy
What were the reasons for the United States to fight Spain in the Spanish American War?
USS Maine exploded in Cuba
alliances
sinking of the Lusitania
Zimmermann Note
Yellow Journalism
What is the conflict between the US and Spain, in which the US supported the Cuban's fight for independence?
Spanish American War
Great White Fleet
Panama Canal
USS Maine
Roosevelt Corollary
Who urged government officials to build up the American navy to compete with other nations?
Teddy Roosevelt
Alfred Mahan
Franking D. Roosevelt
Teddy Ruskspin
Jahan Mahan
Who was the leader of the American Expeditionary Force who insisted US soldiers fight independently from the Allies?
John Adams
John Kerry
John Pershing
Adam Lavigne
Lusitania Zimmermann
What were the causes of World War One?
the Zimmermann Note
the sinking of the Lusitania
nationalism
the USS Maine exploded in Cuba
alliance
What was the message asking Mexico to attack the US in return for money and land?
Zimmermann Note
the Annexation of Puerto Rico
the USS Maine exploded
nationalism
Musical Notes
What were the causes for US entry into World War One?
the Zimmermann Note
the sinking of the Lusitania
nationalism
the USS Maine exploded in Cuba
alliance
Select the MAJOR Allied Powers in World War One from the list.
Austria-Hungary
England
France
Germany
Russia
Select the MAJOR Central Powers in World War One from the list.
Austria-Hungary
England
France
Germany
Russia
What were the US law enacted to impose hard penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against US participation in World War One?
Prohibition
19th Amendment
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Neutrality Acts
Kellogg-Briand Pact
What was the pandemic that spread around the world in 1918, killing more than 50 million people?
Chicken Pox
Pox Romano
Pox Americano
Spanish Flu
Bubonic Plague
What was President Wilson's purpose for the League of Nations?
punish the Germans
given up US land gained during the war
to have teams for an international recreational softball league
to end all war
to not hurt the German's feelings
Wilson's peace proposal in 1918 that stressed national self-determination, the rights of small countries, freedom of the seas, and free trade.
Treaty of Versailles
Wilson's Fourteen Points
League of Nations
United Nations
Jedi Council
Why was the Treaty of Versailles not ratified by the United States?
the US feared it would result in a loss of independence and sovereignty
the US did not want the Germans to feel slighted
the US did not want to stop fighting the war
the US feared it would have to give up its land gained during World War One
An organization of nations formed after World War One to promote cooperation and peace.
Treaty of Versailles
Wilson's Fourteen Points
League of Nations
United Nations
Jedi Council
During the 1920s Red Scare, Americans feared...
anarchists and Democrats.
communists and capitalists.
capitalists and entrepreneurs.
Democrats and Republicans.
communists and anarchists.
To counter the Red Scare, the Emergency Quota Act...
limited European immigrants to the US at 3% of the nationality currently in the US.
limited African American immigrants to the US at zero.
set the total number of Japanese immigrants at 1 million.
limited communist and anarchist immigrants to the US at 5%.
prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
Sacco and Vanzetti were an example of which 1920s issue?
fundamentalism
Prohibition
Pan-Africanism
immigration
consumerism
The Palmer Raids were opposed because of...
support for consumerism.
the violations of constitutional rights.
the Bombing of Wall Street.
Schenck v. US
Prohibition
What was the scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil-drilling rights on government in return for money?
Sacco and Vanzetti
Red Scare
Ku Klux Klan
Teapot Dome
eugenics
In 1920, Warren G. Harding won the US Presidential election with the campaign slogan of...
"Back to the Future."
"Return to Normalcy."
"It's the Economy, Stupid!"
"He Kept US out of the War!"
"Nebraska, It's Not for Everyone."
The Republican economic policies of the 1920s led to...
prosperous farmers.
more labor unions.
increasing tax rates.
World War One.
economic growth.
The US Supreme Court "OK'd" the Palmer Raids in which case?
Bush v. Gore
The United States v. Larry Flint
Schenck v. United States
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Johnson-Reed Act prohibited immigration from the Middle East, East Asia, and Indians.
True
False
The Johnson-Reed Act and the Emergency Quota Act are examples of...
nativism.
fundamentalism.
consumerism.
speakeasies.
Pan-Africanism.
The battle between evolution and fundamentalism played out on the national stage in the...
Harlem Renaissance.
Scopes Monkey Trial.
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Cotton Club.
OJ SImpson Trial.
In the 1920s, young American women that wore skirts, bobbed their hair, and flaunted disdain for acceptable behavior were known as...
speakeasies.
Sacco and Vanzetti.
the Harlem Renaissance.
the Return to Normalcy.
flappers.
Which constitutional amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages?
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
The Cotton Club was an example of the...
Return to Normalcy.
speakeasies.
nativism.
Harlem Renaissance.
fundamentalism.
One of the primary advocates of Pan-Africanism was...
Marcus Garvey.
Warren G. Harding.
A. Mitchell Palmer.
Sacco and Vanzetti.
the Ku Klux Klan.
The junk science of breeding humans is known as...
fundamentalism.
eugenics.
nazism.
nativism.
consumerism.
What were economic problems the US faced in the late 1920s?
high amounts of personal savings
high debt due to credit
profitable farming
paying cash instead of using credit
too many wars
In October 1929, what event plunged the stock market prices?
Stock Market Crash
World War One
Great Depression
Treaty of Versailles
Many historians and economists consider the Stock Market Crash the beginning, not the cause, of what time period?
Great Depression
New Deal
Roaring Twenties
World War One
What were the shantytowns that appeared all over the United States as the Great Depression deepened?
Hoovervilles
Rooseveltvilles
Spartanvilles
Knightsvilles
In 1932, US veterans of World War One travelled to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress to pay out early pensions promised for their military service, but the bill was defeated. What was this lobbying effort known as?
Bonus Army March
March on Washington
The Ides of March
The March of Dimes
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's series of programs to end the Great Depression became known as...
the Great Depression.
the New Deal.
the Real Deal.
a total failure.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt talked directly to the American population, via radio, in what became known as...
FDR's Radio Program.
commercial radio.
Fireside Chats.
ESPN.
What did In response President Franklin D. Roosevelt consider as his move to fight Supreme Court opposition?
court packing
meat packing
vacation packing
night court
What restructured German war reparations by loaning Germany money to repay the Allies so the Allies could repay the United States?
Dawes Plan
Dawes Act
Von Schlieffen Plan
Planning to Fail
What was the agreement to attempt to outlaw war, but had it had no provisions for enforcement if the agreement was broken?
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Dawes Plan
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference
Neutrality Acts
What was US attempt to put its southern neighbors as ease by using economic influence rather than military forces?
Good Neighbor Policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Monroe Doctrine
imperialism
What was the agreement to limit the number and size of military ships?
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Dawes Plan
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference
Neutrality Acts
What was the name for US restriction of aid to any foreign country involved in a war?
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Dawes Plan
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference
Neutrality Acts
