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2024 ESL WWI, 20s, and 30s Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights?

a)

To protect individual rights

b)

To establish government rights

c)

To establish a list of restricted rights

2.

Who proved to be the most willing to use the government to solve economic problems of the American people?

a)

President Roosevelt

b)

President Hoover

c)

President Coolidge

3.

Who committed Graft in the Teapot Dome Scandal?

a)

Warren Harding

b)

Frances Perkins

c)

Albert Fall

4.

Jefferson wrote what document that listed the North American colonies' grievances that justified revolution against England?

a)

Articles of Confederation

b)

Constitution

c)

Declaration of Independence

5.

What was the purpose of Social Security?

a)

Provide a financial safety net for retired Americans

b)

Established a social network to help worker find jobs

c)

To insure bank accounts in case of bank failures

6.

What is the preferential treatment of native born Americans or exclusion of a group based on national origin called?

a)

Selective pairing

b)

Progressivism

c)

Nativism

7.

Teddy Roosevelt’s domestic policy, the Square Deal, dealt with …

a)

Tariffs, Banks, and Trusts

b)

Conservation, Consumers, and Corporations

c)

Immigration, Tariffs, and Conservation

8.

Which describes the Civilian Conservation Corps?

a)

Make-work programs to build dams, bridges and hospitals in and around cities.

b)

Building or repairing trails and buildings in remote national parks creating jobs for men 18-25.

c)

Provides funding to save or establish companies that will create jobs, mainly in construction.

9.

When President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on the Central Powers it was because he felt the United States needed to do so in order to...

a)

Increase our world influence by increasing our area of hegemony

b)

Establish a blocking action against newly communist Russia

c)

Make the world safe for democracy

10.

Membership in the alliance of the League of Nations could obligate the U.S. into a future war is why the American senate refused to take what action?

a)

Ratify the Treaty of Versailles

b)

Declare war on Japan

c)

Authorize the colonization of the Marshall Islands

11.

Why is the year 1898 significant to U.S. History?

a)

The Civil War came to an overdue bitter end that left the American South occupied.

b)

Victory over Spain gained territories for the US to become a world power.

c)

The U.S. ends isolationism to join the allies and "make the world safe for democracy".

12.

What program propelled Americans change attitudes from self reliance to a belief the government needs to be responsible for the well being

a)

The Social Gospel Movement

b)

Jim Crow system

c)

The New Deal

13.

What method did workers of the Gilded Age use to win better conditions and rights on the job?

a)

Filibustering

b)

Collective bargaining

c)

Industrialization

14.

The Roosevelt Corollary declared the United States will oversee the affairs of...

a)

The Pacific Islands

b)

The Western Hemisphere

c)

The Eastern Hemisphere

15.

A person who uses their political office for personal enrichment is guilty of what crime?

a)

Blackmail

b)

Bootlegging

c)

Graft

16.

Seeking better employment opportunities in the Northern cities, African Americans left the south in a movement known as the …

a)

Exodusters

b)

Great Migration

c)

Manifest Destiny

17.

Which of the following are noted examples of American ingenuity?

a)

Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh

b)

Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon

c)

Henry Cabot Lodge and Eugene Debbs

18.

What group fought against the society's double standards of the past?

a)

Gold Diggers

b)

Flappers

c)

Suffragettes

19.

Fundamentalism was pitted against what in the Scopes trial?

a)

Religion

b)

Evolution

c)

Reformation

20.

The rise of organized crime was an unforeseen effect of...

a)

The 21st Amendment

b)

The 19th Amendment

c)

The 18th Amendment

21.

Why is Langston Hughes worthy of note?

a)

Artist of the Harlem Renaissance

b)

Jazz Musician of the Harlem Renaissance

c)

Author/Poet of the Harlem Renaissance

22.

Veterans who marched on Washington in 1932 seeking an early payment from congress became known as the...

a)

Reservationists

b)

Bonus Army

c)

Buffalo Soldiers

23.

This 1929 event is what marks the start of the Great Depression.

a)

World War I begins

b)

Stock Market Crash

c)

Spanish American War

24.

High unemployment is a characteristic of what kind of economy?

a)

Expanding

b)

Depression

c)

Stagnant

25.

As unemployment increases there is less buying power which means less demand. How do manufacturers respond to that situation?

a)

No change, they maintain production levels to ride out the downturn

b)

They increase production to compensate for the lower prices they can charge

c)

They reduce production to reflect the lower demand levels

26.

Overproduction/underconsumption in the 1920s was the main, overriding...

a)

Cause of Westward expansion

b)

Cause of industrialism

c)

Cause of The Great Depression

27.

Lack of banking regulations led to …..

a)

A prosperous, growing middle class

b)

Americans losing savings because of bank failures

c)

A shrinking consumer oriented government

28.

What caused a major reduction in World Trade at the beginning of the 1930s?

a)

The Dawes Plan

b)

Hawley Smoot Tariff

c)

Teapot Dome

29.

Extensive drought and poor farming techniques coming into the early 1930s lead to the

a)

Dust Bowl

b)

Great Migration

c)

Roosevelt Corollary

30.

What did Herbert Hoover do for the Great Depression?

a)

Intensive aid packages

b)

Too little too late

c)

Complete reorganization of the government

31.

What did the Brain Trust do?

a)

They were the talented tenth from Dubois’s plan for equality

b)

They opposed the Treaty of Versailles in the Senate

c)

They helped create the New Deal as FDR waited to be inaugurated

32.

Which was created by The Glass-Steagall Act to protect bank accounts.

a)

SEC

b)

CCC

c)

FDIC

33.

Which Presidential policy reflects the belief that sometimes the government needs to contribute to and /or direct business activity?

a)

a. The Square Deal

b)

a. The New Deal

c)

a. Return to Normalcy

34.

Refugees of the Dust Bowl migrated to the west coast from what devastated region?

a)

The American South

b)

The Great Plains

c)

The Midwest

35.

FDR’s New Deal programs got the government more involved in …..

a)

International trade and immigration

b)

Hollywood entertainment and propaganda

c)

Business activity and labor relations

36.

Chosen to be Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins held what significance?

a)

First woman to serve on a presidential cabinet

b)

First woman to serve as a committee head in Congress

c)

First woman to negotiate a trade agreement with Great Britain

37.

What was the relationship like between FDR and Congress?

a)

Strained since Congress was trying to limit FDR’s actions

b)

Congress pretty much let FDR run the country

c)

Adversarial since each tried to take the lead dealing with the Depression.

38.

The Civilian Conservation Corps is best described in which manner?

a)

a federal program that provides jobs for local community projects

b)

placing Americans on the front in The Great War

c)

employed young men 18-25 years old to develop National Parks

39.

Who went among the people for FDR to see, and hear what the American people thought, wanted, or needed?

a)

Frances Perkins

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Huey Long

40.

Open immigration ends and a national origin quota system based on the percentages of the last year of open immigration is a form of nativism put in place by...

a)

Immigration Act of 1924

b)

The Social Security Administration

c)

The International Equity Program

41.

What helped focus Americans on supporting the war effort?

a)

The Food Administration

b)

The sale of Liberty bonds

c)

The Creel Commission

42.

Which pair are considered strong critics of FDR's New Deal?

a)

Long and Coughlin

b)

Lodge and Truman

c)

Sinclair and Riis

43.

Which New Deal programs provided Relief (direct aid)?

a)

FDIC and FHA

b)

Social Security and SEC

c)

CCC and WPA

44.

Which of the following New Deal programs is among the “Five that Survive”?

a)

Agricultural Adjustment Act

b)

Social Security Administration

c)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

45.

What created the conditions needed to end the Great Depression?

a)

The New Deal

b)

WW II

c)

The end of Prohibition