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Unit 4 TEST REVIEW

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What event was caused when stock prices crashed in October of 1929?

a)

New York Stock Exchange

b)

New Deal

c)

Dust Bowl

d)

Great Depression

2.

Why did United States senators refuse to join the League of Nations?

a)

They wanted to stay out of other countries’ problems.

b)

President Wilson did not want to join.

c)

They did not want to be allies with Germany.

d)

They did not want to pay the cost.

3.

The increase in demand for cars also increased the demand for which of the following?

a)

highways

b)

advertisement

c)

free time

d)

entertainment

4.

What event caused United States to help Cuba gain freedom from Spain?

a)

the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

b)

the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine

c)

the attack on the 10th Cavalry

d)

the end of the Alaskan fur trade

5.

How did the Allied Powers react after German submarines sank the Lusitania?

a)

investigated the Red Baron

b)

sent a telegram to Mexico

c)

used convoys to protect its fleet

d)

declared all-out warfare on Allied ships

6.

What problem faced many workers during the Great Depression?

a)

There were only factory jobs available.

b)

They could not find work.

c)

They became very wealthy.

d)

There were not enough new homes.

7.

What action was taken by President Hoover a few years after the stock market crash?

a)

he created the Second New Deal

b)

he authorized public works spending

c)

he increased funding for soup kitchens

d)

he lowered crop prices

8.

During World War I, which countries were known as the Central Powers?

a)

the United States and France

b)

Great Britain, France, Russia, and Serbia

c)

Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria

d)

Serbia and Mexico

9.

The Panama Canal was built for what reason?

a)

to strengthen fishing industries

b)

to create a shortcut between oceans

c)

to attract tourists from around the world

d)

to free Panama from Columbia

10.

The addition of new territories after the Spanish-American War meant the United States ______.

a)

was better able to mine for oil and gold

b)

freed large numbers of enslaved people

c)

supported the Philippine rebels

d)

took a step toward becoming a world power

11.

How did Charles Lindbergh become a celebrity?

a)

he painted abstract art

b)

he hit 54 home runs in one season

c)

he invented the assembly line

d)

he flew across the Atlantic Ocean alone

12.

What did Franklin Roosevelt give the American people?

a)

jobs and hope

b)

more products from assembly line

c)

new stocks and bonds

d)

new companies

13.

Where did many African Americans find jobs during the Great Migration?

a)

the entertainment industry

b)

cotton fields

c)

Southern cities

d)

steel mills and factories

14.

Yellow journalism means to write newspaper stories that are filled with which of the following?

a)

data

b)

words

c)

exaggeration

d)

artists