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WorksheetsAPUSH Unit 7 practice
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
All of the following contributed to the US involvement and entry into WWI EXCEPT:
moral outrage at the violation of Belgium's neutrality
economic investment in the Allied nations by US merchants and bankers
loss of American lives in the sinking of ships by German submarines
the effectiveness of the British propaganda in depicting the Germans as Huns
outrage over Austria-Hungary attacking Serbia without provocation
Which of the following would be the WORST piece of evidence of the advance of progressive thought in American governance?
Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board
Herbert Hoover's Food Admininstration
Harry Garfield's Fuel Administration
William Howard Taft's National War Labor Board
Jane Addam's Women's Peace Party
All of the following are true regarding the League of Nations EXCEPT:
It was designed to promote international cooperation
It would maintain peace by settling disputes peacefully and by reducing armaments
Russia and the US would be the dominant members of the Security Council
If a member nation broke an agreement the League could break diplomatic relations
Economic sanctions could be used to force compliance with League policies
All of the following were part of Wilson's 14 Points EXCEPT:
Freedom of the seas would be guaranteed
All nations would be required to defend each other from aggression
Armaments and military arsenals of nations would be reduced
Economic barriers like protective tariffs would be removed
World peace-keeping organization, League of Nations, would be formed
World War I was directly responsible for which of the following reforms passed as a constitutional amendment in 1920?
women's suffrage
direct election of US senators
graduated income tax
repeal of prohibition
two term limit on presidents
Henry Cabot Lodge (MA) was particularly concerned about Article X of the Covenant of the League of Nations that appeared to create what problem for the sovereign powers of the US?
limited the right of nations to place restrictions on immigration over their borders
required nations to submit all disputes to international arbitration
allowed American citizens accuse of "war crimes" to be tried in international courts
placed the authority to raise or lower tariffs in the hands of the World Court
seemed to delegate congressional war powers to an international agency
Which would NOT be good evidence of the increased social tensions in postwar America?
Committee on Public Information
major labor strikes
race riots
Palmer Raids
The SCOTUS case Schenck v. US (1919) limited which rights during wartime?
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Worship
Freedom of Work
Freedom of Movement
Which was NOT a reason for the Great Migration?
deteriorating race relations marked by segregation and racial violence
equal opportunity guarantees in the northern states
destruction of cotton crops by boll weevil
limited economic opportunities
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the relative economic prosperity in the 1920s?
increased consumer buying aided by easy credit
increased savings by most Americans
availability of oil for fuel and innovations for its use
the development of the assembly line
pent up demand from the war which had to be satisfied by material goods
The most important change that the census of 1920 showed in America was that:
the frontier was closed
urban dwellers now outnumbered rural ones
most people had electricity
population had doubled in a decade
a majority of the people owned automobiles
Business leaders who wanted to promote a higher level of consumption of their products and get rid of the old ideas of thrift developed:
advertising
installment buying
scientific management
consumer savings
retail selling
After the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee:
Fundamentalist religion remained the undisputed dominant force in American spiritual life
John Scopes was sentenced to serve time in jail
Christians found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the revelations of religion with modern science
The gap between theology and biology began to close
The conflict between evolution and creationism was finally settled in America
Which of the following became a symbol for corruption of the Harding administration?
Muscle Shoals
Sacco-Vanzetti
Teapot Dome
McNary-Haugen
Greenwich Village
All of the following could be considered weaknesses in the economy in the US in the late 1920s EXCEPT:
durable goods
textiles
service industry
agriculture
real estate
What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact that was signed by 35 nations including the US do?
provided for arms limitation
put the signatures on the gold standard
made it illegal to travel on a ship going into a war zone
kept countries from the further colonization of Africa
outlawed offensive war
Langston Hughes was a leading figure in which of the following?
bootlegging
"Ash Can" painting
immigration restriction movement
Harlem Renaissance
efforts to promote efficiency by eliminating wasted motion
This politician, Attorney General under Wilson, took advantage of the Red Scare of 1919-20 to arrest thousands of radicals and either jail them or ship them to Russia. Who was he?
William Jennings Bryan
A. Mitchell Palmer
Frederick Taylor
John T. Scopes
Al Capone
Symbolic of the popular fears of immigrants, communism, change, and diversity, this group became very powerful during the 20s with a reputed 5 million members and hatred for anyone who was foreign, Catholic or Jewish, liberal or different. What was the group?
American Legion
NAACP
Ku Klux Klan
Mafia
American First Committee
The Immigration Act of 1924 was written to specifically favor the arrival of which of the following groups to US shores?
Asians
Africans
Southern Europeans
Northern Europeans
South Americans
Who was the charismatic political leader of the United Negro Improvement Association who eventually ended up being deported back to his Jamaican homeland for mail-fraud against his own people?
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Andrew Mellon
Louis Armstrong
Dr. W.E.B. DuBois
All of the following statements concerning the 3 Republican presidencies of the 20s and conditions that existed in the nation are correct EXCEPT:
Republicans sought to serve the public good with less direct government action
Government agencies sought to cooperate with big business rather than to regulate it
Corruption among public officials did appear as some individual exploited public resources for private profit
US foreign policy abandoned internationalism for a return to isolationism and military unpreparedness
Supported by the federal government, labor unions grew in power and influence
Herbert Hoover chose which motto as his personal campaign slogan during the 1928 presidential election to stress his dedication to the bootstrap theory and self-reliance?
"The Buck Stops Here"
"The New Nationalism"
" The New Deal"
"Rugged Individualism"
"The New Frontier"
The most urgent task facing President FDR when he first took office in 1933 was:
keeping the nation out of war
shoring up the American banking system
tariff reform
protecting the territorial possessions of the US
working out an agreement on the foreign debt crisis
All of the following were associated with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) EXCEPT:
employment for artists and musicians
assured deficit financing for the New Deal
supported the ideas of the economist John Maynard Keynes
"make work" to keep people employed
based on the principles of laissez faire capitalism
The Daughters of American Revolution denied Marian Anderson the right to sing at Constitution Hall because of her:
ethnicity
gender
political affialition
choice of songs
race
Francis Perkins is notable because she became the first woman to:
serve on the Supreme Court
to be elected to serve in Congress
become the first cabinet member as Secretary of Labor
be elected governor of a state
fly non-stop around the world in an airplane
Which of the following New Deal program is NOT paired with the description that applies?
Works Progress Administration - most criticized and the largest program in terms of money spent
National Industrial Recovery Act - simplest, most straightforward, and long lasting
Tennessee Valley Authority - considered the most radical as it tended to be socialistic
Civilian Conservation Corps - most popular and considered the most successful at the time
Social Security - most far reaching in terms of permanence and the extent of reform
Which of the following was NOT an underlying cause of the Great Depression?
Uneven distribution of wealth
Overproduction
Overspeculation
Frozen Money Supply
Dust Bowl
The Michigan Catholic priest known for his pro-fascist, anti-New Deal radio broadcasts to 40 million national fans was which of the following?
Huey Long
Gerald Smith
Francis Townsend
Charles Coughlin
H.L. Mencken
Who was the senator from Louisiana who promoted himself and his "Share our Wealth" program with such rabble-rousing tactics that Roosevelt called him one of the two most dangerous men in America?
Huey Long
Gerald Smith
Francis Townsend
Charles Coughlin
H.L. Mencken
All of the following descriptions of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) are true EXCEPT:
declared unconstitutional in the case Schechter v. US (1935)
"yellow-dog" contracts were forbidden
certain restrictions placed on child labor
did not go so far as to require managers to negotiate with unions
individual industries worked out "fair competition" codes to govern minimum wages, maximum hours of labor allowed
New Deal legislation embraced all of the following reforms EXCEPT:
unemployment insurance
civil rights improvements
minimum wage standards
conservation of natural resources
child labor laws
In 1936 FDR would have seen which of these groups as the most serious threat to the success of his New Deal program?
Republican controlled US Senate
American Liberty League sponsored by wealthy conservatives
Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth" movement
Southern Democratic conservatives
U.S. Supreme Court
FDR was the first president to make use of which of the following communication techniques?
press conference
radio
television
personal address before Congress
newspaper editorial column
All of the following are actions taken by US prior to its entry into WWII EXCEPT:
passage of Selective Service Act
authorizing supplying Allies with war weapons and supplies through the Lend-Lease Act
issuance of the United Nations charter
trading 50 destroyers for bases in the Caribbean and N Atlantic
agreed to the Act of Havana which would give the American republics the right to take over any European possession in Western Hemisphere
Throughout most of the 1930s, the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by:
retreating further into isolationism
assisting their victims with military aid
giving only economic help to the targets of aggression
demanding an oil embargo on all warring nations
sending personal packages of munitions to the allied nations
All of the following apply to putting Japanese Americans on the Pacific Coast into concentration camps EXCEPT:
the most well known was Manzanar in California
it included more than 100,000 people in 10 camps
it applied only to the Issei and not the Nisei
it was upheld by the Supreme Court in the Korematsu decision
it was done by executive order not an act of Congress
American women took part in the war effort during the years 1942-1945 by all of the following means EXCEPT
specialized military draft for women in medical profession
volunteer work in Red Cross, military canteens, other humanitarian efforts
traditional women's jobs in the house
Rosie the Riveter - industrial wartime production
WAACs, WAVES, SPARs
All of the following were ways in which Americans helped the war effort on the home front EXCEPT:
bought war bonds to help finance the war
conserved materials needed for the war
organized community scrap drives
protested the rationing program by the Office of Price Administration
volunteered to serve in the armed forces
The final straw, when Britain and France declared war on Germany, was after the German invasion of what nation in 1939?
Denmark
Poland
Belgium
Finland
Sweden
When FDR proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 36, 37 provided for all of the following provisions EXCEPT
No American could travel to any nation at war
No American could sail on the vessel of any nation at war
No American could loan money to any nation at war
No American could sell munitions to any nation at war
No American vessel could transport munitions to any nation at war
In July 1941 wat nation unexpectedly became an ally against Nazi Germany?
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Austria
Japan
The Double V campaign aimed at victory at home and abroad. What did victory at home look like?
remove Axis spies
become the "arsenal for democracy"
eliminate racial prejudice and segregation
eliminate restrictions based on gender
share the profits gained from wartime production
Which was NOT one of the universal freedoms for all humans declared by FDR?
from want
from fear
of religion
of speech
of protest
Which is NOT a place where Axis aggression violated FDR's Four Freedoms?
Australia
Austria
Rhineland
Czechoslovakia
China
Which of the following is NOT a member of the Allies in WWII?
France
USSR
Italy
USA
Canada
Which of the following is LEAST relevant to the War in the Pacific?
Manhattan Project
Island Hopping
Kamikaze
Pearl Harbor
Fascism
All of the following are true statements regarding the Munich Conference EXCEPT:
It was attended by all of the main principals - Germany, Italy, USSR, France, Czechoslovakia, and Great Britain
The end result was that Hitler was given the Sudetenland which would lead to the dismemberment of Czechoslavakia
Poland and Hungary also participated in the taking by getting Teschen(Poland) and parts of Ruthenia (Hungary) from Czechoslavakia
The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed that he had achieved "peace in our time" by his actions
The policy adopted by the western democracies is known as appeasement
All of the following are true about the Holocaust EXCEPT:
NAZI death camps were established throughout Europe under the supervision of the SS
The Allied powers including the US had no knowledge of what was going on in the concentration camps
Germany killed approximately 6 million Jews and maybe as many as 6 million others in camps
Dacau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Belsen-Bergen, and Treblinka were the main death camps
To Hitler's way of thinking this would be a "Final Solution" to what he saw as the Jewish problem throughout Europe
