WorksheetsMidterm- APUSH
Total questions: 128
Worksheet time: 2hrs 35mins
Can you recall what the 18th amendment is
Made it illegal to make or sell alcohol
Gave women the right to vote
Led to a decrease in crime
Gave African Americans the right to vote
Henry Ford produced a more affordable car primarily because his company….
Paid workers lower wages than his competitors.
Used foreign-made parts.
Developed a faster and less expensive method of production called the assembly line.
Offered a variety of options to buyers
During the 1920s, controversies concerning national Prohibition and the behavior of “flappers” were all signs of disagreement over…
The return to normalcy
Changing culture and lifestyles
Causes of the Great Depression
The benefits of new technology
What was President Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression?
He believed "rugged individualism" would solve the economy
He created mass welfare
He increased infrastructure to create jobs
He violated his policy of laissez-faire
What were the 3 Rs of the New Deal?
Relent, Release, Recoil
Relief, Resume, Resolve
Reform, Relieve, Remove
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Who was the Louisiana senator who proposed the "Share Our Wealth" program?
Henry Cabot Lodge
Huey Long
Charles Evans Hughes
Henry Morganthau, Jr.
What statement best describes the reasons for FDR's "court packing scheme"?
The Supreme Court was regularly siding with New Deal programs
Federal judges were taking bribes to rule in favor of New Deal programs
Several Supreme Court decisions had ruled New Deal programs unconstitutional
Temporarily halting all bank operations
bank run
bank holiday
Establish industry codes that set standards for output, prices, and working conditions. Was controversial.
National Recovery Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission
Authorized the federal government to raise farm prices by setting production quotas for major crops and paying farmers not to plant more and succeeded in raising farm prices and incomes-this ignored sharecroppers and tenant farmers .
Agricultural Act(AA)
Agricultural Adjustment Administration(AAA)
Drought that hist Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas and causes huge dust storms called black blizzards
Dust Bowl
Depression Drought
Created to regulate and reform financial practice, particularly buying stocks on credit
National Labor Relations Board
Social Security
Public Works Authority
Securities and Exchange Commission
What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?
Elimination of communism
Implementation of the "Domino Theory"
Containment of communism
Reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II
Assistance to British colonies in Africa
George Kennan's policy of containment was based on
belief that the communists would win the Chinese civil war
an understanding with Britain regarding the post-World War II German government
a belief that the Soviet Union would try to expand the reach of communism
a desire to keep the Republicans from regaining the White House in the 1948 election
a need to decrease government spending in an effort to halt inflation
Alger Hiss, who was accused in 1948 of having once been a member of a secret communist cell in the government, in 1945 had
served as an aide in the Department of Defense
served as an aide in the State Department
served as an aide in the U.S. Senate
served as an aide in the U.S. House of Representatives
served as an agent in the FBI
As a result of the Marshall Plan
the U.S. experienced an economic downturn in 1948
the U.S.S.R. increased military engagements in Western Europe
there was a growing effort isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world
there was a strengthening of the economic relationship between the United States and Western Europe
Nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union were called
Proxy nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Satellite nations
Truman wanted to intervene in ________ to avoid what happened in China in 1949.
Vietnam
Korea
Greece
Turkey
What other Government Group tried suspected Communists?
HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities)
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
Vermin Supreme Democrats
U.S.S.R.
Julius and Ethel ____________________ were convicted of espionage and executed in June 1953, although many people believed that they were victims caught in a wave of anti-Communist frenzy
Rosenberg
Truman
McCarthy
Hiss
Supreme Court case that upheld the decision of Japanese internment during WWII because during times of war, rights are limited—1942
(a)
This 1942 program allowed temporary Mexican agricultural workers into the United States to allow for wartime labor shortages in the West
(a)
The map shows which event during WWII?
Allied D-day Invasion
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
Soviet Invasion of Poland
Nazi Blitzkrieg of Europe
This poster was an icon for
women factory workers during WWII
housewives
women soldiers
nurses
Which idea have we seen illustrated in both Supreme Court cases Schenck v. United States and Korematsu v . United States?
Economic interests of foreign nations are frequently upheld in United States courts.
The rights of protesters have been preserved even in times of national stress.
During wartime, limitations on civil rights have been upheld by judicial action.
The free speech rights of Communists have often been violated.
Which policy implemented in 1939 allowed US business to sell supplies to the Allies with certain conditions that didn't risk American ships?
Lend Lease Act
Cash and Carry Policy
Neutrality Acts
Appeasement Policy
When Roosevelt signed the Lend-lease Act, he said that the U.S must become the "arsenal of democracy in order to ?
end the Great Depression
help the Axis powers
help Britain
stay out of the war
The American program to build an atomic bomb was known as the
Manhattan Project
Operation overlord
New York Project
Operation A-bomb
The strategy of capturing some islands and going around others. That United States used in order to invade Japan.
Double V
Naplam
Lend-Lease
Island hopping
Who was the commander of the Pacific during World War II?
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Patton
Harry Truman
forced march of captured American and Filipino troops
John Sousa March
MeToo March
Bataan Death March
island hopping
Lend-Lease Act
materials important for fighting a war
revised to allow warring countries to buy arms from the United States on a cash-and-carry basis
American destroyer torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine
stated the United States could supply arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States"
the entire western half of the Atlantic Ocean that Roosevelt declared as a neutral territory
Roosevelt and Churchill met near Newfoundland in 1941 and agreed on the text of the
Export Control Act.
Neutrality Act.
Lend-Lease Act.
Atlantic Charter.
US General who, along with British General Bernard Montgomery, took North Africa from the Germans by May, 1943 in “Operation Torch”
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas Macarthur
Omar Bradly
The Better Wilson
Strong anti-war sentiment in US (strongest in Midwest, Republicans); avoid war at all costs; disillusioned with results of World War I
The Manhattan Project
Selective Training and Service Act (1940)
Isolationism
Four Freedom Speech
This bill provided education and training for veterans, paid for by the federal government.
The Veterans Bill
GI Bill of Rights.
Post War Recovery Act
Soldiers Job Bill
When Japan invaded China (1937), Roosevelt tested public opinion, proposing that the democracies act together to isolate the aggressor; negative public reaction to this speech
Covid Speech
Nye Speech
Quarantine Speech
Appeasement Speech
Many people from Mexico came to help American farmers through a program called the ___________.
Civil defense
Bracero Program
Fair Employment Practices Commission
United Service Organizations
He called on African Americans everywhere to come to the capital on July 1, 1941, and to march under the banner “We Loyal Colored Americans Demand the Right to Work and Fight for Our Country.”
Wendell Willkie
A. Philip Randolph
T.G Shepard
George Marshall
Which technological advance from World War II fulfilled this mission?
Sonar
Jet engines
Radar
Cipher machines
Martin Luther King is going to help create this organization to fight discrimination nonviolently.
SNCC
CORE
SCLC
Black Muslims
Martin Luther King is going to help create this organization to fight discrimination nonviolently.
SNCC
CORE
SCLC
Black Muslims
First manmade satellite launched was the Soviet
Explorer I
Sputnik
Challenger
Enterprise
In contrast to that of the central cities, life in suburbia became attractive to many American families in the 1950s because the suburbs seemed to provide
variety and excitement in lifestyles and entertainment.
racial integration in neighborhoods and schools.
greater opportunities for cultural and educational advancement.
larger, safer, and more private homes.
a chance to obtain individuality.
In his farewell address in January 1961, Eisenhower warned the American people against
the rise of military pacifism.
the tendency to hysterical anticommunism.
the risk of creeping socialism.
the influence of military-industrial complex.
the rise of racism in America.
The French were defeated by the Vietnamese in 1954 at the battle of
Danang
Dienbienphu
Panmunjom
Pleiku
The organization created by the US to build a space program was called
NATO
SEATO
NASA
Warsaw Pact
The surge in the American birthrate between 1945 and 1965, which peaked in 1957 with 4.3 million births.
Baby Boom
Baby Bust
GI Generation
Lost Generation
A 1956 law authorizing the construction of a national highway system.
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
Route 66 Act
Interstate Highways Act
National Intrastate Highways Act
Name applied to the Southwest and South, which grew rapidly after WWII as a center of defense industries and nonunionized labor.
Sunbelt
Corn Belt
Rust Belt
Bible Belt
Which of the following was an immediate consequence of the Sputnik launch?
Richard Nixon’s decision to run for the presidency in 1960
the resignation of the director of the CIA
the creation of a new federal agency and expanded funding for education
a call for a joint Soviet-American space program to calm Cold War tensions
Document signed by 101 Congress members who vowed to get rid of the Brown decision's abuse of power.
(a)
An economist who attacked the prevailing notion that sustained economic growth would solve America's chronic social problems. Encouraged the wealthy to spend more for the common good.
John Kenneth Galbraity
John Maynard Keynes
John Locke
John Kerry
This person was a symbol of the rock-and-roll movement of the 50s when teenagers began to form their own subculture, dismaying to conservative parents; created a youth culture that ridiculed phony and pretentious middle-class Americans, celebrated uninhibited sexuality and spontaneity; foreshadowed the coming counterculture of the 1960s
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dwight Eisenhower
Dr. Spock
Elvis Presley
What was one result of the Great Society?
Poverty was eliminated in the United States.
the lives of many underprivileged Americans improved.
President Johnson's popularity plummeted.
The federal government shrank considerably.
Which of these cases resulted in law enforcement agencies reading a list of rights to suspects before questioning them?
Gideon v. Wainwight
Brown v. Board of Education
Miranda v. Arizona
Baker v. Carr
Which of the following Court cases ruled that free legal counsel is required in criminal courts to those who could not afford a lawyer?
Miranda v. Arizona
Baker v. Carr
Gideon v. Wainwight
Brown v. Board of Education
The controversial event that led to the US directly intervening in Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin
Tet Offensive
Operation Rolling Thunder
My Lai Massacre
Which program is government funded health insurance for the elderly?
Medicaid
Head Start
Medicare
VISTA
Who did Kennedy run for President against in 1960?
Gerald Ford
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Harry Truman
What did JFK do to try to stop the Cuban Missile Crisis?
He put a naval quarantine around Cuba
He attacked Cuba
He attacked Russia
Which organisation did King establish to unite southern ministers in the black freedom struggle?
SNCC
MIA
SCLC
NAACP
Who was the Chief Justice in the 1950's and 1960's who oversaw decisions that changed many laws in this decade.
Chief Justice John Roberts
Chiefs Justice Richard Nixon
Chief Justice Barry Goldwater
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1964
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
Ended segregation in schools
Ended discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or national origin.
Gave all African Americans who were born in the United States the right to vote.
Gave all people the right to sit wherever they wanted on the city bus.
"States are prohibited from imposing any voting qualifications or prerequisite to voting or to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color" - Which of the following is being described in the document?
Armed Forces Desegregation Act
the Civil Rights Act of 1964
the Voting Rights Act of 1965
G.I. Bill
In 1965, troubles in this city caused the Voting Rights Act to be passed.
Montgomery
Selma
Greensboro
Atlanta
The culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960's seeking to create an alternative society based on peace, love and individual freedom.
Counterculture
Feminism
Woodstock
United Hippie Movement
What place in the United States was known as one of the main centers of counterculture thought & action?
Woodstock
Haight-Ashbury
Seattle
Los Angeles
Why did Cesar Chavez picket stores that sold grapes?
He did not like grapes
He liked to eat apples instead
He was allergic to grapes
Growers used chemicals to kill insects and this hurt the migrant workers
Where were the riots that sparked the movement?
England, London.
Stonewall Inn.
Mattachine Society Meeting.
Washington, DC (whitehouse).
A Labor Union formed in 1966 to seek higher wages and better working conditions for Mexican-American farm workers in California.
La Raza Unida
American Indian Movement
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Equal Rights Amendment
An Organization founded in 1966 to pursue feminist goals, such as better childcare facilities, improved educational opportunities, and an end to job discrimination.
AIM
Counterculture
National Organization for Women
Feminism
She wrote a book entitled, "The Feminine Mystique", which addressed the "problem that has no name"
Jimi Hendrix
Phyllis Schlafly
Janis Joplin
Betty Friedan
This Stated that women could obtain an abortion up to 3 months.
Roe vs Wade
Me vs You
Row vs Spade
Sweatt vs Painter
A stagnated economy has which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)
falling unemployment
rising inflation
rising unemployment
falling inflation
high economic growth
What caused an energy crisis in the 1970s?
the Vietnam War
the Cold War
USA's support of Isreal in the Middle East
USA's support of Western German in Europe
Who was President Nixon's National Security Advisor and Secretary of State?
Spiro Agnew
Henry Kissinger
Gerald Ford
Lyndon Johnson
When was the Tet Offensive
1958
1968
1970
Television news and less the truthful politicians helped to increase this.
the draft
search-and-destroy missions
credibility gap
support for the war
After the Tet Offensive, a majority of Americans
furthered their support for the war.
rioted in the streets of major U.S. cities.
began to question and oppose U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
began to believe more deeply in the U.S. military presence in Vietnam.
