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WorksheetsU.S. History Review-5
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 25mins
What is the purpose of the third amendment?
We have to house soldiers in times of peace.
Citizens will not be forced to house soldiers in times of peace.
Soldiers can do whatever they want.
Citizens can tell soldiers what to do.
What was the Act that gave pioneers a way to buy land?
The Homebound Act
The Homeward Bound Act
The Homestead Act
The Home Sick Act
International economic disputes in the 1930s were caused by which of the following?
Glass-Steagall Act
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The New Deal
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Progressive Era presidents were considered trustbusters because they
used presidential power to promote business competition
supported the elimination of trade barriers
encouraged more voter participation
canceled treaties with other nations
Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP who was murdered at his home in 1963.
James Farmer
Medger Evers
Rosa Parks
Fannie Lou Hamer
Why did 80% of New Orleans flood after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005?
It was a Category 3 Hurricane
The levees holding back the water failed
It was a Category 5 Hurricane
Because New Orleans is 500 ft above sea level
Which event did NOT occur during George W. Bush's presidency?
9/11 Attacks
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Hurricane Katrina
Iraq War (2003)
Why did the US and UN invade Iraq in 2003?
The Iraqi government was hiding Osama bin Laden
The Iraqi government masterminded 9/11
Saddam Hussein was allegedly hiding weapons of mass destruction
Iraq has just invaded Kuwait for its oil reserves
Based on the information provided by the cartoon, President Theodore Roosevelt’s goal was to
Persuade businesses to accept nationalization.
Assist businesses in resisting interference by investors.
Establish worker safety regulations in factories.
Use federal power to control monopolies.
Which New Deal agency had the creation of new jobs as its primary goal?
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
After World War I, a “return to normalcy” was most clearly demonstrated by
opposition to joining the League of Nations
ending farm subsidies under the Agricultural Adjustment Act
reducing tariff rates on imported goods
rejection of disarmament agreements
What was President Harding’s reaction to the Teapot Dome Scandal?
He was saddened and resigned
He refused to believe it was true and pardoned his appointee.
He ordered a full investigation and sent his appointee to prison.
No reaction, he died before the scandal developed.
The Red Scare, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, and the murder convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti were influenced by
the rise of organized crime
the passage of immigration quota acts
a distrust of foreigners
an effort to stop fascism
What was the purpose of the Palmer Raids?
To lock up anti-war protesters.
To seek out possible communists
To enforce socialist policy
To discourage illegal immigration
Which invention contributed to the rise of mass culture during WW1 and the 20s?
The Piano
Radio
Television
Video Games
What sort of precedent was set by Schenck vs. U.S.?
It allowed for freedom of press.
It allowed for civil liberties to be curtailed during a time of national crisis.
The press were able to tell lies to support the government.
Every citizen could be a member of the press.
What was the name of the group of appointed officials under Harding that were known for corrupt behavior?
The Ohio Gang
The California Mafia
The Pepperoni Parade
The Mississippi Thugs
What event in U.S. history is synonymous with William Randolph Hearst and Yellow Journalism?
The Spanish-American War
The Civil War
The New York Mafia Wars
World War I
This list includes characteristics of life and work found in many large U.S. cities during the early 1900s.
*Child Labor
*Tenement Living
*High Infant Mortality Rates
*Dangerous Working Conditions
Which factor led to an increase in the characteristics shown in the list?
An increase in trade among North American countries.
An increase in the number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.
An increase in job opportunities along the western coast of the United States
An increase in the standard of living among immigrants from northwestern Europe.
This summary describes the FBI's Racial Matters program.
"Racial Matters was a secret program in which J. Edgar Hoover's FBI used covert surveillance and counterintelligence programs to follow, wiretap and investigate African American leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s."
Why did J. Edgar Hoover use the program described in the summary?
He suspected that civil rights leaders were adversaries of his political party, and he hoped to intimidate them.
He considered civil rights leaders to be allies in the war against drugs and hoped to recruit them to be agents.
He considered civil rights leaders to be dangerous intellectuals who held too much influence over political machines.
He suspected that civil rights leaders has communist sympathies, but he lacked evidence to charge them with a crime.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, American farmers faced new problems. Choose which of the following were problems faced by farmers.
Crop Overproduction
Government Regulation of Railroads
Inflated Freight Rates
High Protective Tariffs
Increased Currency in Circulation
Which factor best explains why the United States entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994?
To reduce trade restrictions with neighboring countries.
To Standardize wages across the participating countries.
To increase job opportunities for immigrants in the United States.
To allow for the elimination of national borders with Canada and Mexico.
•NAFTA
•Bosnia & Serbia airstrikes
•“don’t ask don’t tell” policy
•Freedom Summer
•Greensboro sit-ins
•U-2 incident
•Détente
•End of “don’t ask, don’t tell”
•SOPA Internet Protest
•Benghazi Embassy attacked
•Sharecropping
•Tenure of Office Act
•Scalawags
•Redeemers
Cash and Carry
Sit-Down Strike
John Steinbeck- Grapes of Wrath
Social Security Act
Pullman Strike
JP Morgan
Cross of Gold Speech
Plessy v. Ferguson
Equal Rights Amendment
OPEC
Kent State
Helsinki Accords
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
Underwood Simmons Tariff
Bull Moose Party
Federal Reserve Act
"he kept us out of war"
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
1900s
1910s
1880s
1890s
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Cattle drives
Horatio Alger
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce
Booker T Washington
Gospel of Wealth
Yellow Journalism
Knights of Labor
Jim Crow Laws
Social Darwinism
Helen Hunt Jackson- A Century of Dishonor
Betty Friedan- The Feminine Mystique
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Stokely Carmichael (Black Power)
Great Society
