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US History Review 11/15

Total questions: 72

Worksheet time: 51mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When was the "Declaration of Independence" drafted __________.

a)

1776

b)

1767

c)

1783

d)

1766

2.
Civil War Year?
a)
1861-1865
b)
1860-1865
c)
1861-1864
d)
1860-1863
3.
At the end of the Spanish American War, the United States gained which 3 territories? 
a)
Puerto Rico, Cuba, Spain
b)
Spain, Cuba, Guam
c)
Marianas Islands, Philippines, Russia
d)
Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico
4.

What ended the Spanish American War and granted the U.S. new territories?

a)

The Spanish Agreement

b)

Treaty of Paris 1898

c)

Treaty of Paris 1776

d)

The Monroe Doctrine

5.

When was the 18th Amendment passed?

a)

At or near the end of the Progressive Era

b)

Before the Progressive Era started

c)

20 years after the Progressive Era had ended

d)

One year before World War II began

6.

What did the 18th Amendment do?

a)

It gave all women the right to vote

b)

It gave African American men the right to vote

c)

It made drinking alcohol illegal

d)

It made selling, making, and distributing alcohol illegal

7.
The "spark" to World War I was -
a)
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalists
b)
Yellow Journalism
c)
The De Lome Letter
d)
Germany starting unrestricted submarine warfare
8.
This most contributed to the stalemate along the western front.
a)
Trench Warfare
b)
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
c)
British Blockade
d)
Zimmerman Telegram
9.
One of the greatest American battles of WWI. Led by General Pershing, the Allied Forces defeated Germany and essentially ending the war.
a)
The Battle of Argonne Forest
b)
D-Day
c)
The Battle of San Juan Hill
d)
The Battle of the Bulge
10.

The Scopes Trial pitted

a)

Creationists vs. Fundamentalists

b)

Communists vs. Anarchists

c)

Creationists vs. Evolutionists

d)

Fundamentalists vs. Evangelicals

11.

Which amendment resulted in speakeasies being established?

a)

Twenty-first

b)

Twentieth

c)

Nineteenth

d)

Eighteenth

12.

The growth of organized crime during the 1920s is most closely related to the --

a)

laws against making alcohol

b)

increase in unemployed workers

c)

collapse of the stock market

d)

rise of labor unions

13.

A nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade’s prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom.

a)

roaring twenties

b)

silent twenties

c)

Jazz age

d)

Great Depression

14.

This increased because of the radio, advertisements, and use of credit.

a)

consumerism

b)

national debt

c)

immigration

d)

education

15.

What type of economy did the US have in the 1920s?

a)

laissez faire capitalism

b)

socialsim

c)

communism

d)

command economy

16.
Who developed laissez-faire economics as a en economic philosophy? 
a)
Adam Smith
b)
Karl Marx
c)
John Locke
d)
Louis XVI
17.
Laissez-faire means...
a)
natural rights
b)
iron law of wages
c)
let it happen
d)
tabula rasa
18.

laissez-faire

a)

opposed to government regulation of business

b)

government should control major industries

c)

government should be eliminated

d)

nations should avoid trade

19.

Which of the following best represents Herbert Hoover's philosophy?

a)

The government should never help people out

b)

The government should help people at the state & local level, not the federal level

c)

There should be a new deal for the American people where the federal government would help people

20.

Which was NOT a LONG-TERM cause of the Great Depression?

a)

Buying stock on margin

b)

Stock market crash (Black Tuesday)

c)

too much production and consumer spending

d)

Laissez-faire economic policies

21.
Which of the following statements best describes what happened on Black Tuesday?
a)
Stock prices fell and the stock market crashed.
b)
Bank runs forced many banks to close their doors.
c)
Federal troops attacked the Bonus Army marchers.
d)
The Supreme Court ruled that the NRA was unconstitutional.
22.
This is the process of taking money borrowed from the bank or a broker, and putting it into the stock market
a)
Buying on Margin 
b)
Speculation 
c)
Buying on Credit 
d)
Overconsumption 
23.
This is making a very risky investment in the stock market, in hopes of earning a large profit
a)
Speculation 
b)
Buying on Margin 
c)
Bank Run 
d)
Bull Stock 
24.
This cause led many businesses to close, because they were producing more goods than consumers were willing to buy.
a)
Overproduction 
b)
Underconsumption 
c)
Buying on Credit 
d)
Stock Speculation 
25.

Camps of homeless people in homemade shacks:

a)

Hoovervilles

b)

Homeless shelters

c)

Soup kitchens

26.

Won the election of 1932 & began his New Deal programs to try & solve the problems of the Great Depression:

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Herbert Hoover

27.

This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest

a)

Tornados

b)

Dust Bowl

c)

Black Tuesday

d)

Hurricanes

28.

Which of the following was a major cause of the Great Depression?

a)

overproduction and underconsumption

b)

a decrease in the supply of consumer goods

c)

an increase in demand for imported products

d)

an increase in the price of wheat on the world market

29.

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

a)

Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.

b)

Unemployment decreased gradually.

c)

Many homes along the Mississippi River were flooded.

d)

Hoover was re-elected as president.

30.
What became a model for the manufacturing of American cars and consumer products?
a)
The assembly line
b)
Slavery
c)
Sharecropping
d)
Tenant Farming
31.

How was Ford able to produce so many vehicles quickly?

a)

He pioneered the use of the assembly line in producing automobiles

b)

He only produced one type of vehicle at a time

c)

He used interchangeable parts on his vehicles

d)

All of these answers are correct

32.
A name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply
a)
Black Tuesday
b)
Great Depression
c)
Dust Bowl
d)
Soup Kitchens
33.
A period, lasting from 1929 to 1940, in which the US economy was in severe decline and millions of American were unemployed.
a)
Great Depression
b)
Dust Bowl
c)
Black Tuesday
d)
Shantytowns
34.
A law enacted in 1930, that established the highest protective tariff in US history, worsening the depression in America and abroad.
a)
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
b)
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
c)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
d)
Bonus Army
35.
An agency that provided emergency financing of banks, life insurance companies, railroads and other large businesses
a)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
b)
Bonus Army
c)
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
d)
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
36.
What were the 3 causes of the Great Depression?
a)
FDR, The New Deal, The Second New Deal
b)
Herbert Hoover, Hobos, Riding the Rails
c)
Credit, Stock Market Crash, Corruption
37.
The New Deal worked on accomplishing 3 goals: bring relief to unemployed, improve the economy, and what else? 
a)
bring relief to unemployed
b)
ensure a depression would never happen again
c)
make sure citizens don't need to work to live
d)
redistribute wealth from the wealthy
38.
Why were the people of the United States angry at President Hoover during the Great Depression?
a)
he seemed uncaring, opposing most types of government direct relief
b)
he did not take enough action to help enough during the depression
c)
Americans opposed his handling of the Bonus Army marchers
d)
all of these are reasons
39.
Which of the following was "NOT" a cause of the Great Depression?
a)
Over speculation on stocks using borrowed money
b)
High tariffs discouraged international trade
c)
Unpaid debts from fighting World War I
d)
Too much debt from buying goods on installment plans
40.

Which Amendment gave all women the right to vote?

a)

15th

b)

19th

c)

17th

d)

16th

41.

Hoover signed this tax that raised import costs to help American businesses; however, it did not work.

a)

Business Tax

b)

Import Tax Bill

c)

Hoover Tariff

d)

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

42.

Shantytowns named after President Herbert Hoover.

a)

Herbertvilles

b)

Hoovervilles

c)

Shantyvilles

d)

Depression Villages

43.

World War I veterans who marched on Washington demanding their bonus pay and who were removed by the police.

a)

Veteran Army

b)

Bonus Army

c)

Depression Army

d)

Payment Army

44.

FDR's New Deal included 3 components:

a)

Money, Jobs, Happiness

b)

Relief, Recovery, Reform

c)

Agencies, Jobs, Loans

d)

Jobs, Loan forgiveness, Reform

45.
During the New Deal, how did the government attempt to improve conditions for farmers?
a)
By ending the practice of sharecropping
b)
By encouraging farmers to grow more to increase profits
c)
By paying farmers to grow fewer crops
d)
By training farmers for jobs in a new field
46.

_____ was an organization created in 1931 in the United States by President Herbert Hoover's administration to try to stop bank failure stemming from the Great Depression,[1] and was a forerunner of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

a)

National Credit Corporation

b)

FDIC

c)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

d)

FEMA

47.

______ was a government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.

a)

National Credit Corporation

b)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

c)

FDIC

d)

FERPA

48.

credit systems where payment for merchandise/items is made in installments over a pre-approved period of time

a)

pay day loans

b)

installment plans

c)

National Credit

d)

Buying on Margin

49.

How did overproduction of U.S. goods by manufacturers contribute to the Great Depression?

a)

by prompting businesses to build factories in more locations

b)

by encouraging businesses to employ more workers

c)

by resulting in large unsold inventories due to market saturation

d)

by causing an increase in prices of goods in foreign markets

50.

How did participation in World War I affect U.S. agriculture at the end of the war?

a)

The United States government offered opportunities for returning veterans in the agricultural sector.

b)

The agricultural sector increased exports in order to raise profits.

c)

Overproduction of farm goods during the war led to a collapse in agricultural prices

d)

The United States government created free trade agreements to increase markets for agricultural products.

51.

The theory based on the idea that all species? are related and gradually change over time.

a)

creationist theory

b)

evolutionary theory

c)

fundamentalist theory

d)

spiritual theory

52.

the belief that the universe and the various forms of life were created by God

a)

creationist theory

b)

evolutionary theory

c)

fundamentalist theory

d)

credit theory

53.

believed that consumer culture, relaxed ethics, and growing urbanism symbolized our nation's decline

a)

fundamentalists

b)

conservatives

c)

evolutionists

d)

creationists

54.

Approximately how many farmers last their land during the Great Depression?

a)

5 million

b)

1 million

c)

1 Thousand

d)

150 Thousand

55.
 Which event best replaces the question mark in this sequence?  
Russia 1917-1918
• Czar Nicholas II abdicated Russian Imperial throne
•  ?
• Bolsheviks seized power and became the Communist Party
• Russia signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers
a)
A.  Vladimir Lenin returned to lead the Russian Revolution 
b)
B. Leon Trotsky escaped Russia for exile in Mexico 
c)
C. The Russian government adopted the New Economic Policy 
d)
D. The Red Army won the Russian Civil War
56.
The goal of the National Origins Act of 1924 was to
a)
reduce immigration from the United States to European Countries
b)
revive the Ku Klux Klan
c)
reduce immigration to the United States from the European countries
d)
create more jobs
57.

During the Red Scare, Americans often linked __________ with communism.

a)

workers

b)

criminals

c)

immigrants

d)

Progressives

58.
Who were the Palmer Raids meant to find and root out?
a)
Anarchists
b)
Communists
c)
Socialists
d)
All of the above
59.
The fear of a communist takeover of the US during the 1920's became known as the
a)
Bad Times
b)
Red Scare
c)
Bolshevik Doom
d)
Communist Wave
60.

In 1919, after communist revolutionaries known as Bolsheviks overthrew the czar in Russia, established the Soviet Union, and called for a worldwide revolution to destroy capitalism, people in the United States began to fear communists. This fear of international communism was called __________________.

a)

Socialism

b)

The Red Scare

c)

The Immigrant Scare

d)

The Isolationism Movement

61.

_______ was the first 20th-century solidarity strike after WWI in the United States. It led off a tumultuous era of post-World War I labor conflict that saw massive strikes shut down the nation's steel, coal, and other industries and threaten civil unrest ( It lasted 5 days)

a)

Seattle General Strike

b)

Red Scare Strike

c)

Laissez Faire Strike

d)

Palmer Raids

62.

a group of Russian radicals, led by Vladimir Lenin, who played a major role in the 1917 revolution in Russia

a)

Red Scare

b)

Communism

c)

Bolshevik

d)

Arms Race

63.

U.S. Attorney General and opponent of communism; he ordered the raids against radicals and aliens during the Red Scare of 1919 and 1920

a)

Mitchell A. Palmer

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Calvin Coolidge

64.

American business leader; he revolutionized factory production through the use of the assembly line and popularized the affordable automobile

a)

Mitchell A. Palmer

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Calvin Coolidge

65.
What did the Immigration Acts of 1921, 1924 and 1929 do?
a)
Increased the amount of immigrants allowed in the US
b)
Decreased the amount of immigrants allowed in the US
c)
Outlawed all immigration
d)
Only allowed immigrants from Russia
66.
An Anti-immigration sentiment (feeling or fear) is called
a)
Fundamentalism
b)
Nativism
c)
Communism
d)
Modernism
67.
What did opponents of A. Mitchell Palmer say he was doing?
a)
Weeding out groups who were attempting to take down the United States.
b)
Taking down anybody who was a supporter of Woodrow Wilson.
c)
Protecting people's freedom of speech.
d)
Taking away people's freedom of speech during and directly after WWI.
68.
Which term BEST fills in the blank?
a)
Teapot Dome Scandal
b)
Palmer Raids
c)
Langston Hughes
d)
McCarthyism
69.

The Palmer raids were unsuccessful becal no evidence was found.

a)

True

b)

False

70.

What rights were violated by the Palmer Raids

a)

4th amendment rights of search and seizure

b)

5th amendment rights of pleading the fifth

c)

1st amendment rights of freedom of speech

d)

2nd amendment rights to bear arms

71.

Women experienced more freedom than previous generations in the 1920's

a)

true

b)

false

72.

Why did the demand for American Crops increase during WWI

a)

there was a famine in America

b)

Soldiers fighting needed them and so did other countries.

c)

The livestock needed more food

d)

None of these answers are correct