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AH2 Final Exam Review

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 31mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following ended Native American tribal life, divided reservations into farms, and involved the Americanization of Native Americans?

a)

Pacific Railway Act

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Morrill Land Grant Act

d)

Dawes Act

2.

On settling the Great Plains, the majority of cowboys were:

a)

gunfighters at the OK Corral

b)

Seen as cattle ranchers who made money on the Long Drive

c)

thought of as rich industrialists trying to make money in the sewing industry

d)

set up industries and big businesses such as oil and steel

3.

Helen Hunt Jackson's book "A Century of Dishonor" was about:

a)

Native Americans killing US Government Troops to gain land.

b)

The broken promises of the US Government to Native Americans

c)

The fact that Native Americans formed alliances to take US troops

d)

The conspiracy of Native Americans to bring down the US government.

4.

All of the following help explain why individuals started to settle the Great Plains in the late 1800s EXCEPT:

a)

New expansion by the railroads provided access to the Great Plains

b)

Homestead Act offered free land to settlers

c)

US Government troops did NOT exist on the Plains so they could not protect US settlers there

d)

Free land was a chance to live the "American Dream"

5.

As a result of many African - Americans facing discrimination and violent attacks after the Civil War, many:

a)

African Americans moved to the North to pursue jobs in agriculture

b)

African Americans known as Exodusters moved west to the Great Plains in pursuit of the American Dream.

c)

The federal government sent African Americans to live in California

d)

African American supported an end to Reconstruction

6.

¨That any person owning and residing on land may, under the provisions act, enter other land lying contiguous to his or her said land, which shall not, with the land so already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY ACRES."


The above except which aided in the settlement of the Great Plains region was called the:

a)

Pacific Railway Act

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Morrill Land Grant Act

d)

Dawes Act

7.

CHAP. CXX - An Act to aid in the CONSTRUCTION OF A RAILROAD AND Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure the Government the Use of the same for Postal, Military and Other Purposes., are hereby created and erected into a body corporate and politic in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of ¨The Union Pacific Railroad Company¨ and the said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to layout, locate, construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continuous railroad and telegraph...


The above excerpt which aided in the development of the Great Plains:

a)

Pacific Railway Act

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Morrill Land Grant Act

d)

Dawes Act

8.

Which of the following Robber Barons is matched INCORRECTLY with the industry they monopolized?

a)

Andrew Carnegie - Steel

b)

John D. Rockefeller - Mining

c)

J.P. Morgan - Banking

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt - Railroads

9.

Social Darwinism was used by the Robber Barons to

a)

help out workers with their needs.

b)

justify their monopolistic actions when eliminating competition

c)

help the public understand they were losing business to monopolies

d)

make labor unions an important part of their business life.

10.

Which of the following as an example of Nativism towards immigrants in America?

a)

The Homestead Steel Strike

b)

The passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act

c)

The established immigration stations at Ellis and Angel Island

d)

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Strike

11.

The main type of housing that most immigrants lived in during the Gilded Age were:

a)

Row Houses

b)

Tenements

c)

In large expensive buildings

d)

Large estates on the Hudson River

12.

Which Alexander Graham Bell invention had the greatest impact on communication?

a)

Telephone

b)

Typewriter

c)

Telegraph

d)

Airplane

13.

All of the following inventions are CORRECTLY matched with their inventors EXCEPT:

a)

Thomas Edison - Light Bulb

b)

Christopher Sholes - Typewriter

c)

Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone

d)

Orville and Wilbur Wright - Automobile

14.

Which of the following are TRUE of the ways in which monopolies eliminated competition

a)

by using the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentlemen's Agreement

b)

Passing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Interstate Commerce Act

c)

Using vertical and horizontal integration to obtain companies

d)

Writing books to help out striking workers in need

15.

Which of the following is NOT true concerning Ellis and Angel Islands?

a)

They were major immigration stations

b)

Health inspections occurred on immigrants

c)

They were viewed as processing stations

d)

Immigrants never visited these places

16.

In what area of reform did Progressives FAIL to make significant changes?

a)

Regulating Monopolies

b)

Civil Rights

c)

Labor Issues

d)

Prohibition

17.

What is a TRUE statement when describing muckraking journalism?

a)

Muckraking is when they added anything to the meat.

b)

Muckraking is publishing untrue stories about businesses or industries.

c)

Muckraking is comparing parts of US Society to nature

d)

Muckraking is exposing problems so that solutions can be found.

18.

Which of the following people wanted SOCIAL equality for African-Americans and helped start the Niagara Movement and the NAACP?

a)

Robert La Follette

b)

Lincoln Steffens

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

19.

In which of the cases did the Supreme Court decide that segregation was okay as long as facilities were equal?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

b)

Lochner v. New York (1905)

c)

Muller v. Oregon (1906)

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

20.

Which of the following is NOT an amendment passed during the Progressive Era?

a)

15th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

21.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire resulted in:

a)

Less rights for workers in America

b)

Building codes and fire codes implemented in factories

c)

Railroad land sales throughout the US

d)

The development of fewer labor unions

22.

The Muckrakers wrote about all of the following matters EXCEPT:

a)

Corruption in the cities

b)

Procedures followed in the food industries

c)

Problems on Native American reservations

d)

Big business eliminating competition

23.

Which of the following was the leader of the Progressive Movement?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

William McKinley

d)

William Howard Taft

24.

All of the following were causes of WWI EXCEPT:

a)

imperialism

b)

militarism

c)

neutrality

d)

alliance system

25.

What was the name of Teddy Roosevelt's Foreign Policy?

a)

Moral Diplomacy Towards Mexico

b)

Watchful Waiting Diplomacy towards South America

c)

Big Stick Diplomacy showing the power of the US to the world

d)

Neutrality Proclamation towards European Powers

26.

What was the main reason for US Imperialism?

a)

To test the strength of the US navy against other countries

b)

to limit the power of Great Britain, France, and other European Powers

c)

to open new markets for American-made goods overseas

d)

to find new sources of cheap labor

27.

What is the significance of the Spanish-American War?

a)

The US was defeated

b)

The US was recognized as a world power

c)

The US defended its territory from European aggression

d)

Spain was recognized by the US as a power in the Western Hemisphere

28.

The United States went to war with Spain because of:

a)

the USS Main Incident

b)

The De Lome Letter

c)

the Hearst and Pulitzer newspaper accounts of the Spanish (yellow journalism)

d)

all of the above

29.

Which of the following was the IMMEDIATE cause of World War I?

a)

assassination of the Austria-Hungarian heir to the throne (Archduke Franz Ferdinand)

b)

imperialism of Great Britain

c)

Secret Alliance between Russia and Serbia

d)

Economic summit between the US and Great Britain

30.

Which European nation was forced to accept total responsibility for WWI in the war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

Germany

b)

Russia

c)

Austria-Hungary

d)

Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

31.

Which was NOT a territory acquired by the US immediately AFTER the Spanish American War?

a)

Philippines

b)

Puerto-Rico

c)

Guam

d)

Alaska

32.

The Harlem Renaissance refers to

a)

a population increase in Harlem in the 1920s

b)

a program to promote African-American owned businesses

c)

a struggle for Civil Rights led by the NAACP

d)

the expression of African American culture in literature and art

33.

During the 1920s, Prohibition referred to the fact that

a)

it was illegal to hire children in factories

b)

it was illegal to have or drink alcohol

c)

ownership of new cars was prohibited by the government

d)

African Americans had no civil rights

34.

Which idea BEST explains Herbert Hoover's philosophy regarding government power to assist individuals during the Great Depression?

a)

Hoover believed in rugged individualism

b)

Hoover believed in more federal power over states

c)

Hoover disagreed with laissez-faire policies

d)

Hoover supported government payments to the poor

35.

Which of the following is a CORRECT statement about the New Deal (FDR's plan to fix the Great Depression) ?

a)

New Deal Programs did not bring an end to the depression

b)

The federal government first took a sympathetic attitude towards big business

c)

New Deal laws were influenced by member's of Hoover's cabinet

d)

Relief, Recovery and Reform plus deficit spending fixed the problems

36.

What were Americans afraid of in the Red Scare?

a)

Communism

b)

Sectionalism

c)

Rugged Indivdualism

d)

Isolationism

37.

Which of the following forced many Americans to relocate/leave the Midwest during the 1930s because of drought and windstorms?

a)

Dust Bowl

b)

Great Migration

c)

Stock Market Crash

d)

Prohibition

38.

FDR's handling of the Great Depression can closely be associated with which of the following?

a)

Laissez-Faire government policies

b)

The government did not enact any policies to help out the people

c)

the government was very involved in society by putting the New Deal into effect

d)

Big Business was allowed to grow without government intervention

39.

In the 1920s, which event was associated with the drastic increase in crime and violence in America?

a)

the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

b)

mass production of the automobile

c)

the prohibition of alcohol

d)

high unemployment because of mine closings

40.

Which of the following events led the United States to join World War II?

a)

invasion of Poland

b)

invasion of the Sudetenland

c)

attack on Midway

d)

attack on Pearl Harbor

41.

Which of the following dictators is NOT matched with its country?

a)

Franco - Italy

b)

Tojo- Japan

c)

Hitler - Germany

d)

Mussolini - Italy

42.

Which group suffered discrimination and were put in internment camps by the US government during WWII?

a)

German-Americans

b)

Chinese Immigrants

c)

French- Americans

d)

Japanese Americans

43.

Which of the following was not an Allied power (WWII)?

a)

Soviet Union

b)

United States

c)

Great Britain

d)

Italy

44.

World War II started in Europe with the:

a)

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

b)

German Blitzkrieg on Poland

c)

French Invasion of the Rhineland

d)

Italian attack on neighboring Spain

45.

Why did Harry S. Truman drop the bombs on Japan (ending WWII)?

a)

to completely help the Japanese during the war

b)

to save American lives from a land invasion of Japan

c)

to aid the Chinese navy in its takeover of Japan

d)

The use of forced labor by Japan

46.

Which of the following is NOT a turning point battle during WWII?

a)

Berlin

b)

Stalingrad

c)

Midway

d)

Coral Sea

47.

Which list of terms ONLY applies to the European theater in WWII?

a)

Lusitania, Doughboys, 14 Points

b)

Allies, Kamikaze, Unconditional surrender

c)

Island hopping, atomic bomb, Bataan Death March

d)

D-Day, Blitzkrieg, Stalingrad

48.

The dividing line between Communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea is located at the

a)

23rd Parallel

b)

38th Parallel

c)

17th Parallel

d)

20th Parallel

49.

How did the Vietnam War impact the election of 1968?

a)

Lyndon Baines Johnson did not run for re-election because he was ruined by Vietnam

b)

John F. Kennedy was elected president

c)

Hubert Humphrey ran on a platform of support for the North Vietnamese

d)

the New Left organization sparked a Free-Speech Movement

50.

During the Cold War, which of the following is an accurate statement?

a)

The United Nations ended Communism in the Soviet Union

b)

There was no fighting during the period between the two superpowers. (US and USSR)

c)

The UN was the only international organization active during the Cold War

d)

There was a movement to decrease military strength

51.

Which of the following is a CORRECT statement regarding the Vietnam War?

a)

the US armed forces achieved many victories

b)

the general public in the US supported the entire war effort

c)

the war was an embarrassing defeat and protested by the people.

d)

the US was able to contain communism.

52.

Mao Zedong led a communist revolution in which country in 1949?

a)

Taiwan

b)

Korea

c)

Cuba

d)

China

53.

In which of the following did the US get involved in a war to contain communism in 1950?

a)

Taiwan

b)

China

c)

Cuba

d)

Korea

54.

What was Richard Nixon's policy of withdrawing US forces and allowing S. Vietnam to fight their own war?

a)

Americanization

b)

Vietnamization

c)

Containment

d)

Detente

55.

Which amendment to the Constitution lowered the voting age to 18?

a)

26th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

22nd Amendment

d)

24th Amendment

56.

Which of the following events did Richard Nixon get caught spying on the Democratic Party, committed illegal acts and with the release of his edited video tapes lead to his resignation?

a)

McCarthyism

b)

SALT I

c)

Watergate

d)

Detente

57.

What was the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS?

a)

the court declared that Plessy v. Ferguson was unconstitutional and ended segregation in schools.

b)

the court upheld its earlier decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

the court rejected the idea of desegregation of the public school system

d)

the court supported the declaration of constitutional principles issued by Congress

58.

In his domestic program calling for the building of the Great Society, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to help which group of people?

a)

women

b)

wealthy industrialists

c)

the poor

d)

the youth in America

59.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

a)

banned discrimination on the basis of race in public places

b)

abolished the poll tax

c)

gave African Americans the right to vote

d)

abolished slavery

60.

What "Great Society" program provided government funded health insurance for the elderly?

a)

VISTA

b)

Head Start

c)

Medicaid

d)

Medicare