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Full Year Review

Total questions: 77

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following granted African American men the right to vote?

a)

The 13th Amendment

b)

The 14th Amendment

c)

The 15th Amendment

d)

The 16th Amendment

2.

"The new law established a three-fold land acquisition process: filing an application, improving the land, and filing for deed of title. Any U.S. citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. Government could file an application, improving the land and lay claim to 160 acres of surveyed Government land."

This best describes what law?

a)

The Compromise of 1877

b)

The Hepburn Act

c)

The Dawes Act

d)

The Homestead Act

3.

Which of the following was a form of violence used to terrorize African Americans to prevent exercise of their rights?

a)

Lynchings

b)

Exodusters

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

4.

African Americans who followed Pap Singleton's advice in the late 19th century to leave the South looking for safety and better work.

a)

The Great Migration

b)

The NAACP

c)

Sharecroppers

d)

Exodusters

5.

Which of the following was NOT a backlash to Reconstruction

a)

Poll taxes

b)

Literacy tests

c)

Black politicians elected to government

d)

The KKK

6.

Robber barons such as Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, and Vanderbilt ran corporations that had complete control over their industry. This is known as a _____.

a)

Graft

b)

Spoils System

c)

Plutocracy

d)

Monopoly

7.

The Gilded Age is often seen as a period of government corruption. All of the following are examples of corruption in government EXCEPT:

a)

Graft

b)

Spoils System

c)

Labor Unions

d)

Plutocracy

8.

The Progressive Movement wanted to reduce the power of money in government. To achieve this, they wanted to give Congress the power to break up monopolies with which law?

a)

The Dawes Act

b)

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

c)

The Pendleton Act

d)

The Spoils System

9.

“White and colored persons shall not be taught in the same school, but in separate schools under the same general regulations as to management, usefulness and efficiency.”

The above quote is an example of what type of law?

a)

The Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

The Roosevelt Corollary

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

The 17th Amendment

10.

“…during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration of said ninety days to remain within the United States.”

The above quote comes from what law?

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Japanese Interment Camps

c)

Federal Reserve Act

d)

The Chinese Exclusion Act

11.

New immigrants came from what parts of the world?

a)

Southern and Eastern Europe

b)

Southern and Eastern Asia

c)

Southern and Western Africa

d)

Northern and Western Europe

12.

Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe arrived in which port?

a)

Angel Island

b)

Juneau, AK

c)

Ellis Island

d)

New Orleans, LA

13.

The above image demonstrates what aspect of the Industrial Revolution?

a)

The Spoils System

b)

Plutocracy

c)

The Progressive Movement

d)

Technological Innovation

14.

One of the goals of the Progressive Movement was to expand popular democracy. All of the following are examples of this EXCEPT:

a)

Referendum

b)

Prohibition

c)

Initiative

d)

The 19th Amendment

15.

Lincoln Steffens, who exposed corrupt political machines, and Ida B. Wells, who exposed the horror of lynchings in the south, are known as what?

a)

Exodusters

b)

Abolitionists

c)

Muckrakers

d)

Beatniks

16.

The United States expanded into an 'imperial' nation, or an empire, in 1877. What did the US claim that they would spread to the world?

a)

Christianity and democracy

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Christianity and Industrialization

d)

Democracy and Socialism

17.

The United States did not believe that the indigenous people of the islands they controlled (Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines) were capable of ruling themselves.

This belief is known as what?

a)

Democracy

b)

Big Stick Diplomacy

c)

Social Darwinism

d)

Dollar Diplomacy

18.

President Theodore Roosevelt was known for what type of diplomacy?

a)

Dollar

b)

Isolationism

c)

Moral

d)

Big Stick

19.

In what war did the United States win control of Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba?

a)

The Korean War

b)

The Spanish American War

c)

The Vietnam War

d)

World War I

20.

“On this same plantation at Snow Hill, Wilcox county, Alabama, a county where, according to the last census, there are twenty-four thousand colored people and about six thousand whites, there is now a school with two hundred pupils, five teachers from Tuskegee, and three school buildings. The school has forty acres of land. In addition to the text-book lessons, the boys are taught farming and carpentry, and the girls sewing and general house-keeping, and the school is now in the act of starting a blacksmith and wheelwright department.”

Which African American writer and leader most likely wrote this passage?

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Zora Neal Hurston

21.

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”  Aldo Leopold

Select the word that best matches the above quote:

a)

The Social Gospel

b)

The Talented Tenth

c)

Assimilation

d)

Conservation

22.

“The Negro race, like all other races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.” W.E.B. DuBois

Select the word that best matches the above quote:

a)

Accomodationism

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

The Talented Tenth

d)

The Social Gospel

23.

“The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.”  William Taft

The above quote is an example of what type of diplomacy?

a)

Dollar Diplomacy

b)

Moral Diplomacy

c)

Big Stick Diplomacy

d)

Isolationism

24.

During industrialization, many workers were exploited and treated badly. In response, they created labor unions. Labor unions united their voices against their more powerful employers in what is known as _______

a)

Monopolies

b)

Collective Bargaining

c)

Plutocracy

d)

Nativism

25.

All of the following were causes of World War I EXCEPT:

a)

Alliances

b)

Nationalism

c)

Militarism

d)

Isolationism

e)

Imperialism

26.

When World War I began, the United States was neutral. President Woodrow Wilson believed in maintaining what type of policy toward European nations?

a)

Imperial Policy

b)

Big Stick Policy

c)

Isolationism

d)

Nativism

27.

All of the following were reasons for the US joining World War I EXCEPT

a)

Defense of democracy

b)

Economic profits

c)

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

d)

Unrestricted submarine warfare

e)

The Zimmerman Telegram

28.

The above image is an example of propaganda. How did this image influence Americans?

a)

It portrayed the US as a woman needing to be rescued, so people would join the army

b)

It portrayed Germany as a brutish monster, so that Americans would join the army

c)

It portrayed Germany as a brutish monster, so that Americans wouldn't want to join the war

d)

It portrayed the United States as a brutish monster, so that Americans could see the problems of Imperialism

29.

The First Red Scare was a period in the early 20th century when Americans were paranoid of communists, anarchists, and socialists.

Which of the following is NOT an example of the First Red Scare?

a)

The return of the KKK

b)

Sacco and Vanzetti

c)

The Palmer Raid

30.

The dislike of immigrants is known as nativism. Which of the following is NOT an example of nativism?

a)

The Immigration Act of 1924 that restricted immigration

b)

The return of the KKK, who were anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic

c)

The growth of communism, where people believed that all property and businesses should be owned publicly (not privately like in capitalism)

31.

The image above is Marcus Garvey, who believed in the idea of black nationalism. Which of the following is the name of his movement?

a)

The Talented Tenth

b)

Accomodationism

c)

The 'Back to Africa' Movement

d)

The New Negro

32.

During the Great Migration, many African Americans felt that they could find a better life in the North. They were escaping racial violence and exploitative labor practices like sharecropping. These are examples of what?

a)

New Immigrants

b)

Push Factors

c)

Pull Factors

d)

Striking Factors

33.

True or False:

During the Great Migration, African Americans in the North did not experience discrimination and were free to live how and where they wanted to

a)

True

b)

False

34.

The image above shows a process in the 1920s known as _________.

a)

Fundamentalism

b)

Retrenchment

c)

Mass Production

d)

Celebrity Culture

35.

Consumerism - when buying new things is the most important activity in society - increased dramatically during the 1920s. All of the following were causes of the growth in consumerism EXCEPT

a)

New advertising

b)

Suburbanization

c)

Credit

d)

Cheaper products from mass production

36.

"By 1929, there were more than 27 million cars--or nearly one car for every household in the United States. In that year, one American out of every five owned a car, compared to one out of every 37 English and one out of every 40 French car owners."

How did the growing number of cars in the United States change the American way of life?

a)

People could now travel farther, faster

b)

Cars didn't really change society, since the train had allowed for all the same freedoms

c)

Cars led to the growth of migrants into the South

d)

People now had to chose between buying a car and a house, so many people went bankrupt

37.

What development in the 1920s contributed greatly to the rise of mass culture?

a)

Satellite Phones

b)

Better television shows for children

c)

The DVD

d)

The radio

38.

The 1920s ended with an economic downturn known as what?

a)

The Great Recession

b)

The New Deal

c)

The Great Depression

d)

The Great Society

39.

Select the causes of the Great Depression from the list below (there are 3 in this list):

a)

Excess consumerism

b)

Overproduction in manufacturing

c)

Suburbinazation

d)

White-owned business refusing to desegrege

e)

Buying on margin

40.

During the Great Depression, many experienced unemployment. What did President Herbert Hoover do to attempt to address the crisis?

a)

Instituted the New Deal

b)

Started the Civilian Conservation Corps.

c)

Began an unemployment program for Mid-West farmers

d)

Kept a Laissez-faire approach to government

41.

Herbert Hoover was known for his approach to politics known as 'rugged individualism.' Rugged individualism focused on what principles?

a)

Community and strong government

b)

Freedom and strong government

c)

Equal opportunity and decentralized (small) government

d)

Publicly owned goods and decentralized (small) government

42.

Large temporary towns built by the homeless and unemployed in the Great Depression were known as what?

a)

Hoovervilles

b)

The Bonus Army

c)

Suburbs

d)

Pre-fab towns

43.

Many people consider Black Tuesday, on October 29, 1929 as the start of the Great Depression. What was Black Tuesday?

a)

The day the Bonus Army marched on Washington D.C.

b)

The day President Hoover raised taxes beyond what people could pay

c)

The day when all the debt from credit came due

d)

The day when the US experienced a massive stock market crash

44.

Which president was elected in 1932 when the US people were tired of the Rugged Individualism of Herbert Hoover?

a)

President Theodore Roosevelt

b)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

President Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

President Woodrow Wilson

45.

In order to deal with the economic crisis of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt proposed a set of programs called ___________.

a)

The Great Society

b)

Moral Diplomacy

c)

The Square Deal

d)

The New Deal

46.

Using the image and your content knowledge, what was one critique of FDR's New Deal?

a)

It's hands-off approach wasn't actually helping people

b)

It prioritized big business over American people

c)

It wasted millions of dollars on government spending

d)

It relied on corrupt politicians to collect taxes

47.

The Soviet Union, Germany, and Japan are all examples of what type of government leading up to World War I?

a)

Democratic governments

b)

Communist governments

c)

Socialist governments

d)

Totalitarian governments

48.

The United States was brought into World War II after what event?

a)

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

b)

Germany's invasion of Poland

c)

The sinking of the Lusitania

d)

The Zimmerman Telegram

49.

In 1942, Executive Order 9066 sent all Japanese Americans to internment camps. What did the Supreme Court decide in Korematsu v. United States?

a)

They ruled that it was illegal to intern Japanese Americans

b)

They ruled that FDR was not able to pass executive orders

c)

They ruled that Korematsu didn't have to be interned, but other Japanese could be

d)

They ruled that it was legal to intern Japanese Americans during times of war

50.

The Manhattan Project developed the atomic bomb for the US during World War II. President Truman ordered the use of the bombs on what two cities?

a)

Tokyo and Nagasaki

b)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

c)

Hiroshima and Beijing

d)

Beijing and Tokyo

51.

Read the following statement:

"Government should be active and involved in the recovery from the Great Depression"

Who would have agreed with this?

a)

President Hoover

b)

President Roosevelt

52.

Read the following statement:

"Government intervention and regulation of the economy costs Americans their individual liberty and freedom."

Who would have agreed with this?

a)

President Hoover

b)

President Roosevelt

53.

Select all of the following that are examples of New Deal policies:

a)

The Civilian Conservation Corps

b)

The Public Works Administration

c)

The Social Security Act

d)

The Works Progress Administration

e)

The Tennessee Valley Authority

54.

Following World War II, President Truman was afraid of Russia's "expansive tendencies." What was the name of the doctrine to keep the Soviet Union where it was?

a)

Containment

b)

Isolationism

c)

Big Stick Diplomacy

d)

Peaceful Coexistence

55.

In order to support Europe from falling to communism, the United States gave money to European countries through what program?

a)

The Monroe Doctrine

b)

The Roosevelt Corollary

c)

The Marshall Plan

d)

The Space Race

56.

After World War II, Germany and its capital city Berlin were divided up. East Germany and East Berlin were controlled by what country?

a)

France

b)

The United States

c)

Great Britain

d)

The Soviet Union

57.

After the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin, the United States responded with what?

a)

The Berlin Wall

b)

The Korean War

c)

Containment

d)

The Berlin Airlift

58.

The Korean War was fought between the North (Communist) and the South (Democratic, Capitalist). The US fought with the South. What was the result of the Korean War?

a)

China joined the war and allowed communist forces to overrun the rest of the country

b)

North Korea defeated South Korea and forced the United States to leave

c)

The war ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel

d)

South Korea pushed into Communist North Korea and was able to assassinate the communist ruler

59.

As the Cold War begins, Americans become more and more afraid of Communism. The Rosenbergs will be accused of spying for the Soviet Union and executed, and several actors and directors will be accused of being communists. This is known as the ____________.

a)

The Beatniks

b)

The Second Red Scare

c)

The Marshall Plan

d)

The Space Race

60.

What event started the Space Race?

a)

The Soviet's launch of the satellite Sputnik

b)

The Soviet Union launching the first man into space

c)

The Apollo 11 moon landing

d)

The Soviet Union builds the Berlin Wall to separate East and West Berlin

61.

The Space Race had many effects on American society. Select all that apply:

a)

More STEM education funding

b)

More defense and military spending

c)

New technological innovations

d)

Heightened fear of conflict with the Soviet Union

62.

John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State under President Eisenhower, believed in a foreign policy called brinkmanship. Which of the following is an example of brinkmanship?

a)

The nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union

b)

The Berlin Airlift

c)

The idea of peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union

d)

The Holocaust

63.

During the Cold War, there was an intense fear of a nuclear holocaust. What are the ways that the US prepared? Select all that apply:

a)

Civil Defense Organizations

b)

Atomic Testing

c)

Consumerism

d)

Fallout Shelters

64.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a result of what event?

a)

The US's attempted invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs

b)

Cuba's alliance with the US forced the Soviet Union to threaten Cuba with sanctions

c)

The Soviet Union's invasion of Cuba to place nuclear missiles near the US

d)

Conflict between the US and Soviet Union over the Soviet Union's placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba

65.

Mutually assured destruction is defined as what?

a)

The policy that communism and capitalism could exist peacefully as neighbors

b)

The organized effort to prepare the public for military attack

c)

The idea that war can be prevented because the annihilation of both the attacking and defending country is guaranteed if one launches a nuclear weapon

d)

The rapid increase in stockpiles of nuclear weapons

66.

The Vietnam War was fought between North and South Vietnam. Why did the United States join the war with South Vietnam?

a)

The US saw the conflict as a war between communism and capitalism/democracy

b)

The US was attacked at a base in the Pacific by Northern Vietnamese soldiers

c)

The US was supporting the government that opposed the spread of fascism in Vietnam

d)

US civilians were attacked in North Vietnam, prompting a US response

67.

All of the following were pivotal moments in the Vietnam War EXCEPT:

a)

The My Lai Massacre

b)

The Tet Offensive

c)

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

d)

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

68.

What was one of the main policies the Anti-War Movement in the United States protested during the Vietnam War?

a)

The FBI's harassment and targeting of the Silent Majority

b)

The draft by lottery

c)

The INF Treaty with the Soviet Union

d)

The failure of the US to send enough troops to Vietnam

69.

All of the following decreased the tension of the Cold War EXCEPT:

a)

The period of Detente

b)

SALT I and II

c)

Nuclear Proliferation

d)

The INF Treaty

70.

During the '50s, the US experienced significant social change. Select all of the following that represent social change in the '50s:

a)

The rapid growth of suburban towns such as the mass produced levittowns

b)

The rapid growth of consumer culture, white collar jobs, and advertising

c)

The increased birthrate known as the baby boom

d)

An equal number of women entering professional jobs like doctors and lawyers as men

e)

A huge increase in the number of cars in the US

71.

Television, which became extremely popular in the 1950s, impacted society in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

a)

Influenced gender roles through ads and TV shows

b)

Changed the way that Americans interacted with war and politics

c)

Made Beatnik-influenced shows the most popular type of television

d)

Increased the ability of companies to advertise their products to consumers through ads and slogans

72.

After JFK was killed, Lyndon B. Johnson became president and started implementing a set of policies targeting poverty and racial injustice. These polices were known as what?

a)

The Square Deal

b)

The Great Society

c)

The New Frontier

d)

The New Deal

73.

Kennedy's program the New Frontier included all of the following EXCEPT:

a)

Pushes to improve STEM Education

b)

Start the Peace Corps

c)

Win the Space Race

d)

Decrease tensions with the Soviet Union

74.

What was the Supreme Court case that called for desegregation of public schools?

a)

Obergefell v. Hodges

b)

Schenck v. The United States

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Bakke v. California

75.

All of the following are examples of the 1950s and early 1960s Civil Rights Movement EXCEPT:

a)

Montgomery Bus Boycotts

b)

The Little Rock Nine, the Clinton 12, and the Memphis 13

c)

The Sit-In Movement and Freedom Rides

d)

The Talented Tenth and accomodationism

76.

Which of the following outlawed discrimination based on race and ended racial segregation in public places?

a)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

c)

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Bakke v. University of California (1978)

77.

The 1960s was a time of radical social change. Which of the following were social movements of the 1960s? Select all that apply:

a)

The Chicano Movement

b)

The Environmental Movement

c)

The Conservation Movement

d)

The American Indian Movement

e)

The Women's Liberation Movement