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EOC practice

Total questions: 105

Worksheet time: 1hrs 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A source that is original, from the time period & a first hand account
a)
Primary 
b)
Secondary 
2.
A Diary 
a)
Primary 
b)
Secondary
3.
Mona Lisa 
a)
Primary 
b)
Secondary
4.
Movie about WW2
a)
Primary 
b)
Secondary
5.
Our US History textbook
a)
Primary 
b)
Secondary 
6.

A credible source is a source of information that is:

a)

unbiased

b)

supported by evidence

c)

written by a professional author

d)

posted on social media

7.

A website with an overload of advertisements is often a sign of a credible source.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

When we say that a website is a credible source we mean:

a)

the source is unbelievable and fantastic

b)

it is unreliable and false

c)

the source is appropriate for a business report

d)

it is believable and trustworthy

9.
A thesis statement states an attitude or opinion on a topic.  It doesn't just state the topic, itself.  A thesis should not be a fact.
Which of these is a thesis statement?
a)
A. Michaelangelo's artwork is famous and admired by many.
b)
B. Michaelangelo's artwork is powerful because of its strong spiritual understones.
c)
C. Michaelangelo was a great artist in Rome during 1500's
10.
A thesis statement can be made more specific by listing subpoints.  These help give your reader a clear idea of what will follow in your essay.
Which of these makes a clear thesis statement?
a)
A. The reason why I came to the United States is to study.
b)
B. The reasons why I came to the United States to study were to educate myself and then return to Malaysia to apply my education.
c)
C. There were many reasons why I came to the United States to study.
11.
The thesis statement should include your opinion on the on the points your are analyzing.
a)
True
b)
False
12.
Where should a thesis statement appear?
a)
first paragraph
b)
anywhere in the essay
c)
last paragraph
d)
the first sentence of every paragraph
13.

The idea that government’s power comes from the people.

a)

Divine Right

b)

Popular Sovereignty

c)

Social Contract

d)

Natural Rights

14.

Rights that cannot be taken from the people.

a)

Unalienable Rights

b)

Popular Sovereignty

c)

Social Contract

d)

Natural Rights

15.

The idea that people give up some of their power and rights to the government, and government is supposed to maintain order.

a)

Unalienable Rights

b)

Popular Sovereignty

c)

Social Contract

d)

Natural Rights

16.

The idea that all people are born equal and entitled to the same basic rights

a)

Unalienable Rights

b)

Popular Sovereignty

c)

Social Contract

d)

Natural Rights

17.

Thomas Jefferson borrowed many of his ideas from which Enlightenment Philosopher?

a)

John Locke

b)

Thomas Hobbes

c)

Thomas Paine

d)

John Adams

18.

Which of these were "grievances" the colonists had with the British Government?

a)

They were taxed without representation in Parliament

b)

The British Government required colonists to house troops against their will

c)

Not allowing the colonists to trade with other countries (Mercantilism)

d)

Suspending the right to a trial by jury

e)

Suspending Colonial Legislatures

19.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 said that people within the territory had all of the following rights EXCEPT...

a)

To own slaves

b)

Religious freedom

c)

Right to a trial by a jury

d)

To have a say in the government (if you were a free white landowning male)

20.

Which of the following did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 set land aside for in every township?

a)

Police stations

b)

A fort

c)

City Halls

d)

Schools

21.

The lasting impact of the Northwest ordinance of 1787 was...

a)

that slavery would be made illegal forever after in the U.S.

b)

that the U.S. was unable to compromise.

c)

that we would be dragged into another war.

d)

that it provided instructions on how the U.S. should add new states to the U.S. in the future.

22.
True or False?  The Articles of Confederation had a strong central government.
a)
True
b)
False
23.
In the Articles of Confederation, where was most of the government power placed?
a)
The States
b)
The National Government
c)
The Continental Congress
d)
The Legislative Branch
24.

How many colonies were there in total?

a)

12

b)

14

c)

13

d)

11

25.
What is the name of the first written plan of government in America?
a)
Constitution
b)
Treaty of Paris
c)
Declaration of Independence
d)
Articles of Confederation
26.

What event proved that the Articles of Confederation were weak?

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

The Revolutionary War

c)

Shay's Rebellion

d)

The Boston Tea Party

27.
Which branch is divided into the House and the Senate?
a)
Legislative
b)
Executive
c)
Judicial
28.
Which of the following explains the Constitutional principle called republicanism?
a)
Power is divided between state and federal government
b)
Power is divided into 3 government branches
c)
Elected representatives make and enforce laws
d)
Individuals have guaranteed liberties
29.
Freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition.  Which amendment is this?
a)
1st
b)
2nd
c)
3rd
d)
4th
30.

The freedom to bear arms is what amendment?

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

d)

4th

31.

An Anti Federalist believed...

a)

There should be a weak central government

b)

There should be a powerful central government

32.

A federalist....

a)

Wanted a strong Executive Branch- Executive Branch has more authority than the other branches of government.

b)

Supported the idea of Checks and Balances

33.

An anti-federalist

a)

Supported checks and balances, separation of powers

b)

Wanted the executive branch to have ultimate power

34.

Who would represent the Executive Branch?

a)

The President

b)

Congress

c)

Supreme Court

35.

Who would represent the Legislative Branch?

a)

President

b)

Congress

c)

Supreme Court

36.

Who represented the Judicial Branch?

a)

President

b)

Congress

c)

Supreme Court

37.

The photos demonstrate which new Industrial Revolution concept?

a)

Monopoly

b)

Assemble Line

c)

Horizontal Integration

d)

Cars were the #1 built item

38.

The deaths and fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, led to which of the following?

a)

Child rights laws

b)

Laws against harmful chemicals

c)

Safety codes for buildings

d)

Standards for health and medicine

39.

What new invention will allow us to build skyscrapers and suspension bridges?

a)

Iron

b)

The hammer

c)

Steel

d)

A-bomb

40.

The opportunity for individuals to gain partial ownership through investing benefits accompany in what way?

a)

Increased child labor

b)

Increased government investment

c)

Decreased production

d)

Increased opportunity to expand production

41.

An economic practice where the government does NOT try to control the economy.

a)

Gospel of Wealth

b)

laissez faire

c)

Social Darwinism

d)

horizontal integration

42.

the control of an entire or most of an industry by one company

a)

laissez faire

b)

capitalism

c)

monopoly

d)

patent

43.

In which industry did Andrew Carnegie earn his fortune?

a)

steel

b)

railroad

c)

gold

d)

oil

44.

Which industry did Rockefeller dominate?

a)

oil

b)

steel

c)

communication

d)

railroad

45.

What was the first Immigration Law in the United States?

a)

Italian Exclusion Act of 1882

b)

Irish Exclusion Act of 1882

c)

Japanese Exclusion Act of 1882

d)

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

46.

How did immigrants decide to settle where they did?

a)

They settled in warmer climates

b)

They settled near water

c)

They settled by people of similar ethnic backgrounds

d)

They settled where immigrant officials sent them

47.

Which Americans would have been most in favor of immigration?

a)

Factory workers

b)

Factory owners

c)

Railroad workers

d)

Southerners

48.
a)

Immigration to rural areas continued to rise while many farmers moved to cities.

b)

By 1900, more Americans were working in factories than on farms for the first time in history.

c)

Despite the availability of factory jobs, the vast majority of Americans chose to remain on farms at the turn of the century.

d)

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, America's economy was becoming increasingly industrial.

49.

Jim Crow laws

a)

Segregated blacks and whites

b)

Killed minorities

c)

Resulted in slavery

d)

Were ended after the Civil War

50.

This was the Supreme Court case that legalized segregation in America

a)

Dred Scott v. Sanford

b)

Marbury v. Madison

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Garrett v. NFL

51.

The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson said that whites and blacks could be segregated if accommodations were

a)

Hot and Cold

b)

Even and uneven

c)

Separate but equal

d)

Fair and equal

52.

Between 1848 and 1920, suffragists protested for women to have the right to vote.


Which amendment guaranteed women this right in the United States?

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

53.

The Jungle exposed unsanitary and unsafe practices in the meatpacking industry.


Which muckraker is responsible for exposing the conditions?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Lewis Hines

c)

Ida Tarbell

d)

Upton Sinclair

54.

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era

· Initiative

· Referendum

· Recall

· Direct Primary

· 17th Amendment


How did the reforms listed above impact the US?

a)

A system of separate schools for new immigrants

b)

They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government

c)

More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.

d)

They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

55.

Prohibition banned the making, selling, buying, or drinking of alcohol. Which amendment made this possible?

a)

17th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

56.

____________?____________


A period of time when social, economic and political problems caused by rapid industrialization were exposed and in some cases reformed.


What is the most likely title for this?

a)

Industrialization

b)

Progressive Era

c)

Reconstruction

d)

Prohibition

57.

US entered war to gain control of Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines in this war...

a)

Rico War

b)

Spanish American War

c)

War on terrorism

d)

Island war

58.

What is domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

a)

Imperialism

b)

Industrialization

59.
The USS Main exploded while it was in Havana, _____. This was a leading cause to the start of the Spanish American War.
a)
Cuba
b)
Guam
c)
Mexico
d)
Panama
60.
He was part of the Rough Riders during the Spanish American war. He was also the assistant Secretary of the Navy and a president during the progressive era. 
a)
Alfred T Mahan 
b)
Rough Riders 
c)
Theodore Roosevelt 
d)
Henry Cabot Lodge 
61.
______________ is a name for false or exaggerated reporting.
a)
Red-top
b)
Government
c)
Newspaper lying
d)
Yellow Journalism
62.

What was the name of President Wilson's plan for peace?

a)

Zimmerman Telegram

b)

Sussex Pledge

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Fourteen Points

63.

What country had to admit guilt for WWI according to the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

Germany

b)

Russia

c)

Austria-Hungary

d)

Italy

64.

What was the name of the peace-keeping organization proposed by Wilson?

a)

Fourteen Points

b)

League of Nations

c)

United Nations

d)

Sussex Pledge

65.

"War gardens" were...

a)

gardens people plants during food rationing

b)

places where war was fought

c)

the land between trenches

d)

forests

66.
Which of these nations was on the LOSING side of World War I?
a)
The United States
b)
The United Kingdom
c)
Germany
d)
Italy
67.
What are reparations?
a)
Payments Germany was forced to pay
b)
Repairs and improvements made to Germany
c)
Money that France would donate to Germany to help rebuild
d)
Payments that Russia would give to the Ottoman Empire
68.
How did the German people react to the Treaty of Versailles?
a)
They were ok with it because they realized that they lost the war
b)
They loved it because it was so favorable to them
c)
They hated it because it treated them severely
d)
Most Germans didn't really care
69.
Which decade saw the rise of the automobile, the red scare, and Scopes Trial?
a)
1910s
b)
1920s
c)
1930s
d)
1940s
70.
Which decade saw bank failures, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal?
a)
1910s
b)
1920s
c)
1930s
d)
1940s
71.
Which movement made Jazz popular?
a)
Return to Normalcy
b)
Harlem Renaissance
c)
Nativism
d)
Great Migration
72.
Why did African Americans move North during the Great Migration?
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Jobs in factories
c)
Nativism in the South
d)
Lower cost of living in cities
73.
Who used the assembly line to mass produce automobiles? 
a)
Glenn Curtis
b)
Thomas Edision
c)
Henry Ford
d)
John Rockerfeller 
74.
Buying stocks on margin led to this crisis of 1929-
a)
Dust Bowl
b)
Bank Failures
c)
Hoovervilles
d)
 Stock Market Crash
75.
Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Herbert Hoover
76.

Identify all of the policies below which were taken by the United States prior to WWII to maintain an isolationist policy.

a)

the Neutrality Acts prohibited American from traveling on ships of nations at war.

b)

Quarantine Speech in which Roosevelt encouraged peaceful countries to isolate aggressive nations like Japan.

c)

Destroyers for Bases agreement in which the U.S. exchanged 50 naval destroyers for rights on lands Britain had previously possessed

d)

Lend-Lease Act Roosevelt agreed to sell, lease, or lend war materials to any country he believed was important to the defense of the U.S.

77.

glorifies the nation or race above individual rights

a)

fascism

b)

democracy

c)

communism

d)

totalitarianism

78.

France & Britain's response to Germany's expansion

a)

appeasement

b)

isolationist

c)

interventionist

d)

declaration of war

79.

reason why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

a)

US stopped selling oil to Japan

b)

US stopped buying oil from Japan

c)

Japan wanted to conquer the US

d)

Japan wanted to spread communism

80.
Which is not an axis power?
a)
China
b)
Italy
c)
Japan
d)
Germany
81.
Which was not an allied Power?
a)
Canada
b)
USSR
c)
United States
d)
Italy
82.
The _________ was the secret project in the United States that developed the atomic bomb
a)
The New York Project
b)
The Manhattan Project
c)
The Atom Splitting Project
d)
The Nuclear Project
83.
During which war did the U.S. create the atomic bomb?
a)
World War I
b)
World War II
c)
Korean War
d)
Vietnam War
84.
What president made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in World War II?      
a)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Harry S. Truman
d)
John F. Kennedy
85.

During the Cold War, the United States adopted the ___________________ in order to stop the spread of communism around the world.

a)

Domino Theory

b)

Expansionist Policy

c)

Containment Policy

d)

Marshall Plan

86.

The United States intervened in Korea and Vietnam to stop the spread of:

a)

Facism

b)

Democracy

c)

Socialism

d)

Communism

87.

Who fought to make Vietnam a Communist country independent from French rule?

a)

Hirohito

b)

Kim Il Sung

c)

Ho Chi Minh

d)

Mao Zedong

88.

What is being described? Ho Chi Minh wanted country under communist rule, Mins soliders used guerilla warfare, many Americans protested the war, American troops withrew and the south surrendered.

a)

Korean War

b)

First Indochina War

c)

WW2

d)

Vietnam War

89.
What does the ‘Iron Curtain’ symbolize? 
a)
The division between East Germany and West Germany
b)
The division between East Berlin and West Berlin
c)
The division between communist Europe and noncommunist Europe 
d)
The division between North Korea and South Korea
90.
Was the Cold War an actual war?
a)
Yes
b)
No
91.
The United States sent troops to Vietnam
_________.
a)
to stop the spread of communism
b)
as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis
c)
to set up a capitalist goverment
d)
because they bombed us
92.
A competition between nations to build powerful weapons is called ___________.
a)
Arms Race
b)
Blockade
c)
Space Race
d)
Atomic Bomb
93.

During the Cold War, what bill did the U.S. Congress pass to provide financial assistance to western European countries?

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Open Door Policy

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

Domino Theory

94.

What policy implemented in the Cold War said the U.S. would give military aid to a country that needed to resist communism?

a)

Marshall Plan

b)

Truman Doctrine

c)

Domino Theory

d)

Open Door Policy

95.
Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal
a)
allow children to work.
b)
to pay black people less than white people.
c)
to return a slave.
d)
to segregate schools.
96.
Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?
a)
Charlayne Hunter
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Rosa Parks
d)
Rebecca L. Felton
97.
Who did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference elect as its first leader?
a)
Rosa Parks
b)
Jackie Robinson
c)
Martin Luther King Jr.
d)
Thurgood Marshall
98.
What strategy did MLK NOT use when fighting for equal rights?
a)
Sit-ins
b)
Marches
c)
Protests
d)
Violent Riots
99.

What is one thing that Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Philip Vera Cruz all shared?

a)

They were all once farm workers

b)

They were all leaders fighting for rights of farm workers

c)

They were all Mexican-American

d)

They were all college-educated activists

100.

Dramatic increase in birth rate, especially in the years following WWII. This was due to so many people working and making a better living.

a)

Baby Boom ­

b)

Baby Gap

c)

GI Bill

d)

Transistor

101.

_____________ rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places.

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

National Organization for Women

c)

United Farm Workers

d)

Counterculture

102.

The interconnection of the world today is often referred to as

a)

Nationalism

b)

Communism

c)

Globalization

d)

Isolationism

103.

What countries are a part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

a)

United States

b)

Mexico

c)

Germany

d)

Canada

104.

Cities often spread out over surrounding areas. This is called

a)

Urban Sprawl

b)

Rural Decline

c)

Urban Decline

d)

Rural Sprawl

105.

Sending goods to another country to sell.

a)

import

b)

export