WorksheetsSSUSH 20 & 21
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is the court case that created the "separate but equal" doctrine?
Jim Crow
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Fergusen
What was being violated when blacks wanted to attend white schools?
2nd Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
16th Amendment
What were the effects of the Marshall Plan?
stop spread of communism
Money for Western Europe to rebuild
Supplies for Western Europe
all of the above
The Truman Doctrine became known as:
The Marshall Plan
The policy of Containment
The Riga Axioms
The Domino Theory
What is the Truman doctrine?
United States would provide assistance to democratic nations that pledge allegiance with them
United States would not provide any assistance to democratic nations under threat of communism
United States would provide cultural, religious and spiritual assistance to all democratic nations under threat of communism
United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat of communism
2) What did the Marshall Plan do?
Punished war criminals
Divided Germany into East and West Germany
Provided aid to countries recovering from World War II
Divided Korea into North and South Korea
Built up nuclear weapons for the Cold War
12.) True or False: One of the goals of the Marshall Plan was to stop the spread of communism in Europe.
True
False
What did the G.I. Bill of 1944 provide?
lifelong careers in the military
women and minorities with factory jobs
low-income families with housing
soldiers with money for housing or education
People moved out of the city and into ______, or Levittowns, to start families.
suburbs
farms
trailers
ghettos
What did Eisenhower implement in America's infrastructure to promote auto travel?
river dams
interstate highways
paved roads
complex bridges
What form of entertainment took over the 1950's?
music
radio
movies
television
What did Congress pass to increase educational, economic, and political opportunities for women and minorities?
Fair Labor Standards
Lend-Lease Act
Selective Training and Service Act
Civil Rights Legislation
Who ordered the national guard to stop the Little Rock Nine on their first day of school?
The president
A senator
The principal
The major
The governor
What president sent the U.S. Army to protect the Little Rock Nine?
Richard Nixon
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Korea was divided along the __________ Parallel after World War II.
35th
36th
37th
38th
North Korea was supported by ________________, which has a _________________ government.
Soviet Union/communist
Soviet Union/democratic
U.S.A./communist
U.S.A./democratic
When soldiers returned home from World War II, what helped them get lower mortgage rates and paid for their continued education?
The Consitution
Veteran's Fund
G.I. Bill of Rights
Military Service Reimbursement Bill
United States involvement in the Vietnam War was based in part on a desire to
prevent renewed Japanese expansionism in the Pacific
assure access to an adequate supply of oil from the Middle East
contain communism in Southeast Asia
protect American business interests in China.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution increased the power of the president by -
allowing the president to use military force without a declaration of war by Congress
authorizing the president to choose the Senate Majority Leader
allowing the president to introduce bills to Congress
expanding the president's right to executive privilage
Who was in charge of the building of Levittown
Mr.Cox
Adam Wantagh
Joe Levitt
William Levitt
What was the purpose of building Levittown?
To make a home for the veterans and baby boomers
To make a town named after himself
To make money
The purpose of Medicaid was to provide health care to which group of Americans?
The elderly
Low-income individuals and families
The purpose of Medicare was to provide health care to which group of Americans?
The elderly
Low-income individuals and families
Which was the primary focus of President Johnson's Great Society?
To increase middle class wealth and prosperity
To reduce government spending and debt
To reduce poverty and help disadvantaged people
To increase economic output and reduce military spending
Which Great Society program(s) still exist today? Select all that apply.
Medicare & Medicaid
Project Head Start
Departments of Transportation, Housing & Urban Development
Demonstration Cities & Metropolitan Development act
Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1964
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
Abraham Lincoln
Kneily Stewart
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lester Maddox
This act ended voter suppression tactics like literacy tests and grandfather clauses
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Which organization created by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was designed to hold sit-ins, marches and boycotts?
SNCC ( Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)
SCLC ( Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
AM ( Albany Movement)
NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
