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WorksheetsAmerican History Final
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 4mins
True or False: the 15th Amendment gave everyone the right to vote
True
False
What did the 13th Amendment do?
It allowed everyone to vote
It abolished (ended) slavery
It gave citizenship to former slaves
All of the Above
Which Amendment granted citizenship to African Americans?
12th
13th
14th
15th
Which of the following were used to restrict rights of African Americans?
Black Codes
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
All of the Above
What was the impact of the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case?
Separate facilities for whites and blacks was fine as long as they were equal
Separate facilities for whites and blacks were not acceptable because they were proven to not be equal
None of the Above
This era was given this name because under the glittery surface there were issues of poverty, unemployment, and corruption.
The Progressive Era
The Gilded Age
The Reconstruction Era
World War II
Who was Jacob Riis
A Gilded Age Politician
A reporter who exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed in New York
A reporter who took photographs of the bad conditions of New York City Tenements
None of the Above
Completing the construction of this helped connect the East and West coasts of the United States
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Hoover Dam
The Empire State Building
None of the Above
What are reservations?
The names of the schools where Native Americans get educated
Land given to Native Americans where they could live freely without the intervention of white people
The only land that white people were allowed to settle on; all other land belonged to Native Americans
None of the Above
In the Jungle, muckraker Upton Sinclair described the issues with which industry?
U.S. oil
U.S. Steel
Clothing Industry
Meat Packing Plants
True or False: Women gained the right to vote during the Progressive Era with the passage of the 19th Amendment
True
False
Which of the following did employers do to prevent their workers from striking against them
Force workers to sign yellow dog contracts to prevent them from joining unions
Blacklist workers who joined unions so they couldn't get hired
Hire new employees known as strikebreakers to take over the jobs of people who went on strike
All of the Above
This was the name given to the "fake news" of the Spanish-American War
Yellow Journalism
Muckraking
It was called "Fake News" even back then
There was no such thing as "Fake News" back then; reporting was always accurate
Which of the following was the main reason that World War I began?
The Zimmerman Note encouraged Mexico to start a war with the United States
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated
The Germans sank a boat called the Luisitania
None of the Above
Which of the following was a new technology/weapon used during World War I?
Poison Gas
Tanks
Airplanes
All of the Above
Why did the United States enter the war?
German Submarines were sinking ships including the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Note encouraged Mexico to begin a war with the United States
Both Choices are correct
Neither choice is correct
What did women do to contribute to the war effort?
They became nurses to help wounded soldiers
They worked in factories
They stayed at home to raise their children
All of the Above
This is a fear of the spread of communism
The Red Scare
The Commie Scare
A Palmer Raid
None of the Above
True or False: The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 was a court case that determined whether evolution should be taught in schools
True
False
Henry Ford invented this idea that revolutionized manufacturing products. Each worker only needed to make 1 component of a car, then the rest of the car was completed by other workers.
Mass Production
The Model T
The Assembly Line
Installment Buying
This event marked the beginning of the Great Depression
Prohibition
The Stock Market Crash
The Dust Bowl
Hitler becomes dictator of Germany
True or False: FDR's plan to end the Great Depression was known as the New Deal
True
False
This phenomenon destroyed crops in the American West
The Stock Market Crash
Severe Flooding
The Dust Bowl
All of the Above
This New Deal Program insured that if a bank closed, you'd still get your money back
FDIC
PWA
TVA
CCC
When people couldn't afford to buy food during the Great Depression, they did this...
They waited in bread lines for food
They went to soup kitchens run by local charities
In some cases, they stole food
All of the Above
This leader took over the Nazi Party in 1933, and expanded Germany's borders
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
This was the name of the policy that allowed Germany to take over other countries in order to prevent another World War
Anschluss
Appeasement
Anti-Semitism
Totalitarianism
This man led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II.
Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler
For many Americans, this policy ended U.S. neutrality because it only gave weapons to an Allied country: Great Britain
Neutrality Act of 1939
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Tripartite Pact
The surprise attack at this location resulted in the United States entering the war
Coral Sea
Washington D. C.
San Diego
Pearl Harbor
This strategy in the Pacific called for American soldiers to only take over an island if it was poorly defended and was strategically important to U.S. military operations
Island Hopping
Kamikaze
Blitzkrieg
None of the Above
How did World War II end?
Japan surrendered after 2 of their cities were destroyed by atomic bombs
Japan surrendered after the United States Army invaded their country
Germany surrendered after 2 of their cities were destroyed by atomic bombs
None of the Above
This military alliance was created by the United States in Western Europe during the Cold War and still exists today
The United Nations
The Warsaw Pact
NASA
NATO
This term was coined by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to describe how Russia created communist countries in Eastern Europe
Cold War
Iron Curtain
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Wall
This was the name given to the build up of nuclear weapons by the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War
The Space Race
The Rat Race
The Arms Race
In 1948-1949, when the Soviet Union blockaded the city of Berlin, the United States responded by doing this...
They used tanks to blast the blockade
They didn't do anything, so the people of Berlin ended up starving
They dropped supplies to feed the people of Berlin; This event became known as the Berlin Airlift
None of the Above
This Wisconsin senator claimed that there were communists in the government and army, even though many of the people he accused were innocent
George Marshall
Joseph McCarthy
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
After World War II ended, soldiers returned home and had lots of kids, which created this generation
Generation X
Generation Y
The Millenials
The Baby Boomers
This person became involved in the civil rights movement when they refused to give up their seat on a segregated bus in the South
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King
John Lewis
James Lawson
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King gave a famous speech in Washington D.C. during this event
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
The March on Washington
The Freedom Rides
Between 1961 and 1991, this was used to separate Eastern and Western Berlin
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Canal
The Red Army
None of the Above
For 13 days in 1962, the world came close to nuclear war during this event...
The Bay of Pigs
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Arms Race
The Space Race
While the Soviets were the first to get a satellite into space with Sputnik, America won this event by being the first and only country in the world to set a man onto the surface of the moon
The Arms Race
The Space Race
The Moon Race
NASA
What was an important effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage?
Freedmen achieved social and political equality in the South.
Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.
Freedmen played an important role in local and state government.
Freedmen achieved economic independence from their former masters.
This act prohibited railroads from charging more for short hauls than for long hauls over the same route.
Interstate Highway Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Homestead Act
Sherman Anti Trust Act
The process of blending American Indians into the rest of American culture was called:
expansionism
gilding
mechanization
assimilation
What gave settlers 160 acres of land in exchange for improving their new land?
Homestead Act
Dawes Act
Morril Act
Reconstruction Act
Which of these individuals was the first female Supreme Court Justice?
What did the federal government do to address the social injustice shown in this photograph?
Enforced the Wisconsin v. Yoder decision protecting First Amendment rights
Established the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to promote voting rights
Passed civil rights legislation banning segregation in public places
Issued an executive order prohibiting limits on interstate migration
