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WorksheetsUnit 5 Cold War - Modern Era
Total questions: 57
Worksheet time: 38mins
The United States policy was to remain militarily and politically neutral at...
the great depression.
the beginning of WWI.
the end of WWII.
the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
The doctrine of "separate but equal" was allowed to continue by which Supreme Court decision?
Brown v. Board of Ed.
Dred Scott Decision
Plessy v. Ferguson
United States v. Miller
This Supreme Court decision stated that Segregation in Schools was Unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Ed.
Dred Scott Decision
Plessy v. Ferguson
United States v. Miller
In the Roaring 20's, between World War I and the Great Depression, people began to change buying habits and spend more money on things they wanted. This is referred to as...
Speculation
Consumerism
Big Business
Communism
This was an international peace keeping organization that was supported by President Wilson, but rejected by the Senate.
Ottoman Empire
League of Nations
NATO
Central Powers
This period is characterized by increasing the right to vote in the United States.
The Red Scare
Industrialization
Jacksonian Democracy
The New Deal
Women's Suffrage
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
25th Amendment
20th Amendment
Major factor that contributed to the Great Depression in America by causing falling prices on goods.
Black Tuesday
Overproduction and underconsumption
Stock Speculation
Underproduction and Overconsumption
The primary reasons for the United States joining World War I?
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
The Zimmerman Telegram
German Atrocities during WWI
All of these
The government took on a greater role in the national economy and created programs to address the nation's unemployment problems using this president's plan?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
The direct election of U.S. Senators...
14th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
19th Amendment
Slavery was the main issue involving ______ 1859 raid in Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
Nat Turner's
John Brown's
George Washington's
Daniel Shay's
The mass production of automobiles led to the rapid growth of ______ after WWI and before the Great Depression.
Prohibition
Women's Suffrage
American Suburbs
Rural Farms
These were ways more people became directly involved in government during the Progressive Era...
initiatives
referendums
tariffs
all of these
The era gave rise to Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and "The Cotton Club".
Reconstruction
Civil War
Harlem Renaissance
Revolutionary War
Why would President Lincoln say that taking Vicksburg is the key to winning the Civil War?
It would divide the Union in two and cut off a vital supply route.
Vicksburg had no significant impact on the war.
It would split the Confederacy in two and cut off a vital supply route.
It would end Slavery.
This group supported immigrant works?
United Farm Workers union
Soviet Union
American Steel Workers Union
Black Panthers
Wrote the book Silent Spring which played an important role in the environmental movement?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nate Turner
Rachel Carson
Betty Friedan
The US allowed England to borrow weapons in the early 1940's at the beginning of WWII.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lend-Lease Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Marshall Plan
This led to the Soviet Union installing nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Gulf of Tokin Resolution
Lend-Lease Act
Bay of Pigs
Marshall Plan
He was similar to Martin Luther King, Jr. in using non-violent civil disobedience in the struggle for increased civil rights for minorities.
Robert F. Kennedy
Malcolm X
John F. Kennedy
Cesar Chavez
Prussian military expert that trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge.
Red Baron
Malcolm X
Baron von Steuben
Cesar Chavez
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. was the "spark" that started...
WWII
War on Terrorism
Cold War
Vietnam War
Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II were...
placed in internment camps.
exacuted.
deported.
allowed to live like other Americans.
This illustrated the power of television’s influence in American politics.
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 presidential debate
1945 presidential debate
1960 Olympic Games
Who warned the country to "to steer clear of permanent Alliances" with foreign countries after the French Revolution had begun in 18th Century?
Andrew Johnson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Adams
George Washington
American imperialism created an American empire from 1798 to 1898 by acquiring the following territories...
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Guam
All of these
This was specifically designed to aid countries trying to resist the spread of Communism.
Truman Doctrine
The New Deal
The Great Society
Monroe Doctrine
This was issued by Congress on August 7, 1964, was instrumental in increasing U.S. activity in Vietnam.
Truman Doctrine
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Great Society
Monroe Doctrine
This gave Europe the message that the western hemisphere was no longer available for colonization:
Manifest Destiny
The Monroe Doctrine
The War of 1812
The Emancipation Proclamation
Illustrate the growing trend to recognize the basic civil liberties of all races in 19th century America.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
All of these
They first arrived in Virginia and as the population increased the colonists began to create stricter codes for them:
Native Americans
Africans
British
Germans
- The 3/5 compromise (Constitutional Convention of 1787)
- The Great Compromise (Constitutional Convention of 1787)
These mainly dealt with:
the representation of states in Congress.
the territorial expansion of slavery.
interstate commerce.
admission of new western states.
This was designed to help strengthen our national defense by creating an easier means of transporting people and goods in an emergency.
FDR's "New Deal" programs
Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” programs
Interstate Highway System
Star Wars
This "Year of Turmoil" in the US that had assassinations, protest violence, and the Tet Offensive.
1967
1968
1969
1970
Jimmy Carter's orchestrated attempt to end the era of hostility between Israel and Egypt.
Camp David Accords
New Deal
Great Society
Iran-Contra Affair
Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe made up the majority of immigrants coming into the United States between...
1920 and 1950
1890 and 1920
1776 and 1779
1787 and 1789
Geographic conditions BEST attributed to the differences in the ________ of the Mid-Atlantic, New England, and Southern colonies.
colonial governments
customs
economic development
level of the education
The primary purpose of the _______ was to aid the economic recovery of war-torn Europe.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lend-Lease Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Marshall Plan
President Truman decided to use _______ because it would prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths that an invasion of Japan would cause.
Atomic Bomb
Lend-Lease Act
Snipers
Marshall Plan
Manifest destiny is most closely associated with which war?
French & Indian War
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Mexican-American War of 1846
Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" programs included which of these?
Medicaid
Medicare
War on Poverty
National Endowment for the Humanities
All of these
The Internet had the GREATEST impact on increased intellectual achievements and globalization in the twentieth century.
True
False
Wounded Knee Massacre was...
George Custer's loss to the American Indians.
generally considered to be the last major violent Indian conflict in North America.
Chief Standing Cow led the Cheyenne to victory.
All of these
Southern Democrats wanted federal troops withdrawn and voting rights decided by state governments.
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1877
Treaty of 1818
Treaty of 1763
Which theory is most prevalent in the Declaration of Independence?
Social Contract Theory
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Popular Sovereignty
This dealt with the re-admission of States to the Union after the Civil War
The Missouri Compromise
20% Plan
17th Amendment
10% Plan
A struggle between Congress and President over governmental power (about the Reconstruction of the South) led to...
the second Great Awakening.
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
the Progressive movement.
This placed significant limitations of freedom of speech and freedom of the press during WWI.
The New Deal
Espionage & Sedition Acts
The Federalists
Louisiana Purchase
Abraham Lincoln winning the presidential election of 1860 lead to:
Battle of Bull Run
The Whiskey Rebellion
WWI
South Carolina's Secession
A desire to rebuild the country quickly and without ill feelings following the Civil War describes...
Deconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
All of these
Intervening in Latin American countries that could not pay their debt to European creditors:
Manifest Destiny
The Roosevelt Corollary
The War of 1812
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Federal government became very active in the national economy during the...
Reconstruction.
Civil War.
Spanish-American War.
New Deal.
_______ is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
Popular Sovereignty
Sectionalism
Nationalism
Social Contract
This revealed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation:
Common Sense
Bacon's Rebellion
The Bill of Rights
Shay's Rebellion
___________ helped end the Cold War by pointing out and exacerbating the weaknesses of the USSR’s economy.
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Thomas Paine's Common Sense influenced the writing of?
The Declaration of Independence
The Monroe Doctrine
The Magna Carta
The Jungle
