WorksheetsCleek's 2nd Half review (2023)
Total questions: 54
Worksheet time: 43mins
Which technology MOST aided in the settlement of the West during the period immediately following the Civil War?
the automobile
the light bulb
the railroad
the telegraph
“Hawaii is ours; Puerto Rico is to be ours; at the prayer of her people Cuba will finally be ours; in the islands of the East…
the flag of a liberal government is to float over the Philippines… The Opposition tells us that we ought not to govern a
people without their consent. I answer the rule… that all government derives its authority from the consent of the
governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government.”
-Senator Albert Beveridge, “The March of the Flag” speech (1898)
Which policy was Senator Beveridge advocating in this statement?
containment
imperialism
disarmament
isolationism
What does the political cartoon represent?
President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy
the construction of the Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt’s appointment as Police Commissioner of New York City
the 17th Amendment
Which statement provides an accurate analysis of the
trend shown in the graph?
Immigrants settled in rural areas to establish farms.
Immigrants were attracted to areas with factory jobs.
Immigrants were attracted to areas with little ethnic
diversity.
Immigrants settled in areas with warmer climates.
What do the elements in the list have in common?
constitutional amendments
sectional differences
Progressive reforms
strike demands
Television coverage of the Vietnam War
encouraged support for the war
built support for communism
brought the brutality of the war into American homes
showed how effective American weapons were at defeating the enemy on the battlefield
“He is no doubt the greatest inventor of all time. Why, without his creative genius, we would have no recording of sounds, no televisions, no movies… Even more than that, we’d still be reading books by candle light and saying our goodnights by 8 p.m.”
Who is the quote MOST LIKELY referring to?
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
Eli Whitney
Which group of people is the MOST LIKELY subject of discussion in the excerpt?
cowboys
American Indians
Chinese
immigrants
African Americans
What task was this group of people working on?
moving cattle to market
setting up telegraph lines
building a new highway system
completing the transcontinental railroad
What does the fruit in the cartoon represent?
US allies in WWI
potential territories to be controlled under US
imperialism
American enemies in the Spanish-American war
Leading fruit exporters the U.S. wanted to add as trade partners
“If it has taught us anything, it is that our present law-makers, as a body, are ignorant, corrupt and unprincipled; that the majority of them are, directly or indirectly, under the control of the very monopolies against whose acts we have been seeking relief…”
The excerpt MOST likely came from which Progressive Era work?
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Lincoln Steffens'
The Shame of the Cities
Ida Tarbell's
History of the Standard Oil Company
John Bunyan's
Pilgrims Progress
Which action did President Carter take in response to the Iran hostage crisis?
He ordered a failed military rescue
He negotiated a prisoner exchange
He asked courts around the world to arbitrate
He ordered a blockade of all imports to the area
“Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. . . . Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar. . . . As long as this gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. . . ..General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate.
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
-Ronald Reagan
In this speech, Reagan is seeking an end to what?
Iran-Contra scandal
Iran Hostage crisis
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
Which event is depicted by the image?
Terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 on the World Trade Center
The Cuban Missile Crisis
American Spy planes photographing Moscow during the Cold War
Planned Soviet attack on New York discovered by the Reagan administration in 1986
What event does the political cartoon illustrate?
The end of the Iran-Hostage crisis
The collapse of the Soviet Union
Terrorist attacks on 9/11
President Bush's anti-European policy following the end of the Cold War
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
In this speech, King is making a reference to what famous American document?
U.S. Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
The Bill of Rights
The Articles of Confederation
The changes shown in the chart were MOST likely the result
of which of the following?
Voting Rights Act passing in to law in 1965
Passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Brown v Board of Ed. decision
Southern Voter reform laws
Which of the following BEST describes the message of the
cartoon?
Rachel Carson favored the use of Pesticides
Women always make better writers than men.
Writing is not an effective way to encourage political
or social change.
Silent Spring was important in beginning the modern
environmentalist movement.
How did President Truman use executive power to influence the Civil Rights Movement the US?
He asked Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
He issued an executive order ending segregation in the US military.
He signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
He issued an executive order mandating the desegregation of all Southern schools
All of these were part of what vision for America?
Johnson's Great Society
Roosevelt's New Deal
The Harlem Renaissance
The Truman Doctrine
“It is only right that those workers who are oppressed by their employers, who toil under harsh and dangerous conditions for too little pay and too long of hours, unite together to demand what is just. If we must strike, then we strike. If we must resort to boycotts, then boycotts we shall initiate. We are ready to bargain collectively for just working conditions, but we will not be intimidated.”
Who would have MOST LIKELY made the statement above?
Samuel Gompers
Andrew Carnegie
W.E.B. Dubois
John D. Rockefeller
The political cartoon reflects President Roosevelt’s concern for
what?
food safety
conserving the environment
political reform by removing money from politics
regulating trusts
Which description correctly completes the diagram?
Sinking of the USS Maine
Unrestricted Naval Warfare
Nuclear weapons used in Japan
destruction of U.S. skyscrapers
“They [the government / the elite] have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.”
The quote was most likely given in a speech by which of the following?
Eugene V. Debs
Warren G. Harding
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Which of the following was NOT a part of FDR's New Deal, his plan to combat the Great Depression?
Relief
Recovery
Reform
containment
These events show the foreign policy issues of which US president?
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
Which development explains the change in the data shown in the
graph?
The expansion of the railroads
the invention of the automobile
increased regulation in big business
war against the Plains Indians
The map above BEST depicts the migration routes of which of the following?
World War I soldiers leaving their homes and going to training sites
“snowbirds” from their winter vacation spots back to their hometowns
White former plantation owners to Union states after the Civil War
African-American sharecroppers to northern industrial cities
What issue does the political cartoon illustrate?
the unwillingness of the United States to join the League of Nations, despite creating it
President Wilson’s anti-European policy following World War I
the Allied belief that the United States was leaving them to crumble by not joining the war in 1914
the rise of socialism in the United States during World War I
-Signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1935
-Created to support retirees over the age of sixty-five
-Also created unemployment insurance and welfare programs
-Workers and employers fund it by paying payroll taxes
Which New Deal program is described above?
Social Security Act
National Recovery Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Public Works Administration
This telegram was part of an effort to
form an alliance between Germany and the United States.
bring Mexico into the war on the side of Great Britain and France.
convince several states to secede from the Unites States.
enlist Mexican support for Germany if the United Stated entered World War I.
This iconic World War II image symbolizes which of the following?
the millions of women who joined the workforce in heavy industry during the war
the women who ferried supplies into combat areas during the war
the women who joined the armed forces in combat roles
the important work done by Red Cross nurses during the war
Which event BEST fits in the final box?
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor
Germany's invasion of Poland
The Battle of Britain
Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia
The shaded area on the map represents the region MOST affected by which of the following?
Great Depression
Great Migration
The Dust Bowl
The Japanese Internment Camps
- first organized in 1960 at Shaw University in North Carolina
- played a major role in the “sit-ins” and “freedom rides” of the Civil Rights movement
- organized voter registration drives across the South
Which organization do these statements describe?
the Black Panther Party
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
the United Farm Workers
Which of the following BEST describes an outcome of
the data seen in the charts?
Television proved it could sway public opinion
based on the content shown, as more Americans
owned TVs.
As the US population increased, the percentage
of American homes with a TV decreased, leading
to less influence through television.
More Americans had access to view coverage of
the Korean War than the Vietnam War.
Even though more Americans owned TVs in
1970 than 1950, television’s influence on
Americans remained unchanged.
"You may well ask: ’Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. [Our approach] seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue . . . We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed."
-from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
In the excerpt, Dr. King set forth his argument for what?
nonviolent protest
win-win negotiation
militant resistant
affirmative action
"In my opinion, the State Department, which is one of the most important government departments, is thoroughly infested with Communists." –February 1950
The quote above would MOST likely be attributed to whom?
Dwight Eisenhower
Eugene McCarthy
Harry Truman
Thurgood Marshall
This picture represents what?
the location of the capital of North Korea
the border between North and South Vietnam
the border between North Korea and South Korea
the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe
“Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications of the very life and safety of our nation…
I believe that I interpret the will of Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 8, 1941
What was the purpose of this speech?
Justify dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Request that Congress declare war on Japan
To warn the Nazis to stay out of our affairs
to deliver an ultimatum to Japan in an attempt to avoid going to war
All of the following were consequences of the Tennessee Valley Authority except
It brought hydro-electric power and modernization to one of the nation’s poorest regions
It dammed the Tennessee River and made it navigable from Knoxville, Tn. all the way to Paducah, Ky
It convinced Republicans that deficit spending on social welfare programs could have huge benefits
It provided jobs in the Tennessee River valley
Why did the topsoil of the Great Plains turn to a fine dust and blow away in massive dust storms during the Dust Bowl?
tornados ravaged the region
Area was a desert
Drought combined with poor farming methods
Nuclear Testing
Which of the following BEST describes the social impact of the interstate system?
Population patterns changed forever, leading to the growth of suburbs.
Air travel increased in the US, leading to a boom in the airline industry.
The Democratic Party gained more popularity after sponsoring the bill.
The new Cuban government responded to the construction of new highways by asking the Soviet Union to supply them with nuclear missiles.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any ally and oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.”
–President Kennedy
This statement BEST supports which US foreign policy?
colonialism
neutrality
isolationism
containment
Based on the graph, which of the following statements BEST summarizes the decrease in the unemployment rate in the early 1940s?
New Deal programs created enough jobs to end the unemployment crisis in the US.
Roosevelt’s death led to a dramatic drop in unemployment.
US involvement in World War II ended the unemployment crisis in the US.
The US did not get out of its unemployment crisis until World War II ended.
That the Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.
-Tonkin Gulf Resolution 1964
How did this resolution expand the president’s executive power?
the ability to terminate war without congressional approval
the ability to engage in military activity without congressional declaration of war
the ability to override international peace treaties
the ability to ignore United Nations deliberations
What prompted the above events?
the Truman Doctrine
The launch of Sputnik I
The Interstate Highway Act
Victory in the Korean War
What was the original purpose of the interstate system pictured above?
to allow for the growth of suburbs
to link American cities
to move military personnel and supplies quickly in case of an attack
to provide faster transportation for farmers to move their products to market
"Should we fail to aid Greece and Turkey in this fateful hour, the effect will be far reaching to the West as well as to the East. We must take immediate and resolute action."
-The President of the United States Address before a joint session of Congress March 12, 1947
The quote above is referring to an international policy of the United States to contain the spread of communism, a policy introduced in which of the following?
Eisenhower Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
Bush Doctrine
Carter Doctrine
This image represents a belief held by President Eisenhower and his successors that would dictate foreign policy for decades. What is the fundamental idea behind Eisenhower’s theory?
If one country falls to communism, all of the surrounding countries would also fall to communism.
The economy of Thailand was so strong that it had to prop up the economies of the surrounding countries.
Southeast Asian governments were not strong enough to stand on their own and relied on one another for support.
Each of the countries needed to be on friendly terms with the US for their natural resources, particularly oil.
- Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Author of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
- Delivered the "I have a dream" speech at the 1963 march on Washington
Which of the following Civil Rights Leaders is described?
Malcolm X
Fred Shuttlesworth
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, this African-American woman refused an order by a bus driver to give up her seat to a white person. Her actions made her a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement. She is
Diana Ross
Gladys Knight
Rosa Parks
Aretha Franklin
What was the purpose o President Johnson's Great Society Program.
Putting a man on the Moon
Ending Poverty and Racial Discriminations
Ending the Great Depression
Beginning the United Nations
President Kennedy challenged America to go to the Moon, which NASA mission achieved his goal on July 20th, 1969?
Friendship 7
Orion 4
Apollo 11
Gemini 3
