WorksheetsCh. 16 & 17 U.S. History Test Part 1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1. Term for a business in which a person owns & runs one or several stores of a chain operation.
a)
Franchises
b)
Job Corps
c)
Head Start
d)
Multinational Corporation
e)
Conglomerates
2.
2. Provides early education to low income students?
a)
Head Start
b)
Job Corps
c)
Franchises
d)
Multinational Corporation
e)
Conglomerates
3.
3. Became the popular form of mass media during the 1950s?
a)
Television
b)
Job Corps
c)
Head Start
d)
Franchises
e)
Multinational Corporation
4.
4. Large Businesses with oversees investments?
a)
Multinational Corporation
b)
Job Corps
c)
Head Start
d)
Franchises
e)
Conglomerates
5.
5. Term for large corporations that own many smaller companies?
a)
Conglomerates
b)
Job Corps
c)
Head Start
d)
Franchises
e)
Multinational Corporation
6.
6. Provides health insurance for Americans 65 years or older?
a)
Medicare
b)
Special Forces
c)
Beat Generation
d)
Medicaid
e)
Baby Boom
7.
7. Term used to describe writers and poets of the 1950's who were challenging the conformity of American Society?
a)
Beat Generation
b)
Special Forces
c)
Medicaid
d)
Medicare
e)
Baby Boom
8.
8. Term for the mass-produced communities outside of urban centers that developed after WWII?
a)
Suburbia
b)
Special Forces
c)
Beat Generation
d)
Medicaid
e)
Medicare
9.
9. Elite Army unit AKA: "Green Beret".
a)
Special Forces
b)
Beat Generation
c)
Medicaid
d)
Medicare
e)
Baby Boom
10.
10. Term used to describe the high birthrate in the U.S. after WWII?
a)
Baby Boom
b)
Special Forces
c)
Beat Generation
d)
Medicaid
e)
Medicare
11.
11. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act, also known as the GI Bill, provided soldiers returning from WWII funds for all of the following except?
a)
To help them buy houses
b)
Establish Businesses
c)
Attend College
d)
To re-enlist as officers
12.
12. The Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1947, curbed the activities of?
a)
Labor Unions
b)
Multinational Corporations
c)
Communists
d)
Republicans
13.
13. Term given to the ambitious set of domestic policies and reforms proposed by President Truman?
a)
New Frontier
b)
Fair Deal
c)
New Deal
d)
The Great Society
14.
14. "Dynamic Conservatism" was this president's plan to balance economic conservatism with activism in areas that would benefit the country?
a)
Harry S. Truman
b)
John F. Kennedy
c)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
d)
Lyndon B. Johnson
15.
15. All of the following statements about the Federal Highway Act are true except?
a)
It placed an emphasis on state highways
b)
Largest public works project in American History
c)
Appropriated $25 billion in road construction
d)
Constructed more than 40,000 miles of interstate highways
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