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Who's Who in US History - STAAR EOC Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

*Leader of the civil rights movement beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott

*Believed in nonviolent civil disobedience

*Started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) civil rights group

*Famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech and "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

a)

Malcolm X

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Stokely Carmichael

d)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2.

*Responsible for taking Hawaii for the US

*Owned sugar plantations

*Became the president of Hawaii after overthrowing Queen Liliuokalani

a)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

b)

William Seward

c)

Henry Cabot Lodge

d)

Sanford Dole

3.

*First African American woman to be elected to Congress

a)

Betty Friedan

b)

Phyllis Schlafly

c)

Shirley Chisholm

d)

Hillary Clinton

4.

*Conservative woman who led the Stop-ERA movement

*Helped prevent the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

a)

Betty Friedan

b)

Phyllis Schlafly

c)

Shirley Chisholm

d)

Hillary Clinton

5.

*Sat on a whites' only train car in 1892 to challenge segregation in court

*The result was that segregation was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1896

a)

Sanford Dole

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Homer Plessy

d)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

6.

*Nixon's vice president who became president after Nixon resigned in 1974

*After he became president, he pardoned Nixon for the Watergate scandal

*As a result, he lost re-election in 1976

a)

Gerald Ford

b)

Jimmy Carter

c)

George H.W. Bush

d)

William (Bill) Clinton

7.

*Racist segregationist governor of Alabama

*Supported the use of violence (water hoses, dogs, etc) against Dr. King and other peaceful protesters

a)

Dwight Eisenhower

b)

Orval Faubus

c)

George Wallace

d)

Thurgood Marshall

8.

*President after John F. Kennedy was assassinated

*Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

*His "Great Society" program began the system of welfare in America

*Was responsible for sending troops to Vietnam after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Lyndon B. Johnson

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Gerald Ford

9.

*President at the end of World War II and during most of the Korean War

*Made the decision to use the atomic bombs against Japan

*Desegregated the armed forces with Executive Order 9981

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Dwight Eisenhower

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

10.

*Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and was arrested

*This marked the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the national civil rights movement

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Shirley Chisholm

11.

*Received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in the Vietnam War

a)

Alvin York

b)

Vernon Baker

c)

Roy Benavidez

d)

John J. Pershing

12.

*Led the United Farm Workers movement to get better conditions for migrant workers from Mexico

*Used nonviolent protests (a grape and lettuce boycott)

*Seen as the leader of the Chicano civil rights movement

a)

Cesar Chavez

b)

Roy Benavidez

c)

Malcom X

d)

Betty Friedan

13.

*First Lady during the Great Depression and World War II

*Was the first First Lady to take an active role in leading programs to help women and children

a)

Eleanor Roosevelt

b)

Frances Perkins

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Nancy Reagan

14.

*"Share our wealth" idea during the Great Depression

a)

Warren Harding

b)

Franklin Roosevelt

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Huey Long

15.

*Leader of Nazi Germany

*Responsible for World War II and the Holocaust

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Mao Zedong

16.

*Muckraker who wrote the book The Jungle

*His work led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act

a)

Henry Cabot Lodge

b)

Boss Tweed

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

Upton Sinclair

17.

*Won the election of 1976 mostly because people did not support President Ford

*Was responsible for the Camp David Accords, which was the first peace agreement between Israel and an Arabic country (Egypt)

*Lost re-election in 1980

a)

Gerald Ford

b)

Jimmy Carter

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

George H.W. Bush

18.

*Received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in World War II

*The only living African American to receive the Medal for World War II

a)

Alvin York

b)

Vernon Baker

c)

Roy Benavidez

d)

Douglas MacArthur

19.

*President from 1961 to 1963

*Youngest elected president and first Catholic president

*Led the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis

*Asked Congress to pass a Civil Rights bill but was assassinated in Dallas before it passed

a)

Dwight Eisenhower

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Richard Nixon

20.

*Led the movement for women's suffrage

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Betty Friedan

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Eleanor Roosevelt