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Final Exam US2 - PART 2 PART 2

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Severe drought and wind created dust storms in the western Plains during the 1930s and this area was known as the

a)

Windy West

b)

Dusty Dessert

c)

Dust Bowl

2.

__________ was assassinated shortly after he was re-elected in 1901.

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

William Henry Harrison

c)

William McKinley

3.

Who was the youngest president to take office in 1901?

a)

William Howard Taft

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

William McKinley

4.

The Department of __________ watched over big business.

a)

Labor and Security

b)

Labor and Commerce

c)

Workforce

5.

The 1920s is known for many things but Jazz music was a major part of society. Where did Jazz music originate?

a)

The North

b)

The South

c)

West coast

6.

Who wanted to pass laws to fix social and political problems in the early 1900s?

a)

Muckrakers

b)

Progressives

c)

Mugwamps

7.

The _________ cut the shipping distance between New York and San Francisco.

a)

South American Canal

b)

Panama Canal

c)

Atlantic Canal

8.

Upton Sinclair wrote a novel called The Jungle that described the horrors of meat packing plants which inspired the passing of the __________ Act.

a)

Meat Inspection

b)

Labor Union

c)

Food and Drug

9.

Theodore Roosevelt sought re-election as a candidate of the __________ in 1912.

a)

Democratic Party

b)

Progressive Party

c)

Bull Moose Party

10.

Who was assassinated to start WWI?

a)

Franz Ferdinand

b)

William McKinley

c)

Woodrow Wilson

11.

Adolf Hitler introduced a new form of warfare during WWII. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and used this new form of warfare called?

a)

Napalm

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Search and Destroy

12.

This area of New York City became a creative center for many African Americans during the 1920s.

a)

Bronx

b)

Manhattan

c)

Harlem

13.

The ban on making or selling alcohol during the 1920s and 30s was known as?

a)

Prohibition

b)

Speakeasy

c)

Communism

14.

Who was president of the United States during and throughout WWII?

a)

William Taft

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

FDR

15.

The mass murder of European Jews during WWII was known as?

a)

Appeasement

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

the Holocaust

16.

What country used torpedos from U-Boats to sink ships during WWI.

a)

Italy

b)

Great Britain

c)

Germany

17.

What were the ditches soldiers fought from in France during WWI called?

a)

Diggers

b)

Trenches

c)

undergrounds

18.

Who made up the Axis Powers during WWII?

a)

Germany

b)

Italy

c)

Japan

d)

All of these

19.

What is the practice of requiring people to serve in the armed forces called?

a)

Draft

b)

Bonds

c)

sign ups

20.

What country did Germany promise land in the Zimmermann Note to if they helped them by invading the US during WWI?

a)

United States

b)

Mexico

c)

Canada

21.

After FDR died in office, Harry S Truman became President of the U.S., and in order to end fighting with Japan during WWII he made the decision to what?

a)

Invade Tokyo

b)

Drop an atomic bomb on cities Hiroshima/Nagasaki

22.

What was Wilson’s plan for permanent peace called?

a)

United Nations

b)

Wilson’s 14 Points

c)

Wilson for Peace

23.

Women got the right to vote in _________

a)

1915

b)

1918

c)

1920

24.

The _________ amendment gave women the right to vote.

a)

19th

b)

20th

c)

16th

25.

The 1920’s were known as the ___________.

a)

Gilded Age

b)

Roaring 20’s

c)

Jazzy 20’s

26.

__________ was a law that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol.

a)

Prohibition

b)

Nullification

c)

Alcoholism

27.

People illegally sold and consumed alcohol in __________.

a)

Alley Ways

b)

Speakeasies

c)

Back rooms

28.

The Stock Market crashed on __________.

a)

October 2, 1930

b)

October 29, 1929

c)

October 12, 1928

29.

The Stock Market crash date became known as __________.

a)

Black Wednesday

b)

Black Tuesday

c)

Black Friday

30.

After the Stock Market crashed, the __________ began.

a)

Great Sadness

b)

Great Depression

c)

Awful Depression

31.

Many people were out of work and lived in shacks called __________.

a)

Shacktowns

b)

Hoovervilles

c)

Tent Cities

32.

What got the U.S. out of the Great Depression?

a)

Donald Trump

b)

England

c)

WWII

33.

WWII started in 1939 but the U.S. did not enter the war until _______.

a)

1947

b)

1940

c)

1941

34.

What event led the U.S. to enter WWII?

a)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

b)

Great Depression

c)

911

35.

Where did governmental officials forcibly place Japanese Americans following the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

a)

Concentration camps

b)

Internment camps

c)

in the US Army