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Social Science Level Test 1 (Easy Difficulty Level) 2025-2026

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Marcus Garvey was the founder of which organization?

a)

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

b)

General Intelligence Division (GID)

c)

Bureau of Investigation (BOI)

d)

Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

e)

Federal Radio Commission (FRC)

2.

Architect Albert Kahn worked with Henry Ford to design an automobile factory in what U.S. city?

a)

Detroit

b)

Chicago

c)

Highland Park

d)

Pullman

e)

San Francisco

3.

The slogan, “He Kept Us Out of War,” is associated with the campaign of which United States presidential candidate?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

e)

J. Edgar Hoover

4.

The explosion of African-American artistic and intellectual production of the 1920s was centrally located in what New York City neighborhood?

a)

Greenwich Village

b)

Washington Heights

c)

Lincoln Square

d)

Harlem

e)

Lower East Side

5.

Which of the following was selected to be the first director of the Radio Corporation of America?

a)

David Sarnoff

b)

Owen Young

c)

Frank Conrad

d)

William C. Durant

e)

Douglas Fairbanks

6.

The wets’ preferred candidate for the 1924 United States presidential election was

a)

Grover Cleveland

b)

Alfred E. Smith

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

John Davis

e)

Woodrow Wilson

7.

During World War I, the psychologist Robert M. Yerkes administered a series of intelligence tests to millions of

a)

Harvard University students

b)

Irish immigrants

c)

Chicago factory workers

d)

Middletown elementary school students

e)

U.S. Army recruits

8.

The Supreme Court Case Schenck v. The United States is associated with what amendment to the Constitution?

a)

First

b)

Second

c)

Eighteenth

d)

Nineteenth

e)

Twenty-First

9.

Red Grange was the star half-back for what University’s football team during the 1920s?

a)

University of Wisconsin

b)

University of Michigan

c)

Northwestern University

d)

University of Illinois

e)

Michigan State University

10.

The Model T was discontinued in what year?

a)

1920

b)

1927

c)

1933

d)

1937

e)

1940

11.

Alain Locke is considered to be the father of

a)

the New Negro Movement

b)

psychoanalysis

c)

the Socialist Party

d)

Eugenics

e)

the United States Labor movement

12.

By 1919, the largest labor union in the United States was the

a)

IWW

b)

AA

c)

AFL

d)

GID

e)

BOI

13.

William Tilden was a famous amateur athlete of what sport in the 1920s?

a)

baseball

b)

football

c)

basketball

d)

golf

e)

tennis

14.

The Dust Bowl primarily impacted what geographical area of the United States?

a)

Great Plains

b)

Northeast

c)

West Coast

d)

Pacific Northwest

e)

Upper Midwest

15.

The pseudoscientific movement of the 1920s that asserted that some human races were superior to others and that moral character traits and poverty were hereditary is called

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

Eugenics

c)

Evolutionary Biology

d)

Racism

e)

Fundamentalism

16.

The “Elaine Massacre” occurred in 1919 in what state?

a)

South Carolina

b)

Mississippi

c)

Arkansas

d)

Missouri

e)

Alabama

17.

In the spring of 1927, heavy rainfall led to massive flooding along what United States river?

a)

Colorado River

b)

Missouri River

c)

Mississippi River

d)

Rio Grande

e)

Red River

18.

The idea that U.S. citizenship is automatically granted to any person born in the United States is called

a)

birthright citizenship

b)

naturalization

c)

immigration

d)

nationalism

e)

institutionalism

19.

The United States crackdown on radicalism following the Bolshevik Revolution was called the

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Red Summer

c)

Great Migration

d)

Red Scare

e)

Black Tuesday

20.

In 1925, John Scopes was charged with violating what act?

a)

Espionage Act

b)

Volstead Act

c)

Naturalization Act

d)

Sedition Act

e)

Butler Act

21.

The first licensed radio station in the United States was

a)

KDKA

b)

RCA

c)

NPR

d)

WNYC

e)

WLTW

22.

What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact officially renounce?

a)

tariffs on international goods

b)

mandatory military service

c)

war as an instrument of national policy

d)

economic sanctions

e)

financial assistance to less industrialized countries

23.

The U.S. Supreme Court Case Buck v. Bell decision upheld the constitutionality of sterilization laws in what state?

a)

North Carolina

b)

South Carolina

c)

Virginia

d)

Georgia

e)

Florida

24.

The first woman elected to the House of Representatives was

a)

Alice Paul

b)

Jeanette Rankin

c)

Mary Pickford

d)

Clara Bow

e)

Gertrude Ederle

25.

Which type of performances did Aimee Semple McPherson include in her services at Angelus Temple?

a)

quiet readings and silent meditation

b)

solo piano recitals

c)

open-air baptisms and marches

d)

traditional choir performances

e)

lavish spectacles with actors and music

26.

Planned obsolescence was a strategy pioneered by manufacturers of which of the following?

a)

radios

b)

automobiles

c)

refrigerators

d)

lightbulbs

e)

vacuum cleaners

27.

The Lost Generation formed an expat community in what European city in the 1920s?

a)

London

b)

Amsterdam

c)

Paris

d)

Rome

e)

Berlin

28.

The practice of “buying on margin” allowed investors to borrow against which of the following in order to purchase large amounts of stock?

a)

debt

b)

mortgages

c)

future profits

d)

assets

e)

gold

29.

The establishment of the League of Nations was a part of President Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan called

a)

Treaty of Versailles

b)

United Nations

c)

NATO

d)

Fourteen Points

e)

Open Door Policy

30.

What was the value of a Montgomery Ward stock three years after the crash, compared to $138 before?

a)

$68

b)

$4

c)

$52

d)

$24

e)

$8

31.

By 1910, the Lower East Side of Manhattan was primarily inhabited by

a)

Italian immigrants

b)

Irish Catholic immigrants

c)

Jewish immigrants

d)

Irish immigrants

e)

Chinese immigrants

32.

The “Tin Lizzie” was a nickname for the

a)

sewing machine

b)

Model T

c)

Monitor Top refrigerator

d)

Radio Music Box

e)

Cozy Glow, Jr.

33.

The largest commercial bank failure in American history occurred on December 11, 1930, when which bank collapsed?

a)

Bank of United States

b)

Goldman Sachs

c)

Wells Fargo

d)

Morgan Stanley

e)

JPMorgan Chase

34.

What early film glorified the original Ku Klux Klan?

a)

Within Our Gates

b)

Imitation of Life

c)

The Ox-Bow Incident

d)

The Jazz Singer

e)

Birth of a Nation

35.

The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the sale of which of the following?

a)

rice

b)

tobacco

c)

tea

d)

soybeans

e)

alcohol

36.

By 1930, roughly what percentage of women over the age of sixteen worked outside of the home?

a)

2%

b)

10%

c)

15%

d)

20%

e)

25%

37.

Actress Clara Bow played Betty Lou Spence in this 1927 film titled:

a)

The Sheik

b)

The Jazz Singer

c)

Chicago

d)

It

e)

The Gold Rush

38.

Herbert Hoover first became involved in politics during World War I, when he led the Commission for Relief of

a)

England

b)

Germany

c)

France

d)

Belgium

e)

Denmark

39.

Which of the following served as Commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I?

a)

David Lloyd George

b)

Henry Cabot Lodge

c)

Samuel Gompers

d)

A. Mitchel Palmer

e)

John Pershing

40.

The Passing of the Great Race was written by

a)

Madison Grant

b)

T. L. Stoppard

c)

Robert M. Yerkes

d)

Robert Staughton Lynd

e)

Ben Lindsay

41.

This corporation manufactured and sold the Monitor Top refrigerator:

a)

General Motors

b)

General Electric

c)

Westinghouse

d)

Lucky Strike

e)

Johnson and Johnson

42.

The 1924 Democratic party’s presidential nominee, John Davis, was from what state?

a)

Illinois

b)

California

c)

West Virginia

d)

New York

e)

Pennsylvania

43.

In the 1920s, the Chicago Defender was a very popular African American

a)

radio show

b)

magazine

c)

newspaper

d)

television show

e)

labor union

44.

Which immigration act imposed literacy tests and banned all immigration from Asia?

a)

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

b)

Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924

c)

National Origins Act of 1916

d)

Immigration Act of 1917

e)

Quota Act of 1925

45.

Gertrude Ederle is most famous for being the first woman to

a)

win a gold medal in the Olympics

b)

pilot a flight around the world

c)

swim across the English Channel

d)

be elected to the U.S. Congress

e)

earn a formal medical degree in the United States

46.

The “Motor City” of the 1920s was

a)

Detroit

b)

Chicago

c)

Milwaukee

d)

New York

e)

San Francisco

47.

Which practice led Congress to pass the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act?

a)

buying on margin

b)

investing pools

c)

bank runs

d)

bootlegging

e)

installment buying

48.

University President Abbot Lawrence Lowell campaigned to limit the number of Jewish students admitted to which University?

a)

Yale

b)

Princeton

c)

University of Chicago

d)

Cornell

e)

Harvard

49.

The United States military was involved in what offensive during World War I that continued until the armistice on November 11, 1918?

a)

Aragon

b)

Meuse-Argonne

c)

Asturias

d)

Nivelle

e)

Monastir

50.

The book Revolt of Modern Youth argued for the widespread adoption of which of the following?

a)

sobriety

b)

immigration restriction

c)

racial segregation

d)

companionate marriage

e)

arranged marriage