1860-1880
What was the impact of literacy tests and poll taxes in Georgia?
A) They kept Blacks and poor whites from voting.
B) They started a migration of Black to urban areas.
C) They caused Black and poor whites to work together.
D) They made elections in the South fairer for everyone.
A) They kept Blacks and poor whites from voting.
This law was passed by Congress in 1890 to prevent the formation of monopolies and any other contracts or agreements that resulted in a "restraint of trade."
A) Homestead Act
B) Pendleton Act
C) Executive Order 9066
D) Sherman Anti-Trust Act
D) Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Which statement BEST explains why United States entered World War I in 1917?
A) The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S.
B) The U.S. citizens were calling for war against Germany.
C) The Germans planned an attack of Mexico, an American ally.
D) The U.S. had evidence of a threat to its national security.
D) The U.S. had evidence of a threat to its national security.
Choose two events that were part of the European Theatre of battle in World War II.
A) Battle of Midway
B) Normandy Invasion
C) Battle of Iwo Jima
D) Battle of the Bulge
E) Battle of El Alamein
B) Normandy Invasion
D) Battle of the Bulge
What role did the "17th Parallel" play in the Vietnam War?
A) It was also known as the "Ho Chi Minh Trail."
B) It marked the furthest advance north by South Vietnam.
C) It marked the furthest advance south by North Vietnam.
D) It divided Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
D) It divided Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
The Populist Party was chiefly composed of
A) individual farmers.
B) Eastern businessmen.
C) Northern abolitionists.
D) Northern factory owners.
A) individual farmers.
People arriving in the United States during the period known as "New Immigration" (late 19th through early 20th century), would have been most likely to come fr)
A)China
B) Italy
C) Japan
D) Liberia
B) Italy
How did U.S. participation in World War I impact U.S. foreign policy in the decade immediately after the war?
A) The United States joined the League of Nations.
B) The United States strengthened its alliances in Latin America.
C) The United States used the military to acquire new territories.
D) The United States became isolationist in its diplomatic and political relations.
D) The United States became isolationist in its diplomatic and political relations.
During World War II, women in the United States
A) fought on the front lines in Europe.
B) were not permitted to be in the military.
C) earned as much as their male counterparts during the war.
D) found greater employment opportunities in industrial jobs.
D) found greater employment opportunities in industrial jobs.
This amendment was proposed in 1971 but was not ratified by the required deadline.
A) 27th Amendment
B) Marriage Amendment
C) Equal Rights Amendment
D) Flag Desecration Amendment
C) Equal Rights Amendment
Which Reconstruction plan called for harsh punishments for the former rebellious states and emphasized civil and voting rights for freedmen following the Civil War?
A) the Square Deal
B) Lincoln's 10% Plan
C) the Louisiana Plan
D) the Radical Republican Plan
D) the Radical Republican Plan
Why did most of the immigrants who came to America in the late 19th century settle in major cities?
A) City living was spacious, clean, and far from overpopulated.
B) City living was crowded but there were plenty of recreational activities.
C) Cities were the cheapest places to live and offered unskilled laborers steady jobs.
D) People had a hard time finding work so they settled into the cities since they could not afford to move.
C) Cities were the cheapest places to live and offered unskilled laborers steady jobs.
Why is the Harlem Renaissance of major importance in American History?
A) The government finally passed a law banning slavery.
B) The area of New York was rebuilt after a devastating fire.
C) It finally gave much needed jobs to African-Americans during the Great Migration.
D) It brought the African-American experience into the cultural conscious of the country.
D) It brought the African-American experience into the cultural conscious of the country.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 came to an end when
A) the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its nuclear missiles from Cuba.
B) CIA-backed rebels were defeated by the Cuban army at the Bay of Pigs.
C) the United Nations allowed the US to install nuclear missiles in Key West.
D) a nuclear disarmament plan for the US and the Soviet Union was agreed upon.
A) the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its nuclear missiles from Cuba.
Which organization was led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
A) The Black Panthers
B) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
C) The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
D) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
B) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Populist Era orator, ‘Cross of Gold’ Speech, Three-time Presidential candidate, and ‘Scopes Trial’ prosecutor.
These terms are all associated with which American?
A) Henry Ford
B) Ronald Reagan
C) Clarence Darrow
D) William Jennings Bryan
D) William Jennings Bryan
Who was instrumental in gaining public support for a war in Cuba against Spain in 1898 with his sensational publications about conditions in Cuba?
A) Adolph Ochs
B) William McKinley
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) William Randolph Hearst
D) William Randolph Hearst
Which of these was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
A) the Stock Market Crash of October, 1929
B) an increase in federal taxes and social programs
C) excessive stock speculation and "buying on margin"
D) the growing gap between the rich and the working class
B) an increase in federal taxes and social programs
Which of these was a cause of the Korean War?
A)North Korea established a blockade to prevent goods reaching South Korea.
B) South Korea entered into a treaty with China that endangered North Korea.
C) North Korea embraced communism while South Korea chose democracy.
D) South Korea rejected American policies supported by North Korea.
C) North Korea embraced communism while South Korea chose democracy.
Often associated with confrontational Civil Rights protest, he was a leader in the Nation of Islam in the United States, an early advocate of "Black Power," but became a more moderate voice in the Civil Rights movement before his assassination in 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
During the Reconstruction era, state governments all across the South passed legislation designed to restrict the liberties of the newly-freed slaves and identify African-Americans as "second-class" citizens. By what name was this legislation known?
A) the Black Codes
B) the Redeemer Codes
C) the Southern Manifesto
D) the Reorganization Codes
A) the Black Codes
This was Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy of using military preparedness to prevent international conflict.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
n the late 1930s and early 1940s, United States increased defense expenditures, instituted the peacetime draft, and passed the Lend-Lease Act, indicating that the government
A) planned to declare war on Japan.
B) was planning to defend Pearl Harbor.
C) was concerned about growing German domination of Europe.
D) had fully recovered from the effects of the Great Depression.
C) was concerned about growing German domination of Europe.
· This froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels.
· It provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missiles only after an equal number of obsolete weapons were dismantled or destroyed.
· Negotiations lasted from November 17, 1969 until May 1972, ending when Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Which set of Cold War negotiations is being described by these statements?
A) START I
B) SALT II
C) SALT I
D) START II
C) SALT I
What was the primary subject of the 1990s treaty between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico?
A) immigration
B) ending drug smuggling
C) reduction of nuclear weapons
D) enforcement of democratic rights
E) free trade between the three countries
E) free trade between the three countries