Turn of the Century
Cattle trails developed in the West when people realized cattle could be raised in the Great Plains. Most trails started in Texas and went north to railway lines. The Chisholm Trail was a famous cattle trail which started in Texas, and ended in which city?
A. Abilene
B. Kansas City
C. Georgia
D. Texas
B. Kansas City
One organization of the New Deal was the Works Progress Administration or WPA. What type of work did people do when working for the WPA?
A. maintained the nation's forests
B. taught children in elementary schools
C. constructed public buildings
D. built tanks and planes for the Army
C. constructed public buildings
In December of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the United States had declared war on Japan. The event that led to this decision was Japan's _________________.
A. bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
B. invasion of China
C. attack on the U.S.S.R.
D. use of the Holocaust
A. bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman best known for his development of the ___________.
A. telegraph
B. telephone
C. radio
D. light bulb
D. light bulb
One of the political effects of the Great Depression was the election of a new president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Roosevelt’s way of handling the Great Depression was very different from President Herbert Hoover. Within days of becoming president, Roosevelt put into place the New Deal, which included programs that ________.
A. ended discrimination against African Americans
B. took care of poor and unemployed people
C. assumed the Great Depression would pass on its own
D. expected people to take care of themselves
B. took care of poor and unemployed people
Which territories did the United States gain at the end of the Spanish-American War?
A. Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
B. Spain, Cuba, Guam
C. Cuba, Guam, Philippines
D. Philippines, Cuba, Spain
A. Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
The Treaty of Versailles placed total blame for World War I on which country?
A. United States
B. Russia
C. Serbia
D. Germany
D. Germany
Who was President for most of World War Two?
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. Franklin D. Roosevelt
C. Harry Truman
D. John F. Kennedy
B. Franklin D. Roosevelt
~Leader of the Nazis
~Punished Jews during the Holocaust
~Was a dictator
Which of the following people is being described?
A. Hubert Hoover
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Lyndon B. Johnson
D. Joseph Stalin
B. Adolf Hitler
The idea of Rosie the Riveter encourage woman to come into the work force. Which of the following explains why?
A. The women's rights movement convinced businesses they should hire women.
B. The Great Depression caused both men and women to have to work.
C. Most men were fighting in World War II, so they could not work the jobs at home.
D. The Industrial Revolution created jobs only women were qualified to do.
C. Most men were fighting in World War II, so they could not work the jobs at home.
When William McKinley was president, the United States declared war on Spain. What was one result of the Spanish-American War?
A. The United States began to rise as a world power.
B. The United States lost land in the Caribbean Sea.
C. Cuba became a United States territory.
D. The Spanish gained control of Cuba.
A. The United States began to rise as a world power.
Which was an effect of the Dust Bowl during the 1930s?
A. Stock prices rose, and people started to make more money.
B. Farmers in the Great Plains planted more crops after the dust storms.
C. Crops in the Great Plains failed, and farmers went bankrupt.
D. People packed up and moved east to the Great Plains.
C. Crops in the Great Plains failed, and farmers went bankrupt.
The United Nations was created in 1945 in response to World War II. The United States, along with many other countries in the world, decided the main purpose of the United Nations would be to __________.
A. stabilize the currency of the U.S. and Europe
B. settle problems between countries peacefully.
C. encourage trade between countries
D. guard against the spread of communism
B. settle problems between countries peacefully.
Which of the following World War II leaders was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1940 until July 1945?
A. Harry S. Truman
B. Franklin D. Roosevelt
C. Benito Mussolini
D. Winston Churchill
D. Winston Churchill
Why did the United States enter into the Korean and Vietnam wars?
A. to stop the spread of communism
B. to protect important historical sites
C. to decrease the threat to democracy in Japan
D. to promote trade in Asian countries
A. to stop the spread of communism
The Great Western Cattle Trail, like the Chisholm Trail, started in Texas. The cattle were driven north to Kansas before they could be taken to the East to sell. Why did the cattle have to go north to Kansas?
A. Kansas had steamboats
B. Texas wasn't close to water
C. Kansas had railroads
D. Texas was part of Mexico
C. Kansas had railroads
Who was the president during World War One?
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Harry S. Truman
C. Franklin Roosevelt
D. John F. Kennedy
C. Franklin Roosevelt
Victory in Europe (V-E Day) came after _______________.
A. the atomic bombings
B. Germany surrendered
C. Japan surrendered
D. a cease fire
B. Germany surrendered
Eleanor Roosevelt's work at the United Nations (UN) was significant because she ___________________.
A. was the only woman in the UN General Assembly
B. was the only woman on the UN Security Council
C. led the UN Commission on Human Rights
D. led the UN Commission on Global Trade
C. led the UN Commission on Human Rights
Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis so significant in the Cold War?
A. It led to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
B. It was the first conflict between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
C. It was the closest the world had ever come to a nuclear war.
D. It was the end of the conflict between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.
C. It was the closest the world had ever come to a nuclear war.
Immigrants wanted to come to American to have a better life and become citizens. Over 12 million immigrants entered the United States through the portal of ____________, New York.
A. Miami
B. Ellis Island
C. Savannah
D. Los Angeles
B. Ellis Island
America believed in isolationism, which is staying out of other affairs of the world. Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt decide to join World War 1?
A. an attack on Pearl Harbor.
B. the Twin Towers in New York getting attacked by terrorism
C. an invasion by the British
D. Germany was using submarine warfare and sinking some of the American ships.
D. Germany was using submarine warfare and sinking some of the American ships.
President Harry S. Truman decided to drop the first atomic bomb on ___________, Japan in order to save American lives.
A. Iwo Jima
B. Nagasaki
C. Hiroshima
D. Normandy
C. Hiroshima
Rosa Parks was arrested in December of 1955 on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She would not give up her seat to a white passenger. Her action started a year-long civil rights protest in Alabama. That protest was called the ______________.
A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Civil Rights Act of 1964
C. March on Washington
D. Montgomery Bus Boycott
D. Montgomery Bus Boycott
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States declared _________________.
A. it would stay away from Iraq
B. a war on Osama bin Laden
C. it would invade Iran
D. a war on terrorism
D. a war on terrorism