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WWI
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Great Depression
FDR and the New Deal
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The sinking of the Luisitania, the Zimmerman telegram, and unrestricted U-boat warfare were all factors that led to a. The start of WWI in Europe. b. The beginning of WWII. c. US involvement in Vietnam. d. The United States entering WWI.
What is d. The United States entering WWI.
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4 Prohibition is associated with the a. Recall. b. Nineteenth Amendment. c. Eighteenth Amendment. d. Bill of Rights.
What is c. Eighteenth Amendment.
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Overproduction during the 1920’s ultimately resulted in a. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. b. Rapid inflation that destroyed the stock market. c. Falling prices that led to economic depression. d. The end of the New Deal.
What is c. Falling prices that led to economic depression.
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Franklin Roosevelt’s domestic program for addressing the Great Depression that featured deficit spending and which was often criticized as either “too little” or “socialism” was called what? a. The first hundred days b. The Fair Deal c. The New Deal d. The court-packing scheme
What is c. The New Deal
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King Philip’s War is an example of a. Spain’s attempts to keep Great Britain and France out of the New World. b. Native Americans’ efforts to drive white settlers out of Jamestown. c. Conflict that existed between New Englanders moving west and Native Americans. d. The struggle between the French and British for control of North America.
What is c. Conflict that existed between New Englanders moving west and Native Americans.
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Which of the following was glad that the U.S. entered WWI? a. The Central Powers b. The Triple Entente c. The Bolsheviks d. Isolationists
What is b. The Triple Entente
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2 Which of the following did President Woodrow Wilson oppose following WWI? a. Issuing the Zimmerman telegram. b. Acquiring new territories from a defeated Germany. c. The League of Nations d. A “peace without victory” in which both the victors and the defeated had a voice.
What is b. Acquiring new territories from a defeated Germany.
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The great Depression occurred, in part, because farmers and other producers were filling the market place with more products than consumers could buy. This caused a drastic fall in prices that eventually drove many out of business and hurt the stock market. Such a phenomenon is called a. Underconsumption. b. Overproduction. c. A stock market crash. d. Consumerism.
What is b. Overproduction.
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An industrial worker in need of a union to give him collective bargaining power in the late 1930’s would have benefitted most from the a. Pullman Strike. b. Tennessee Valley Authority. c. Wagner Act. d. NAACP.
What is c. Wagner Act.
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Which of the following presidents’ foreign policy MOST closely resembled an isolationist? a. George Washington b. Theodore Roosevelt c. Andrew Johnson d. Abraham Lincoln
What is a. George Washington
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World War I affected African Americans in which of the following ways? a. Blacks were finally accepted as equal to white because so many African Americans fought in the war. b. Blacks and whites served side-by-side in integrated army units after Congress struck down segregation in the military. c. Many African Americans migrated from the South to northern and western urban areas in search of work and a better way of life. d. Most African Americans emigrated back to Africa to avoid fighting for a country they felt treated them unjustly.
What is c. Many African Americans migrated from the South to northern and western urban areas in search of work and a better way of life.
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3 What were the “Fourteen Points”? a. Woodrow Wilson’s proposals for peace following World War I. b. Great Britain and France’s demands for peace from Germany. c. Conditions imposed upon Germany at the end of the war. d. Reasons officially presented to President Wilson by the US Senate explaining why that body had refused to approve US membership in the League of Nations.
What is a. Woodrow Wilson’s proposals for peace following World War I.
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1.) The Dust Bowl 2.) Overproduction 3.) Stock Market Crash 4.) Hoovervilles 5.) _______________________ Which of the following should be #5 on the above list? a. Levittowns b. Black Tuesday c. Underproduction d. Tin Pan Alley
What is b. Black Tuesday
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Which of the following FAILS to accurately describe Franklin D. Roosevelt? a. He was accused of being a Socialist. b. He effectively connected with U.S. citizens and inspired confidence during a difficult time. c. He was an isolationist who desperately wanted to stay out of the war; only Pearl Harbor made him reconsider his position. d. He is the only president in history to serve more than two terms.
What is c. He was an isolationist who desperately wanted to stay out of the war; only Pearl Harbor made him reconsider his position.
300
A poor Pennsylvania grain farmer in the early 1790’s who feared having his rights trampled on by a powerful national government would have most likely supported which of the following leaders? a. John Adams b. Thomas Jefferson c. Alexander Hamilton d. John Jay
What is b. Thomas Jefferson
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A U.S. citizen alive during WWI who strongly believed in freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and other civil rights, would have been MOST upset about a. The US Supreme Court’s decision in Miranda v. Arizona. b. The Senate’s refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. c. The Espionage and Sedition Acts. d. Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme.
What is c. The Espionage and Sedition Acts.
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The Red Scare led to a. Violent conflicts on Native American reservations. b. The end of the Cold War. c. Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment d. Increased restrictions on immigration.
What is d. Increased restrictions on immigration.
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Which of the following amendments to the Constitution was a result of the Progressive Era? a. Fifteenth Amendment, granting African American men the right to vote. b. Twenty-second Amendment, limiting presidents to only two terms. c. Twenty-first Amendment, repealing prohibition. d. Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
What is d. Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
400
Which of the following made Franklin Roosevelt an appealing candidate for president in 1932? a. He was a Republican. b. He was new to politics and therefore seen as trustworthy. c. He trusted laissez-faire capitalism to cure the nation’s woes. d. He promised to take government action to deal with the depression.
What is d. He promised to take government action to deal with the depression.
400
Which of the following is in the correct chronological order regarding events of the Civil War? a. The South secedes, Lincoln is elected, the Gettysburg Address. b. The South fires on Fort Sumter, South Carolina secedes, Lincoln is elected, the Emancipation Proclamation. c. Gettysburg, Antietam, Stonewall Jackson’s death, Lee’s surrender. d. Lincoln is elected, the South secedes, Gettysburg, Sherman’s march to the sea, Lincoln is assassinated.
What is d. Lincoln is elected, the South secedes, Gettysburg, Sherman’s march to the sea, Lincoln is assassinated.
500
Which statement is true regarding the Treaty of Versailles? a. It was Germany’s official surrender and divided the country in half between the democracies of the West and the Soviet Union, b. It was a treaty that ended World War I and basically returned conditions to what they were before the war. c. It ended WWI and imposed harsh conditions on Germany. d. It was never signed because Adolf Hitler came to power and plunged the world right back into war.
What is c. It ended WWI and imposed harsh conditions on Germany.
500
The Harlem Renaissance is BEST described by which of the following statements? a. It was a political movement meant to give power to the common man. b. It was a militant black movement meant to achieve civil rights for African Americans by force. c. It was an artistic movement among the African American community in literature, art, and music. d. It was a poem written by W.E.B. DuBois that called for social change.
What is c. It was an artistic movement among the African American community in literature, art, and music.
500
“…Once I built a railroad, made it run, made it race against time. Once I built a railroad; now it’s done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime; Once I built a tower, now it’s done. Brother can you spare a dime? The above song was most likely written during a. World War II. b. The Civil War. c. The civil rights movement. d. The Great Depression.
What is d. The Great Depression.
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Which of the following is MOST credited with ending the Great Depression? a. The stock market crash b. World War II c. The New Deal d. The Wagner Act
What is b. World War II
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Why was the Pullman Strike important? a. It was the first strike in U.S. history. b. It made Samuel Gompers an important figure. c. It established the use of court injunctions to put down strikes. d. It was the first strike in which the government took the side of workers instead of business owners.
What is c. It established the use of court injunctions to put down strikes.