1. A government in which the people have a say in governing is called a
  2. Supreme Court
  3. Monarchy
  4. Dictatorship
  5. Democracy
  1. The transcontinental railroad connected
  2. Northern cities to Mexico
  3. The East Coast to the West Coast
  4. Cotton plantations to the southern cities
  5. New York to Washington D.C.

Use the following quote and your knowledge of social studies to answer question 3

  1. In this quote, Chief Joseph is referring to the U.S. government policy of
  2. Converting Native Americans to Christianity
  3. Extending railroads through western lands
  4. Moving Native Americans onto reservations
  5. Outlawing Native American ceremonies
  1. The major reason the Bill of Rights was added to the United States Constitution was to

A.Limit the power of state governments

B.Protect individual liberties against abuse by the Federal Government

C.Allow for the Federal Government to be more powerful

D.Separate powers between the three branches of government

  1. The three branches that make up the United States government are

A. senate, house of representatives, supreme court

B. executive, legislative, judicial

C. congress, president, judicial

D. executive, senate, house of representatives

  1. With which of the following statements would a nativist agree?
  2. “Immigrants must search for opportunity in the United States.”
  3. “Immigrants help to make this country a better place to live.”
  4. “Immigrants nee to help each other adapt to life in the United States.”
  5. “Immigrants steal jobs from people who were born in this country.”
  1. Mass production is a term that can best be defined as the

a. number of hours employees are required to work

b. manufacture of large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply

c. profit made by a large business or corporation

d. formation of a business monopoly

  1. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, prejudice against “new” immigrants increased mainly

because these immigrants

a. came from cultural backgrounds very different from that of the majority of Americans

b. tried to replace American democracy with their own forms of government

c. formed their own labor unions in order to receive higher wages

d. had job skills superior to those of most American workers

  1. Yellow journalism was used by newspapers in the 1890s to

a. influence public opinion

b. promote peace in Cuba

c. overturn a presidential election

d. support an isolationist foreign policy

  1. In the late 1800s, rapid urbanization was mainly the result of the

a. shortage of land for new farms

b. federally funded city redevelopment projects

c. impact of industrialization

d. migration of formerly enslaved persons to the West

  1. In the period from 1890 to 1910, most immigrants from eastern and southern Europe settle in large cities of the eastern United States primarily because
  2. farmland had become very scarce
  3. factory jobs were available for unskilled workers
  4. there was much less discrimination in those cities
  5. they came mainly from large cities in their home countries
  1. Which event led to changes in safety regulations in the workplace?
  2. Haymarket Square Riot
  3. Pullman Strike
  4. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
  5. Homestead Strike
  1. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, one way in which the temperance movement and the

woman’s suffrage movement were similar is that both tried to

  1. protect the rights of factory workers
  2. reduce the power of big business
  3. end protective tariffs to aid consumers
  4. achieve reform by supporting a constitutional amendment
  1. The 1906 publication of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle helped to expose the
  2. unfair treatment of women
  3. cruelty of modern warfare
  4. unsafe living conditions in tenements
  5. unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry
  1. major goal of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to
  2. prevent the formation of business monopolies
  3. limit imports from foreign nations
  4. set fair prices for manufactured goods
  5. protect consumers from dangerous products
  1. Members of the temperance movement wanted to outlaw
  2. child labor
  3. big business
  4. alcohol
  5. suffrage
  1. The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed as a result of
  2. Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle
  3. union pressures to limit food imports from foreign countries
  4. an increase in the use of illegal drugs
  5. limited enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act
  1. The passage of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security show that the United States government is determined to
  2. Go to war with Asia
  3. Increase globalization
  4. End the Cold War
  5. Prevent future terrorist attacks

  1. . Before 1919, most of the states that granted full voting rights to women were located in the
  2. West
  3. Midwest
  4. Northeast
  5. Southeast
  1. In the late 1800s, the United States became an imperialist nation when it

a. acquired overseas territories

b. declared its neutrality

c. formed military alliances

d. reduced trade with other nations

  1. A major reason the U.S. wanted to build the Panama Canal was to
  2. Improve United States relations with Latin America
  3. Increase trade with England
  4. Protect United States citizens living in South America
  5. Shorten the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
  6. By acquiring Alaska, Hawaii, and the Samoan islands the United States was showing that was committed to a foreign policy of
  7. Containment
  8. Imperialism
  9. Isolationism
  10. Neutrality
  1. The Open Door Policy
  2. Prompted the growth of the U.S. Navy
  3. Helped protect the Unites States’ right to trade with China
  4. Persuaded the U.S. government to intervene in Cuba
  5. D. granted European nations more Chinese territory
  1. One of the biggest worries workers had while constructing the Panama Canal was
  2. Getting the canal finished on time
  3. Seeing their families
  4. Diseases
  5. Getting paid
  1. Expansionists believed that for the United States to succeed it needed to
  2. Stay isolated
  3. Enter into new trade markets around the world
  4. Become a neutral country
  5. Keep a small military
  1. World War I began with the assassination of
  2. Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  3. President Roosevelt
  4. Kaiser Wilhelm
  5. King of England
  1. President Wilson’s Fourteen Points included a proposal to
  2. Make self-determination illegal
  3. Put limits on world trade
  4. Give a large amount of German territory to France
  5. Form an international organization to guarantee world peace.
  1. World War I saw an increase in casualties because
  2. New technology, such as machine guns, poison gas, and tanks
  3. The use of trenches
  4. Countries still were using old ways to fight wars
  5. The soldiers could not find significant cover in battle
  1. President Wilson originally called for the United States to
  2. Get involved in the war immediately
  3. Stay neutral
  4. Only trade with the United Kingdom
  5. Only trade with Germany
  6. Which document contain President Wilson’s call to create the League of Nations
  7. Zimmerman Telegram
  8. Fourteen Points
  9. Atlantic Charter
  10. Kellogg-Briand Pact
  1. German U-boats practiced unrestricted submarine warfare, which led to
  2. The start of World War I
  3. Germany winning the war
  4. The sinking of the Lusitania
  5. France entering the war
  1. President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were intended to
  2. Make the United States, United Kingdom, and France into world powers
  3. Take away Germany’s colonies
  4. Prevent future wars
  5. Punish Germany for World War I
  1. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s influenced American society by
  2. Ending racial segregation
  3. Increasing awareness of African American contributions to American culture
  4. Encouraging urban renewal projects in American cities
  5. Establishing government programs to assist African Americans
  1. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday made significant contributions to the Harlem Renaissance in field of
  2. Music
  3. Painting
  4. Writing
  5. Sculpture
  1. The Red Scare was
  2. When Americans were afraid of the flu
  3. When there was segregation in the North
  4. When Americans were afraid of a Communist takeover
  5. When Americans were moving into cities
  1. Another name for the Roaring Twenties is the
  2. Cattle Kingdom
  3. Gilded Age
  4. Hundred Days
  5. Jazz Age
  1. What were homeless communities often called in the early 1930s?
  2. Hoovervilles
  3. Little Toledos
  4. Americavilles
  5. Roosevelt Town
  6. During the Great Depression, one main objective of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats was to
  7. Reassure people about the future of the United States and the economy
  8. Convince listeners to buy war bonds
  9. Encourage bankers to donate their money
  10. Help farmers pay their loans
  1. The purpose of New Deal Programs, such as Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA), and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), was to
  2. Put the unemployed back to work
  3. Handout money to those in need
  4. Make President Roosevelt popular
  5. End the worldwide depression
  1. Which of these did NOT contribute to the Dust Bowl?
  2. High winds
  3. Removal of the sod layer by modern farming methods
  4. Drought
  5. A surplus of migrant workers
  1. All of the following were causes of the Great Depression except
  2. Urbanization
  3. Stock Market Crash
  4. Opening of new businesses in cities
  5. Overproduction
  1. FDR was different from Herbert Hoover because Roosevelt
  2. Was not willing to use government money to help the poor
  3. Was not willing to setup agencies to help the unemployed
  4. Helped the unemployed by setting up agencies to get them back to work
  5. Was able to ignore the Great Depression
  6. The United States responded to the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor by
  7. declaring war on Japan
  8. appealing to the United Nations
  9. renewing its commitment to isolationism
  10. passing the Lend-Lease Act
  1. The mass slaughter of Jews in Europe is today known as
  2. The Genocide
  3. The Holocaust
  4. The Annihilation
  5. The Aggression
  1. The Cold War refers to
  2. The Spanish American War
  3. The period of time before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
  4. The power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union and World War II
  5. The period of time when the communists lost control in Eastern Europe
  1. During World War II, millions of America women
  2. Fought in Europe and in the Pacific
  3. Took over jobs in factories and shipyards
  4. Protested equality in hiring
  5. Faced curfews and travel restrictions
  1. major part of the United States victory over Japan was using the strategy of
  2. aggression
  3. appeasement
  4. island hopping
  5. rationing
  1. Most Americans reacted to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 by
  2. blaming the military for failing to prevent the attacks
  3. Forcing the government to organize relocation camps for Arab Americans
  4. Uniting behind the President and his efforts to combat terrorism
  5. calling for a re-instatement of the draft
  1. The Marshall Plan, Berlin airlift, and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were all steps taken by the United States during the
  2. Korean War
  3. World War II
  4. Cold War
  5. Vietnam War
  1. The Cold War developed shortly after the end of World War two because of the
  2. Results of the Nuremburg trials
  3. Holocaust during World War II
  4. Disputes over Japanese control of China
  5. Conflicting ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union
  1. The Soviet blockade of Berlin following World War II led to
  2. The start of the Cold War
  3. The Berlin Airlift
  4. The start of World War III
  5. The Soviet Union winning the Cold War
  1. The domino theory was used to justify United States involvement in the
  2. War on Poverty
  3. World War One
  4. Vietnam War
  5. War in Iraq
  1. President Truman wanted to prevent communism from spreading, known as
  2. Domino theory
  3. Containment
  4. Expansion
  5. Urbanization
  1. A similarity between the Korean War and the Vietnam War is that each was
  2. A reaction to attacks on American territory
  3. An effort to contain communism during the Cold War
  4. Popular with the American public
  5. Fought by individual nations under United Nations command
  1. Which individual is best known as a major leader of the 1960s civil rights movement?
  2. W.E.B. DuBois
  3. Martin Luther King Jr.
  4. Thurgood Marshall
  5. Colin Powell
  1. In the early 1990s, the Cold War came to an end primarily as a result of the
  2. Creation of the European Union
  3. Signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
  4. United States victory in the Persian Gulf War
  5. Breakup of the Soviet Union
  1. Which method did Martin Luther King Jr. use to try and end racial segregation
  2. Violent civil unrest
  3. Government funded protest
  4. National revolution
  5. Civil disobedience
  1. “Hoover and Smith Campaign on Radio”

“Kennedy Passes Nixon in Polls After Televised Debate”

“Obama Raises Record Donations Using the Internet”

Which statement about the use of media in political campaigns is illustrated by these headlines?

  1. Media does not affect the ability of political leaders to communicate with voters
  2. Political leaders adapt to new forms of media to communicate with voters
  3. Electronic media is an ineffective way for political leaders to communicate with voters
  4. Endorsements by the media have the greatest influence on voters.
  1. The powers of veto and override illustrate the principle of
  2. Federalism
  3. Checks and balances
  4. Judicial review
  5. States Rights
  1. How did most Americans react to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001?
  2. They blamed the military for failing to prevent the attacks
  3. The government organized relocation camps for Arab Americans
  4. They united behind the President and his efforts to combat terrorism
  5. They called for a re-instatement of the draft
  1. In the early 1990s, the Cold War came to an end primarily as a result of the
  2. Creation of the European Union
  3. Signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
  4. United States victory in the Persian Gulf War
  5. Breakup of the Soviet Union
  1. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas. Which Supreme Court decision was he enforcing?
  2. Marbury v. Madison
  3. Dred Scott v. Sanford
  4. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
  5. Miranda v. Arizona

Use the following headlines to answer questions 67 and 68

“Destruction of the War Ship Maine was the Work of an Enemy”

“Maine Explosion caused by Bomb or Torpedo”

“Crisis at Hand….Growing Belief in Spanish Treachery”

  1. The headlines above are associated with which war?
  2. Civil War
  3. World War I
  4. Spanish-American War
  5. Mexican-American War
  1. These headlines are examples of
  2. Muckraking
  3. Realism
  4. Yellow Journalism
  5. Scripted Writing
  1. The purpose of New Deal Programs, such as Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA), and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), was to
  2. Put the unemployed back to work
  3. Handout money to those in need
  4. Make President Roosevelt popular
  5. End the worldwide depression

“. . . And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what

your country can do for you—ask what you can

do for your country. . . .”

— President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961

  1. In this statement, President Kennedy urged citizens to
  1. Promote foreign trade
  2. Balance their budgets
  3. Support the United Nations
  4. Volunteer to help the United States

Use the poem “Harlem” to answer questions 66 and 67

  1. Langston Hughes most likely wrote this poem
  2. As a reaction to the prejudice that Africa Americans faced.
  3. To express racial pride
  4. To explain the cause of the Great Migration
  5. To influence African Americans to move permanently to Africa
  1. What is another way to state the general idea of this poem?
  2. People should have racial pride
  3. People should preserve and analyze their culture
  4. When people lose hope, terrible things can happen
  5. African culture is a major part of American culture