USII ASSESSMENT ITEMS
S.O.L. USII.2a
Which of these is NOT true of the Great Plains after the Civil War?
(A)little rainfall and eroded by wind and water
(B)had many large cities and mountains*
(C)flatland that rises gradually from east to west
(D)frequent dust storms.
S.O.L. USII.2a
Before new technologies, people thought of the Great Plains as a ___; afterwards they saw it as ____.
(A)beautiful garden, a vast wasteland
(B)dry area, a rainy and hilly area
(C)desert, a beautiful garden
(D)treeless wasteland, a place to settle.*
S.O.L. USII.2a
Which inventions helped farmers on the Great Plains?
(A)coyote traps, steel grating, garden hoes, and picture frames
(B)the steel plow, windmills, barbed wire, reapers, and dry farming*
(C)barbed wire, coyote traps, radio, and the telegraph
(D)telegraph, telephone, sewing machine, and radio.
S.O.L. USII.2b
What linked resources, products, and markets during industrial development?
(A)farming
(B)communication
(C)transportation*
(D)industrialization.
S.O.L. USII.2b
To which location were finished products transported during this time period?
(A)local markets
(B)national markets*
(C)state markets
(D)farmer’s markets.
S.O.L. USII.2b
Where was the center of the steel industry?
(A)Atlanta, Georgia
(B)Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania*
(C)New York, New York
(D)San Francisco, California.
S.O.L. USII.2c
In what region are Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia, and Alabama?
(A)Northeast
(B)Southeast*
(C)Midwest
(D)Southwest.
S.O.L. USII.2c
In what region are Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Montana?
(A)Rocky Mountain*
(B)Pacific
(C)noncontiguous
(D)Northeast.
S.O.L. USII.2c
In what region are Chicago, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, and Detroit, Michigan?
(A)Pacific
(B)Rocky Mountain
(C)Southwest
(D)Midwest.*
S.O.L. USII.2c
In which region are Juneau, Alaska, and Honolulu, Hawaii?
(A)Pacific
(B)noncontiguous*
(C)Midwest
(D)Southwest.
Anonymous 49er:
"The reports of the gold regions are as encouraging here as they were back in Massachusetts. Just imagine yourself seeing me return with $10,000 to $100,000."
S.O.L. USII.3a
Which of the statements below were NOT reasons for westward expansion?
(A)free land and educational opportunities in the many cities*
(B)adventure and land ownership
(C)possible wealth from finding gold and silver and to own land
(D)a new beginning for former slaves and technological advances, such as the
Transcontinental railroad.
...I am again on a railroad train winding its way westward between wooded hills for one hundred and fifty miles and thence in straighter lines four hundred miles further over Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana prairies. I see farms to the right and left with comfortable dwellings and big, red barns, sheltered in groves of planted trees. I see herds of cattle, horses, hogs and sheep browsing on cornstalks left in the fields, or burrowing for food or shelter into huge straw piles left from the fall threshing. The ground is fall-plowed, ready to be seeded again as soon as spring returns. I pass through towns with fine buildings for dwellings and business. I reflect that when there wasn't yet a wagon road where I now ride in Pullman, Norwegian and Swedish immigrants came here in canvas-covered wagons pulled by oxen, and where they found no human trace on the ground they unhitched, built log or sod houses for shelter, and out of the wilderness made what I now see. How proud they well may be of that hard, creative work! They have been given political independence and have earned economic independence of their native countries, and they must, I think, for their own development, and in the interest of their adopted country, attain intellectual and spiritual independence also, without a dual national sentiment.
S.O.L. USII.3b
Which of these was NOT a reason for increased immigration?
(A)adventure and hope for better opportunities
(B)escape from oppressive governments
(C)promises of good jobs and housing*
(D)religious freedom.
S.O.L. USII.3b
Which of these is NOT a reason why cities developed?
(A)the Chinese Exclusion Act*
(B)movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for job opportunities
(C)immigration from other countries
(D)specialized industries.
S.O.L. USII.3b
What did Thomas Edison invent in 1879?
(A)telephone service
(B)lighting and mechanical uses of electricity*
(C)first automobile
(D)the airplane.
S.O.L. USII.3b
Alexander Graham Bell developed the ___________.
(A)telephone*
(B)telegraph
(C)Morse code
(D)answering machine.
S.O.L. USII.3b
Rapid industrialization and urbanization led to
(A)beautifully planned cities with many specialty stores
(B)subdivisions with individual family homes
(C)overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements*
(D)cities and factories with workers who lived far away.
S.O.L. USII.3b
Who was Jane Addams, and what did she do in 1889 in Chicago, Illinois?
(A)founded Hull House
(B)was a social reformer
(C)both A and B*
(D)none of the above.
S.O.L. USII.3b
What was one way political machines gained power?
(A)helping new immigrants find jobs and housing*
(B)having their opponents deported
(C)paying all the voters to vote for their candidates
(D)tearing down all the tenements and building nice, new buildings.
S.O.L. USII.3b
What took place at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
(A)Custer and his men easily defeated a small band of Native Americans.
(B)Custer circled the camp and realized there were too many warriors so
he called off the attack.
(C)Custer and the Native Americans were evenly matched so it was a tie.
(D)Custer and his men were outnumbered and killed.*
S.O.L. USII.3b
Who was Chief Joseph?
(A)the leader of the Nez Perce tribe*
(B)the leader of the Cheyenne tribe
(C)the leader of the Navajo tribe
(D)the leader of the Apache tribe.
S.O.L. USII.3b
The worst discrimination occurred against
(A)British and German immigrants.
(B)Japanese and Swedish immigrants.
(C)Canadian and Italian immigrants.
(D)Irish and Chinese immigrants.*
S.O.L. USII.3b
What was bad about political machines?
(A)They built orphanages and repaired overcrowded tenements.
(B)They caused political corruption.*
(C)They helped immigrants.
(D)They built new buildings and schools.
S.O.L. USII.3c
Which was NOT true of Jim Crow laws?
(A)They made discrimination legal in many areas and states.
(B)They were passed to discriminate against African Americans.
(C)They included unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and
government.
(D)The Ku Klux Klan opposed Jim Crow laws.*
S.O.L. USII.3c
This person believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans.
(A)Susan B. Anthony
(B)Booker T. Washington
(C)W.E.B. DuBois*
(D)Jane Addams.
S.O.L. USII. 3d
What did Henry Ford accomplish as a captain of industry?
(A)Model T and automobile business*
(B)airplane industry
(C)computer industry
(D)shipbuilding industry.
S.O.L. USII.3d
What did advertising do for big business?
(A)It helped big businesses prosper.*
(B)It was not used in the 1800’s.
(C)It was important in the 1800’s.
(D)It can only be in newspapers and magazines.
S.O.L. USII.3d
Which of the following was NOT a factor resulting in the growth of industry?
(A)access to raw materials and energy
(B)availability of the work force
(C)inventions and financial resources
(D)unemployment*
S.O.L. USII.3e
Which of the following was NOT a negative effect of industrialization?
(A)child labor
(B)low wages and long hours
(C)unsafe working conditions
(D)increased pay*
S.O.L. USII.3e
What was the labor union founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886?
(A)Oil Union
(B)Steel Union
(C)American Federation of Labor*
(D)Coal Union
S.O.L. USII.3e
Which Progressive Movement workplace reform would fit in the blanks in the graphic organizer above?
(A)pay time
(B)work hours*
(C)scheduled leave
(D)weekly pay
S.O.L. USII.3e
Who helped women gain the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
(A)Eleanor Roosevelt
(B)Rosa Parks
(C)Susan B. Anthony*
(D)Barbara Bush
S.O.L. USII.3e
Which movement supported the prohibition of alcohol and the passage of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
(A)Suffrage Movement
(B)Temperance Movement*
(C)Civil Rights Movement
(D)Progressive Movement
S.O.L. USII.4a
Which of the following would be used to complete the graphic above?
(A)rioting by union workers in many countries controlled by Spain
(B)yellow journalism*
(C)sinking of the Lusitania
(D)inability of the President to buy countries from Spain
S.O.L. USII.4a
Which of these was NOT a result of the Spanish – American War?
(A)The U.S. gained control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
(B)The U.S. gained control of Alaska, Cuba, and Hawaii.*
(C)The U.S. emerged as a world power.
(D)Cuba gained its independence from Spain.
S.O.L. USII.4b
Which of the following was NOT a reason the U.S. became involved in World War I?
(A)inability to remain neutral
(B)German submarine warfare and sinking of the Lusitania
(C)German invasion of the U.S. mainland*
(D)U.S. economic and political ties to Great Britain.
S.O.L. USII.4b
All of the following were Central Powers of World War I EXCEPT
(A)Germany.
(B)Austria-Hungary.
(C)France.*
(D)Ottoman Empire.
S.O.L. USII.4b
At the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson prepared a peace plan that called for the formation of the League of Nations. Why did the U.S. not join?
(A)America wanted to be involved in world affairs.
(B)France did not get along with the U.S..
(C)U.S. Senate felt if we joined, we would be controlled by other
countries.*
(D)Great Britain was planning an attack of U.S. soil.
S.O.L. USII.5a
All of the following were results of improved transportation brought by affordable automobiles EXCEPT
(A)greater mobility.
(B)growth of transportation-related industries.
(C)movement to suburban areas.
(D)intercontinental flights.*
S.O.L. USII.5a
Who had the first successful motor-powered airplane flight?
(A)Orville Wright
(B)Wilbur Wright
(C)Randy Wright
(D)Both A and B*
S.O.L. USII.5a
Who worked with the development of the radio and the broadcast industry?
(A)Guglielmo Marconi and Frank Pierce
(B)David Sarnoff and George Washington Carver
(C)Guglielmo Marconi and David Sarnoff*
(D)Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.
S.O.L. USII.5b
Which of the following was NOT a result of prohibition?
(A)speakeasies
(B)bootleggers
(C)organized crime
(D)growth of alcohol sales in public grocery stores*
Between 1916 and 1921 a half million African Americans left the South and journeyed to cities in the North and West in what was then the largest internal movement of a people in such a concentrated period of time in the history of the nation. Migrants‘ letters to northern newspapers were among the best and most voluminous sources for understanding the migration process and interpreting the migrants’ motivations for leaving. Seven letters to the Chicago Defender— a black newspaper published in Chicago that strongly urged southern blacks to migrate North—attest to migrants' strong desire to “better their condition,” often risking their lives and possessions to make the trip north.
S.O.L. USII.5b
Which of the following did NOT take place during the Great Migration North?
(A)African Americans had good jobs in the South which were high paying.*
(B)African Americans faced discrimination and violence in the South.
(C)African Americans moved to northern cities in search of better employment.
(D)African Americans also faced discrimination and violence in the North.
S.O.L. USII.5c
F. Scott Fitzgerald is to John Steinbeck as Aaron Copland is to
(A)Georgia O’Keefe.
(B)George Gershwin.*
(C)Jacob Lawrence.
(D)Langston Hughes.
S.O.L. USII.5c
Who was NOT a part of the Harlem Renaissance?
(A)Jacob Lawrence
(B)Langston Hughes
(C)Louis Armstrong
(D)B.B. King*
S.O.L. USII.5d
Which of the following was a cause of the Great Depression?
(A)People overspeculated on stocks.
(B)The Federal Reserve failed to prevent the collapse of the banking system.
(C)Both A and B*
(D)none of the above
S.O.L. USII.5d
Which of the following was NOT an impact of the Great Depression on Americans?
(A)One-fourth of workers were without jobs.
(B)Large numbers of people were hungry and homeless.
(C)Farmers’ incomes increased to high levels.*
(D)A large number of banks and businesses failed.
S.O.L. USII.5d
All of the following were major features of the New Deal EXCEPT
(A)social security.
(B)federal work programs.
(C)environmental improvement programs.
(D)large scale cash hand-outs.*
Military Cartoon - 1941
S.O.L. USII.6a
Which of the following were causes of World War II?
(A)political instability and economic devastation in Europe resulting from World
War I
(B)high war debt owed by Germany
(C)Both A and B*
(D)German invasion of Australia
S.O.L. USII.6a
Who was the Fascist, Axis Power dictator of Germany during World War II?
(A)Kaiser Wilhelm
(B)Adolf Hitler*
(C)Genghis Khan
(D)Joseph Stalin
S.O.L. USII.6a
Who was the Allied Power leader of Great Britain during World War II?
(A)Harry S. Truman
(B)Winston Churchill*
(C)Henry Hudson
(D)John Cabot
S.O.L. USII.6a
Where did Japan attack the U.S. without warning on December 7, 1941?
(A)Boston Harbor
(B)New York Harbor
(C)Pearl Harbor*
(D)Baltimore Harbor
S.O.L. USII.6b
Which event started World War II in Europe?
(A)Germany invaded Poland.*
(B)Italy invaded Spain.
(C)France invaded Portugal.
(D)Germany invaded Italy.
S.O.L. USII.6b
Which of the following was NOT a German invasion during World War II?
(A)invasion of France, capturing Paris
(B)bombing of London, beginning the Battle of Britain
(C)invasion of the Soviet Union, facing a defeat at Stalingrad
(D)invasion of Italy, capturing Rome*
S.O.L. USII.6b
During World War II, which battle in the Pacific in 1942 was the turning point for the U.S. against Japan?
(A)Battle of Iwo Jima
(B)Battle of Okinawa
(C)Battle of Midway*
(D)Battle of Guadalcanal
S.O.L. USII.6b
Which cities were a part of the decision for the U.S. to drop an atomic bomb?
(A)Hiroshima
(B)Nagasaki
(C)Both A and B*
(D)Tokyo
S.O.L. USII.6b
Which of the following was a tactic which Adolf Hitler and the Nazis used to systematically attempt to rid Europe of all Jews during the Holocaust during World War II?
(A)boycott of Jewish stores
(B)imprisonment and killing of Jews and others in concentration camps
(C)Both A and B*
(D)none of the above
S.O.L. USII.6c
What did American involvement in World War II do?
(A)It brought an end to the Great Depression.
(B)Factories and workers were needed to produce goods to win the war.
(C)Both A and B*
(D)It led to the Persian Gulf War.
S.O.L. USII.6c
How did World War II affect women on the American homefront?
(A)Thousands of American women took jobs in defense plants during the war.
(B)Rosie the Riveter was one example of an American working woman.
(C)both A and B*
(D)none of the above
S.O.L. USII.6c
How did Americans at home support the U.S. during World War II?
(A)conserving resources
(B)rationing resources
(C)both A and B*
(D)none of the above
S.O.L. USII.6c
While many Japanese Americans served in the armed forces, how were others treated?
(A)Many were treated with distrust and prejudice.
(B)Many were forced into internment camps.
(C)Both A and B*
(D)Many served in powerful government offices.
S.O.L. USII.8a
What was an effect of segregation?
(A)separate educational facilities and resources for white and