US History 1st Semester Final Exam Review #2 IN CLASS

What is the answer to this brain teaser?

What is the most popular Christmas song on the Billboard Holiday 100 Chart this week?

If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?

* Why was the transcontinental railroad important *

Mary's father has 4 daughters. April, May, and June. Who is the fourth daughter?

first true flight in an airplane took place near

What was the reason reformers called for the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s

Which of these states in the US has a city named Santa Claus?

* Which is an example of a typical immigrant to the US between 1880 and 1910? *

When is 99 more than 100?

In the Twelve Days of Christmas song, how many "Pipers Piping" were there?

Women reformers campaigned for civil rights, children’s health and welfare, and ____.

President Hoover downplayed the effects of the crash because

* Predict that in the earliest days of the Great Depression, most families who lost jobs *

People who opposed the spread of slavery to new states were often called

The novel, The Jungle, prompted an investigation into the:

President Theodore Roosevelt wanted to build the Panama Canal to shorten travel time between

What were the three main goals of the New Deal?

Critique the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Why did General Lee invade Maryland?

What mistake caused FDR to lose the support of his party and the American people?

What event triggered a U.S. declaration of war on Spain in 1898

What did the Plains Indians depend on for their food, shelter, and clothing?

Political machines exchanged economic favors for

Which of the following is NOT one of Santa's original reindeer?

Select one reason Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860

Some European leaders believed that war could be prevented by

Which holiday movie is the picture below referring to?

* The main issue over the readmission of southern states? *

In the Redneck 12 Days of Christmas, how does the song end, "And some parts to a _______"

____ is the term that describes the devastation of the Great Plains by drought

The members of the Triple Entente were

centerpiece of the Second New Deal was the...

How many letters does "the alphabet" have?

Which holiday movie is the picture below referring to?

At the end of the war, how did WIlson's vision differ from that of France and Great Britain?

The purpose of the KKK operating in the South after the Civil War was:

In what country is Santa called Pere Noel?

The U.S. proposed the Open Door Policy in China in opposition to

In Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol, who was Scrooge's dead business partner?

* What were Lincoln’s views on slavery throughout his life? *

* Which of the following signaled economic weakness in the 1920s *

What political reform was enacted through the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment?

Why did the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act backfire?

This event was a turning point for reform in workplace safety

What was Hoover's philosophy about the proper role of government

What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?

What is the name of the Grinch's reindeer/dog?

* The success of the auto industry can best be seen in the fact that it led to *

Why was the Civil War the last of the old-time wars and the first of the modern ones?

* In capitalism, most industries are run by *

The world's biggest snowman was ____ tall and was built in Maine

Two popular ideologies contributed to imperialism: a sense of nationalism and

* In 1914 what was the official U.S. position in regard to the war in Europe? *

What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Henry Ford was building cars that average Americans could afford because he

How did muckrakers prepare the way for political reforms.