Benchmark Review

The term "Iron Curtain" is associated with which conflict involving the United States?

Which of the following BEST describes President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal?

What was the main reason the United States built the Panama Canal?

Rosie the Riveter symbolized 

What was the MAIN reason Pittsburgh became an industrial steel center during the late 1800s?

Who benefited the MOST from the work of George Washington Carver?

Which of the following is NOT a civic responsbility?

How did the Framers of the Constitution provide for changes to the document?

Why was Jesse Owens’s success at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, important?

Which of the following is an example of a price incentive?

Under President William McKinley, the United States gained possession of which of the following?

Which of the following is a responsibility of US citizens? 

Which of the following is FALSE about the 26th Amendment?

How do due process protections affect people who are guilty of crimes? 

Which of the following men improved aviation in the United States?

Which places is known as the nation's largest producer of steel?

Who was prime minister of the United Kingdom during most of World War II?

Which of the following statements is an opinion about the Dust Bowl?

Margaret Mitchell won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for her book__________ which gave hope to people during the Depression.

Which of the following was ONE of the long-term effects of the Treaty of Versailles?

Which sport made major gains in national popularity during the 1920s?

What was one change to American society caused by Thomas Edison's invention of a long-lasting light bulb? 

What event did President Truman say will be remembered as "a day that will live in infamy"?

The Chisholm Trail played an essential role in which of the following?

Employers pay employees in exchange for the employees' _______.

Which of the following was a successful invention in Kitty Hawk, NC?

How did the 24th Amendment improve voting rights?

Why did Eastern Europeans immigrate to the United States at the turn of the century?

What was the cause of the growth of the Texas cattle industry after the Civil War?

Which of these changes occurred after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?