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U.S. History Final Exam Quiz
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1
Which theme did Lincoln focus on in his Gettysburg Address?
Confederacy
Democracy
Freedom of the press
Freedom of religion
2
What was the US reaction to the start of war in Europe in 1939?
Signed peace treaties
Stressed isolationism
Sent aid to Allies
Declared war
3
In which century did the Populist movement take place?
21st
20th
19th
18th
4
Who founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Marcus Garvey
5
What act signaled the start of the Korean War?
Chinese intervention
North Korean invasion
South Korean invasion
Spread of communism
6
What country did the United States invade after 9/11?
Iraq
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Syria
7
Which city was Tammany Hall a political machine in?
New York City
Chicago
US
late 1800s
8
Why was D-Day significant?
Ended the war
Captured Berlin
Defeated Germany
Liberated Europe
9
What were Agent Orange and Napalm used for during the Vietnam War?
To poison water supplies
Elements of chemical warfare
To locate Viet Cong
To destroy forests
10
What was President George W. Bush's reason for invoking executive privilege?
Keep White House staff communications confidential
Maintain public trust
Protect national security
Avoid impeachment
11
Which event caused a major political scandal during Nixon's presidency?
Arab Oil Embargo
Camp David Accords
Watergate
Iranian Hostage Crisis
12
What agency did the Nixon administration establish to protect the environment?
NOAA
EPA
FBI
NASA
13
Who were the Okies in the 1930s?
New deal supporters
Southern laborers
Oklahoma farmers
Western politicians
14
Who investigated John D. Rockefeller's corrupt business practices?
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
15
What did the Berlin Airlift resolve?
Berlin's division
Communist influence
Soviet blockade crisis
NATO's formation
16
What was not an effect of the Great Depression?
More jobs for women
Homelessness
Drop in birth rates
Malnutrition
17
What is Frederick Law Olmstead known for?
Designed skyscrapers
Designed the White House
Designed World's Columbian Exposition
Designed Central Park
18
The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution shared the principle of limited government.
True
False
19
What terrorist group was responsible for 9/11?
Al Qaeda
Taliban
Hamas
ISIS
20
Who was appointed as the military commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam?
General William Westmoreland
General Dwight Eisenhower
General Douglas MacArthur
General George Patton
21
Which territory responded with violent resistance to American rule after the Spanish-American War?
The Philippines
Hawaii
Guam
Puerto Rico
22
What policy opposed Soviet expansion and communism?
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Containment Policy
Berlin Airlift
23
The New Deal resolved the Great Depression.
True
False
24
The trade routes on this map primarily supplied...
Manufactured goods
Rum
Labor
Sugar
25
What was the purpose of NATO?
Fight against the Warsaw Pact
Promote communism
Contain western countries
Control Soviet aggression
26
What was the outcome of the Korean War?
truce
democracy
communism
unification
27
What did the Truman Doctrine oppose?
Communism expansion
Democracy promotion
NATO formation
Western aggression
28
The Monroe Doctrine included all of the following (select all that apply)
Western hemisphere should not be considered for future colonization
U.S. would regard European interference as a threat
Western hemisphere and Europe are similar by nature
United States would not interfere in European affairs
29
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the fall of communism?
Sakharov
Gorbachev
Reagan
Solzhenitsyn
30
Which country provided foreign aid to the colonists during the Revolution?
Mexico
Ireland
Germany
France
31
What do Alger Hiss, Ethel Rosenberg, and Whittaker Chambers have in common?
Red Scare investigations
Communist spies
Espionage cases
Subject of suspicions
32
Settlement houses provided education, health care, and nutritional aid.
False
True
33
The Marshall Plan was an economic policy to help European countries rebuild after WWII.
False
True
34
Who founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute?
Roosevelt
Dubois
Washington
Garvey
35
Immigrants settled in rural areas.
False
True
36
The US Senate refused to join the League of Nations.
True
False
37
What did Rosie the Riveter symbolize during World War II?
Men's weakness and inability
Men's strength and contribution
Women's weakness and inability
Women's strength and contribution
38
Hoover was unpopular with the people.
True
False
39
Which was the following was NOT a significant feature of the First Great Awakening
Led to the creation of new faiths.
Advocated for abolition of slavery
Criticized traditional church hierarchies
Focused on a personal relationship with God.
40
What did Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests promote?
voting rights
segregation
equal rights
integration
41
Who wanted to make the mission to rid North Korea of communism and move into China?
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
General Douglas MacArthur
Harry Truman
42
Who addressed global warming and climate change in the Clinton administration?
Al Gore
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
George H.W. Bush
43
Which group fled persecution and established a colony at Plymouth?
Cavaliers
Indentured Servants
Quakers
Pilgrims
44
Who proposed the League of Nations in the 14 Points?
Garvey
Harding
Wilson
Catt
45
How did the United States support postwar Japan?
Helped them to rebuild
Formed an alliance with Japan
Ignored Japan's need for help
Destroyed Japanese industry
46
Computer technology in the 1970s and 1980s reduced size and cost using transistors and silicon chips.
True
False
47
How did Stalin handle the push for democratic principles in Eastern Europe?
Supported democracies in Eastern Europe
Never held elections
Held fair elections
Withdrew troops from Eastern Europe
48
Marbury vs. Madison ruled that
The state cannot tax a branch of the federal government
The court system can only advise on laws, it cannot strike down laws
The federal government controls commerce between the states
courts have the authority to determine if laws are Constitutional
49
Who took power from the shah in Iran in 1979?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Alexei Sakharov
Ayatollah Khomeini
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
50
Which compromise was enacted at the Constitutional Convention to determine representation of states in Congress...
Missouri Compromise
The Bill of Rights
Connecticut Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
51
What is the result of social stratification in the late 1800s?
wealthy mansions
ethnic neighborhoods
separated neighborhoods
higher paying jobs
52
Who was the North Vietnamese communist leader?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
Ho Chi Minh
53
What cultural movement was named after Harlem, NYC?
Dance
Literature
Harlem Renaissance
Drama
54
Which body ordered a stop to the recount of the Florida ballots in the 2000 election?
U. S. Supreme Court
U. S. Electoral College
U. S. House of Representatives
U. S. Senate
55
What is McCarthyism associated with?
Cold War tensions
Communist fear tactics
NATO formation
Soviet aggression
56
Who believed government should be controlled by the people, not businesses?
John D. Rockefeller
Booker T. Washington
Robert La Follette
Herbert Hoover
57
Who founded and led the League of Women Voters?
Carrie Chapman Catt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
W.E.B. DuBois
Julia Ward Howe
58
What was the biggest issue President Carter faced in the 1980 election?
The economy (inflation)
Iran hostage crisis
Foreign policy challenges
Challengers within the Democratic Party
59
Where did Solidarity, Lech Walesa, and Pope John Paul II help end communism?
Poland
Ukraine
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
60
What policy kept the US out of WWI for the first three years?
Isolationism
Expansionism
Neutrality
Interventionism
61
Who wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”?
Julia Ward Howe
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
W.E.B. Dubois
62
What were the goals of the New Deal?
relief recovery reform
reform relief rehabilitation
immediate long-term prevention
revolution reform recovery
63
Who was the leader of the settlement house movement?
Jane Addams
William Jennings Bryan
Salvation Army
Tammany Hall
64
Which early U.S. political party believed in these positions
Democratic Republicans
Patriots
Federalists
Tories
65
in the mid-1800s that it was America’s fate to control territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Abolition
Populism
Imperialism
Manifest Destiny
66
Which Supreme Court case legalized segregation of "separate but equal" facilities?
Brown vs. Board of Education
Marbury vs. Madison
Roe. vs. Wade
Plessy v. Ferguson
67
What did some people criticize about the New Deal?
Creating jobs
Expanding government
Improving economy
Supporting businesses
68
What did the 19th Amendment accomplish?
women's suffrage
civil rights act
right to an abortion
equal pay
69
Which policy did Woodrow Wilson initially adopt towards WWI?
Unrealistic
Isolationist
Idealistic
Global Responsibility
70
What nickname was Ronald Reagan given during his presidential campaign?
The Conservative
The Actor
Great Communicator
The Gipper
71
What was the purpose of the 18th Amendment?
Increase in organized crime
Prohibition
Increase in organized crime
Bootleggers
72
Who considered the building of the Panama Canal his greatest foreign policy achievement?
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
73
Which federal agency created propaganda during WWI?
War Industries Board
Committee on Public Information
Railroad Administration
Food Administration
74
What modern-day states did the U.S. gain from the Mexican-American War?
All of the above
California
Nevada
Utah
75
What made it easy for FDR to win in 1932?
Hoover's inaction
Popularity with people
Great Depression
Democrat support
76
What was Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression?
Increase government spending
Direct payments to poor
Set up food banks
Little government intervention
77
Which president started the construction of the Panama Canal?
Wilson
Taft
Harding
T. Roosevelt
78
The Virginia Declaration of Rights directly influenced...
The Declaration of Independence
The First Ten Amendment to the Constitution
The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
The Mayflower Compact
79
Who designed Central Park in New York City?
Louis Sullivan
Daniel Burnham
William Jenney
Frederick Law Olmstead
80
What did Woodrow Wilson promote?
Political machines
Elimination of monopolies
Increased corporate power
Inheritance and income taxes
81
Who became president after Nixon resigned?
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
82
What was the main agricultural system trapping southern blacks in debt?
Sharecropping
Crop Liens
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marcus Garvey
83
Who won the 1932 election by a landslide?
Coolidge
FDR
Roosevelt
Hoover
84
Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Muscogee, and Seminole nations were relocated to Louisiana Purchase lands
True
False
85
What were the economic changes in the US during the 1920s?
Expansion of credit, higher wages
Increased incomes, improved technology
Gross National Product, modernism
Factory and assembly lines, new inventions
86
Who was the advocate for black-owned businesses?
Garvey
Howe
Taft
Catt
87
Who ran on the platform of free silver in 1896 and 1900?
Political machines
William Jennings Bryan
Jane Addams
William H. Taft
88
How did Lincoln believe the South should be treated after the war?
Lincoln was assassinated and never discussed what should be done
They should be allowed to rejoin without punishment
They should be forbid from having representation
They should pay high reparations
89
What did the Populist Party support?
Democratic Party
free silver movement
income tax regulation
political power
90
What were the two causes for the US entering WWI?
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Women and minority role, Treaty of Versailles
Impact of US involvement, Committee on Public Information
Submarine warfare, Zimmerman note
91
How did the Espionage and Sedition Acts limit free speech?
Allowed foreign propaganda
Reduced debate and dissent
Expanded constitutional rights
Prohibited sharing defense information
92
Why did the United States take control of Haiti in 1915?
Business interests
Political instability
Economic instability
All of the above
93
Why did the US Senate refuse to join the League of Nations?
Disagreements with Wilson
Opposition from European countries
Fear of losing power
Lack of interest
94
What did the 18th Amendment prohibit?
Alcohol
Evolution
Immigration
Colonization
95
Which tradition believed ordinary citizens should participate in politics
The Whigs
The Federalists
Jacksonian Democrats
Parliament
96
Why did President Eisenhower believe it was important to aid Vietnam?
Spread communism
Expand territory
Prevent communism
Strengthen alliances
97
What did FDR believe was the only thing to fear?
Fear itself
Despair and sadness
Unemployment
Financial ruin
98
What was the purpose of the Fireside Chats?
Music and art
Entertainment for citizens
Keep people informed
Political propaganda
99
Which Compromise prohibited slavery in certain areas prior to the Civil War?
Kansas-Nebraska Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Great Compromise
100
Which president proposed the League of Nations?
Barack Obama
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
101
Political machines offered help to immigrants in exchange for votes.
True
False
102
Who believed in immediate integration and rights for former slaves?
Julia Ward Howe
W.E.B. DuBois
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Woodrow Wilson
103
What did settlement houses provide in poor urban neighborhoods?
Jobs
Political power in the hands of the people
Regulation of businesses
Food, shelter, and education
104
The 14th and 15th Amendments emboldened suffragettes to fight harder for their goal of expanding the vote to women
False
True
105
Where did Vietnam gain its independence from in 1954?
Japan
France
Philippines
China
106
What did President Eisenhower caution the nation against in his farewell address?
Threat of economic inequality
Threat of nuclear weapons
Threat of military-industrial complex
Threat of terrorist aggression
107
Which country did the US purchase Alaska from?
Spain
Germany
Russia
England
108
The Radical Republicans...
did not want Southern states readmitted quickly
heavily influenced Reconstruction after Lincoln's assasination
All of the above
wanted to punish Southerners for the Civil War
109
What impact did US involvement have in WWI?
Strengthened European countries
Increased dissent
Led to Germany's defeat
Caused economic instability
110
Who was the first woman on the US Supreme Court?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sandra Day O’Connor
Hillary Clinton
Nancy Pelosi
111
What was the purpose of Wilson's League of Nations?
Expand American influence
Ensure peace and independence
Promote democracy
Unite European countries
112
Why was General Douglas MacArthur fired during the Korean War?
MacArthur's desire to rid North Korea
President Truman's desire for American lives
President Truman's insubordination claim
MacArthur's desire for a short war
113
Who coined the term 'Containment Policy'?
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
George F. Kennan
Douglas MacArthur
114
What caused the Gulf War?
Iran nuclear program
Afghanistan conflict
Soviet Union collapse
Iraq invasion of Kuwait
115
Who served as Prime Minister of the UK from 1979-1990?
Margaret Thatcher
Queen Elizabeth II
Princess Diana
Theresa May
116
Who founded the United Negro Improvement Association?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Marcus Garvey
Julia Ward Howe
Carrie Chapman Catt
117
Which war did Ronald Reagan confront during his presidency?
Cold War
Iraq War
Vietnam War
Persian Gulf War
118
Who became the first African American to earn a Harvard Ph.D?
Julia Ward Howe
Susan B. Anthony
W.E.B. DuBois
Carrie Chapman Catt
119
What did all of these acts have in common?
They were aimed at raising revenue for colonial legislatures
They all required soldiers to stay in citizens' homes
They were intended to get colonies to pay for the French and Indian War
They were early legislation passed by the U.S. Congress
120
Jim Crow discrimination ended immediately after World War II.
True
False
