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1
You can always see your grade (average) on google classroom.
True
False
2
The U.S. was truly neutral prior to entering WWII.
True
False
3
In many ways, the Progressive Era came about in direct response to THIS time period directly before.
The Civil War
The Gilded Age
Reconstruction
The Great Depression
4
In 1957, nine African American students attended an all-white high school in:
Little Rock, Arkansas
Chicago, Illinois
Montgomery, Alabama
Charleston, North Carolina
5
This 1943 event exposed rampant discrimination towards Mexican Americans in the U.S.
The Long Walk
The 300-Mile March
The Seizure of Alcatraz
The Zoot Suit Riots
6
What Amendment achieved female suffrage?
20
16
19
22
7
What was the original name of the board game Monopoly?
The Monopolists Game
Game of Greed
Robber Barons and Rebels
The Landlord's Game
8
If you submit a major assignment two days late, by how much does your grade decrease?
10%
15%
5%
20%
9
Students are not allowed to use devices for note-taking.
False
True
10
The Black Panther Party created housing, education, food, and transportation programs for black communities.
True
False
11
What should you do if you are absent from class and wondering what you missed?
Look at the Unit Syllabus
Email Mrs. Staysniak and ask for a full run-down
12
What programs were created during FDRs presidency to address the Great Depression?
War on Poverty
Great Society
Fair Deal
New Deal
13
You can keep headphones/AirPods in during class.
False
True
14
In large part due to the Selma-Montgomery March, what Act was passed in 1965?
The Voting Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act
The Equal Rights Amendment
The Freedom Act
15
What workplace tragedy on March 25, 1911 prompted the passage of dozens of workplace safety laws?
The Washingston Bridge Collapse
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Disaster
The Tea Pot Dome Fire
The Triangle Fire
16
All of the following groups were supportive of prohibition except:
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
The Suffrage Movement
The Pro-Saloon League
The Ku Klux Klan
17
What strategy did the U.S. use in the Pacific Theater during WWII?
Land invasion of mainland Japan
Island-hopping
Crash and Burn
Kamikazes
18
The U.S. is the only country in the history of the world to have dropped an atomic weapon on another nation.
False
True
19
The poem excerpt below is most appropriately connected to
The Suffrage Movement
Immigration
World War I
World War II
20
What 1896 court case legalized "separate but equal"?
Obergefell v. Hodges
Plessy v. Ferguson
Schenck v. the United States
Brown v. Board of Education
21
Prior to and during the "Jim Crow South," these laws prevented many African Americans from racial and economic equality.
The Segregation Laws
The Laws of Southern Aggression
The Black Codes
Dixie Laws
22
All of the following are major leaders of the modern Civil Rights Movement except:
Ella Baker
Diane Nash
Booker T. Washington
John Lewis
23
What Amendment prohibited the sale, consumption, and distribution of alcohol?
20
18
19
21
24
Who was president at the start of the Great Depression?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Herbert Hoover
25
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized and executed primarily by African American men.
False
True
26
1960s race riots took place in all of the following cities except:
Detroit, Michigan
Brooklyn, New York
Watts, Los Angeles
Newark, New Jersey
27
Mrs. Staysniak uses Aspen for all grading, including small homework assignments.
True
False
28
All of the following were movements of the Progressive Era except:
Labor
Temperance
Environmental
Suffrage
29
This photograph was taken at
Hiroshima
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Nagasaki
30
The photograph below is from:
The March on Washington
The Boston Bus Boycott
The Selma-Montgomery March
The March for Jobs and Freedom
31
The United States joined the League of Nations after WWI.
True
False
32
One can still be prosecuted under the Espionage Act today.
False
True
33
The photograph below depicts an attack on what Civil Rights Movement group?
Freedom Summer
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedom Riders
Highlander School
34
Frequently, monopolists were also referred to as:
Muckrakers
Bosses
Dragons
Robber Barons
35
"The Ballot or the Bullet" was a famous speech by what Civil Rights Leader?
John Lewis
Malcolm X
Ella Baker
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
36
How long did Prohibition last?
10 years
13 years
20 years
19 years
37
What prompted the U.S. to join WWII?
The Zimmerman Telegram
The attack on Pearl Harbor
D-Day
The attacks on 9/11
38
What landmark 1954 court case overturned
Plessy v. Ferguson
?
Brown v. Board of Education
Roe v. Wade
Obergefell v. Hodges
Schenck vs. the United States
39
You are allowed to submit late assignments only within the unit in which it is assigned.
False
True
40
FDR's Executive Order 9066 created:
The United Nations
The League of Nations
The Espionage Act
Japanese Internment Camps
41
In 1960, four young African American men sat at an all-white Woolworth's lunch counter in:
Greensboro, North Carolina
Selma, Alabama
Atlanta, Georgia
Wilmington, Missouri
42
What is the title of this political cartoon?
We the Monopolists
Monopolists of Congress
Bosses of the Senate
Monsters & Monopolists
43
What happened on June 6, 1944?
The end of WWII
Italy's surrender
D-Day
Hitler's suicide
44
All of the following were famous muckrakers except:
Teddy Roosevelt
Jacob Riis
Lewis Hine
Ida Tarbell
45
The U.S. declared war on THIS nation on December 8, 1941
Italy
Japan
Germany
Russia
46
One of the primary ways the KKK
terrorized
African Americans in the South was through
Open voting
Lynchings
Segregated schools
Economic suppression
47
All of the following are famous songs of the modern Civil Rights Movement except:
"We Shall Overcome"
"Strange Fruit"
"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around"
"Eyes on the Prize"
48
What was the significance of the DATE of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington?
It was the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
As a result of this march, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act on this day
It was the 8-year anniversary of Emmett Till's murder
49
In what year was both the 18th and 19th Amendment (prohibition & suffrage) passed?
1925
1920
1917
1921
50
When was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
November 22, 1940
December 7, 1939
September 1, 1939
51
What famous 1906 novel was
meant
to convert people to socialism but instead "hit [people] in the stomach"?
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Jungle
52
Leaders of the Progressive Era criticized THIS social and economic theory that was popularized during the Gilded Age.
Racial Reconstruction
Survival of the Fittest
Social Darwinism
Evolution
53
Academic dishonesty/plagiarism will result in what consequence?
A zero and behavior report
50% off
Mandatory re-do of the assignment
54
Who was one of the most famous poets of the Harlem Renaissance?
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
Virginia Woolf
Andy Warhol
55
You do not need to raise your hand and ask to use the restroom.
True
False
56
The massive movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the North in the early 1900s:
The Great Migration
Reconstruction
The Harlem Renaissance
The New Revival
57
"Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal." Who said this quote?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Kerner Commission
Lyndon B. Johnson
Malcolm X
58
"Roll Jordan Roll" and "Wade in the Water" are two examples of:
Harlem Renaissance music
Blues songs
Slave spirituals
Civil Rights Movement songs
59
THIS Act makes it illegal to publish national defense info. that could be detrimental to a U.S. war effort
The Covert Operations Act
The Alien and Sedition Act
The Loyalty Act
The Espionage Act
60
THIS film, produced in 1915, dramatically increased KKK membership.
"Gone With the Wind"
"Citizen Kane"
"All Quiet on the Western Front"
"Birth of a Nation"
61
In what year did the stock market crash?
1933
1929
1928
1939
62
The term "Jim Crow" is in reference to a fictional character played by a white actor wearing "black face" in the 1820s.
True
False
63
What prompted the United States to join WWI?
The Zimmerman Telegram
The U.S. didn't directly fight in WWI
Pearl Harbor
Sinking of the Lusitania
64
What fictional character is depicted in the images?
Rosie the Riveter
Florence Nightingale
Aunt Sam
Franny the Hammer
65
You should bring your textbook to class everyday.
False
True
66
The United States was truly neutral prior to entering WWI.
True
False
67
When is Mrs. Staysniak's birthday?
February 20th
November 5th
October 31st
July 4th
68
What made the funeral of Emmett Till particularly significant?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream Speech" at the service
His mother decided to have an open-casket funeral and invite the public
The two men who murdered Till were found guilty on the day of the funeral
It took place in the town where he was murdered.
69
The U.S. killed 100,000 people and destroyed 25% of THIS city in a firebombing sweep in 1945.
Tokyo
Iwo Jima
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
70
The United States had the highest death toll of all nations involved in WWI.
True
False
71
What Amendment overturned/repealed the 18th Amendment?
25
19
20
21
72
What natural disaster took place in the U.S. during the Great Depression?
The Great San Francisco Earth Quake
Hurricane Katrina
The Dust Bowl
The Tornado Catastrophe of the 1930s
73
President Woodrow Wilson screened "Birth of Nation" at the White House.
False
True
74
What helped bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression?
World War I
Reaganomics
The Baby Boomers
World War II
75
What two programs did the U.S. use to help aid the Allies prior to entering WWII?
There were no programs
Cash and Carry & Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease & Arms-for-Hostages
Arms-for-Hostages & Cash and Carry