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An overview of American History since 1865
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1
What ship was sunk in Havana, Cuba which helped convince the US to go to war with Spain?
USS Constitution
USS John F. Kennedy
USS Maine
USS Arizona
2
Early 20th century embellished, exaggerated, often nonfactual news used to sway public opinion.
Jingoism
Yellow Journalism
Plagiarism
Nativism
3
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union in World War II?
Joseph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
4
Major event in Ireland causing large scale immigration of Irish to the US in the mid 1800’s?
Revolution
Violence between Catholics and Protestants
Irish Potato Famine
Formation of the Irish Republican Army
5
The almost 50 year period of conflict between the Soviet Union and US between 1945-1991.
The Russian Revolution
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
The War on Terror
6
Nickname for Northern Republicans who moved to the South after the Civil War?
Scalawags
Progressives
Confederates
Carpetbaggers
7
The Harlem Renaissance was
An African American literary and cultural awakening
The first airplane to cross the Atlantic Ocean
A popular New York jazz club
The nickname for the growing immigrant pop. of the 1920's
8
Those that lived on and farmed land from which they were allowed to keep about 1/3 of the crops
Tennant Farmer
Slave
Sharecropper
Indentured Servant
9
“Black Tuesday” refers to the day that
the music died
The Bonus Army marched
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected
the stock market crashed
10
What group claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks?
ISIS
Iran
Al Qaeda
The Black Hand
11
What was the German plan for a war on two fronts in WWI?
The Kaiser Plan
The Marshall Plan
The Final Solution
The Schlieffen Plan
12
Which country did the United States invade directly after the 9/11 attacks?
Iraq
Iran
Afghanistan
North Korea
13
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s most famous presidential policy is known as
The Great Society
The New Deal
The Square Deal
The New Right
14
What do we call the day on June 6, 1944 where US troops invaded Normandy to liberate France?
D Day
Memorial Day
VE Day
VJ Day
15
The Reconstruction Amendments (13-15) are also called the Civil Rights amendments because
they guarantee the right to a trial by jury of peers
each was passed to protect the rights of former slaves
each was created to end problems between the North and South
they reformed voting, setting 18 as the minimum voting age
16
Which US president authored the Fourteen Points that established the League of Nations.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Harry S. Truman
17
In response to the Great Recession of 2007-08 what policies did President George W Bush enact?
The Trust Busting Act
The Underwood Tariff Act
The Economic Stimulus Act
The Lend-Lease Act
18
Organizations that pushed for safer working conditions, shorter days, and higher wages
Labor Unions
School Boards
Organized Crime
Trade Boards
19
What treaty formally ended the World War I?
The Berlin Conference
The Geneva Accords
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris
20
As a result of the New Deal, the role of the government in the economy
Remained the same
Decreased
Increased
Was not affected
21
One complaint that "Nativists" made was that immigrants
took over American farms
adopted American customs too freely
took jobs away from Native born Americans
were mostly Protestants
22
Provides equal protection under the law and defines citizenship.
13th Amendment
11th Amendment
14th Amendment
12th Amendment
23
Outlawed slavery in the United States
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
10th Amendment
11th Amendment
24
Civil rights leader who urged Black Americans to use more physical means to achieve success.
Cesar Chavez
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
25
One negative effect of Prohibition was the rising power of
Sports and Movie stars
Organized Crime
Movies and media
the Federal Government
26
Southern laws that placed land restrictions, curfews, etc. on freed blacks after 1865
Black Codes
Bill of Rights
Civil Rights
1st amendment
27
What German naval weapon gave them an advantage in the ocean during WWI?
Aircraft Carriers
U-Boats
Airplanes like the The Fokker
Battleships
28
How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany?
It gave the German’s more colonies
It gave them the chance to develop nuclear weapons
It created a sense of friendship between nations and Germany
It forced reparations for damages in WWI on the nation
29
The United States dropped atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities?
Tokyo and Berlin
Berlin and Rome
Rome and Hiroshima
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
30
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Lee Harvey Oswald
Gavrilo Princip
Samuel Gravano
31
Women and minorities gained a sense of patriotism and aided both war efforts from 1914-45, by?
Joining the military
Working in factories and other domestic jobs
Registering for the draft
Digging trenches on the Western Front
32
Tenements were found in
Middle class suburbs
Crowded industrial cities
Rural farming areas
Exclusively in Europe
33
Mass production of the automobile was made possible by:
steel engines
the assembly line
child labor
organized labor
34
After WWI, The Senate rejected U.S. membership in the league of nations because
membership would force us into future foreign wars
the US could avoid giving financial aid to a foreign nations
membership jeopardized a military alliance with Cuba
of concerns for domestic issues like the Great Depression
35
What is the time period after the Civil War called?
Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Roaring 20's
Reconstruction
36
Restriction the number of Chinese able to move to the US in 1882.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Civil Rights Act
American Reinvestment Act
Jim Crow Laws
37
What was the German strategy of naval warfare after they backed out of the Sussex Pledge?
Nuclear warfare
Tactical War
Strategic bombing
Unrestricted submarine warfare
38
Which US president saw a period of budget surpluses in the late 1990’s?
George H. W. Bush
Barrack Obama
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
39
American President who "Trust busted" monopolies calling a "Square Deal" for all Americans.
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Rutherford B Hayes
Theodore Roosevelt
40
The New Deal entitlement program that persists today to help the elderly and unemployed
Social Security
Department of Homeland Security
Works Progress Administration
American Association of Retired Persons
41
US president claimed in 1824 that European influence in Latin America would not be tolerated!
James Monroe
George H.W. Bush
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
42
All of the following were causes of WWI,
EXCEPT
The Alliance System
Imperialism
Militarism
Pacifism
43
The 1896 Supreme Court case
Plessy v. Ferguson
declared slavery illegal
denounced the violence of the Ku Klux Klan
decided the legality of sharecropping
approved the idea of separate but equal
44
When World War I began, the United States
joined the Central Powers
declared war on Germany
torpedoed the Lusitania
declared its neutrality
45
US president responsible for “Trickle Down” theory as part of his economic policy?
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
46
A major problem facing worker building the Panama Canal in a foreign country was
Revolution in Panama
Disease
French interference
Lack of money
47
Who did Hitler agree to not fight with by signing a ten year non-aggression pact?
The Soviet Union
The United States
Czechoslovakia
Austria
48
Person who refused to give up her seat on a bus that inspired the chorus of this Outkast song.
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Florence Nightingale
Rosa Parks
49
Food, clothing, and education were provided to former slaves by the
Freedman's Bureau
Wade-Davis Bill
Conservatives
KKK
50
One cause of the stock market crash saw many investors purchased stock by,
buying on "layaway"
buying on margin
buying from flappers
buying from bootleggers
51
Which amendment grants all citizens the right to vote regardless of sex?
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
17th Amendment
16th Amendment
52
Civil rights leader who urged the use of non-violent civil disobedience was
Martin Luther King Jr.
Cesar Chavez
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
53
Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Appomattox Courthouse
Fredericksburg
Bull Run
54
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) sought to
organize schools for the newly freedmen
use terrorism and intimidation to stop black of civil rights
support the Radical Republicanism in the South
defeat its democratic enemies peacefully
55
World War I began with the
the German Kaiser insulting President Wilson
switching of sides to the Entente by Italy
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
bombing of Pearl Harbor
56
Improved transportation, mail delivery, and distribution of goods in the mid-late 1800’s?
International airport system
Transcontinental Railroad
The Panama Canal
Interstate highway system
57
A person who rented the land that they farmed and kept all the profits from the crop?
Indentured Servant
Slave
Tennant Farmer
Sharecropper
58
Grants all male citizens the right to vote regardless of previous condition of servitude
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
12th Amendment
59
What battle tactic caused WWI to become a bitter bloody stalemate on the western front?
Guerrilla Warfare
Trench Warfare
Nuclear Warfare
Naval Warfare
60
The Emancipation Proclamation stated
Slaves in the states loyal to the Union were freed
Slaves in states still in rebellion were freed
Northern blacks could enlist in the Union army.
All slaves were freed immediately
61
Event which saw Black Americans boycott buses for 382 days until segregation laws were lifted.
Occupy Wallstreet
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Million Man March
62
Two "
push factors
" that led immigrants to come to the U.S. were
Crowded land and revolution
Revolution and factory jobs
Religious persecution and a great amount of food
The promise of freedom and of a better life
