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