85 U.S. History questıons

QUESTION 1

1. During the late 1800s, where did many immigrants to the United States come from?
   

   		Russia
   		Bulgaria
   		Romania
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 2

1. Why were some whites hostile toward foreign immigrants?
   

   		They did not like American government.
   		They had cultural differences.
   		They were lazy.
   		They were aloof.

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QUESTION 3

1. This legislation was designed to control the number of immigrants who crossed the border.
   

   		The American Protective Act
   		The Alien Land Law
   		U.S. Immigration Act
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 4

1. Why did associations for many professions began in the late 1800s?
   

   		to allow members to get more money
   		to raise safety standards
   		to get middle class status
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 5

1. Immigrants went to urban ghettos of the late 1800s to
   

   		complete the process for full citizenship.
   		live among people of a similar culture.
   		find work.
   		live in tenement houses.

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QUESTION 6

1. What were tenements?
   

   		office buildings converted to housing
   		federal government paid public housing
   		low cost apartments
   		mobile homes

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QUESTION 7

1. Which of the following was a popular job for African Americans who migrated north in the early 1900s?
   

   		meatpacker
   		steelworker
   		porter
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 8

1. A political machine is
   

   		when groups become democrats to back an elected official.
   		when groups organize to back a certain elected official.
   		a political action committee.
   		a group of large donors backing a certain elected official.

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QUESTION 9

1. Which of the following statements is true?
   

   		Many social reformers believed that the unhealthy environment shaped the negative behavior in the city.
   		Many social reformers were members of the middle class.
   		Some charity organizations used Christian teachings as a reform method.
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 10

1. ________ was the founder of Hull House.
   

   		Jacob Riis
   		Jane Adams
   		Jane Hull
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 11

1. In public schools, foreign-born immigrant children could learn
   

   		English.
   		American values.
   		patriotism.
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 12

1. Yellow Journalism” was a form of entertainment because it
   

   		excited readers with information.
   		entertained readers with fiction.
   		fictionalized real events.
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 13

1. What did the Interstate Commerce Act require railroad companies to do?
   

   		Set rates that were proportional to the distance traveled.
   		Publish their rates publicly.
   		Pay a tax to cross state lines.
   		both Set rates that were proportional to the distance traveled and Publish their rates publicly.

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QUESTION 14

1. Which political part did the political organization of the farmers create?
   

   		Democratic Party
   		Socialist Party
   		Populist Party
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 15

1. He published newspapers with sensational content.
   

   		O. Henry
   		William R. Hearst
   		Joseph Pulitzer
   		both William R. Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer

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QUESTION 16

1. Which of the following was a reason for U.S. expansionism?
   

   		to expand U.S. culture
   		to open more markets
   		to increase immigration
   		to colonize other nations

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QUESTION 17

1. After settling a dispute between Great Britain and ________, the U.S. realized its influence as a world power.
   

   		Cuba
   		the Philippines
   		Venezuela
   		Spain

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QUESTION 18

1. U.S. entrepreneurs ________ in Hawaii.
   

   		established commercial activity
   		vacationed
   		attended school
   		built a Naval base

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QUESTION 19

1. Roosevelt supported a Panamanian revolt against Columbia in order to
   

   		take over Columbia.
   		take over Panama.
   		build the Panama Canal.
   		acquire more territory than France.

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QUESTION 20

1. Hawaii was annexed to the U.S. in
   

   		1904
   		1914
   		1878
   		1898

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QUESTION 21

1. He Kept Us Out Of War” was a slogan for
   

   		Wilson’s first Presidential election.
   		Roosevelt’s first Presidential election.
   		Wilson’s reelection campaign.
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 22

1. During World War I, convoys
   

   		were Allied force submarines.
   		rescued soldiers in the water.
   		protected ships carrying supplies to Great Britain’s Naval forces.
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 23

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
   

   		Wilson proposed a League of Nations in the Fourteen Points.
   		The Treaty of Versailles included a reparations bill for Germany of 33 billion dollars.
   		The Central Powers lost World War I.
   		Wilson wanted tariffs on trade.

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QUESTION 24

1. Liberty Bonds were sold to
   

   		finance World War I.
   		keep cities afloat.
   		pay back loans from other nations.
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 25

1. ________ was a World War I commander.
   

   		George Dewey
   		Teddy Roosevelt
   		John Pershing
   		none of the Above

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QUESTION 1

1. Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell were
   

   		yellow journalists.
   		muckrakers.
   		advertisers.
   		candidates.

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QUESTION 2

1. Progressive politics were
   

   		the political reform of farmers.
   		city politics.
   		the politics of political machines and machine bosses.
   		the politics of increased government regulation and reform.

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QUESTION 3

1. The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution granted
   

   		the direct election of local officials.
   		the direct election of the Presidential Cabinet.
   		the direct election of senators.
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 4

1. This organization worked to get the women’s national right to vote.
   

   		the Republican Women’s Auxiliary
   		the League of Women Voters
   		the National Woman’s Suffrage Association
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 5

1. _______ was a Progressive muckraking journalist.
   

   		Frances Perkins
   		Lucretia Mott
   		Florence Kelly
   		Ida Tarbell

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QUESTION 6

1. Arguments that supported temperance included
   

   		alcohol was to hard to make.
   		men were too productive under the influence of alcohol.
   		social order would be restored without alcohol.
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 7

1. Bootleggers
   

   		manufactured illegal alcohol.
   		owned speakeasies.
   		sold the only legal alcohol.
   		smuggled alcohol across borders.

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QUESTION 8

1. Schenck v. United States supported this legislation.
   

   		communism
   		the Palmer Raids
   		the Espionage Act
   		the Sacco and Vanzetti trial

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QUESTION 9

1. _______ was a teacher who was arrested for teaching evolution in the 1920s.
   

   		Nicola Vanzetti
   		John Scopes
   		William Bryan
   		Clarence Darrow

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QUESTION 10

1. Francis Willard led the
   

   		National Woman’s Suffrage Association.
   		Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
   		Anti-Saloon League.
   		National Woman’s Party.

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QUESTION 11

1. With the help of white Progressives, he formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
   

   		Langston Hughes
   		W.E.B Du Bois
   		Booker T. Washington
   		Duke Ellington

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QUESTION 12

1. He wrote books that discredited the politics of the 1920s.
   

   		H.L. Mencken
   		Ernest Hemingway
   		Edward Hopper
   		F. Scott Fitzgerald

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QUESTION 13

1. Newspaper chains and broadcast houses allowed
   

   		information to travel cheaply.
   		information to reach a greater market share.
   		information to be fictionalized.
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 14

1. After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,
   

   		women formed a Republican Party auxiliary.
   		women formed a Democratic Party auxiliary.
   		the League of Women Voters was formed.
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 15

1. Which of the following was a jazz musician and composer?
   

   		W.E.B. Du Bois
   		Langston Hughes
   		Duke Ellington
   		Edward Hopper

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QUESTION 16

1. A(n) _______ was a popular way to purchase goods in the 1920s.
   

   		Layaway
   		Consumer loan
   		Installment plan
   		Credit card

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QUESTION 17

1. Henry Ford used this process to produce cars quickly.
   

   		scientific management theory
   		an assembly line
   		interchangeable parts
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 18

1. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff
   

   		made it easier to purchase American crops.
   		raised the tax rate on many imports.
   		raised the tax rate on many exports.
   		made it more profitable to buy foreign goods.

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QUESTION 19

1. Making a margin purchase means to buy stock
   

   		in small increments.
   		with banking insurance.
   		on credit.
   		that will go up in value quickly.

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QUESTION 20

1. ________ succeeded Warren G. Harding as President.
   

   		Woodrow Wilson
   		Calvin Coolidge
   		Herbert Hoover
   		Franklin Roosevelt

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QUESTION 21

1. October 29, 1929 is a significant date because
   

   		of Black Tuesday.
   		over 16 million shares of stock were sold.
   		it was the beginning of the Great Depression.
   		all of the above

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QUESTION 22

1. The grassy roots were gone and the wind was high describes which of the following?
   

   		Plain’s Dust
   		Dust Bowl
   		Plains Bowl
   		Dusty Plains

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QUESTION 23

1. During the Election of 1932, his ideology was not popular among the poor.
   

   		Andrew Mellon
   		Franklin Roosevelt
   		Herbert Hoover
   		Calvin Coolidge

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QUESTION 24

1. During the Great Depression, this program sent funds to local relief agencies.
   

   		SSA
   		FERA
   		SEC
   		WPA

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QUESTION 25

1. He was elected President in 1936.
   

   		Calvin Coolidge
   		Franklin D. Roosevelt
   		Herbert Hoover
   		Harry S. Truman

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QUESTION 1

1. In October 1941, _____________ became the Prime Minister of Japan.
   

   		General Jiang Jieshi
   		Mao Zedong
   		General Hideki Tojo
   		Ho Chi Minh

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QUESTION 2

1. Japan conquered ___________ in 1931.
   

   		Philippines
   		Vietnam
   		Coral Sea
   		Manchuria

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QUESTION 3

1. Putting the needs of a nation as a whole above those of its citizens is known as?
   

   		Marxism
   		Leninism
   		Fascism
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 4

1. Aggressive expansion by ____________ was seen as a significant cause of World War II.
   

   		Poland
   		United States
   		Great Britain
   		Germany

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QUESTION 5

1. ____________ desired a more active role for the United States after his reelection in 1940.
   

   		Franklin D. Roosevelt
   		Harry S. Truman
   		Dwight D. Eisenhower
   		General George S. Patton

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QUESTION 6

1. Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II?
   

   		Joseph Kennedy
   		Winston Churchill
   		Noah Webster
   		Robert Kennedy

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QUESTION 7

1. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was successful in leading British and American forces to victory in Austria and Australia.
   

   		True
   		False

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QUESTION 8

1. The RAF provided aerial support to Allied forces during World War II.
   

   		True
   		False

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QUESTION 9

1. ___________ was referred to as the Desert Fox during World War II.
   

   		General George Marshall
   		General Erwin Rommel
   		General George S. Patton
   		General Bernard Montgomery

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QUESTION 10

1. The allied invasion of ___________ eventually led to the end of World War II.
   

   		the Phillipines
   		Vietnam
   		Manchuria
   		Western Europe

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QUESTION 11

1. The Japanese utilized _________, or suicide bombers, during World War II.
   

   		kamikazes
   		wolf packs
   		blimps
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 12

1. In which event were Kamikazes first used?
   

   		Pearl Harbor
   		Battle of Leyte
   		Battle of Coral Sea
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 13

1. General Douglass MacArthur was an opponent of the liberation of the Philippines.
   

   		True
   		False

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QUESTION 14

1. This was introduced in 1944 to help those individuals that had been persecuted for their faith.
   

   		NAFTA
   		The Alliance for Progress
   		The War Refuge Board
   		The American Expeditionary Force

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QUESTION 15

1. The ___________ led to the construction of the atomic bomb.
   

   		Manhattan Project
   		Alien Sedition Acts
   		Alliance for Progress
   		none of the above

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QUESTION 16

1. The shift to wartime production during World War II served as an asset to the American economy.
   

   		True
   		False

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QUESTION 17

1. Which of the following was ultimately on the rise during World War II.
   

   		Union membership
   		Sit-ins
   		Freedom rides
   		Religious revivals

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QUESTION 18

1. ____________ was created in 1941 in an effort to avoid wartime shortages.
   

   		The OPA
   		The CCC
   		The FDA
   		The NAFTA

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QUESTION 19

1. ___________ provided a vast source of revenue for financing World War II.
   

   		Import taxes
   		Wall Street
   		Embargoes
   		War bonds

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QUESTION 20

1. American industries during World War II focused on wartime production.
   

   		True
   		False

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QUESTION 21

1. Rationing helped with America’s wartime efforts.
   

   		True
   		False

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QUESTION 22

1. Sports, magazines, and movies were all seen as favorite pastimes during World War II.
   

   		True
   		False

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QUESTION 23

1. As a result of the draft, there was a labor shortage that caused women to enter the workforce.
   

   		True
   		False

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QUESTION 24

1. ___________ became a major issue for women during World War II.
   

   		Legal rights
   		Crime
   		Affordable housing
   		Child care

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QUESTION 25

1. Americans of Japanese descent were seen as a threat during World War II.
   

   		True
   		False

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QUESTION 26

1. Which of the following was passed by the German government in 1935?
   

   		The Marshall Plan
   		The Open Door Policy
   		The Nuremberg Laws
   		None of the above

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QUESTION 27

1. The ___________ was a result of the Yalta Conference.
   

   		Marshall Plan
   		Nuremberg Trials
   		Execution of Hitler
   		inception of the United Nations

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QUESTION 28

1. _____________ feared an iron curtain could spread throughout Eastern Europe.
   

   		Karl Marx
   		George Kennan
   		Adolph Hitler
   		Winston Churchill

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QUESTION 29

1. The creation of NATO was based on the ____________ not meeting the American government’s expectations.
   

   		Marshall Plan
   		Truman Doctrine
   		Warsaw Pact
   		United Nations

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QUESTION 30

1. What were the results of the 1945 Nuremberg Trial?
   

   		No real precedent had been set.
   		Those of the Jewish faith were granted religious toleration.
   		All twenty four Nazi leaders were found guilty and executed.
   		None of the above

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QUESTION 31

1. Following World War II, what was still a major issue in America?
   

   		The environment
   		Higher wages for women
   		Healthcare
   		Racial concerns

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QUESTION 32

1. ____________ earned a reputation as a housing developer after World War II.
   

   		Daniel Ellsberg
   		Meriwether Lewis
   		Jacob S. Coxey
   		William J. Levitt

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QUESTION 33

1. Adolph Hitler’s secret police were known as
   

   		Atheists.
   		Agnostics.
   		the Gestapo.
   		the Communist Manifesto.

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QUESTION 34

1. Rosa Parks gained national attention when she
   

   		graduated from college.
   		applied to medical school.
   		was appointed to the Supreme Court.
   		refused to give up her seat on a bus.

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QUESTION 35

1. ___________ served as the leader of Soviet Union from 1924-1953.
   

   		Adolph Hitler
   		Kaiser Wilhelm
   		Friedrich Von Steuban
   		Joseph Stalin

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