EOC PRACTICE TEST II
Last, First Name______________________________________________Due Date____________Period____
1. The Palmer Raids of the 1920s disregarded civil liberties as the government ____
a. formally charged the family members of suspects who were deemed anarchist or communist sympathizers
b. performed illegal interrogations on under-age suspects
c. conducted numerous raids and arrests of suspected communist radicals
d. monitored incidents of alleged police brutality
2.
This picture represents which of the following? ____
a. the rise in monitoring criminal activity
b. the development of organized crime
c. the passing of the 19th Amendment
d. Americans’ disregard of Prohibition
3. The Cuban Missile Crisis resulted from ____
a. the Soviets’ refusal to assist the Cubans in a nuclear weapons program
b. the United States’ placement of missiles in Turkey
c . the Cuban rebellion against communist rule
d. the Soviet placement of missiles in Cuba
4. Warren G. Harding's presidency is plagued with the Teapot Dome Scandal, which was ____
a. the illegal selling of arms to foreign nations
b. a bribe to drill for oil on public lands
c. the illegal recording of conversations in a federal building
d. the attempt to cover up a large scale military operation
5. Why did the Chinese enter into the Korean War? ____
a. to stop the spread of communism into South Korea
c. to drive UN forces back across the 38th parallel
b. to come to the aid of UN forces
d. to keep American forces out of Asia
6. The Treaty of Versailles was never ratified by the United States. This is because the U.S. Constitution states that the
president has the authority to negotiate treaties with foreign nations; however, those treaties ____
a. must be written by members of Congress
b. must be ratified by the US Senate
d. must be approved by both the House and the Senate
d. must be ratified by the President’s Cabinet
7. Which of these describes the Harlem Renaissance? ____
a. the reemergence of the KKK
b. social tensions regarding the theory of evolution
c. the creation of the first motion pictures
d. a flowering of African American artists in every field
8. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy were both ____
a. leading civil rights activists b. assassinated in 1968
c. strong conservatives
d. presidential candidates
9. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society included all of the following EXCEPT ____
a. the Social Security Act
b. the Voting Rights Act
c. a minimum wage act
d. public housing for low-income families
10. Which of the following was a major effect of World War I on American society in 1917? ____
a. migration of African Americans to the north
b. reduction in income taxes
c. increase in the unemployment rate
d. entry of large numbers of women into the US military
11. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's policy of detente included ____
a. the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam
b. a heightened arms race with the Soviets
c. the passing of legislation against student protesters
d. a nuclear test ban treaty
12. Ida B. Wells is best known for her work ____
a. establishing the NAACP
c. supporting anti-lynching campaigns
b. with the Populist party
d. exposing political corruption in NYC
13. "There are but two sides . . . On the one side are the allied hosts of monopolies, the money power, great trusts and
railroad corporations . . . On the other are the farmers, laborers, merchants and all the people who produce wealth . . .
Between these two there is no middle ground."
These words were most likely spoken by ____
a. a Populist
b. a labor union leader
c. a Progressive
d. a venture capitalist
14. Why did such forms of entertainment as sports, movies, and music become popular in the 1920s? ____
a. entertainment venues were constructed all across the nation
b. it didn’t cost any money to visit an entertainment venue
c. people had more time and energy to spend on leisure
d. it was a way to learn about different cultures
15. Which of these was used for the first time in World War I? ____
a. naval infantry
b. trench warfare
c. mustard gas
d. napalm
16. All of the following were part of the Cold War EXCEPT ____
a. the Korean War
b. the Camp David Accords
c. the Cuban Missile Crisis
d. the formation of NATO
17. Who wrote The Great Gatsby, a novel depicting the modern era of the 1920s? ____
a. Gertrude Stein
b. John Steinbeck
c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
d. Ernest Hemingway
18. Which of these became a part of American culture in the 1980s? ____
a. illegal immigration
b. feminist ideology
c. greater awareness of AIDS
d. Affirmative Action
19. Born into slavery with the given name Isabella, which woman became a famous speaker on behalf of abolitionism
and women's rights? ____
a. Sojourner Truth
b. Dorothea Dix
c. Susan B. Anthony
d. Lucretia Mott
20. What was the ruling of the Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson? ____
a. literacy tests as a means to drive African Americans from politics were outlawed
b. segregation was not discriminatory if African American accommodations/institutions were equal
c. public schools throughout the USA were to be integrated
d. Jim Crow laws were deemed unconstitutional
21.
21. This image represents which development of
the early 20th century? ____
a. mass marketing
b. the creation of mail order retail businesses
c. wheat production
d. capital goods production
22. In relation to World War II, who were the Tuskegee Airmen? ____
a. the airmen involved in the Doolittle Raid
b. an elite group of highly trained bomber pilots
c. women who were allowed to fly cargo planes
d. a group of African American fighter pilots
23. Republican politician Henry Cabot Lodge was Woodrow Wilson's ____
a. political nemesis
b. Vice-President
c. Secretary of State
d. ambassador to the League of Nations
24. Which statement is true of President Andrew Johnson? ____
a. he worked tirelessly to accomplish equality for African Americans
b. he was successful in financially destroying the Ku Klux Klan
c. he was responsible for creating the Freedmen’s Bureau
d. he was the first US president to be impeached
25. During the mid-1800s, Dorothea Dix worked to improve conditions for ____
a. immigrant women
b. mentally ill prisoners
c. African Americans
26. During the 1950s, Levittown, New York, was ____
a. one of the earliest “planned” suburbs
c. home to the first U.S. space program
27. Ronald Reagan was the first U.S. president to ____
a. work with the Soviets to decrease nuclear weapon arsenals
c. appoint a female justice to the Supreme Court
d. orphaned children
b. the headquarters of the new television industry
d. headquarters of the new vaccine industry
b. travel to Berlin, Germany
d. nominate a female to a Cabinet position
28. As part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, President Clinton authorized U.S. involvement in which nation's
conflict? ____
a. Kuwait
b. Bosnia
c. Sudan
d. Iraq
29. In what way did the Civil War drastically change after the Emancipation Proclamation? ____
a. the abolition of slavery became the central goal of the Union effort
b. the Deep South states began to free their slaves
c. all slaves were freed in the Border States
d. all slavery within the USA was outlawed
30. As part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, Project Head Start worked to ____
a. provide economic assistance and hot meals to the elderly
b. establish financial assistance to poor, inner-city families
c. create government jobs for the uneducated and unemployed
d. provide pre-kindergarten services to disadvantaged young children
31. Which of the following was an important part of domestic policy in America during the 1920s? ____
a. labor unions were first created
b. women were welcomed into the industrial work force
c. restrictions were placed on immigration
d. socialism became an accepted political ideology
32. Which of these is associated with Ronald Reagan's presidency? ____
a. the rebirth of the conservative movement
b. balancing the federal budget
c. tax increases on the highest wage earners
d. intensified tensions with the USSR
33. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met several times to discuss ____
a. rising tensions in the Middle East
b. European Union monetary policies
c. trade embargoes
d. arms limitation
34. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were tried, convicted, and executed in 1953 for ____
a. selling arms to communist-backed governments in Europe
b. harboring communist spies from the USSR
c. transmitting atomic secrets to the Soviets
d. performing illegal actions as part of the Watergate scandal
35. Before the rebellious southern states could be readmitted into the Union, they all had to ____
a. receive an official presidential pardon
b. pay a heavy financial fine for being part of the Confederacy
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c. ratify the 13 Amendment
d. give 40 acres and a mule to newly freed slaves
36. During Reconstruction, the southern states were ____
a. held financially responsible for war debts
c. forced to elect former slaves into political office
b. coerced into enforcing Black Codes
d. divided into five military districts
37. Which of the following greatly impacted President Wilson's decision to become involved in World War I? ____
a. the destruction of the USS Maine
b. Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
c. his strong anti-German sentiment
d. his strong belief in pacifism
38. In what way did the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) contribute to the Civil Rights
Movement? ____
a. they facilitated student sit-ins
b. they organized the March on Washington
c. they struggled to integrate national public schools
d. they refused to ride on segregated public buses
39. The Pullman strike involved nationwide labor unions and ____
a. railroad companies
b. child labor laws
c. the steel industry
40. The Know-Nothings were closely associated with which of the following? ____
a. the Nullification Crisis
b. Anti-Federalists
c. anti-immigrant feeling
d. the meat-packing industry
d. the creation of labor unions
41. Prior to the 1860 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln challenged which politician to a series of seven debates?
____
a. Stephen Douglas
b. Jefferson Davis
c. Ulysses S. Grant
d. Henry Clay
42. "It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a
resentment, a bitter memory upon which peace would rest, not permanently but only as upon quicksand. Only a
peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a
common benefit. The right state of mind, the right feeling between nations, is as necessary for a lasting peace as is
the just settlement of vexed questions of territory or of racial and national allegiance."
These words were spoken in front of the U.S. Senate in January 1917 as part of the "peace without victory" speech
presented by ____
a. Robert La Follette
b. John J. Pershing
c. Frances Perkins
d. Woodrow Wilson
43. Which of these best describes a Progressive of the early 1900s? ____
a. a farmer trying to get his voice heard on a political level
b. a woman trying to earn the right to vote
c. a labor union leader trying to achieve workers’ rights
d. a reformer attempting to fix society’s problems
44. When discussing the War on Terror, President George W. Bush declared which three nations part of an "axis of
evil" in 2002? ____
a. Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea
b. North Korea, Cuba, Iran
c. Cuba, Iraq, Iran
d. North Korea, Iran, Iraq
45. The need for skilled laborers in the late nineteenth century decreased in large part because of ____
a. the high level of skilled workers already in America
b. new advances in management skills
c. the introduction of interchangeable parts and improvements in factory management/efficiency
d. the economy’s low demand for consumer products
46. Andrew Johnson launched his own reconstruction plan after Lincoln's assassination, which included ____
a. freeing all slaves in the former Confederate states
b. funding the Freedmen’s Bureau
c. refusing to pardon high-ranking Confederate officials
d. allowing southern towns, cities, and states to enforce Black Codes
47. Which two nations contemplated involvement in the American Civil War? ____
a. Great Britain and France
b. France and Mexico
c. Great Britain and Spain
d. Spain and France
48. The invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa were similar in that they ____
a. were islands in which American forces were violently defeated by the Japanese
b. were short, easy Allied victories that resulted in few American casualties
c. were islands which the Allies never attempted to invade
d. were both American victories, but at the cost of enormous casualties
49. Ratified during the Reconstruction era, the Fifteenth Amendment ____
a. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
b. prohibited slavery in all states within the Union
c. forbade states from denying a person the right to vote based on race, color, or previous status
d. divided the South into five military districts under the control of Union generals
50. Following World War II, what did Truman, Churchill, and Stalin agree to in regard to Germany? ____
a. they agreed to allow the USA to militarily control all of Germany
b. they chose not to occupy any territory within Germany
c. they agreed to divide it into four occupied zones controlled by various Allied governments/forces
d. they agreed to cede all of Germany to French control
51. The Truman Doctrine was issued in response to crises in which countries? ____
a. Iran and Iraq
b. Greece and Turkey
c. Algeria and China
d. Vietnam and Korea
52. In 1917, President Wilson formed the Committee on Public Information (CPI) to promote U.S. backing of the war.
As part of this organization's anti-German sentiment ____
a. German immigrants were relocated to the West Coast
b. citizens were banned from speaking German in public
c. Germans holding political office in the USA were arrested
d. sauerkraut was renamed “liberty cabbage”
53. Which of the following was a “pull factor” that drew African Americans from the South during the Great
Migration? ____
a. the availability of good jobs in the North and West
b. the influence of the Homestead Act on potential farmers
c. the construction of low-cost government housing in growing urban centers
d. the absence of segregation and racial discrimination outside the South
54. Why did the US feel it was necessary to build the Panama Canal?
a. it made it easier for the US Navy to patrol Latin America
b. it created a security buffer between South America and the USA
c. it prevented cheap Latin American goods from flooding the US market
d. it shortened shipping routes between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
55. The Kansas-Nebraska Act concerned which issue? ____
a. the right of Northerners to own slaves
b. the expansion of slavery into new territories
c. the return of escaped slaves to their owners
d. the sale of federal lands to slave owners
56. Which of these was a direct consequence of the Civil War? ____
a. the disintegration of the Whig Party
b. the addition of new states to the Union
c. the use of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery
d. the extension of voting rights to African American men
57. What was the main accomplishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau? ____
a. securing protections for African Americans’ voting rights
b. preventing violence against African Americans in the South
c. providing aid and education to newly emancipated slaves
d. helping Confederate states be re-admitted to the Union
58. “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor
deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” This excerpt from the Fourteenth
Amendment was proposed by Congress in response to which of the following? ____
a. the passage of Black Codes throughout the South
b. the rise of violence against emancipated slaves
c. the attempts of Democrats to limit the voting rights of African Americans throughout the nation
d. the emergence of white resistance to the Civil Rights movement
59. What is the term for the system of debt peonage that emerged in the South in the years immediately following the
Civil War? ____
a. serfdom
b. peonage
c. vassalage
d. sharecropping
60. “We should be satisfied to compel them to engage in coarse, common manual labor, and to punish them for
dereliction of duty or non-fulfillment of their contracts with such severity, as to make them useful, productive
laborers.” This statement, published in a southern magazine in 1866, indicates that its author would likely have
supported which of the following? ____
a. the formation of the Freedman’s Bureau
b. the ratification of the 14th Amendment
c. the relocation of emancipated slaves to Africa
d. the passage of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws
61. What was the main effect of the system of agricultural debt peonage that emerged in the South following the Civil
War? ____
a. African Americans were caught in a system that was nearly the same as slavery
b. African Americans left the South in large numbers to escape their debts
c. African Americans were unable to work in agricultural jobs
d. African Americans had to work for low wages to pay off the cost of their emancipation
62. Which of the following was the main reason that the federal government created a method for Native Americans
to become U.S. citizens? ____
a. to reduce the amount of money spent supporting Native Americans
b. to encourage Native Americans to assimilate into mainstream society
c. to undermine the legal basis of the treaties made with Native American tribes
d. to guarantee that Native Americans enjoyed constitutionally protected right to protect them from racist
discrimination
63. Based on the chart above, which statement describes the economic condition of American farm workers during
the 1920s? ____
a. the entry of more women into the industrial workforce meant fewer women were available for farm work
b. subsidies and other government programs allowed farm workers’ incomes to match those in industry
c. higher prices for farm products resulted in a higher standard of living for all agricultural workers
d. overproduction reduced crop prices and kept farm workers from enjoying the general prosperity of the time
64. Why did the US participate in the 1921 Washington Conference and sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928? ____
a. to reduce barriers to international trade
b. to expand American influence over Asia and Latin America
c. to form secret military alliances against future foreign aggression
d. to work with other nations to prevent future wars
Sources of Controversy During the 1920s:
 the passage of the 18th Amendment
(Prohibition) 1918
 passage of the Volstead Act 1919
 the Scopes “Monkey” Trial 1925
 emergence and behavior of the flappers
65. The controversies surrounding the issues listed in the box above were all signs of what aspect of American life?
____
a. the need for government intervention during economic crises
b. the tension between traditional and modern values and belief systems
c. the importance of fighting communism at home and abroad
d. the rising standard of living due to new technologies and inventions
66. “So far as [he – the name of a popular African American leader] preaches thrift, patience, and industrial training.
. .we must hold up his hands and strive with him. . .but so far as [he – the name of a popular African American
leader] apologizes for injustice, North or South, does not rightly value the privilege and duty of voting, belittles the
[devastating] effect of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambition of our brighter minds. . .we
must unceasingly and firmly oppose [his ideas].”
(66. continued) The ideas in this quote, from an African American leader of the early 1900s, reflect the beliefs of which
of the following? ____
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Ida B. Wells
c. Marcus Garvey
d. W.E. B. DuBois
67. Which of the following was not one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s goals during his First Hundred Days? ____
a. arranging treaties with foreign nations to create an international peace-keeping organization
b. establishing agricultural subsidies to relieve farmers
c. regulating banks to solve the root causes of the economic crisis
d. increasing government spending to stimulate production
68. Passage of which of the following represented a shift from the foreign policy that dominated American politics
between the two world wars? ____
a. the Lend-Lease Act
b. the Wagner Act
c. the Volstead Act
c. the Espionage Act
69. “The properly constituted military authorities feared an invasion of our West Coast and felt constrained to take
proper security measures. . . .Congress, reposing its confidence in this time of war in our military leaders – as
inevitably it must – determined that they should have the power to do just this.”
The quote above comes from the Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v. United States (1944) and refers to which of the
following? ____
a. the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan
b. the deportation of all Japanese-Americans back to Japan
c. the exclusion of Japanese-Americans for US military forces
d. the internment of Japanese-Americans in camps
70. Which of the following contributed to increasing tensions between the U.S. and the communist world at the
beginning of the Cold War? ____
a. the United States’ participation in the Korean War
b. the military intervention in Hungary by NATO forces
c. the efforts of the Soviet Union to place nuclear missiles in Turkey
d. the United States’ construction of a wall dividing East and West Berlin
71. Which Great Society program continued to receive significant public and political support in the 21st century? ____
a. Medicare
b. food stamps
c. Affirmative Action
d. subsidized federal housing for the poor
72.
“A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best
intention still tell me that’s true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.” Ronald Reagan, 1987
What was the event which prompted President Reagan’s comments, above? ____
a. the Iranian hostage crisis
b. the Iran-Contra Affair
c. the invasion of Grenada
d. the first bombing of the World Trade Center
73. What was the goal of African American and white volunteers during the Freedom Summer? ____
a. to train African Americans in basic job skills
b. to protest segregated eating establishments
c. to integrate state-supported universities
d. to register African Americans to vote
74. What did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. urge his followers to do in order to bring about racial justice? ____
a. to lobby Congress for reparations payments for the damages slavery had inflicted on African Americans
b. to engage in acts of civil disobedience
c. to vote only for African American candidates
d. to file lawsuits against segregationists and discriminatory organizations
75. “I submit, for the consideration of the Congress and the country, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The Act
does not merely expand old programs or improve what is already being done. It charts a new course. . . .It can be a
milestone in our 180 year search for a better life for our people.” President Lyndon Johnson, 1964
President Johnson submitted this act to deal with which of the following concerns? ____
a. the lack of a minimum wage law
b. widespread unemployment
c. unequal pay and opportunities for women
d. a high level of poverty in the USA
76. What effect did the Eisenhower Interstate System have on American society in the 1950s and 1960s? ____
a. it contributed to suburbanization
b. it shifted the economy away from agriculture
c. it increased Americans’ reliance on government aid
d. it slowed down the post-war baby boom
77. Which of these was used to justify US support for South Vietnam? ____
a. internationalism
b. McCarthyism
c. the domino theory
d. the nuclear arms race
78. What was the name given to the 1940s policy of providing economic and military support to “free people” fighting
against “outside pressures”? ____
a. the Marshall Plan
b. the Declaration of Human Rights
c. the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
d. the Truman Doctrine
79. What was the purpose of the Palmer Raids? ____
a. to find and deport illegal immigrants
c. to break the power of the Ku Klux Klan
b. to identify and punish suspected communists
d. to arrest the leaders of organized crime
80. Which movement benefited most from its’ members contributions to the war effort during WW I? ____
a. populism
b. temperance
c. women’s suffrage
d. Civil Rights
81.
CHANGES IN U.S. TARIFF POLICY 1920 – 1930
May 1921 – Emergency Tariff increases import taxes on agricultural products
September 1922 – Fordney-McCumber Tariff raises tariffs on farm & manufactured goods
June 1930 – Smoot-Hawley Tariff increases tariff levels to record high
What conclusion can be drawn from the timeline above? ____
a. the American economy was almost entirely self-sufficient throughout the 1920s
b. during the 1920s Congress supported domestic producers with a protective trade policy
c. during the 1920s the United States shifted from an export-based economy to an import-based economy
d. crop prices and corporate profits increased steadily during the 1920s as a result of government policy
82. Which U.S. president pursued a policy of Vietnamization? ____
a. Gerald Ford
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Richard Nixon
d. Lyndon Johnson
83. The Gentleman’s Agreement between President Theodore Roosevelt and Japan resulted in a decrease of which of
these? ____
a. Japanese troops stationed in Manchuria
b. Japanese immigration to the United States
c. tariffs between Japan and the USA
d. U.S. and Japanese fleets in the Pacific Ocean
84. Which statement describes both the First and the Second Industrial Revolutions? ____
a. both resulted in migration from urban to rural areas
b. both relied on steel and oil to promote growth
c. both led to an increase in the number of farmers
d. both produced technologies that improved productivity
85. The First Industrial Revolution (in the late 1700 and early 1800s) was focused mostly on which industry? ____
a. textiles
b. farming
c. steel
d. domestic appliances
86. The Second Industrial Revolution (mid to late 1800s, early 1900s) focused mostly on which areas? ____
a. textiles
b. manufacturing
c. computers
d. tobacco products
87. What was the main purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887? ____
a. to ensure the spread of manufacturing across the frontier
b. to remove import taxes for goods shipped from one state to another
c. to protect American agriculture and industry from foreign competition
d. to limit the monopolistic practices of the railroad industry
88.

GOALS OF THE DAWES ACT of 1877:
 assimilate Native Americans into mainstream U.S. culture
accustom Native Americans to individual land ownership and decision-making
 ?
Which phrase best completes the box above? ____
a. push Native Americans to adopt an agricultural lifestyle
c. encourage Native Americans to migrate to Mexico
89.
b. encourage Native Americans to move to urban areas
d. give Native Americans jobs in the federal government

The Sioux face numerous hardships (disease, malnutrition, depression) on their
reservations in the 1880s
 a Paiute shaman named Wovoka spreads the word about his vision for the future
of the Indian
 The new Ghost Dance religion finds hundreds of converts among the Sioux
 Ghost Dance camps spread across reservations
 the U.S. government, through its Indian Agents, outlaws the Ghost Dance
 the U.S. Army tries to force the Sioux back onto their reservations
 U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of unarmed Sioux women, children, and men
The details in the chart above refer to which of the following incidents? ____
a. the Sand Creek Massacre
b. the Battle of Little Bighorn
c. the destruction of Prophetstown
d. the Massacre at Wounded Knee Creek
90. Which of the following statements explains one reason for the enormous growth of urban population in the
Northeast from 1870 to 1900? ____
a. thousands of Civil War veterans returned to their homes
b. millions of urban dwellers became homesteaders in the west
c. millions of immigrants came to the USA from Southern and Eastern Europe
d. millions of immigrants came to the USA from Asia and the Pacific
91. The U.S. acquisition of which of the following territories after the Spanish-American War limited Spain’s influence
in the Western Hemisphere? ____
a. Samoa
b. Puerto Rico
c. the Virgin Islands
d. Hawaii
92. Which statement describes the role played by some U.S. journalists/authors during the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era? ____
a. for the first time they were able to use cameras and recorders to document the facts they uncovered in their
investigations
b. they exposed rampant corruption, problematic social conditions, and inequalities among Americans
c. they focused exclusively on the benefits American industries were providing to ordinary Americans
d. they concentrated on national news and foreign affairs
93. Which of the following women is credited with starting the settlement house movement in the USA? ____
a. Jane Addams
b. Carrie Chapman Catt
c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d. Alice Paul
94. Which of the following women was a radical leader in the woman’s suffrage movement? ____
a. Jane Addams
b. Carrie Chapman Catt
c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d. Alice Paul
95. Which of the following books was one of the incendiary factors that contributed to the Civil War? ____
a. The Impending Crisis of the South
b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c. Common Sense
d. Slavery: A Positive Good
96. One of the most corrupt political bosses and organizations of the Gilded Age was ____
a. Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall
b. Warren Harding and the Teapot Dome
c. Richard Nixon and Watergate
d. Ulysses S. Grant and Credit Mobilier
97. The Bay of Pigs invasion involved a U.S. backed attempt to overthrow ____.
a. Joseph Stalin
b. Fidel Castro
c. Ho Chi Minh
d. Mao Zedong
98.
This poster refers to which government
organization? _____
a.
b.
c.
d.
House United Against Conscription
Humanity United Against Contraception
House Un-American Activities Committee
Hairdressers United About Compassion
99. The term “witch hunts” was used in the mid-twentieth century to refer to ____?
a. some Americans’ fears that the U.S. government and major social institutions had been infiltrated by communists
b. some Americans’ fears that the U.S. government and major social institutions were being controlled by nihilists
c. some Americans’ fear that the world was on the verge of a third world war
d. some Americans’ fear that followers of pagan faiths had infiltrated the American public school system
100. The man credited with being most responsible for the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s was _____.
a. Dwight D. Eisenhower
b. Joseph McCarthy
c. Thomas Nast
d. Eugene Debs
EOC PRACTICE TEST ii (100 M.C. Questions)
ANSWER KEY
1. C (First Red Scare – period between WW I and WW II)
2. D (Prohibition/Roaring Twenties)
3. D (Cold War)
4. B (Interwar Period – Teapot Dome)
5. C (Cold War/Korean War)
6. B
7. D (Roaring Twenties/Harlem Renaissance)
8. B (the 1960s)
9. A (the Great Society/1960s)
10. A (the Great Migration/ WW I)
11. D (Nixon/Cold War)
12. C (muckrakers/Nadir of Civil Rights)
13. A (Populism/Gilded Age)
14. C (Roaring Twenties)
15. C (WW I)
16. B (the 1970s/Jimmy Carter)
17. C (Roaring Twenties/Lost Generation)
18. C (the 1980s)
19. A (Civil War/Women’s Suffrage/”Ain’t I A Woman?”)
20. B (Nadir of Civil Rights)
21. A
22. D
23. A (WW I)
24. D (Reconstruction)
25. B (American Reformers)
26. A (Baby Boomers/post WW II)
27. C
28. B
29. A
30. D
31. C (Nativism/Conservative Backlash)
32. A
33. D
34. C
35. C
36. D
37. B
38. A (Civil Rights/1960s)
39. A (Industrial Age/Gilded Age/labor unions)
40. C (nativists)
41. A
42. D (WW I)
43. D
44. D
45. C (Gilded Age/Industrialization)
46. D (Reconstruction)
47. A
48. D (WW II)
49. C (Reconstruction)
50. C (WW II)
51. B (Cold War)
52. D (WW I)
53. A (WW I)
54. D (U.S. Imperialism/Becoming a World Power/Panama Canal)
55. B
56. D (Reconstruction)
57. C (Reconstruction)
58. A (Reconstruction)
59. D (Reconstruction)
60. D (Reconstruction)
61. A (Reconstruction)
62. B (Dawes Act/USA and Native Americans)
63. D (Roaring Twenties/Interwar Period)
64. D (Interwar Period/Roaring Twenties)
65. B (Roaring Twenties/Conservative Backlash)
66. D (the Talented Tenth)
67. A (Great Depression)
68. A (Interwar Period/FDR)
69. D (WW II)
70. A (Cold War)
71. A (Great Society/ AARP lobby)
72. B (Reagan/the 1980s)
73. D (Civil Rights movement)
74. B (Civil Rights movement)
75. D (1960s/Great Society)
76. A (1950s)
77. C (Cold War)
78. D (Cold War)
79. B (WW I/ Roaring Twenties/Interwar Period)
80. C (Women’s Rights)
81. B (Roaring Twenties/Great Depression)
82. C (Vietnam/Nixon)
83. B
84. D
85. A
86. B (Gilded Age & Industrialization)
87. D (Gilded Age/Populism/the Grange)
88. A
89. D
90. C (Gilded Age/Industrialization)
91. B (American Imperialism)
92. B (muckrakers/Gilded Age)
93. A (Progressive Era)
94. D (Women’s Rights)
95. B
96. A (machine politics)
97. B (Cold War/JFK)
98. C (Cold War/McCarthyism)
99. A (McCarthyism/Cold War)
100. B (Cold War)