U.S. History
3rd Quarter Assessment
March 2014
1. After the defeat of the Treaty of Versailles, what two things did Republican administrations of the 1920s
accomplish?
2. What quote best describes the administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge?
3. Droughts, high tariffs, bankruptcies, and low prices during the late 1920s had the greatest impact on what
part of the United States?
4. How did the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the 1920s affect how people felt toward
immigrants?
5. A significant factor in the growth of cities during the 1920’s was
6. A leading theme of American literature in the 1920s was
7. What three statements about the American economy in the 1920s were true?
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8. What did President Wilson do with the Prohibition Amendment (Volstead Act)?
9. The era of Prohibition in the 1920s created
10. An important cause of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was the
11. When the Great Depression hit, what action did President Hoover take to deal with it?
12. The most important difference between the policies toward relief for the unemployed in the administrations
of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover was?
13. What did Franklin Roosevelt do for the banking crisis at the beginning of his administration?
14. How did Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 represented a significant change in policy toward Native
Americans?
15. What did New Deal’s relief programs establish
16. What did the Civilian Conservation Corps do for America?
17. What did the Social Security Act of 1935 establish
18. How did blacks benefit from the New Deal?
19. What were important achievements of the labor movement during the 1930s?
20. What did Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt have in common?
21. What was Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor’ policy?
22. This novel of the 1930s focused attention on destitute western farmers?
U.S. History
3rd Quarter Assessment
March 2014
23. What steps were ntaken by the United States to aid Great Britain prior to U.S. entry into World War II?
24. What was the underlying issue that led to war between the United States and Japan in 1941?
25. Name one effect that World War II had on the American economy.
26. In order to prevent the effects of inflation during the Second World War, what did the federal government
impose?
27. Why were the Nuremberg Trials at the end of World War II important?
28. What reason did Truman use to justify his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August,
1945?
29. What arguments have been used by revisionist historians to criticize the United States’ use of nuclear
weapons against Japan?
30. Compared with U.S. involvement in other wars, what was the most significant change in U.S. policy at the
end of World War II?
31. Why was the Truman Doctrine was issued?
32. The Marshall Plan had all of the following consequences?
33. After World War II, the United States departed sharply from this traditional attitude toward Europe?
34. How did the Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947 effect unions?
35. What three things demonstrated an advancement of rights for African-Americans in the 1940’s?
36. How did the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] tried to destroy the
"separate but equal" doctrine?
37. What was Levittown, an example of in the 1940’s?
38. How was the United States Supreme Court Case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka significant?
39. How did the early years of the Cold War mark a critical turning point in American foreign relations?
40. What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Questions 41-45 are chart/graph/short reading questions