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Question #1
 _____1.
Which of the
following WAS NOT a
part of the Radical
Republicans plan for
Reconstruction?
 A. The 13th Amendment to
end slavery.
 B. The Freedman’s
Bureau to aid former
slaves.
 C. The 15th Amendment to
insure suffrage.
 D. Establishing Black
Codes (Jim Crow Laws)
in Southern States
Question #2
 _____2.
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The
Compromise of 1877
resulted in A. Samuel Tildon
becoming President of
the U.S.A
B. The end of slavery
in the United States.
C. The end of
Reconstruction in the
American South.
D. The creation of
the Dakota Territory.
Question #3
 _____3.
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Which of
the states below
is a Northeastern
State?
A. Ohio
B. Washington
C. Maryland
D. New Hampshire
Question #4
 _____4.
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Which of
the following
states would be
considered a
Southeastern
State?
A. Nebraska
B. Arizona
C. Pennsylvania
D. Alabama
Question #5
 _____5.
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The dry,
arid, grassland
which starts around
the 100’W meridian
and extends west to
the Rocky Mountains
is known as –
A. The Central
Plains
B. The Interior
Lowlands
C. The Great Plains
D. The Steppe
Question #6
 _____6.
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This act promised 160 acres of
land to anyone who paid a small filing
fee and agreed to live on the land for
five (5) years. During the five years,
they must improve the land by planting
crops or building a home –
A. Homestead Act
B. Dawes Act
C. Western Lands Act
D. Sedition Act
Question #7
 _____7.
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
The Central
Pacific railroad
hired these
immigrants because
they worked
efficiently and did
dangerous work
without complaint –
A. German immigrants
B. Chinese immigrants
C. Russian immigrants
D. Mexican immigrants
Question #8
 _____8.
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Which of the
following economic and
social changes took
place because of the
construction of
Transcontinental
Railroads?
Time zones were
invented and began to
be used.
More Americans began to
settle in the West.
Trade increased between
the Western states and
Eastern states.
All of the above.
Question #9
 _____9.
All of the
following were reasons
for American settlers
to move West EXCEPT –
A. better opportunities
for former slaves.
B. the discovery of gold
and silver deposits in
the West.
C. advances in
transportation.
D. Violent conflicts
between Native American
tribes and Mexicans
settlers.
Question #10
 _____10. The immediate
outcome of the Battle of
Little Bighorn was –
A. victory for the United
States Army: the Sioux
retreated to the
reservation.
B. defeat for Custer and his
men; they were forced to
retreat to St. Louis, MO.
C. victory for the United
States Army; the Sioux tribe
fled to Canada.
D. defeat for the U.S. Army;
Custer was killed and the
7th Cavalry was wiped out.
Question #11
 “I am tired of fighting. Our
chiefs are killed…the little
children are freezing to
death. My people, some of
them have run away to the
hills and have no blankets,
no food; no one knows where
they are – perhaps freezing
to death. I want to have
time to look for my children
and see how many I can find.
Maybe I shall find them among
the dead.
 Hear me my chiefs. I am
tired. My heart is sick and
sad. From where the sun now
stands, I will fight no more
forever.”
 _____11.
Identify
the chief quoted in
the text box on the
bottom of this page
–
A. Tecumseh
B. Crazy Horse
C. Sitting Bull
D. Chief Joseph
Question #12
 _____12.
This
former Indian
reservation was
opened up for
settlement in 1889;
the land was first
come first serve –
A. Dakota Territory
B. California
C. Oklahoma
D. Colorado
Question #13
 _____13.
Which
region of the
nation was most
closely associated
with the textile
manufacturing
industry?
A.The Southwest
B. New England
C. The Great Plains
D. Pacific Northwest
Question #14
 _____14. Which city is
most closely
associated with the
steel industry?
A. Pittsburgh
B. New York City
C. Philadelphia
D. Detroit
Question #15
 _____15.
Which
city is closely
tied to the
automobile
industry?
A. St. Louis
B. Cincinnati
C. Detroit
D. Philadelphia
Question #16
 _____16.
Which of
the cities below
is most closely
associated with
the meatpacking
industry?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Washington, D.C.
Chicago
Santa Fe
Seattle
Question #17
 _____17.
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Which of the
inventors below was
credited with creating
the first telephone?
A. Alexander Bell
B. Thomas Alva Edison
C. Henry Ford
D. Cyrus McCormick
Question #18
 _____18. Which of the
following reasons WAS
NOT a cause of the growth
of urban centers in
America during the late
1800s and early 1900s?
A. Immigration of Europeans to
the United States
B. The migration of AfricanAmericans to Northern cities
C. Manufacturing jobs in
northern industrial centers
D. The Homestead Act
Question #19
 _____19.
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Parties who
organized immigrant
neighborhoods to vote
for their candidates
by providing favors
or simply buying
their votes were
called –
A. partisans
B. political
machines
C. libertarians
D. socialists
Question #20
 _____20. She was the
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
founder of the Chicago
settlement house
called Hull House –
A. Susan B. Anthony
B. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
C. Dorothea Dix
D. Jane Addams
Question #21
 _____21.
Which of
the following factors
caused a rise in big
businesses across
America during the
late 1800s?
A. Cheap Immigrant
Laborers
B. Catalogs and new
types of advertising
C. Larger Markets due
to improved
transportation
D.All of the Above
Question #22
 _____22. Andrew
Carnegie was a famous
businessman who
dominated this
industry –
A. Oil
B. Steel
C. Banking
D. Automobiles
Question #23
 _____23.
John D.
Rockefeller was
the entrepreneur
who created a
monopoly called –
 A. U.S. Steel Corp
 B.
 C.
 D.
Standard Oil
Ford
B & O Railroads
Question #24
 _____24. The man’s
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who’s company
dominated the
automobile
manufacturing
business was –
A. Henry Ford
B. Andrew Carnegie
C. James P. Morgan
D. John D. Rockefeller
Question #25
 _____25. Unions began
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to form in the late
1800s as laborers
combined to fight
against –
A. Low Wages
B. the 12-hour work day
C. child labor
D. unsafe working
conditions
E. All of the Above
Question #26
 _____26.
Samuel
Gompers was the
founder of this
trade union –
A. Congress of
Industrial
Organizations
B. Knights of Labor
C. Molly Maguire’s
D.American Federation
of Labor
Question #27
 Unsafe Working
Conditions
 Long Hours
 Low Pay
 Child Labor was
common and
dangerous.
 _____27.
All of
the problems in the
text box above were
opposed by –
A. Andrew Carnegie
and other
industrialists.
B. NAACP and the
Niagara Movement.
C. Progressives and
Union Leaders.
D. Suffragists
Question #28
 _____28.
The woman’s
suffrage movement’s
goal was –
A. to end child labor.
B. to outlaw the
consumption of alcohol
and “demon rum.”
C.to gain the right to
vote in national
elections.
D.“equal pay for equal
work.”
Question #29
 _____29.
She was the
organizer of the
Seneca Falls
Convention and helped
to draft the
Declaration of
Sentiments, in which
women demanded the
right to vote for the
first time publicly –
A.Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
B.Sojourner Truth
C.Eleanor Roosevelt
D.Shirley Chisholm
Question #30
 “Trustbuster” who
sued the Standard
Oil Company.
 Conservationist who
established several
National Parks.
 Passed Pure Food
and Drug Act.
 _____30.
Which
progressive
President was
responsible for
these achievements?
A.William Howard Taft
B.Woodrow Wilson
C.William McKinley
D.Theodore Roosevelt
Question #31
_____31.
 President Theodore
Roosevelt is associated
with the phrase “Speak
softly and carry a big
stick.” This phrase
meant Roosevelt—
A. respected other nations
and refused to interfere
B. was always ready to help
other countries
C. was ready to volunteer
for battle
D. viewed the United
States as the policeman of
the Caribbean
Question #32
 _____32.
 A. Hawaii
Sugar cane crops were
the economic interest
that the United States
was trying to protect in
this country leading up
to the Spanish-American
War.
 B. Spain
 C. Cuba
 D. Philippines
Question #33
_____33.
 All of the following
were results of the
Spanish American War
except—
A. Cuba gained its
independence from Spain
B. The United States
joined the League of
Nations
C. The United States
emerged as a world power.
D. The United States
gained Spanish
possessions.
Question #34
 _____34. This man was
the author of the novel
The Great Gatsby –
A. John Steinbeck
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Sinclair Lewis
D. Upton Sinclair
Question #35
_____35.
 In 1925, Tennessee
school teacher John
Scopes was accused of
–
A. teaching about species
of monkeys.
B. teaching the Christian
version of Creationism in a
public school.
C. teaching Charles
Darwin’s theory of
evolution in a public
school.
D. robbing a shoe factory
Question #36
 _____36.
Which
amendment gave
women the right to
vote in national
elections?
A.17th Amendment
B.18th Amendment
C.19th Amendment
D.21st Amendment
Question #37
 _____37.
This
African-American
leader demanded
immediate equality
for people of color
in the United States;
he established both
the NAACP and the
Niagara Movement –
A.W.E.B. Dubois
B.Booker T. Washington
C.George Washington
Carver
D.Elijah Lovejoy
Question #38
 _____38.
This
African-American
leader argued that
education and job
skills were the key
for future equality
for African-Americans
–
A.Stokely Carmichael
B.Frederick Douglass
C.Booker T. Washington
D.Robert Smalls
Question #39
 _____39.
Which of
the following
methods was used to
prevent AfricanAmerican men from
voting in the South
during the late
1800s and early
1900s?
A.the 15th Amendment
B.literacy tests
C.political machines
D.blacklists
Question #40
 _____40.
Which
Supreme Court case
ruled that
segregation was legal
in the South as long
as the institutions
created were
“Separate but
Equal..”?
A. Brown V. Board of
Education, Topeka, KS
B.Plessy V. Ferguson
C.Marbury V. Madison
D. Eberwein V. Loring
Question #41
 _____41.
Feelings of great pride in one’s
nation, which can cause conflicts between
overly sensitive nations, is called –
 A. Colonialism
 B. Nationalism
 C. Militarism
 D. Alliance System
Question #42
_____42. The text
box above is an
example of –
A.
B.
C.
D.
Nationalism
Militarism
Alliance System
Free Trade
 The Triple Entente
 Great Britain
 France
 Russia
 Each nation pledged
to defend the others
in the event of enemy
attack.
Question #43
 _____43.
Which of the following
nations was WAS NEVER a member of the
Central Powers?
•A.
•B.
•C.
•D.
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
France
Question #44
 _____44.
One of the causes of World
War I was the assassination of this man
on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian
nationalist –
•A.
•B.
•C.
•D.
Woodrow Wilson
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Franz Ferdinand
Czar Nicholas II
Question #45
 _____45.
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During World War I, the
fighting between enemies was usually –
A. sea battles between ironclads.
B. bombings from airplanes over capital
cities like Paris, Berlin, or
Washington, D.C.
C. trench warfare and machine gun fire
along lines dug in by large armies.
D. horseback cavalry charges
Question #46
 _____46.
He was
the President of
the United States
of America during
World War I:
 A. William J. Bryan
 B. Woodrow Wilson
 C. Theodore
Roosevelt
 D. Warren G. Harding
Question #47
 _____47.
From the start of World War I in
1914 to the spring of 1917, the President
advised Americans –
 A. To support the Central Powers by
sending weapons and supplies to Germany.
 B. To buy war bonds to help support the
war.
 C. To remain neutral in mind as well as
in action.
 D. To trade with both sides and make as
much money as possible off of the war.
Question #48
 _____48.
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This
English passenger
liner was sunk off
the coast of Ireland
on May 7, 1915 by a
German u-boat. Over
1000 men and women
died, including 128
Americans –
A. The USS Sussex
B. The Lusitania
C. The USS Sultana
D. The HMS Titanic
Question #49
 REASONS FOR UNITED
 _____49.
STATES ENTRY INTO
WORLD WAR I:

The Zimmermann
Telegram
 Freedom of the Seas
 __________________
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Which of
the following reasons
would best complete
the chart?
A. United States’
alliance with France
and England.
B. To Make the World
Safe for Democracy
C. Militarism
D. Imperialists hopes
to gain territory in
Asia and Africa
Question #50
 _____50. Germany surrendered to the
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Allied forces on –
A. December 12, 1917 at Versailles,
France.
B. November 11, 1918 at 11:00 AM
C. September 11, 1919
D. June 6, 1918 at Normandy, France
Question #51
 _____51.
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Immediately after World War
I, which organization was formed to
settle international disputes
peacefully?
A. The League of Nations
B. The United Nations
C. The UN Security Council
D. The Hall of Justice
Question #52
QUESTION:
 _____52.
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Who was
the author of the
Fourteen Point Plan
for peace in Europe
after World War I?
A. Teddy Roosevelt
B. Franklin Roosevelt
C. Woodrow Wilson
D. Herbert Hoover
Question #53
 _____53.
Which
amendment to the
Constitution outlawed
the manufacturing the
sale of, and the
transportation of
alcohol in the United
States?
A.17th Amendment
B.18th Amendment
C.19th Amendment
D.21st Amendment
Question #54
 _____54.
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is
he
A.
B.
C.
D.
Which of the dictators below
INCORRECTLY MATCHED with the nation
ruled over?
Adolf Hilter – Germany
Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union
Hideki Tojo – China
Benito Mussolini – Italy
Question #55
 _____55.
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He was the
Anti-Semitic leader
who was responsible
for the “Final
Solution” and the
aggressor who started
World War II by
attacking Poland –
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Joseph Stalin
C. Adolf Hitler
D. Charles de Gaulle
Question #56
 _____56.
Which of the following
nations WAS NOT a member of the Axis
Powers at the end of WWII?
•A.
•B.
•C.
•D.
Germany
Soviet Union
Italy
Japan
Question #57
 _____57.
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What
nation did both
Germany and the
Soviet Union invade
on September 1,
1939, starting
World War II?
A. Bulgaria
B. Czechoslovakia
C. Poland
D. Denmark
Question #58
 _____58.
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When this
act was passed,
Americans were
allowed to sent food,
ammunition, and
military aid to our
democratic Allies in
Europe –
A. The Neutrality Act
of 1937
B. The Wagner Act
C. The Lend-Lease Act
D.The Warsaw Pact
Question #59
 _____59.
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The turning
point on the Eastern
Front of the European
Theatre in World War II
was this battle between
Soviet and German
troops, during which
over 300,000 Nazis were
captured by the Red
Army (The Soviet
Union’s Army) –
A. Berlin
B. Budapest
C. Moscow
D. Stalingrad
Question #60
 _____60.
This 1942
battle is considered
the turning point for
the war in the Pacific
against the Japanese.
It resulted in heavy
losses for the Japanese
navy-
 A. The Battle of Midway
 B. The Battle of
Guadalcanal
 C. The Battle of Leyte
Gulf
 D. The Battle of
Nagasaki
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