SOL REVIEW #4
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.
Which of the
following economic and
social changes took place
because of the
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
construction of
Transcontinental
Railroads?
A. Time zones were
invented and began to be
used.
B. More Americans began to
settle in the West.
C. Trade increased between
the Western states and
Eastern states.
D. All of the above.
Question #9
 _____9.
Long
drives generally
started in
Southwestern Texas
and ended at –
A. Chicago, IL
B. boomtowns
C. railroads
D. major rivers
Question #10
 Meat was used for
food.
 _____10.
 Hides were used for
clothing and
shelter.
 Bones were used for
weapons and
ceremony.
 Nomadic lifestyle
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Identify
both the Native
American tribe
being described and
the animal –
A. Cheyenne Tribe,
dogs
B. Nez Perce Tribe,
walrus
C. Arapaho, cattle
D. Lakota (Sioux),
buffalo
Question #11
 _____11.
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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 #12
 _____12. The official
policy of the United
States of America towards
Native Americans was –
 A. Every Native American
must convert to
Christianity.
 B. Native Americans must
live on reservations.
 C. Native Americans would
be allowed to trade with
Americans and travel
through their towns.
 D. Native Americans should
be fought to the death.
Question #13
 _____13. 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 #14
 “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.”
 _____14.
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Identify
the chief quoted in
the text box on the
bottom of this page
–
A. Chief Joseph
B. Tecumseh
C. Crazy Horse
D. Sitting Bull
Question #15
 _____15.
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Because
the Great Plains
offered little wood
to build
traditional houses
with, many settlers
lived in –
A. tepees
B. tents
C. sod houses
D. Conestoga wagons
Question #16
 _____16.
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John
Deere invented
this important
agricultural
product –
A. Mechanical
Reaper
B. Barbed Wire
C. Steel Plow
D. Cotton Gin
Question #17
 _____17.
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This invention ended the long
drive of cattle and led to conflict
between ranchers and farmers –
A. railroads and trains
B. barbed wire
C. assembly line
D. dry farming
Question #18
 Turning soil over
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after short rainfalls
or heavy dews.
Weeding out unwanted
plants to save water.
Planting seeds deep
in the ground to save
water.
Leaving fields fallow
(unplanted) for a
season to allow
water and nutrients
to build up again.
Windmills to bring
water to the surface
 _____18.
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All of the
techniques in the box
above are examples of
–
A. Dry Farming
B. Sharecropping
C. Exodusting
D. Dust Bowling
Question #19
 _____19.
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 #20
 _____20.
Tracts
of land which were
set aside for
Native Americans
to settle upon
were known as –
A. Territories
B. Estuaries
C. National Parks
D. Reservations
Question #21
 _____21.
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 #22
 _____22. Which city is
most closely
associated with the
steel industry?
A. Pittsburgh
B. New York City
C. Philadelphia
D. Detroit
Question #23
 _____23.
Which
city is closely
tied to the
automobile
industry?
A. St. Louis
B. Cincinnati
C. Detroit
D. Philadelphia
Question #24
 _____24.
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 #25
 _____25.
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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 #26
 _____26.
Which of
the following
individuals first
used the assembly
line to mass
produce
automobiles?
A. Chevrolet
B. Henry Ford
C. Ransom Olds
D. Duryea
Question #27
 _____27. 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 #28
 _____28.
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Overcrowded
apartment buildings
where immigrant
families lived in
poverty were called
–
A. slums
B. tenements
C. public housing
D. suburbs
Question #29
 _____29.
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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 #30
 _____30. 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 #31
 _____31.
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 #32
 _____32. Andrew
Carnegie was a famous
businessman who
dominated this
industry –
A. Oil
B. Steel
C. Banking
D. Automobiles
Question #33
 _____33.
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 #34
 _____34. 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 #35
 _____35. 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 #36
 _____36.
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 #37
 Unsafe Working
Conditions
 Long Hours
 Low Pay
 Child Labor was
common and
dangerous.
 _____37.
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 #38
 _____38.
The
settlement house
movement was
established during
the late 1800s in
order to assist –
A. poor immigrants
B. working women with
children
C. uneducated
laborers in urban
areas
D. All of these
Question #39
 _____39.
The Hull
House, established
in Chicago in the
1880s, was founded
by –
A. Susan B. Anthony
B. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
C. Jane Addams
D. Mary Pickford
Question #40
 _____40.
The
temperance
movement was
devoted to the
abolition of –
A. alcohol
B. slavery
C. literacy tests
D. child labor laws
Question #41
 _____41.
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 #42
 _____42.
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 #43
 _____43.
She was
the leader of the
woman’s suffrage
movement in the 19th
Century and was
once arrested for
casting a ballot in
New York state –
A. Susan B. Anthony
B. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
C. Lucretia Mott
D. Angela Grimke
Question #44
 “Trustbuster” who
sued the Standard
Oil Company.
 Conservationist who
established several
National Parks.
 Passed Pure Food
and Drug Act.
 _____44.
Which
progressive
President was
responsible for
these achievements?
A. William Howard
Taft
B. Woodrow Wilson
C. William McKinley
D. Theodore Roosevelt
Question #45
 _____45.
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 #46
 _____46.
Which
amendment game
women the right to
vote in national
elections?
A. 17th Amendment
B. 18th Amendment
C. 19th Amendment
D. 21st Amendment
Question #47
 _____47.
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 #48
 _____48.
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 #49
 _____49.
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 #50
 _____50.
Laws in
the South which
enforced
segregation were
called –
A. Sunday “Blue
Laws”
B. zoning
ordinances
C. “Jim Crow” Laws
D. Martial Law
Question #51
 _____51.
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 #52
 _____52. This organization
was established in 1908 in
order to defeat racism,
discrimination, segregation,
and violence directed at
African-Americans and other
minority groups in the United
States –
A. National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP)
B. Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE)
C. Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
D. Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Question #53
 _____53.
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AfricanAmerican men and
women did not gain
full suffrage in many
Southern States until
the passage of –
the 16th Amendment to
the Constitution
the Voting Rights Act
of 1965
the Pendleton Act of
1883
the National Quota
Act of 1924
Question #54
 _____54.
The
integration of the
United States Armed
Forces was
accomplished by an
executive order
from President –
A. Dwight Eisenhower
B. Harry Truman
C. John F. Kennedy
D. Lyndon B. Johnson
Question #55
 _____55.
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After World
War II, many soldiers
benefited from this
program, which
offered loans for
houses, free
education, and work
programs to veterans
of the war –
The Civil Rights Act
The GI Bill
The Homestead Act
The Morrill Act
Question #56
 _____56.
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Rosie “the
Riveter” represented
working women during
World War II. After
World War II, many
women were –
promoted to manage
plants and facilities.
given raises which
allowed families to
purchase homes.
accused of working as
communist spies.
asked to leave their
jobs so that veterans
could take them.
Question #57
 _____57. This
organization was
established by W.E.B.
DuBois in the early 1900s.
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During the 1950s, they
paid lawyers like Thurgood
Marshall to challenge
segregation –
Congress of Racial
Equality
The Niagara Movement
National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People.
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
Question #58
 _____58.
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This Supreme Court Case
established the “separate but equal”
segregation system in the American
South from 1896 to the 1950s –
Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KS
Plessy V. Ferguson
The Dred Scott Case
Gideon V. Wainwright
Question #59
 _____59.
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This
Supreme Court Case
overturned the system
of segregation in
public schools across
America in 1954 –
Brown V. Board of
Education, Topeka, KS
Plessy V. Ferguson
The Dred Scott Case
Gideon V. Wainwright
Question #60
 _____60. Which American
President was responsible
for constructing the
interstate highway system
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in the United States of
America? [HINT: The same
President sent in
paratroopers to insure the
safety of the Little Rock
Nine when they integrated
the school system there in
1957.]
Harry Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Question #61
 _____61. The
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individual who’s
arrest sparked the
Montgomery Bus
Boycott of 1955 –
1956 was –
Ella Baker
Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks
Ralph Abernathy
Question #62
 _____62.
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Identify
the young Civil
Rights activist and
preacher who served
as the spokesperson
for the African
American community
during the Montgomery
Bus Boycott of 1955 –
1956 –
Stokely Carmichael
James Farmer
John Lewis
Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Question #63
 _____63.
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Students in
Greensboro, NC and
Nashville, TN
protested the
segregated lunch
counters in
department stores
across the south by –
economic boycott
picketing
throwing rocks or
stones through
storefront glasses
sit-ins
Question #64
 _____64.
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The group of
students and Civil
Rights Activists
sponsored by the
Congress of Racial
Equality who tested out
the interstate bus
rules during the summer
of 1961 (and
encountered great
violence along the way)
were –
SNCC
The Freedom Riders
The Greensboro Four
The Jackson Five
Question #65
 _____65.
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Which of
the following
compositions would
not have been
authored by the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.?
“A Letter From a
Birmingham Jail”
“I Have a Dream”
speech
“Passive Resistance
and Nonviolent Civil
Disobedience”
“Black Power”
Question #66
 _____66.
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The law
which outlawed
segregation and job
discrimination
(racist hiring
practices) in public
institutions across
the South was –
the 15th Amendment to
the Constitution
The Civil Rights Act
of 1964
The Wade-Davis Bill
The Voting Rights Act
of 1965
Question #67
 _____67.
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The law which
forbid literacy tests,
intimidation, or other
unfair practices which
prevented AfricanAmericans from voting
was –
The 13th Amendment to
the Constitituion
The Clayton Anti-Trust
Act
The Voting Rights Act
of 1965
The Civil Rights Act of
1964
Question #68
 _____68.
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Who was
the President of
the United States
of American during
the March on
Washington for Jobs
and Freedom in
1963?
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Baines
Johnson
Gerald Ford
Question #69
 _____69.
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Who was the
President of the
United States when
the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 and the
Voting Rights Act of
1965 were passed into
law?
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Gerald Ford
Question #70
 _____70.
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The goal of
this organization was
that women should
receive “Equal Pay
for Equal Work!” –
AIM – American Indian
Movement
NOW – National
Organization of Women
AFWU – American Farm
Workers Union
WCTU – Women’s
Christian Temperance
Union
Question #71
 “Equality of rights
under the law shall
not be denied or
abridged by the
United States or
any state on
account of sex.”
 _____71.
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The
passage above comes
from –
The United States
Constitution
The Declaration of
Independence
The 19th Amendment
to the Constitution
The Equal Rights
Amendment
Question #72
 _____72.
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During
1970s, the Title IX
law insured that
women would have
equal access to all
educational programs
including –
medical schools
colleges and
universities
college athletic
programs
all of the above
Question #73
 _____73.
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The First
Lady of the United
States who first took
an active role in
discussing public
matters and
influencing social
programs during here
husband’s time in
office was –
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lucy Eisenhower
Laura Bush
Hillary!
Question #74
 Medicare and Medicaid
Programs
 Head Start Program for
Early Education
 The Civil Rights Act of
1964
 The Voting Rights Act
of 1965
 Strengthening of the
Clean Air and Clean
Water Acts
 _____74.
All of the
programs listed in the
box above are a part of
–
The Fair Deal
The New Frontier
The New Deal
The Great Society