U.S. History
First Semester Exam Review
Which document declared our independence on
July 4, 1776?
a)Mayflower Compact
b)Declaration of Independence
c)Bill of Rights
Which word means “rule of the people”?
a)Federalism
b)Democracy
c)Checks and balances
The first ten amendments to the Constitution:
a)Magna Carta
b)Popular sovereignty
c)Bill of Rights
Which branch of government is associated with
Congress?
a)Legislative
b)Executive
c)Judicial
The Judicial Branch includes:
a)Supreme Court
b)President
c)Legislature
A tradition person who changes slowly and
carefully is:
a)Liberal
b)Conservative
c)Reactionary
d)All of the above
Which is the result of radical ideas?
a)American Revolution
b)Mexican War
c)Civil War
d)Spanish-American War
Granted rights of citizenship to former slaves:
a)13th amendment
b)14th amendment
c)15th amendment
d)16th amendment
Which is not associated with Western Farmers?
a)Barbed wire
b)Cattle trails
c)Homestead Act
d)soddies
Major win for Americans against the Native
Americans in the West:
a)Little Big Horn
b)Gettysburg
c)Tippecanoe
d)Wounded Knee
Transcontinental Railroad met here:
a)Promontory Point, Utah
b)Dallas, Texas
c)Sacramento California
d)Omaha, Nebraska
Which is not associated with Native Americans
in the West?
a)Nomads
b)Hunters of buffalo
c)Built the railroad
d)Sent to reservations
Ghost towns:
a)Old mining towns
b)Old cow towns
c)Old Indian reservations
Who wanted statehood the most?
a)Cattlemen
b)Farmers
c)Indians
d)Women teachers
Where did women first get the vote?
a)Utah
b)California
c)Texas
d)Wyoming
The Western experience defines the American
character. Who wrote this?
a)Teddy Roosevelt
b)John Rockefeller
c)Frederick Turner
d)Jefferson
Great wealth and great poverty describe this
period:
a)Populism
b)Imperialism
c)Gilded Age
d)Progressive Era
Captain of Industry in Steel:
a)Rockefeller
b)Carnegie
c)Vanderbilt
d)Stanford
Survival of the Fittest:
a)Gospel of Wealth
b)Social Darwinism
c)Xenophobia
d)Monopolies
Great American inventor:
a)T. Roosevelt
b)William Jennings Bryan
c)Thomas Edison
Against immigration:
a)Nativism
b)laissez-faire
c)Assimilation
d)capitalism
Gilded Age immigrants came from:
a)Southern Europe
b)Eastern Europe
c)A and b
Political Machines are associated with:
a)Tammany Hall
b)Tweed Ring
c)Corruption
d)All of the above
Philanthropy:
a)Social Darwinism
b)Trustbusting
c)Gospel of Wealth
Free enterprise:
a)Socialism
b)Communism
c)Capitalism
Which one does the U.S. have?
Who is most likely to join a union?
a)Manager of the bank
b)Foreman of the factory
c)Captain of industry
d)Railroad worker
Name that President!
Impeached (2)
Assassinated (3 before JFK)
Trustbuster
Rough Rider
Spanish-American War
Third Party Candidate in 1912
Hearst and Pulitzer were:
a)Presidents
b)Publishers
c)Civil Rights activists
d)architects
Populism: Which does not belong?
a)Cross of Gold speech
b)Silver standard
c)Promoted imperialism
d)Government regulation of railroad
e)Supported farmers
Civil Rights: Which is a setback?
a)Booker T. Washington’s founding of Tuskeegee
Institute
b)W.E.B. DuBois and The NAACP
c)Ida Wells exposure of lynching
d)Supreme Court Decision of Plessy v. Ferguson
The Jungle led to:
a)Pure Food and Drug Act
b)Jim Crow laws
c)Solid South
d)Trustbusting
Labor Union Leader:
a)TR
b)Eugene Debs
c)Robert LaFollette
d)Susan B. Anthony
Open Door Policy meant U.S. trade with:
a)West Africa
b)China
c)A and b
Which is not an American possession?
a)Hawaii
b)Samoa
c)Jamaica
d)Guam
Purpose of Imperialism:
a)Markets
b)Navy bases
c)Empire and power
d)All of these
Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy applied to:
a)China
b)Cuba
c)Latin America
d)Japan
Mahan’s book led to:
a)Great White Fleet
b)Panama Canal
c)Open Door Policy
d)Boxer Rebellion
This American possession resisted occupation:
a)Cuba
b)Puerto Rico
c)Alaska
d)Philippines
Which is not a cause of the Spanish-American
War?
a)Rough riders
b)De Lome Letter
c)The Maine
d)Yellow Journalism
e)These are all causes
Yellow fever was controlled by:
a)Walter Reed
b)TR
c)Taft
d)Wilson
Ocean on the West Coast:
a)Atlantic
b)Pacific
c)Indian
d)Arctic
“Father of our Country”
a)Jefferson
b)Hamilton
c)Franklin
d)Washington
e)Obama
Which is not a Caribbean possession?
a)Samoa
b)Puerto Rico
c)Virgin Islands
Immigrant neighborhoods:
a)Tenements
b)Ghettos
c)Melting pots
d)Ellis Island
Bessemer Process led to:
a)Steel
b)Ragtime
c)depression
Which is not a Western State?
a)Texas
b)Illinois
c)Colorado
d)Idaho
Which is not an original Thirteen State?
a)North Dakota
b)Massachusetts
c)New York
c)Georgia
Early Americans in Hawaii:
a)Cattlemen
b)Miners
c)Missionaries
d)Union members
Continent North of the Mediterranean Sea?
a)Africa
b)Asia
c)Europe
d)Antarctica
What war was a “splendid little war”?
a)Revolution
b)Civil War
c)Mexican War
d)Spanish-American
e)WWI
Assembly line needs:
a)Manifest destiny
b)Great White Fleet
c)Interchangeable parts
d)Cotton gin
Wizard of Oz is about:
a)Gilded Age
b)Populism
c)Progressivism
d)Civil War
Imperialists:
a)Democrats
b)Socialists
c)Republicans
d)Populists
U.S. to West Coast:
a)Industrialization
b)Imperialism
c)Manifest Destiny
d)Civil Rights
• What led us from isolationism to expansion,
power, and empire?
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A) defeat of Plains Indians
B) Spanish-American War
C)building Panama Canal
D) participation in World War I
E)all of these
• Which is not a cause of the U.S. joining World
War I?
a)Assassination of the archduke of AustriaHungary
b)Unrestricked submarine warfare by German uboats
c)Zimmerman note
• Yellow journalism is the Spanish-American
War as ___ is to World War I:
• A)propaganda
• B)bonds
• C)Victory Gardens
• World War weapons did not include:
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a)chlorine gas
B)tank
C)Airplane
D)u-boat
• Leader of the American Expeditionary Force:
• A)Uncle Sam
• B)General Pershing
• C)Sergeant York
• True or false:
• President Wilson’s Fourteen Points were an
agenda to end World War I as “peace without
victory.
• The U.S. never signed the Treaty of Versailles.
• The U.S. never joined the League of Nations.
• Which is NOT associated with World War I?
a)Trench warfare
b)Doughboys
c)Stalemate
d) “Remember the Maine”
• How did WWI lead to WWII?
• A)British resentments
• B)German reparations
• C)American victory
• Which is NOT correctly matched?
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A)Harding-Teapot Dome Scandal
B)Calvin Coolidge-laissez-faire
C)FDR-New Deal
D)Hoover-prosperity
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18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
21st Amendment
a)women’s suffrage
b)prohibition
c)repealed prohibition
d)January inauguration
• The passage of Prohibition lead to:
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A)speakeasies
B)bootlegging
C)organized crime
D)all of these
• Which is not a headline of the 1920s?
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A)St. Valentine’s Day Massacre!
B)Jazz Age in Harlem!
C)Lucky Lindy Flies to Paris!
D)First TV Station in Tennessee!
E)Scopes Loses Right to Teach Evolution!
• The Flapper is associated with:
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A)short hair
B)short skirt
C)freedom to date
D)all of these
• Twenties Fad:
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A)hula hoops
B)Counterculture (hippies)
C)internet
D)crossword puzzles
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Babe Ruth
Al Capone
Lindbergh
Valentino
a)aviation
b)baseball
c)movie star
d)mobster
• Tradition vs. Modernism:
• A)Scopes Trial
• B)Sacco and Vanzetti
• C)Dust Bowl
• Bull market
• Bear market
a)stocks are up
b)stocks are down
• Stocks are sold here: a)Wall Street b)NYSE
c)NASDAQ d)all of these
• New Deal program for retirement:
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A)AAA
B)FDIC
C)fireside chats
D)Social Security
• Did Hoover cause the Great Depression?
• A)yes
b)No
• Did FDR’s New Deal end the Great
Depression?
• A)yes
b)no
• Hoovervilles:
• A)shanties b)newspapaers c)breadlines
• New Deal Goal:
• A)relief b)recovery c)reform d)all of these
• Photographer of the Depression:
• A)Frances Perkins
• B)Dorothea Lange
• C)Eleanor Roosevelt
• Republican
• Democrat
a)dominated 20s
b)dominated 30s
Rugged Individualism: a)New Deal b)FDR’s
philosophy c)Hoover’s philosophy
• What led to the migrant Okies? A)Dust Bowl
b)foreclosures c)Great Depression d)all of
these
• Protected bank deposits: a)FDIC b)Social
Security c)FHA d)all of these