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10 / Colonization through the Constitution
9 / New Republic through Reconstruction
8 / Industrialization, Reform, and Imperialism
12 / Establishment as a World Power
11 / Modern Era
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1) / Keep this question Replace with similar question"British victory against France in the Seven Years' War helped to cause the American Revolution."
Which answer BEST explains why this quotation is true?
A) / / France sought revenge and stirred-up colonial anger against the British.
B) / / The British attempt to industrialize Canada offended the American colonists.
C) / / Britain became overconfident, resulting in a failed invasion of Spanish Florida.
D) / / The British increased colonial taxes in order to pay for the victory over France.
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Which of these is the BEST description of "Hoovervilles"?
A) / / shantytowns in which homeless families lived during the Great Depression
B) / / housing projects associated with poverty and were constructed in urban areas
C) / / the first planned suburbs which were developed in the period after World War I
D) / / nickname for the department of Housing and Urban Development during the New Deal
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The Founding Fathers gained support for the Constitution by promising that
A) / / all free males would be able to vote.
B) / / the President would be from the South.
C) / / a Bill of Rights would be established.
D) / / the President would be freely elected by the people.
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The counterculture movement of the mid-to-late 20th Century began as a
A) / / protest to the popularity of rock and roll music.
B) / / reaction to the restrictive policies of Richard Nixon.
C) / / reaction to the conservative social norms of the 1950s.
D) / / protest to the United States' involvement in World War II.
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· Took place on September 17, 1862
· Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced each other
· The Confederate offensive was stopped
· Was the bloodiest day of the Civil War
These are describing the Civil War Battle of
A) / / Antietam.
B) / / Chickamauga.
C) / / Gettysburg.
D) / / Vicksburg.
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Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
This amendment significantly increased the power of American voters by
A) / / allowing citizens to vote every six years.
B) / / allowing citizens to directly elect their Senators.
C) / / preventing poll taxes from being levied against black voters.
D) / / shifting the balance of power away from the House of Representatives.
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The post-World War II ‘baby boom’ was caused, in part, by
A) / / marriage at an earlier age.
B) / / the loss of population during the war.
C) / / women refusing to go back to work after the war.
D) / / the invention and distribution of the birth control pill.
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Why did most of the immigrants, who came to America in the late 19th century, settle in the cities?
A) / / City living was spacious, clean, and far from overpopulated.
B) / / City living was crowded but there were plenty of recreational activities.
C) / / Cities were the cheapest places to live and offered unskilled laborers steady jobs.
D) / / People had a hard time finding work so they settled into the cities since they could not afford to move.
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Which two events MOST likely contributed to a change in the focus of SNCC from a stance of non-violence to a more aggressive approach to the issue of Civil Rights?
A) / / the arrest of Rosa Parks and the KentState shootings
B) / / the protests at the Democratic National Convention and the My Lai Massacre
C) / / the Watts Riot and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
D) / / the imprisonment of Muhammad Ali and the assassination of Bobby Kennedy
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· Signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935
· Created to support retirees over the age of sixty-five
· Also created unemployment insurance and welfare programs
· Workers and employers fund it by paying payroll taxes
All of these are describing which New Deal program?
A) / / Social Security Act
B) / / National Recovery Act
C) / / Fair Labor Standards Act
D) / / Public Works Administration
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"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
- Preamble to the United States Constitution
What event might have been an example of why the framers of the Constitution included the phrase "insure domestic tranquility?"
A) / / Shays' Rebellion
B) / / Intolerable Acts
C) / / American Revolution
D) / / Stamp Act
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Which of these changes during the Industrial Revolution led to greater efficiency?
A) / / Workers received labor rights.
B) / / Major labor unions were formed.
C) / / Slavery and other forms of forced labor were eliminated.
D) / / Animal & human power were generally replaced with steam power.
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In 1882, Congress passed an “exclusion act” which prevented the immigration of workers form what country for 10 years?
A) / / China
B) / / Ireland
C) / / Japan
D) / / Mexico
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Widespread anti-Chinese sentiment in the late-1800s resulted in
A) / / native-born Chinese-Americans having their citizenship revoked.
B) / / Congressional action aimed at prohibiting further Chinese immigration.
C) / / legal segregation of all Chinese-Americans into separate urban districts.
D) / / legislation aimed at increasing Chinese enrollment in American colleges and universities.
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This editorial cartoon MOST likely refers to
A) / / the Voting Rights Act
B) / / Plessy v. Ferguson.
C) / / the Twenty-sixth Amendment
D) / / Brown v. Board of Education.
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It can be argued that radio's MOST important contribution to American life in the 1920s was
A) / / broadcast updates about the growing "Dust Bowl."
B) / / it helped to create a common culture in the United States.
C) / / people could keep posted on all news about the war with Japan.
D) / / those in the city could hear Broadway play instead of attending them.
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The assistance of the French was given to the American Continental Army after the battle of
A) / / Cowpens.
B) / / Lexington.
C) / / New York.
D) / / Saratoga.
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Which was NOT a major source of protest in the late 1960s?
A) / / war
B) / / Watergate
C) / / gender discrimination
D) / / racism & discrimination
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What was the purpose of “SNCC” during the early years of the Civil Rights era?
A) / / to provide more militant leadership to combat racism
B) / / it replaced the NAACP as the dominant Civil Rights era
C) / / it coordinated students around the south in resisting segregation laws
D) / / it was a “whites only” organization created to keep whites in political power in the South
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine called for
A) / / investing in the economic development of Latin America.
B) / / pledging to help Japan and Russia negotiate a peace settlement.
C) / / prohibiting foreign countries from purchasing land in the Western Hemisphere.
D) / / intervening in Latin American countries that could not pay their debt to European creditors.
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The "Manhattan Project" was the code name for the
A) / / U.S. plan to invade Japan.
B) / / Allied plan to invade Europe.
C) / / U.S. plans to make an atomic bomb.
D) / / German plan to attack New York City.
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This photograph of an urban slum was taken in 1935. These slums were nicknamed after the U.S. President who was often blamed for the economic plight of the country during that period. Who was that President?
A) / / Harry Truman
B) / / Herbert Hoover
C) / / Calvin Coolidge
D) / / Franklin Roosevelt
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Ft. Sumter is MOST significant for being
A) / / the location of the end of the Civil War.
B) / / destroyed by the Union when taking Port Royal.
C) / / the target of General Sherman's March to the Sea.
D) / / where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
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What established the procedure by which the United States would expand westward across North America by the admission of new states, rather than by the expansion of existing states?
A) / / The Treaty of 1763
B) / / The Wilmont Proviso
C) / / The Monroe Doctrine
D) / / The Northwest Ordinance
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Which statement best describes a political theory of John Locke?
A) / / Men and women are born free and entitled to equality.
B) / / There should be a separation between church and state.
C) / / A government's power comes from the consent of the people.
D) / / The government should be divided into three separate branches.
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Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was repealed because
A) / / the President vetoed the Amendment.
B) / / women demanded the right to suffrage.
C) / / the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
D) / / Congress and the states agreed to repeal it.
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How did the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts encourage American colonists to consider revolution against British rule?
A) / / by representing an effort in Britain to end the slave trade in the colonies
B) / / by revealing the British plan to expand the American colonies farther west on the continent
C) / / by ignoring American representatives in Parliament on issues of taxes levied in the American colonies
D) / / by raising taxes in the American colonies without granting the colonies any representation in Parliament
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Which of these is an accurate description of the outcome of the "Army-McCarthy Hearings" in early 1954?
A) / / McCarthy was Court Martialed for treason.
B) / / The Army continued to send troops to Asia.
C) / / The Army was found to have violated international law in committing war crimes in Korea.
D) / / McCarthy's accusations regarding communist infiltration of the government were discredited.
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California was initially admitted as a “free state,” while citizens of the Utah and New Mexico territories were left to decide the issue for themselves. Which of these set this up?
A) / / Wilmot Proviso
B) / / Compromise of 1850
C) / / Missouri Compromise
D) / / Kansas-Nebraska Act
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In the War of 1812, the United States
A) / / fought Mexico for territory in the Southwest.
B) / / gained the Florida territory from the Spanish.
C) / / fought France for control of the Lousiana Territory.
D) / / responded to England’s attempts to restrict US trade in Europe.
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Herbert Hoover's solution to easing the Great Depression was primarily to
A) / / lower foreign tariffs and thus increase foreign trade.
B) / / provide no help at all for American citizens or businesses.
C) / / help all levels of the economy, but in an amount consistent with a balanced budget.
D) / / provide some federal help to bankers, but leave relief for the poor to private charities.
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The Red Scare of the 1920s was caused primarily by
A) / / the influenza outbreak.
B) / / fear of airborne diseases.
C) / / the actions of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy.
D) / / fear of communist infiltration of the United States.
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Businessmen during the Gilded Age of the late 19th century often favored relaxed immigration laws because they
A) / / remembered their immigrant heritage.
B) / / were advocates of multicultural education.
C) / / valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor.
D) / / wanted more people to buy the products their business produced.
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Who was the most vocal opponent of the Tariff of 1828 and advocated "State's Rights" and "Nullification" in the growing sectional conflicts between North and South?
A) / / Henry Clay of Kentucky
B) / / Andrew Jackson of Tennessee
C) / / Daniel Webster of Massachusetts
D) / / John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
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The "Sons of Liberty" were formed in the 1760s primarily as a reaction to
A) / / the Stamp Act.
B) / / the Boston Massacre.
C) / / the Treaty of Paris, 1783.
D) / / the French and Indian War.
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Which treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
A) / / Treaty of Paris
B) / / Treaty of Vera Cruz
C) / / Treaty of Versailles
D) / / Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Angelina and Sarah Grimke were sisters from South Carolina and are MOST notable as being 19th century
A) / / abolitionists.
B) / / businesswomen.
C) / / politicians.
D) / / suffragettes.
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This picture of Rosa Parks shows her arrest in 1955 after she
A) / / protested voting discrimination in Birmingham.
B) / / refused to stop protesting at a lunch counter.
C) / / attempted to integrate Robert E. Lee high school in Montgomery.
D) / / used economic pressure to try to affect political and social change.
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"We, ... the People of South Carolina, by our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State; with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do."
This document was written
A) / / following the approval of the Emancipation Proclamation.
B) / / when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
C) / / when the Confederate States declared war on the United States.