Transcript US History GHSGT Review

US History GHSGT Review
The Camp David Accords negotiated
by President Jimmy Carter were
important because they
A.) Reduced tensions in the Middle East
B.) Renewed diplomatic relations between the United States
and China
C.) Slowed the pace of the nuclear arms race
D.) Provided for cooperation with the Soviet Union in the
exploration of outer space
The containment policy called for the
US to
A.) Keep communism confined to western Europe
B.) Take back countries lost to communism
C.) Stop the spread of communism
D.) Ban Communists from Congress
In Bakke V. University of California,
the Supreme Court ruled…
A.) Outlawed quotas and upheld the principle of affirmative action
B.) Upheld quotas and outlawed the principle of affirmative action
C.) Outlawed quotas and the principle of affirmative action
D.) Upheld quotas and the principles of affirmative action
The Espionage Act (1917) and
Sedition Act (1918) were both
A.) Vetoed by President Theodore Roosevelt
B.) Declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
C.) Unsuccessful attempts to stop criticism against the war
D.) Significant limitations of freedom of speech and freedom
of the press
An appalling result of the Great
Migration and the associated interracial
job competition was
A.) Integration
B.) High employment
C.) Reduced amount of rationing
D.) Red Summer
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 came
to an end when…
A.) CIA backed rebels were defeated by the Cuban army at the Bay
of Pigs
B.) The United nations allowed the US to install nuclear missiles in
Key West
C.) The Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its nuclear missiles from
Cuba
D.) A nuclear disarmament plan for the US and the Soviet Union
was agreed upon
The Pullman Strike (1894) was
significant in American labor history
because it showed that
A.) Unions were powerful enough to break the restrictions placed
on them by management
B.) Unions were infiltrated by anarchists after people were killed
during protests in Chicago
C.) The US government was willing to back the concerns of the
working class people instead of backing corporate giants
D.) The needs and concerns of union members mattered less to the
government than the needs and concerns of industrial executives
Which monumental Supreme Court
case legalized abortion?
A.) Plessy V. Ferguson
B.) Brown V. Board of Education
C.) Miranda V. Arizona
D.) Roe V. Wade
Rachel Carson’s best selling book
Silent Spring exposed
A.) Corruption in the police hierarchy
B.) The lack of sanitation in the meatpacking industry
C.) The devastating environmental effects of pesticides
D.) Money laundering practices by the oil companies
What was the Marshall Plan intended
to do?
A.) Unify the US armed forces
B.) Rescue staving Berliners behind a Soviet blockade
C.) Rebuild war ravaged Europe
D.) Increase the president’s power to root out
communist spies
At the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt,
Churchill, and Stalin decided to
A.) Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania would be free and hold
elections
B.) Germany would be divided into four occupied zones after
the war
C.) The Soviets would enter the war against the Japanese
D.) The US would help the Soviets build atomic weapons
The Double V Campaign
A.) Encouraged workers to join labor unions
B.) Promoted victory in war and racial equality at home
C.) Tried to help women keep their jobs after the war
D.) Motivated Americans to recycle and reuse
The American policy of the LendLease act
A.) Denounced Britain and France for declaring war on Germany
B.) Followed a foreign policy of appeasement
C.) Remained neutral while making war supplies available to Britain
D.) Terminated trade agreements with warring nations
How did the Wagner Act support
workers’ rights in the 1930s?
A.) It limited the number of hours for industrial workers
B.) It established a minimum wage
C.) It legalized labor unions and allowed for collective
bargaining
D.) It abolished the use of child labor
The Neutrality Acts stated that the US
would
A.) Withhold weapons and loans from belligerent (aggressive)
nations
B.) Trade weapons with nations vital to American security
C.) Would trade non-military goods on credit
D.) Would trade non-military goods for cash
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was
caused by all of the following EXCEPT
A.) Persistent drought
B.) Destruction of the grasslands
C.) Consistent crop rotation
D.) Erosion of top soil
The Truman Doctrine was a policy in
which the US vowed to aid
A.) People who were in poverty
B.) States trying to integrate public schools
C.) Countries trying to resist the spread of Communism
D.) Countries helping the United States in the Vietnam
War
This document promised European
nations that the US would stay out of
European affairs if Europe promised
to stay out of the Americas
A.) Roosevelt Corollary
B.) Washington’s Farewell Address
C.) Truman Doctrine
D.) Monroe Doctrine
Which statement offers the best
argument AGAINST Theodore
Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” diplomacy?
A.) Roosevelt used America’s military power in an unjust manner in
his pursuit of our foreign policy goals
B.) Roosevelt’s use of military threats angered Great Britain,
France, and Germany and helped cause World War I.
C.) Roosevelt was successful in bringing much of Latin America under
direct American control, including Cuba and the Panama Canal
D.) “Big Stick” diplomacy had few strengths and its main effect was
actually an increase in revolution and conflict in the Western
Hemisphere
Which of the following was a cause of
the Great Depression?
A.) stock market speculation
B.) the inability of American industry to adopt new
technology
C.) underproduction by factories
D.) the inability of farmers to meet growing demands
What was the central message of the
Roosevelt Corollary?
A.) U.S. territories would not enter into foreign agreements
B.) U.S. territories would remain unincorporated
C.) The U.S. would use force to intervene in the affairs of
neighboring countries
D.) The U.S. would only support revolutionary movements that
promoted democracy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 upheld
the 15th Amendment by
A.) Supporting Jim Crow Laws in the South
B.) Banning literacy tests as a prerequisite for voter
registration
C.) Repealing Prohibition
D.) Requiring college students to attend Freedom Summer
The march of the “Bonus Army” and
referring to shantytowns as
“Hoovervilles” in the early 1930s
illustrated
A.) The president’s success in solving social problems
B.) State projects that created jobs for the unemployed
C.) Federal attempts to restore confidence in the American
economy
D.) Growing discontent with Republican efforts to deal with the
Great Depression
The US began to emerge from the
depression as a result of
A.) Freezing rents and prices
B.) Producing goods for the Allied forces
C.) Increasing production of consumer goods
D.) New Deal programs created in the 1930s
How did new railroads benefit
western cattle ranchers?
A.) Made it easier for ranchers to keep track of their herds
B.) Allowed cowboys to travel easily between cattle herds and
their homes
C.) Provided a way to transport meat to eastern markets
D.) Encouraged eastern cowboys to make a living in the West
All of these statements describe what American?
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Union organizer in the late 19th century
Socialist candidate for US president five times
An organizer of the Pullman Strike in 1894
Anti-war activist arrested for Espionage
A.) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B.) Eugene V. Debs
C.) Theodore Roosevelt
D.) Samuel Gompers
One major demographic shift that
resulted from the boom in the
automobile industry:
A.) Mexican workers to New England
B.) Large numbers of Americans moved to the South
C.) French-speaking into barrios
D.) Large number of Americans moved to the suburbs
“Little Boy” and “Fat Man” were the
code names given to
A.) The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
B.) The Allied invasion of Normandy
C.) The German's last offensive battle strategy
D.) The Japanese's planned attack on Pearl Harbor
The Fourteen Points of the early 20th
century
A.) Was a declaration of US neutrality
B.) Warned Americans not to travel on Europeans ships
C.) Provided secret aid to Britain before the US entered
war
D.) Were issued by President Wilson as a basis for
lasting peace
The purpose of the New Deal
programs was to provide:
A.) Immediate relief for Depression victims
B.) Jobs to stimulate economic recovery
C.) Economic reform to insure financiers' future
investments
D.) All of the above
GHSGT Review Answers
1. A
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. D
6. C
7. D
8. D
9. C
10.C
11. B
12. B
13. C
14. C
15. A
16. C
17. C
18. D
19. A
20. A
21. C
22. B
23. D
24. B
25. C
26. B
27. D
28. A
29. D
30. D