Transcript Grade 11 EOI - Moore Public Schools

Grade 11 EOI
Practice Test
Released Test Items
2009-2012
A.
B.
C.
D.
Gave slaves the right to vote.
Opposed westward expansion.
Had a democratic form of government.
Was becoming a successful industrial society.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Neutrality.
Militarism.
Containment.
Expansionism.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Avoided purchasing anything other than the
bare necessities.
Began to accumulate personal debt through
installment buying.
Were unable to afford manufactured goods
because the costs were so high.
Waited until they had saved enough money
before making major purchases.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Cold war
The Watergate scandal
The Bay of Pigs invasion
The Teapot Dome scandal
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sophisticated wit that appealed to wealthy
urbanites
Musical humor that poked fun at American
politicians
Social injustice and hardship during the Great
Depression
Sarcastic humor which expressed a cynical view
of communism
A.
B.
C.
D.
Both groups found new employment
opportunities.
Both groups were allowed to vote for the first
time.
Both groups were allowed to serve in the armed
forces for the first time.
Both groups joined forces to fight against racial
and gender discrimination.
A.
B.
C.
D.
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2
3
4
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Property Tests
A.
B.
C.
D.
To encourage more young Americans to vote
To make the voting process more democratic
To restrict many African Americans from voting
To demonstrate the benefits of women’s suffrage
A.
B.
C.
D.
Women have made few gains in society since
the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Women regularly earn higher salaries than men
for doing the same work.
A larger percentage of women are homemakers
now than ever before.
Society has become more aware of the concerns
of American women.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Immigration has had no real influence on the
United States.
The population of the United States would
decline without immigration.
Immigrants usually brought family fortunes
that helped to build the United States.
Immigration provides a flow of new ideas and
diverse cultures to the United States.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Immigrants were generally skilled workers.
Immigrants enjoyed a high standard of living.
Immigrants financed the expansion of industry.
Immigrants supplied a large pool of unskilled
labor.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The decision by Hitler to send troops to Japan
The inability of the United States to capture any
Pacific islands
The projections of heavy casualties in an Allied
invasion of Japan
The unanimous support of the United States
scientific community
A.
B.
C.
D.
Watching television
Driving an automobile
Traveling on jet planes
Using a personal computer
“What is our title to the Philippine Islands? Do we hold them
by treaty or by conquest? Did we buy them, or did we take
them?...If governments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed, it is impossible to secure title to [the
Philippine people], either by force or by purchase.”
-William Jennings Bryan, 1900
A.
B.
C.
D.
The right of the people to determine their own destiny.
The role of the government in upholding equal rights for all
citizens.
The responsibility of a government to come to the aid of its
allies.
The right of one country to overthrow the government of
another country.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Midway
Okinawa
Leyte Gulf
Pearl Harbor
A.
B.
C.
D.
Racial hostility.
Patriotic expression.
National isolationism.
Railroad construction.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of the Bulge
The invasion of Normandy
The evacuation of Dunkirk
A.
B.
C.
D.
Constitutional amendments outlawing antiSemitism
The establishment of Israel as an independent
nation
The return of all confiscated property to Jewish
survivors
Passage of anti-Semitic laws throughout the
United States
“The facts of the matter are that this nation’s foes have
openly boasted of acquiring through our newspapers
information they would otherwise hire agents to acquire
through theft, bribery, or espionage.”
-President John F. Kennedy, 1961
A.
B.
C.
D.
Such publication damages military morale.
The First Amendment was not important to him.
The American military is governed by martial law.
Communists could obtain vital information from
newspaper reports.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Shifting its foreign policy
toward global expansion.
Encouraging immigration
in order to gain new states.
Restricting its foreign
policy actions to
unpopulated areas of the
world.
Providing military and
economic assistance to
nations attempting to
become democracies.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it
and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if
I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would
also do that…I have stated my purpose according to my views of
the official duty, and I intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
-from a letter dated August 22, 1862
A.
B.
C.
D.
Ulysses Grant
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Fredrick Douglas
A.
B.
C.
D.
Irish immigration was higher
in the middle 1800s than in
the early 1900s.
German immigration was
higher in the early 1900s than
in the middle 1800s.
Fewer people immigrated to
this country in the early
1900s than in the middle of
the 1800s.
There was no difference in the
number of immigrants
entering the country between
the two periods.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Literacy
Nationality
Social class
Religious beliefs
A.
B.
C.
D.
Graduated from Oberlin College.
Chaired the Seneca Falls Convention.
Helped lead the women’s suffrage movement.
Fought for women’s health and safety
standards.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sharp rises in wages for workers.
Businesses producing more goods than
consumers could buy.
Strict government regulations limiting the
actions of businesses.
People placing money in savings accounts
instead of buying goods.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Greater reliance on foreign trade
Decreased taxation of businesses
Decreased public interest in economic issues
Greater government intervention in the
economy
“You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first
one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it
will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a
[process] that would have the most profound influences.”
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower
News Conference on April 7, 1954
A.
B.
C.
D.
Increasing its involvement in Vietnam.
Developing a program to explore space.
Increasing the stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Improving its diplomatic relations with China.
“You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first
one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it
will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a
[process] that would have the most profound influences.”
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower
News Conference on April 7, 1954
A.
B.
C.
D.
Calvin Coolidge’s desire to create a favorable business
climate
Woodrow Wilson’s vision of an international peacekeeping
organization
Harry Truman’s commitment to support countries resisting
communism
Franklin Roosevelt’s belief in government spending to help
the economy
“The battle against Communism must be joined in
Southeast Asia with strength and determination to
achieve success there – or the United States, inevitably,
must surrender the Pacific and take up our defenses on
our own shores.”
Vice President Johnson writing to JFK, 1961
A.
B.
C.
D.
Invade the Soviet Union
Withdraw troops from Southeast Asia
Increase United States military presence in Vietnam
Build new military bases in California and
Washington
“The battle against Communism must be joined in
Southeast Asia with strength and determination to
achieve success there – or the United States, inevitably,
must surrender the Pacific and take up our defenses on
our own shores.”
Vice President Johnson writing to JFK, 1961
A.
B.
C.
D.
He clearly is prejudiced against any nation that is led by communist.
He exaggerates the scope of the communist drive for world
domination.
He uses emotionally charged language rather than diplomatic tones
to convey his message to the president.
He offers no proof that if one nation in a region becomes communist,
all other nations in the region will also become communist.
A.
B.
C.
D.
campaign finances.
business monopolies.
religious organizations.
educational institutions.
A.
B.
C.
D.
fears associated with the Red Scare
political reforms of the Populist Movement
tensions from the Back to Africa Movement
migration of African Americans to Northern
cities
A.
B.
C.
D.
air support for Allied troops
military ground forces in the Pacific
war materials leased to Allied forces
atomic research of the Manhattan Project
A.
B.
C.
D.
laws that restrict the number of immigrants
from certain countries
laws that make it easier for immigrants to earn
decent wages
laws that make it easier for immigrants to enter
the country
laws that restrict immigrants from certain jobs
A.
B.
C.
D.
a restriction of voting rights
a public demand for longer presidential terms
a revision in nominating procedures of the major
political parties
a constitutional amendment limiting a president
to two full terms in office
A.
B.
C.
D.
aristocracy vs. meritocracy
industrialization vs. agriculture
republicans’ viewpoints vs. democrats’ viewpoints
federal government’s authority vs. individual
states’ rights
A.
B.
C.
D.
It ended fighting in the Pacific.
It cut off Japanese supply lines.
It forced the surrender of the Italian army.
It was the first offensive that involved the United
States.
A.
B.
C.
D.
the march to the sea by Sherman
the declaration of war by the North
the election of Abraham Lincoln as president
the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation
A.
B.
C.
D.
The United States was too weakened to influence
world events.
The United States granted full independence to all
countries involved in the conflict.
President McKinley stated that the United States
should avoid all future military conflicts.
The United States acquired possessions in the
Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
“We charge . . . that the Constitution was formed at
the expense of human liberty . . . and to this hour is
cemented with human blood. . . .”
A.
B.
C.
D.
recent immigrants
plantation owners
Abolitionists
suffragists
Contributions of Some Immigrant Groups,
Mid-to-Late 1800s
Immigrant Group
Some Jobs Held
Irish
Union Pacific Railroad workers, city laborers
Chinese
Central Pacific Railroad workers
Italian
Bridge and subway construction workers
German
Farmers, merchants
A.
B.
C.
D.
They controlled much of the capital in banks.
They found a variety of ways to get rich quickly.
They seldom experienced discrimination in the workplace.
They frequently performed the most strenuous types of
work.
Imperialism
Expansionism
Yellow Journalism
A.
B.
C.
D.
Korean War.
Great Depression.
Civil Rights Movement.
Spanish-American War.
German Words Commonly
Used in the United States
A.
B.
C.
D.
Kindergarten
Noodle
pretzel
Frankfurter
Waltz
Spritz
Zig-zag
Torte
hamburger
Immigrants’ impact on the United States affected only major
cities.
Immigrants from Germany had the greatest impact on the United
States.
Immigrants’ cultural impact on the United States can be seen on a
daily basis.
Immigrants from Germany had an impact only on the food of the
United States.
“I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I
shall be able eventually to carry out my will by force.”
—President Theodore Roosevelt
“We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its
greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth . . . But
justice and generosity in a nation . . . count most when shown not
by the weak but by the strong.”
—President Theodore Roosevelt
A.
B.
C.
D.
weakening the military by sending troops to too many
locations.
threatening the use of military action to dominate other
nations.
spending money on building up economies throughout the
world.
overstepping his constitutional authority in dealing with
other nations.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Utah
Indian
Oregon
Minnesota
A.
B.
C.
D.
Many industrial jobs were eliminated.
Protests and riots caused great destruction.
Many U.S. cities were destroyed by German
bombs.
Fuel, textiles, meat, and other goods were
rationed.
A.
B.
C.
D.
law and order breaks down in society.
large numbers of immigrants enter the country.
major political parties ignore important public
issues.
presidents and government officials become too
powerful
A.
B.
C.
D.
German Americans were tried for war crimes.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for
spying.
Japanese Americans were imprisoned in
internment camps.
African American women were excluded from
the workforce.
A.
B.
C.
D.
It allowed the federal government to use any
measures to enforce the law.
It directed public schools to teach people how to
address racial problems.
It ushered in a period of racial harmony in the
nation.
It expanded integration beyond public schools.
Political Platforms 1948–1972
Government should spend more money to help people who are out of
work.
—Democratic Party
Government should help business first, because better business
means more jobs.
—Republican Party
A.
B.
C.
D.
Republicans were leaders and Democrats were followers.
Democrats and Republicans disagreed over the
constitutional issues.
Both parties were concerned only with the needs of large
corporations.
Both parties had different ideas about how to accomplish
the same goals.
A.
B.
C.
D.
the limitations of the League of Nations.
the tension between communism and capitalism.
the competition between established nations and
new colonies.
the refusal of the United States to send economic
aid to Japan.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Will Rogers
Ralph Ellison
Woody Guthrie
Frederic Remington
A.
B.
C.
D.
provided Americans with a variety of imported
goods.
extended the market for goods and services to rural
areas.
financed the construction of intercontinental
railroad systems.
paid American employees high wages and provided
good benefits.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Progressive Reforms.
Harlem Renaissance.
Great Society.
Glory Days.
A.
B.
C.
D.
poor conditions for industrial workers
poor enforcement of civil rights legislation
fundraising corruption by political party bosses
communist infiltration of the federal
government
A.
B.
C.
D.
It was more favorable toward the South than the
Republican plan.
It was generous toward newly freed African
Americans.
It declared Confederate sympathizers to be traitors.
It was unacceptable to Democrats in Washington.
“Our country and the world are today involved in more than a financial crisis
. . . No governmental action, no economic doctrine, no economic plan or
project can replace that . . . responsibility of the individual man and woman to
their neighbors.”
—Herbert Hoover
“We face our common difficulties. They concern . . . only material things.
Values have shrunken to fantastic levels . . . The savings of many years in
thousands of families are gone . . . This Nation asks for action, and action now
. . . I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures
that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
A.
B.
C.
D.
the expansion of civil rights.
the need for resource conservation.
the effect of foreign trade on the economy.
the role of government in the lives of citizens.
A.
B.
C.
D.
I
II
III
IV
. . . Those guarantees of the Bill of Rights which are fundamental
safeguards of liberty immune from federal (limitation) are equally
protected against state invasion by the . . . Fourteenth Amendment.
—United States Supreme Court decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963
. . . No State shall . . . deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its
jurisdictions the equal protection of the laws.
—14th Amendment, 1868
A.
B.
C.
D.
Citizens should have fair treatment under the law.
Governments sometimes must suspend individual rights.
States require reasonable independence from the federal
government.
Governments should have broader ability to protect personal
possessions.
A.
B.
C.
D.
the Populist Party.
the Democratic Party.
the Republican Party.
the Communist Party.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Counties prevented illiterate citizens from voting
in elections.
Businesses provided separate but equal facilities
for men and women.
Housing for low-income and rural families
received approval from Congress.
Integration policies allowed African Americans
to attend previously all-white public schools.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Cold War
Civil War
World War I
Spanish-American War
Here we have one of the factors responsible for the uneven progress of
industry and agriculture. Compared with the factory, the farm has
suffered from . . . outmoded techniques. . . . Yet all of us who studied the
problem believed that an opening inevitably would come for a serious,
well-ordered effort to extend to the farm the benefits electricity has
made possible to town dwellers in this country.
—Morris L. Cooke, Rural Electrification Administration, 1935
A.
B.
C.
D.
decreased dependence on technology
decreased government intervention in industry
increased economic development of rural areas
increased movement of people from urban to rural
areas
“You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first
one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that
it will go over very quickly.”
—President Dwight D. Eisenhower, referring to
the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, 1954
A.
B.
C.
D.
President Johnson suspended bombing in North Vietnam.
United States citizens held demonstrations against the
Vietnam War.
United States forces increased military operations in South
Vietnam.
President Nixon called for a gradual withdrawal of troops
from Vietnam.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The rise of third parties tended to overwhelm
voters.
Political scandals like Watergate created a
distrust of government.
The lack of differences between the candidates
caused disinterest among voters.
Economic depression caused Americans to be
more concerned with their personal lives.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Ku Klux Klan marches
in Binghamton, New York,
in the 1920s.
immigrants from all
religious groups.
immigrants from diverse
ethnic groups.
people descended from
Northern European
Protestants.
people descended from
Southern European
Catholics.
A.
B.
C.
D.
an increase in presidential power.
a decrease in imperialistic activity.
an increase in United States territory in Europe.
a decrease in United States involvement in
Central America.
A.
B.
C.
D.
“The Japanese government has deliberately sought
to deceive the United States by false statements . . .”
“The American people in their righteous might will
win . . .”
“Our people, our territory, and our interests are in
grave danger . . .”
“American ships have been torpedoed on the high
seas . . .”
A.
B.
C.
D.
Munn v. Illinois
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
A.
B.
C.
D.
to deny newly established constitutional rights to
African Americans.
to specify how destroyed roads and bridges
would be rebuilt.
to provide freed slaves with protection from
violent acts against them.
to determine criteria by which Confederate war
veterans would be honored.
A.
B.
C.
D.
felt that life in the South was no better after
Emancipation.
wanted to travel to an area that did not depend
on the cotton crop.
were forced out of the Southern states by law.
would be sent back to Africa otherwise.
A.
B.
C.
D.
fear of radical ideas and communism.
resentment toward Europeans after World
the success of D.W. Griffith’s film Birth of a
Nation.
writings by leaders of the Niagara Movement.
A.
B.
C.
D.
pacifism.
isolationism.
containment.
appeasement.
A.
B.
C.
D.
It should use military force around the world.
It should recruit skilled workers from overseas.
It should isolate the United States from Central
America.
It should use investments to gain influence in
the Western hemisphere.
A.
B.
C.
D.
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
economic recovery from the Great Depression
the protection of American trade interests within
Germany
the use of unrestricted submarine warfare
against American shipping
A.
B.
C.
D.
a balance-of-power theory.
international cooperation.
a strong international military force.
the United States becoming a world superpower.
A.
B.
C.
D.
radio
television
vaudeville
live theatre
A.
B.
C.
D.
barter
loans from relatives
installment plans
government loans
A.
B.
C.
D.
Big business should set most economic policies.
The law of supply and demand should determine
all economic decisions.
The federal government should have absolutely
no power over the economy.
An important function of government is to
moderate the effects of the business cycle.
A.
B.
C.
D.
the Battle of St. Lo
the Battle of the Bulge
the evacuation of Dunkirk
the attack on Pearl Harbor
A.
B.
C.
D.
to invade the Soviet Union and end the
communist threat
to spread communist propaganda in post-war
Europe
to further the United States’ foreign policy of
containment
to provide support for the French resistance to
Hitler
A.
B.
C.
D.
members of the Communist Party were
infiltrating all levels of American government.
large numbers of immigrants from Ireland were
creating crime in the nation’s cities.
anarchists and radicals from Italy were plotting
to overthrow the government.
Spain had destroyed an American warship in
Havana, Cuba.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The ability of the federal government to regulate
schools was weakened.
The Supreme Court expanded its implied powers
to legislate for state governments.
State and local governments were ordered by the
federal courts to integrate their schools.
Federal control of local schools was viewed as
unnecessary.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Marcus Garvey
Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A.
B.
C.
D.
the refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her bus seat
the publication of The Feminine Mystique by
Betty Friedan
the Vietnam War
the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment