15)

Which number represents the decade in which the United States was involved in World War II?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
16)
The Sedition Act of 1918
A) passed over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
B) placed limitations on freedoms of speech and press.
C) placed limitations on freedoms of speech and religion.
D) were designed to stop antiwar propaganda but were not enforced.
17)
Most of the people in the internment camps in the United States during World War II were
A) German-Americans.
B) African-Americans.
C) Italian-Americans.
D) Japanese-Americans.
18)
The Prohibition Era in the United States is generally associated with a ban on
A) alcohol.
B) communism.
C) free speech.
D) immigration.
19)
"…but the completion of this mighty work, which connects the two oceans, is a still greater blessing. In the olden times, when camels – those ships of the desert – were the means used for transportation, for the furtherance if commercial traffic, it was found that wherever the caravans stopped there would spring up cities. And there would be evidences of civilization. So with this great work. It will populate the vast territory and be the great highway of the nations; their merchants will cross it to trade with us."

- excerpt from “East and West: Completion of the Great Line Spanning the Continent.” The New York Times, May 11, 1869.
Using your knowledge and the passage, which was NOT a development connected to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States during the Industrial Revolution?
A) transportation costs of goods increased
B) growth of export of goods to international markets
C) new centers of commerce developed along railroad stops
D) growth of economic ties between the East and West coasts
20)
· 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) Medicare
B) Social Security Act
C) National Recovery Act
D) Fair Labor Standards Act
21)
Which technological advance allowed cities to expand outward?
A) building of urban skyscrapers
B) the inclusion of neighborhood parks
C) forms of electric urban transportation
D) increased efficieny of the printing press
22)
The use of sit down strikes in the early 1900s was
A) a major cause of the Stock Market Crash.
B) declared illegal by the U. S. Supreme Court.
C) an effective method to get employers to address worker grievances.
D) often met with violence from other labor unions and the national army.
23)
The trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti of the early-1920s
A) was the first trial heard in the Supreme Court regarding political appointees.
B) was the first criminal hearing held in the U. S. Supreme Court that involved murder.
C) showed that religious fundamentalists were losing political power after World War I.
D) proved that there was severe social and judicial bias against immigrants in the United States.
24)
Overproduction and underconsumption factored into causing the Great Depression by
A) causing falling prices on goods.
B) forcing a decrease in mechanization.
C) leading to more spending than saving.
D) scaring farmers into growing fewer crops.
25)
Women in the United States were MOST affected by which amendment?
A) the Nineteenth Amendment
B) the Thirteenth Amendment
C) the Twenty-first Amendment
D) the Twenty-fourth Amendment
26)
· the Maine
· the Rough Riders
· "Yellow Press"
· San Juan Hill
All of these terms are associated with which conflict?
A) World War I
B) American Civil War
C) Spanish-American War
D) The Revolutionary War
27)
The Populist Party was chiefly composed of
A) individual farmers.
B) Eastern businessmen.
C) Northern abolitionists.
D) Northern factory owners.
28)
What impact did U. S. governmental polices have on business and industry during the late 1800s?
A) The U. S. government regulated industry for the public good.
B) The U. S. government had little or no influence on business and industry.
C) The U. S. government tried to limit and regulate industrial and business growth.
Eliminate
D) The U. S. government tried to control public and private utilities and transportation.