1)
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) were supporters of the Temperance Movement.
D) valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor.
2)
In World War II, the title of Supreme Allied Commander belonged to
A) Harry Truman.
B) Omar Bradley.
C) George Patton.
D) Dwight Eisenhower.
3)

This cartoon from 1933 represents FDR's promise to
A) end the era of Prohibition.
B) start the era of Prohibition.
C) have Congress fund bottling plants.
D) build more breweries in the United States.
4)

Which of these statements is true according to the graph?
A) By 1900 the majority of the U. S. population lived in urban areas.
B) In 1810, less than 90% of the U. S. population lived in rural areas.
C) Rural and urban populations in the United States were roughly equal in 1920.
D) Between 1940 and 1960 there was a steady increase in the U. S.'s rural population.
5)
According to the Treaty of Versailles, what country was expected to pay for the damages in World War I?
A) Austria-Hungary
B) France
C) Germany
D) Russia
6)

According to this map, which part of the country did women have the least voting rights in 1919?
A) West
B) Midwest
C) Southeast
D) Northeast
7)
Which is the BEST definition for the term tenement ?
A) an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
B) a subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to a central city
C) an apartment building in which several families rent rooms often with little sanitation or safety
D) the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class resulting in the displacement of lower-income people
8)
"Every Man a King" Speech
by Huey Long

"It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country -- and by rich people I mean the super-rich -- will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people."
Huey Long's concerns are describing the problems faced by the country during which of these eras?
A) Cold War
B) World War I
C) World War II
D) Great Depression
9)
Why is the Harlem Renaissance of major importance in American History?
A) The government finally passed a law banning slavery.
B) The area of New York was rebuilt after a devastating fire.
C) It finally gave much needed jobs to African-Americans during the Great Migration.
D) It brought the African-American experience into the cultural conscious of the country.
10)
When the Scopes Trial began, the prosecution focused on which of these strategies?
A) the law had been violated
B) evolution contradicted the Bible
C) John Scopes was not a good teacher
D) the U. S. should ban the teaching of evolution
11)
Which of these marketing methods helped Henry Ford sell the Model T to many people who had never before owned a car?
A) offering free maintenance on cars for a full year
B) airing television commercials with memorable slogans
C) advertising with the new communication outlets such as radio
D) offering many different colors and models for buyers to choose from
12)
"I have always been fond of the East Africa proverb: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.'

-Theodore Roosevelt, January 26, 1900
Given this quote and the actions of Roosevelt's presidency, it is MOST likely that in the early 1900s the United States
A) sought to reverse the Monroe Doctrine of the 1820s.
B) isolated itself from nearly all international activity.
C) de-emphasized the importance of international diplomacy.
D) expanded its military in hopes of becoming a world power.
13)
President Franklin Roosevelt said that December 7, 1941, would "live in infamy" because on that day
A) Germany invaded Poland.
B) Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
C) France was invaded by Germany.
D) Japan invaded the Philippines.
14)
In an effort to deal with an increasing number of immigrants, in 1892 the U. S. government
A) banned all immigrants into the country.
B) required all immigrants to speak English.
C) reduced the number of years required to become a U. S. citizen.
D) opened an immigration station on Ellis Island in New York City.