U.S. History Practice Questions

Civil War and Reconstruction

• Quote by William T. Sherman about Southern Secession
  • Prediction: War likely with the North winning due to technological advancements (Option C).
• Gall, Hunkpapa Sioux Indian on Settler Relations
  • Prediction: Further conflict with settlers (Option B).
• Political Cartoon on Carpetbaggers
  • Interpretation: Southern citizens preventing carpetbaggers (Option C).
• Homestead Act and Associated Events
  • Resulted in decline of Plains Indians (Option D).
• Southern States' Reaction to Radical Reconstruction
  • Enacted Jim Crow laws (Option B).

Challenges to American Farmers

• Legislative Acts Purpose
  • Promote general welfare of American public (Option D).
• Immigration Restrictions Pre-20th Century
  • Industry needed labor (Option A).
• Railroad Monopolies and Farmers
  • High shipping costs as hardship (Option B).

Responses to Industrialization

• President Theodore Roosevelt's Efforts
  • Limit monopolies (Option C).
• Labor Movement Quote
  • Likely attributed to Samuel Gompers (Option C).
• Second Industrial Revolution Cartoon
  • Standard Oil's power over government (Option C).
• Industrial Revolution Catalyst
  • Abundance of resources (Option C).
• Progressive Movement Purpose
  • Correct abuses of industrial society (Option D).

U.S. Imperialism

• Spanish-American War Factor
  • Yellow journalism (Option C).
• Open Door Policy
  • Secure trade opportunities in China (Option B).
• Panama Canal's Role in U.S. Power
  • Opened trading opportunities (Option D).

World War I and Aftermath

• Cause Not Leading to WWI
  • Socialism (Option D).
• U.S. WWI Avoidance Policy
  • Neutrality (Option A).
• Zimmermann Telegram's Purpose
  • Enlist Mexican support for Germany (Option D).
• Lusitania Sinking Impact
  • Challenged U.S. neutrality (Option D).
• WWI African American Migration
  • Driven by factory job opportunities in North (Option B).
• Wilson’s Fourteen Points
  • Set peace goals post-WWI (Option B).

Roaring Twenties

• U.S. Isolationism Post-WWI
  • Refused to join League of Nations (Option D).
• Nativism in the 1920s
  • National Origins Act & KKK rise (Option A).
• Economic Boom Causes
  • Installment buying & stock market (Option A).

Great Depression and New Deal

• Great Depression Factor
  • Buying stocks on margin (Option D).
• New Deal's Guiding Principle
  • Government aid to poor (Option D).
• 1930s Dust Bowl Location
  • Great Plains (Option B).

World War II

• WWII Women's Economic Gains
  • Labor shortage created opportunities (Option A).
• Japanese American Internment Cause
  • Racial prejudice (Option C).
• Yalta Conference Goal
  • Settle wartime issues (Option D).

Early Cold War

• Marshall Plan and NATO
  • Limit communism (Option B).
• Cold War Development Cause
  • Soviet domination of Eastern Europe (Option B).
• Berlin Airlift Cartoon
  • Represents Berlin airlift (Option A).

Vietnam War

• Vietnam War Public Opinion Impact
  • Public opinion strongly affects war outcome (Option D).
• Nixon's Détente Policy
  • Ease tensions with Soviet Union (Option C).
• McCarthyism Association
  • Fear of communist influence in U.S. (Option B).

Post-WWII Prosperity

• GI Bill Result
  • College education for veterans (Option A).
• Post-WWII Baby Boom Effect
  • Increased education need (Option C).
• Suburbanization Development Cause
  • Highways and automobile ownership (Option C).

1960s Foreign and Domestic Policy

• Cuban Missile Crisis Response
  • Naval quarantine of Cuba (Option B).
• Domino Theory Association
  • Vietnam military involvement (Option A).

Civil Rights Movement

• Modern Civil Rights Movement Start
  • Associated with headlines like desegregating armed forces (Option B).
• MLK's Civil Disobedience Argument
  • Support for civil disobedience (Option B).
• Brown v. Board of Education Impact
  • Required school integration (Option B).
• Cesar Chavez's UFWOC
  • Improve conditions for migrant workers (Option B).

Significant Supreme Court Decisions

• Rights of the Accused Focus
  • Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright, Miranda v. Arizona (Option C).
• Roe v. Wade Principle
  • Right to privacy (Option C).

U.S. Foreign Policy (1972-Present)

• Cold War End Event
  • Soviet Union breakup (Option C).
• Reagan's Defense System
  • Strategic Defense Initiative (Option B).

Globalization and Social Movements

• NAFTA and EU Trade Objective
  • Lower tariffs and eliminate quotas (Option C).
• Post-9/11 U.S. Government Creation
  • Department of Homeland Security (Option B).