STAAR EOC HISTORY REVIEW

(Booker T Washington) How did the person named in this 1909 handbill work to improve the lives of African Americans?

By promoting vocational training for African Americans

Which pull factor contributed to the Great Migration?

Economic opportunities in industrialized cities

(Picture of tank) How did the military innovation shown in this photograph affect the course of World War I?

It helped break the stalemate of trench warfare.

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Purpose To protect U.S. agriculture and industry from foreign competition Outcome ??? Which of the following best completes this diagram?

Led to a decrease in U.S. international trade

When citizens can only meet in public for certain purposes, they regard such meetings as a strange proceeding of rare occurrence, and they rarely think at all about it. When they are allowed to meet freely for all purposes, they ultimately look upon public association as the universal, or in a manner the sole, means which men can employ to accomplish the different purposes they may have in view. —Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1840 Which value is best reflected in this excerpt?

Liberty

What was the primary reason for U.S. involvement in East Asia during the early 1950s?

North Korean attempts to unify the peninsula challenged the U.S. policy of containment.

How did press coverage of events during the Vietnam War affect the United States?

Reporting on military setbacks contributed to public disillusionment with the war.

The demographics of the United States are changing rapidly because of factors such as longer life expectancy and large-scale immigration. People closely watching these trends include corporate executives and the advertisers they hire to market their products to consumers. Which marketing strategy is most clearly a result of the changing demographic patterns described above?

Telecommunication companies spend increasing amounts of money on commercials that air on Spanish-language radio stations.

We are not now required to ascertain the scope of the phrase "general welfare of the United States" or to determine whether an appropriation in aid of agriculture falls within it. Wholly apart from that question, another principle embedded in our Constitution prohibits the enforcement of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. . . . It is a statutory plan to regulate and control agricultural production, a matter beyond the powers delegated to the federal government. —United States v. Butler, 1936 Which constitutional amendment did the Supreme Court use as a basis of this ruling?

Tenth

"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms." -Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1954 Which action occurred as a result of the Supreme Court decision excerpted above?

The desegregation of public schools

Daily News 1960 Daily News 1961 Freedom Rides Begin from Washington, D.C. Daily News 1963 250,000 Participate in March on Washington Sit-in Protest at Woolworth's Lunch Counter in Greensboro, N.C. What was the main result of the events referred to in these headlines?

The expansion of political and economic opportunities for minority citizens

(CITY BANK) (FDIC INSURED) What does the sticker in this illustration represent to patrons of this bank?

The federal government's assurance of protection on individual bank deposits

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note . . . that all men . . . would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. . . . Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check. . . . We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice. —"I Have a Dream," Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 What is a major result of the campaign described by Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The national identity of the United States has become more inclusive.

What was one reason for the expansion of machine politics in the late nineteenth century?

The rapid influx of immigrants made it difficult for local governments to provide basic services.

Why did the Populist Party want free coinage of silver?

To increase the amount of money in circulation

"Grow vitamins at your kitchen door." What was a primary purpose of the program being promoted by this poster?

To increase the food supply during a farm-labor shortage

There is a solidarity and interdependence about the modern world . . . which makes it impossible for any nation completely to isolate itself from economic and political upheavals in the rest of the world, especially when such upheavals appear to be spreading and not declining. . . . International anarchy destroys every foundation for peace. It jeopardizes . . . the future security of every nation, large or small. It is, therefore, a matter of vital interest and concern to the people of the United States that the sanctity of international treaties and the maintenance of international morality be restored. —President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937 President Roosevelt later used similar reasoning as one justification for-

U.S. involvement in World War II

New Housing Units Started, Private Ownership, 1945-1962 The data presented on this graph illustrate an economic effect of —

assistance offered by the GI Bill to soldiers returning from World War II

Although the women of America are one step nearer to nylon stockings as a result of new ceiling price schedules . . . , the prospect of "nylons for Christmas," except for a favored few, is not good, hosiery manufacturers said yesterday. —"Outlook Is Gloomy for Christmas Nylons," New York Times, November 10, 1945 This excerpt suggests that U.S. consumers were affected by —

continued supply shortages after World War II

One action that influenced the U.S.-Soviet signing of the SALT I treaty in 1972 was President Richard Nixon's —

opening of diplomatic relations with China

Nineteenth-century nativist organizations advocated —

promoting an ethnically homogeneous society through restrictions on immigration