US History Q3 Test
The political cartoon below is from 1899. Titled: "Imperialism" With which statement would the artist agree?
"When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys." (George Orwell)
The table below represents plans for Reconstruction. What are the BEST titles for the columns of this chart?
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, the Radical Republicans plan for Reconstruction
The flow chart below illustrates agricultural events during the late 19th century. Which conclusion is MOST accurate?
Advancements in technology reduced the number of farms.
The excerpt below is from an 1879 sharecropping agreement. "...After payment of said supply bill, the said lessee is to pay to said lessor, in the gin of said plantation, the rent cotton herein before stipulated, said rent to be fully paid on or before the 1st day of January, 1880. All cotton raised on said land is to be gained on the gin of said lessor, on said plantation, and said lessee is to pay $4 per bale for ginning same..." Based on the excerpt, how did agreements like this affect the lives of Southerners?
African Americans found it difficult to escape the cycle of debt peonage.
Which statement BEST completes the flow chart?
Americans buy consumer goods on credit
The following is an economic graph from 1867 - 1882. Titled: "Piece of iron and steel rails 1867-1882" What conclusion about the Second Industrialization Revolution can be made from the graph?
As technology improves the price of goods decreases.
The following photographs are from the late 19th century. Which U.S. government policy do these photographs illustrate?
Assimilation of Native Americans
The following cartoon represents the Second Industrial Revolution. *Big man holding a building* Which of the following claims does the cartoon MOST accurately support?
Big business has too much power over the federal government.
The following is an 1894 political cartoon. *Kid standing on a podium labelled silver* Which statement would the cartoonist MOST likely support?
Bimetalism will lead to economic prosperity
The quote below is from 1913. "The Indian, though a man without a country, the Indian who has suffered a thousand wrongs considering the white man's burden and from mountains, plains and divides, the Indian threw himself into the struggle to help throttle the unthinkable tyranny of the Hun. The Indian helped to free Belgium, helped to free all the small nations, helped to give victory to the Stars and Stripes. The Indian went to France to help avenge the ravages of autocracy. Now, shall we not redeem ourselves by redeeming all the tribes?" How did the U.S. government change the situation described in the quote?
By passing the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
The following cartoon is from 1889. *Shows big men in government overseeing a court* What economic philosophy is most evident in the cartoon?
Capitalism
The following table demonstrates the impact of a Progressive reform. What progressive reform effort MOST contributed to effects demonstrated in the table?
Compulsory Schooling Movement
Below is a Charles Evans Hughes quote. Which of the following would Mr. Hughes support?
Congressional refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
The following diagram is from the 1920s. What post-war strategy is represented in the in the above diagram?
Dawes Plan
The image below represents a Cold War ideology. *Books with countries falling on each other like dominos* The policy that best represents the the phenomenon is
Domino Theory
Below is a poster from 1944. Titled: "The Negro Press: Win the War-Plan with Peace!" What initiative does this poster support?
Double V campaign
The infographic below illustrates data on deaths as a result of the Holocaust. What conclusion can be made based on this infographic?
Eastern Europeans faced a greater chance of dying in the Holocaust.
The following table is from the early twentieth century. "Major strikes in steel, coal, and meatpacking. Many farmers bankrupt or deeply in debt. Many soldiers came home to find a shortage of jobs. The wartime bubble in the prices of farmland burst."
Effects of WWI Demobilization
"Labor Unions, Progressives, Skyscrapers, Urbanization." What is the MOST appropriate title for the above table?
Effects of the Second Industrial Revolution
Below is a 1919 political cartoon. Titled: Come unto me, ye opprest!" Which of the following actions BEST reflects the sentiments reflected in the above cartoon?
Emergency Quota Act
The excerpt below is from a 1919 Supreme Court decision. "The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." What government action was upheld by this decision?
Enforcement of the Sedition Act
The image below is from 1872. Note: The caption reads: "The First Colored Senator and Representatives, in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States." What conclusion about Reconstruction Era politics can be made from this image?
Freedmen exercised the rights guaranteed by the 15th Amendment
The following excerpt is related to WWI. "Protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting "Fire!" in a theatre causing a panic." What conclusion about the freedom of speech can be made from the above quote?
Freedom of speech can be regulated if it leads to clear and present danger
The following chart represents America between 1920 and 1933. "Criminals found a new source of income. Disrespect for the law developed. Increase in lawlessness such as smuggling and bootlegging, was evident. Organized crime grew." Which of the following groups support for the Volstead Act MOST likely caused the actions in the above chart?
Fundamentalists
The following flyer is from the early twentieth century. Titled: "No Japs in our Schools" Which of the following federal government actions is reflected in the flyer?
Gentleman's Agreement
The following table is related to Second Industrial Revolution inventors. "Face Ointment, Peanuts, Sweet potatoes, Tuskegee Institute" Which of the following inventors is MOST closely related to the table.
George Washington Carver
The following table consists of phrases popular during World War I. "Liberty cabbage, Liberty measles, Liberty pups, Liberty sandwich."
German Americans
The following excerpt is about the building of a courthouse. This scheme regarding the construction of a New York County Courthouse is an example of which of the following?
Graft
The following is an excerpt from a 1953 speech President Eisenhower gave during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. ...If at one time the United States possessed what might have been called a monopoly of atomic power, that monopoly ceased to exist several years ago. Therefore, although our earlier start has permitted us to accumulate what is today a great quantitative advantage, the atomic realities of today comprehend two facts of even greater significance. First, the knowledge now possessed by several nations will eventually be shared by others, possibly all others. Second, even a vast superiority in numbers of weapons, and a consequent capability of devastating retaliation, is no preventive, of itself, against the fearful material damage and toll of human lives that would be inflicted by surprise aggression... Based on this excerpt, what concern does Eisenhower have?
Great destruction will result because nothing is being done to limit nuclear weapons.
Which of the following territories was NOT relinquished by Spain as a consequence of the Spanish-American War?
Hawaii
The following book cover is related to World War I. Titled: "All Quiet on the Western Front" What new World War I strategy is MOST related to the above book cover?
Heavy artillery
Which of the following inventors made the success of U.S. Steel possible?
Henry Bessemer
Which of the following BEST explains the difference between civilian deaths in WW I and WW II?
Hitler's Final Solution
Titled "Americans Don't Patronize Reds!" What action was supported by literature like this?
House Un-American Activities Committee investigations
The following excerpt is about the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. "Membership in the League of Nations "would draw America away from her isolation and into the internal affairs and concerns of Europe"..."Once having surrendered and become a part of the European concerns...where, my friends, are you going to stop?" The above excerpt MOST closely reflects the beliefs of which of the following groups?
Irreconcilables
Below is a map of an Allied Offensive plan during World War II.
Island hopping
The following is and excerpt from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. "Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction." How does this declaration support the goals of the United Nations?
It endorses tolerance, acceptance, and peaceful coexistence.
This notice was posted in 1942. Titled: "Instructions to all Persons of Japanese Ancestry" What was the effect of notices like this?
Japanese Americans were moved to internment camps.
The following quote is from the Progressive Era. "The bulk of the sweater's work is done in the tenements , which the law that regulates factory labor does not reach... In [them] the child works unchallenged from the day he is old enough to pull a thread. There is no such thing as a dinner hour; men and women eat while they work, and the day' is lengthened at both ends far into the night." Which of the following government actions was intended to address the problem described in the quote?
Keating-Owen Act
Which statement BEST reflects the late 19th century labor movement
Labor unions were more successful in the North than the South.
Below is a 1930s photograph. What effect of the stock market crash is illustrated in this photograph?
Lack of confidence in banks
The following political cartoon is from the late 1930s. Titled: "America, The Last Refuge of Democracy" Which of the following would the cartoonist oppose?
Lend Lease Act
The following diagram is about African American civil rights. "Universal Negro Improvement Association + Return to Africa Movement = Views of a civil rights leader" The above diagram BEST represents the views of what civil rights leader?
Marcus Garvey
Which of the following people represented the NAACP at the 1945 conference on the founding of the United Nations?
Mary McLeod Bethune
The following is a 1950s poster. What ideology does this poster illustrate?
McCarthyism
Below is a 1919 political cartoon. Titled: "Not Called For Return to Sender" Whose beliefs are represented in this cartoon?
Mitchell Palmer
Analyze the chart below. What are the BEST titles for this chart?
NATO, Warsaw Pact
The image below is from a 1930s pamphlet. Caption: "If this American woman refused to buy silk as usual she would hurt US Workers six times as much as she'd hurt Japan." Which U.S. foreign policy is supported by this image?
Neutrality Act
The following cartoon is about the New Deal. States: "You've held things up long enough!" What generalization about the New Deal can be made from the above cartoon?
New Deal legislation faced constitutional challenges
Below is a quote by Albert Einstein. "One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war" Based on this quote, with which statement would Einstein agree?
Nuclear proliferation will lead to future warfare.
Below is a political cartoon from the 1920s. *Shows the uprising of the KKK* Based on this cartoon, which group below would support the KKK's action?
Prohibitionists
The following is a graphic organizer from the Progressive Era. "The Jungle + Government Action = ?" What federal action accurately completes the graphic organizer?
Pure Food and Drug Act
The following is an 1866 political cartoon by Thomas Nast. Which group was MOST angered by the Andrew Johnson action represented in the cartoon?
Radical Republicans
This image is from a World War II pamphlet.
Rationing
"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate;...not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality." Based on the quote which of the following BEST reflects an underlying goal of U.S. foreign policy in the 1920s.
Reduction in the ratio of warships
Below is a 1948 map of Berlin. What conclusion about post-war Europe can be made?
Relations between wartime allies became confrontational
The excerpt below is from a 1920 speech. "There isn't anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves have been racked, and fever has rendered men irrational; sometimes there have been draughts upon the dangerous cup of barbarity, and men have wandered far from safe paths, but the human procession still marches in the right direction..." Based on this excerpt what was one of Harding's goals?
Returning to life as it was before World War I
The map below represents the presidential election of 1860. Which cause of the Civil War does this map illustrate?
Sectionalism
The following list of services is from a Progressive Era reform effort. Based on the services listed, what is the MOST accurate title for this table?
Settlement House
What is one effect of the Jim Crow laws?
Southern African Americans experienced limited access to education
The excerpt below is from an 1873 document. What was done to counteract these perceived railroad business practices?
States passed Granger Laws.
In the late 19th century the concept of Social Darwinism was used as a justification for which of the following?
Success of big business and industrialists
The following cartoon is from the late nineteenth century. Caption states: Boss Tweed. "As long as I county the Votes, what are you going to do about it?" From this cartoon what conclusion can be made about elections?
Tammany Hall is influential
The following cartoon is from the early twentieth century. Based on the cartoon what generalizations can be made about the construction of the Panama Canal?
Teddy Roosevelt exercised Big Stick diplomacy
The statement below was made by President Rutherford B. Hayes in the late 19th century. "The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power." Based on this statement, which action was needed for the U.S. to control the Panama Canal Zone?
Teddy Roosevelt issued the Roosevelt Corollary
The following graphic organizer is from the turn of the nineteenth century. Which of the following BEST completes the urbanization graphic organizer?
Tenement housing
What is the BEST title for this image?
The Causes of World War I
The following quote is from 1910 to 1920. "Some said goodbye cheerfully...others fearfully, with terrors of unknown dangers in their mouths...others in their eagerness for distance said nothing. The daybreak found them gone. The wind said North." The above quote is about which of the following events?
The Great Migration
The following graph pertains to late 19th century labor union membership. What can BEST be concluded about union membership in the late 19th century?
The Haymarket Riot impacted membership in the Knights of Labor.
The following cartoon is from the 1920s. What is the BEST conclusion about the Ku Klux Klan can be made from the above cartoon?
The KKK is anti-Catholic
Below is a political cartoon from 1920. Titled "International Strife" with "League of Nations" Based on the political cartoon, why did the League of Nations fail to prevent World War II?
The League did not have the power to prevent international conflicts.
The photograph below was taken at the 1920 Republican convention. What conclusion can be drawn from this photograph?
The Republican Party did not support ratification of the 19th amendment.
Which of the following events represents resistance to African American civil rights during the 1920s?
The Rosewood Incident
The following is a 1910 advertisement Titled: "Indian land for sale" What conclusion about U.S. government policy is can be made from this advertisement?
The U.S. government encouraged western migration.
Below is an excerpt from the Treaty of Versailles, 1919. "The Allied and Associated Governments, however, require, and Germany undertakes, that she will make compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their property during the period of the belligerency of each as an Allied or Associated Power against Germany by such aggression by land, by sea and from the air, and in general all damage as defined in Annex l hereto." Article 232 How did this provision contribute to the rise of the Nazi Party?
The Weimar Republic faced an economic collapse.
The chart below reflects American economic activity during the late 19th century. Titled: "US Imports and Exports" Which motivation for imperialism is supported by the information contained in the chart?
The desire to acquire new markets
The following diagram represents a business practice. (Horizontal and Vertical Integration) Which of the following statements is an accurate description about the diagram?
The diagram represents a practice from the Second Industrial Revolution.
The following excerpt is related to the 1920s. "Through most of the 1920s, stock prices rose steadily. The Dow had reached a high of 381 points, nearly 300 points higher than it had been five years earlier. One observer wrote, "It seemed as if all economic law had been suspended and a new era opened up in which success and prosperity could be had without knowledge or industry."" What conclusions can be made about the 1920s based on information from the above excerpt?
The economy experienced a bull market
The following table is related to WWI. "Selective Service Act, Espionage and Sedition Acts, War Industries Board, Schneck v United States (1919)" What generalization can be made about the impact of WWI on American society?
The federal government increased its power
Which Congressional action was an attempt by Radical Republicans to advance their plan for Reconstruction?
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
The graph below illustrates alcohol consumption from 1910-1929. What statement BEST explains the graph's trend?
The inability of the U.S. government to enforce the Volstead Act
The 1922 political cartoon below comments on the Fordney-McCumber Tariff. (Labeled "Tariff Wall" with "Shut in!" and "Shut out!" on either side) What conclusion can be drawn from this cartoon?
The tariff will also limit American trade.
This is an August, 1945 political cartoon. With which statement would the cartoonist agree?
The threat of dropping an atomic bomb can be an effective deterrent to future war.
Why were the Nuremberg Trials important?
They set the precedent for prosecuting war criminals.
Which of the following is true of African Americans serving in Europe during WWI?
They were excluded from the Marines
Below is a World War II propaganda poster.
To convince Americans to work in munitions factories
The image below illustrates the convoy system utilized during World War I. What was the purpose of this system?
To limit the effectiveness of German unrestricted submarine warfare
The following legislation is from the mid-19th century. "...citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in ever State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding." Why did Congress feel compelled to pass this legislation?
To prevent Southern governments from enforcing black codes
The following diagram represents a business practice from the Second Industrial Revolution. What business practice is represented in the diagram?
Vertical integration
Which 1920s civil rights leader would agree with this statement?
W.E. B. DuBois
The excerpt below is from a March 1865 speech. "...With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." March 1865 What action demonstrates Congress' opposition to the vision for Reconstruction stated in the excerpt?
Wade-Davis Bill
The following cartoon is from 1899. *White man teaching children from different countries* What motivation for U.S. imperialism does the above cartoon depict?
White man's burden
The World War I poster below is from 1919. Titled: "The Spirit of America, Join +" What conclusion can be made from this poster?
Women served as nurses during the war.
The image below is from the front page of an 1898 newspaper. What style of newspaper reporting does this front page exemplify?
Yellow Journalism
Below is a quote from Millard Fillmore. "God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution."
ratification of a constitutional amendment
Which of the following represents the growing divide between the agrarian and urban electorate?
the emergence of Farmers' Alliances
The following is an excerpt from an 1867 document. "...Such measures will be taken as will inform all Freedmen entitled to be registered, of the necessity for, and the time and place of registration, and of the time and place of voting. They will also be instructed that, as they will not be allowed to suffer from the honest exercise of the right of suffrage, they should disregard all threats or undue influence tending to prevent or restrain the same.." How did southern communities violate the rights guaranteed in this document?
the establishment of poll taxes and literacy tests
The public service announcement below is from 1951. Titled: "Oh my! Danger, Bert Ducks and Covers" What prompted the creation of announcements like this?
the threat of nuclear attack
Below is a 1945 quote from the opening statement before the International Military Tribunal. "This Tribunal, while it is novel and experimental, is not the product of abstract speculations nor is it created to vindicate legalistic theories. This inquest represents the practical effort of four of the most mighty of nations, with the support of 17 more, to utilize international law to meet the greatest menace of our times-aggressive war." Based on this quote, what was one goal of the Nuremberg Trials?
to prevent future wartime atrocities
