SOL Review Questions: Society, Culture, and Domestic Affairs in US History

SOL Review Questions: Society, Culture, and Domestic Affairs in US HistoryA Review for the SOL TestQuestion #1_____1. Which of the following WAS NOT a part of the Radical Republicans plan for Reconstruction? The 13th Amendment to end slavery.The Freedmans Bureau to aid former slaves.The 15th Amendment to insure suffrage.Establishment of Black Codes in Southern States

Question #2_____2. The Compromise of 1877 resulted in - Samuel Tildon becoming President of the U.S.AThe end of slavery in the United States.The end of Reconstruction in the American South.The creation of the Dakota Territory.

Question #3_____3. Which of the states below is a Northeastern State?OhioWashingtonMarylandNew Hampshire

Question #4_____4. Which of the following states would be considered a Southeastern State?NebraskaArizonaPennsylvaniaAlabama

Question #5_____5. The dry, arid, grassland which starts around the 100W meridian and extends west to the Rocky Mountains is known as The Central PlainsThe Interior LowlandsThe Great PlainsThe Steppe

Question #6_____6. This act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who paid a small filing fee and agreed to live on the land for five (5) years. During the five years, they must improve the land by planting crops or building a home Homestead ActDawes ActWestern Lands ActSedition Act

The Homestead Act

Question #7_____7. The Central Pacific railroad hired these immigrants because they worked efficiently and did dangerous work without complaint German immigrantsChinese immigrantsRussian immigrantsMexican immigrants

Question #8_____8. Which of the following economic and social changes took place because of the construction of Transcontinental Railroads?Time zones were invented and began to be used. More Americans began to settle in the West.Trade increased between the Western states and Eastern states.All of the above.

Question #9_____9. Long drives generally started in Southwestern Texas and ended at Chicago, IL boomtowns railroads major rivers

Question #10Meat was used for food.Hides were used for clothing and shelter. Bones were used for weapons and ceremony.Nomadic lifestyle

_____10. Identify both the Native American tribe being described and the animal Cheyenne Tribe, dogsNez Perce Tribe, walrusArapaho, cattleLakota (Sioux), buffalo

The Sioux Tribe and the Buffalo

Question #11_____11. All of the following were reasons for American settlers to move West EXCEPT better opportunities for former slaves.the discovery of gold and silver deposits in the West.advances in transportation.Violent conflicts between Native American tribes and Mexicans settlers.

Question #12_____12. The official policy of the United States of America towards Native Americans was Every Native American must accept Jesus Christ as their savior and convert to Christianity.Native Americans must live on reservations. Native Americans would be allowed to trade with Americans and travel through their towns. Native Americans should be fought to the death.

Question #13_____13. The immediate outcome of the Battle of Little Bighorn was victory for the United States Army: the Sioux retreated to the reservation.defeat for Custer and his men; they were forced to retreat to St. Louis, MO.victory for the United States Army; the Sioux tribe fled to Canada.defeat for the U.S. Army; Custer was killed and the 7th Cavalry was wiped out.

Question #14I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killedthe little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

_____14. Identify the chief quoted in the text box on the bottom of this page Chief JosephTecumsehCrazy HorseSitting Bull

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

Question #15_____15. Because the Great Plains offered little wood to build traditional houses with, many settlers lived in tepeestentssod housesConestoga wagons

Question #16_____16. John Deere invented this important agricultural product Mechanical ReaperBarbed WireSteel PlowCotton Gin

Question #17_____17. This invention ended the long drive of cattle and led to conflict between ranchers and farmers railroads and trainsbarbed wireassembly linedry farming

Joseph Gliddens Barbed Wire

Question #18Turning soil over after short rainfalls or heavy dews.Weeding out unwanted plants to save water.Planting seeds deep in the ground to save water.Leaving fields fallow (unplanted) for a season to allow water and nutrients to build up again.Windmills to bring water to the surface

_____18. All of the techniques in the box above are examples of Dry FarmingSharecroppingExodustingDust Bowling

Dry Farming

Question #19_____19. This former Indian reservation was opened up for settlement in 1889; the land was first come first serve Dakota TerritoryCaliforniaOklahomaColorado

Question #20_____20. Tracts of land which were set aside for Native Americans to settle upon were known as TerritoriesEstuariesNational ParksReservations

Question #21_____21. Which region of the nation was most closely associated with the textile manufacturing industry?The SouthwestNew EnglandThe Great PlainsPacific Northwest

Question #22_____22. Which city is most closely associated with the steel industry? PittsburghNew York CityPhiladelphiaDetroit

Question #23_____23. Which city is closely tied to the automobile industry? A. St. LouisB. Cincinnati C. DetroitD. Philadelphia

Question #24_____24. Which of the cities below is most closely associated with the meatpacking industry? A. Washington, D.C.B. Chicago C. Santa FeD. Seattle

Question #25_____25. Which of the inventors below was credited with creating the first telephone? A. Alexander BellB. Thomas Alva EdisonC. Henry FordD. Cyrus McCormick

Question #26_____26. Which of the following individuals first used the assembly line to mass produce automobiles?A. ChevroletB. Henry FordC. Ransom OldsD. Duryea

Question #27_____27. Which of the following reasons WAS NOT a cause of the growth of urban centers in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s?Immigration of Europeans to the United StatesThe migration of African-Americans to Northern citiesManufacturing jobs in northern industrial centersThe Homestead Act

Question #28_____28. Overcrowded apartment buildings where immigrant families lived in poverty were called A. slumsB. tenementsC. public housingD. suburbs

Question #29_____29. Parties who organized immigrant neighborhoods to vote for their candidates by providing favors or simply buying their votes were called A. partisansB. political machinesC. libertariansD. socialists

Question #30_____30. She was the founder of the Chicago settlement house called Hull House A. Susan B.AnthonyB. Elizabeth Cady StantonC. Dorothea DixD. Jane Addams

Question #31_____31. Which of the following factors caused a rise in big businesses across America during the late 1800s?Cheap Immigrant LaborersCatalogs and new types of advertisingLarger Markets due to improved transportationAll of the Above

Question #32_____32. Andrew Carnegie was a famous businessman who dominated this industry A. OilB. SteelC. BankingD. Automobiles

Question #33_____33. John D. Rockefeller was the entrepreneur who created a monopoly called A. U.S. Steel Corp B. Standard OilC. Ford D. B & O Railroads

Question #34_____34. The man whose company dominated the automobile manufacturing business was A. Henry FordB. Andrew CarnegieC. James P. MorganD. J.D.Rockefeller

Question #35_____35. Unions began to form in the late 1800s as laborers combined to fight against A. Low WagesB. 12-hour work day C. child laborD. unsafe working conditionsE. All of the Above

Question #36_____36. Samuel Gompers was the founder of this trade union Congress of Industrial OrganizationsKnights of LaborMolly MaguiresAmerican Federation of Labor

Question #37Unsafe Working ConditionsLong HoursLow PayChild Labor was common and dangerous.

_____37. All of the problems in the text box above were opposed by Andrew Carnegie and other industrialists. NAACP and the Niagara Movement.Progressives and Union Leaders.Suffragists

Progressives and Union Leaders

Question #38_____38. The settlement house movement was established during the late 1800s in order to assist poor immigrants working women with childrenuneducated laborers in urban areasAll of these

Question #39_____39. The Hull House, established in Chicago in the 1880s, was founded by Susan B. AnthonyElizabeth Cady StantonJane AddamsMary Pickford

Question #40_____40. The temperance movement was devoted to the abolition of alcoholslaveryliteracy testschild labor laws

Question #41_____41. The womans suffrage movements goal was to end child labor.to outlaw the consumption of alcohol and demon rum. to gain the right to vote in national elections.equal pay for equal work.

Question #42_____42. She was the organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention and helped to draft the Declaration of Sentiments, in which women demanded the right to vote for the first time publicly Elizabeth Cady StantonSojourner TruthEleanor RooseveltShirley Chisholm

Question #43_____43. She was the leader of the womans suffrage movement in the 19th Century and was once arrested for casting a ballot in New York state Susan B. AnthonyElizabeth Cady StantonLucretia MottAngela Grimke

Question #44Trustbuster who sued the Standard Oil Company. Conservationist who established several National Parks.Passed Pure Food and Drug Act after reading The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair.

_____44. Which progressive President was responsible for these achievements?William Howard TaftWoodrow Wilson William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt: Trustbuster

Question #45_____45. Which amendment to the Constitution outlawed the manufacturing of, the sale of, and the transportation of alcohol in the United States? 17th Amendment18th Amendment19th Amendment21st Amendment

Prohibition Failed: 21st Amendment

Question #46_____46. Which amendment gave women the right to vote in national elections? 17th Amendment18th Amendment19th Amendment21st Amendment

Question #47_____47. This African-American leader demanded immediate equality for people of color in the United States; he established both the NAACP and the Niagara Movement W.E.B. DuboisBooker T. WashingtonGeorge Washington CarverElijah Lovejoy

Question #48_____48. This African-American leader argued that education and job skills were the key for future equality for African-Americans Stokely CarmichaelFrederick DouglassBooker T. WashingtonRobert Smalls

Question #49_____49. Which of the following methods was used to prevent African-American men from voting in the South during the late 1800s and early 1900s?the 15th Amendmentliteracy testspolitical machinesblacklists

Question #50_____50. Laws in the South which enforced segregation were called Sunday Blue Laws zoning ordinancesJim Crow Laws Martial Law

Question #51_____51. Which Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal in the South as long as the institutions created were Separate but Equal..? Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KSPlessy V. FergusonMarbury V. MadisonEberwein V. Loring

Question #52_____52. This organization was established in 1908 in order to defeat racism, discrimination, segregation, and violence directed at African-Americans and other minority groups in the United States National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Question #53_____53. African-American men and women did not gain full suffrage in many Southern States until the passage of the 16th Amendment to the Constitutionthe Voting Rights Act of 1965the Pendleton Act of 1883the National Quota Act of 1924

Question #54_____54. The integration of the United States Armed Forces was accomplished by an executive order from President Dwight EisenhowerHarry TrumanJohn F. KennedyLyndon B. Johnson

Question #55_____55. After World War II, many soldiers benefited from this program, which offered loans for houses, free education, and work programs to veterans of the war The Civil Rights Act The GI BillThe Homestead ActThe Morrill Act

Question #56_____56. Rosie the Riveter represented working women during World War II. After World War II, many women were promoted to manage plants and facilities.given raises which allowed families to purchase homes.accused of working as communist spies.asked to leave their jobs so that veterans could take them.

Question #57_____57. This organization was established by W.E.B. DuBois in the early 1900s. During the 1950s, they paid lawyers like Thurgood Marshall to challenge segregation Congress of Racial EqualityThe Niagara MovementNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People.Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question #58_____58. This Supreme Court Case established the separate but equal segregation system in the American South from 1896 to the 1950s Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KSPlessy V. FergusonThe Dred Scott CaseGideon V. Wainwright

Brown V. Board of Education overturned Plessy V. Ferguson

Question #59_____59. This Supreme Court Case overturned the system of segregation in public schools across America in 1954 Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KSPlessy V. FergusonThe Dred Scott CaseGideon V. Wainwright

Question #60_____60. Which American President was responsible for constructing the interstate highway system in the United States of America? [HINT: The same President sent in paratroopers to insure the safety of the Little Rock Nine when they integrated the school system there in 1957.]Harry TrumanDwight David EisenhowerJohn F. KennedyLyndon B. Johnson

Question #61_____61. The individual whos arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 1956 was Ella BakerRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa ParksRalph Abernathy

Question #62_____62. Identify the young Civil Rights activist and preacher who served as the spokesperson for the African American community during the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 1956 Stokely CarmichaelJames FarmerJohn LewisRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question #63_____63. Students in Greensboro, NC and Nashville, TN protested the segregated lunch counters in department stores across the south by economic boycottpicketing throwing rocks or stones through storefront glassessit-ins

Question #64_____64. The group of students and Civil Rights Activists sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality who tested out the interstate bus rules during the summer of 1961 (and encountered great violence along the way) were SNCCThe Freedom RidersThe Greensboro FourThe Jackson Five

Question #65_____65. Which of the following compositions would not have been authored by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? A Letter From a Birmingham JailI Have a Dream speechPassive Resistance and Nonviolent Civil DisobedienceBlack Power

Question #66_____66. The law which outlawed segregation and job discrimination (racist hiring practices) in public institutions across the South was the 15th Amendment to the ConstitutionThe Civil Rights Act of 1964The Wade-Davis BillThe Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question #67_____67. The law which forbid literacy tests, intimidation, or other unfair practices which prevented African-Americans from voting was The 13th Amendment to the ConstitituionThe Clayton Anti-Trust ActThe Voting Rights Act of 1965The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question #68_____68. Who was the President of the United States of American during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963? Richard NixonJohn F. KennedyLyndon Baines JohnsonGerald Ford

Question #69_____69. Who was the President of the United States when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed into law? Richard NixonJohn F. KennedyLyndon Baines JohnsonGerald Ford

Question #70_____70. The goal of this organization was that women should receive Equal Pay for Equal Work! AIM American Indian Movement NOW National Organization of WomenAFWU American Farm Workers UnionWCTU Womens Christian Temperance Union

Question #71Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.

_____71. The passage above comes from The United States ConstitutionThe Declaration of IndependenceThe 19th Amendment to the ConstitutionThe Equal Rights Amendment

The Equal Rights Amendment

Question #72_____72. During 1970s, the Title IX law insured that women would have equal access to all educational programs including medical schoolscolleges and universitiescollege athletic programsall of the above

Question #73_____73. The First Lady of the United States who first took an active role in discussing public matters and influencing social programs during her husbands time in office was Eleanor Roosevelt Lucy EisenhowerLaura Bush Hillary!

Question #74Medicare and Medicaid ProgramsHead Start Program for Early EducationThe Civil Rights Act of 1964The Voting Rights Act of 1965Strengthening of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts

_____74. All of the programs listed in the box above are a part of The Fair DealThe New FrontierThe New DealThe Great Society

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Question #75_____75. Who was the author of The Jungle, a novel about conditions in the meatpacking centers of Chicago, IL?A. Sinclair LewisB. John SteinbeckC. Ernest HemingwayD. Upton Sinclair