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US History STAAR Practice

Description: Prepare for STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) test on US History Review
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Which of the following best describes the significance of Joseph McCarthy?

  1. Senator who accused prominent figures of being Communists 

  2. Senator who opposed US involvement in United Nations

  3. Senator who supported amnesty for illegal immigrants 

  4. Senator who opposed US involvement in League of Nations


Correct Option: A

Which of the following best describes the significance of Sacco and Vanzetti?

  1. found guilty conspiring to assassinate the president

  2. fought for right to a lawyer during trial

  3. Communists whose murder conviction heightened the Red Scare

  4. found guilty and executed for espionage during Cold War


Correct Option: C

Which of the following best describes the significance of Eleanor Roosevelt?

  1. first lady who advocated for women and minority rights

  2. first lady who led a "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign

  3. first lady who fought for healthcare reform

  4. first lady who led a literacy campaign for grade schoolers


Correct Option: A

Which of the following best describes the significance of Jane Addams?

  1. organized women to promote a prohibition amdendment

  2. first woman in the US to cast a vote

  3. founder of the Hull House for women and children

  4. led an anti-lynching campaign


Correct Option: C

Which of the following best describes the significance of Douglas MacArthur?

  1. led invasion of Normandy on D-Day

  2. South Pacific General in WWII; fired by Truman in Korean War

  3. Supreme Allied Commander of European Forces in WWII

  4. brilliant WWII tank commander in North Africa and Italy


Correct Option: B

Which of the following best describes the significance of Sanford B. Dole?

  1. influential in the development of the Social Security Admin.

  2. led a revolution against monarchy in Hawaii

  3. became a billionaire and created a steel empire

  4. ran for president three times and fought for bimetallism


Correct Option: B

Which of the following best describes the significance of Alfred T. Mahan?

  1. muckraker who wrote The Jungle

  2. wrote Letter from a Birmingham Jail; argued for civil rights

  3. Influence of Sea Power on History; argued for strong navy

  4. founding father who wrote The Declaration of Independence


Correct Option: C

Which of the following best describes the significance of Henry Cabot Lodge?

  1. Senator who accused prominent figures of being Communists 

  2. Senator who opposed US involvement in United Nations

  3. Senator who supported amnesty for illegal immigrants 

  4. Senator who opposed US involvement in League of Nations


Correct Option: D

Which of the following best describes the significance of Harry Truman?

  1. decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan and ended WWII

  2. elected 4x; created New Deal; tried packing the courts

  3. was a rough Rider; spearheaded effort to build Panama Canal

  4. was president during stock market crash of 1929


Correct Option: A

Which of the following best describes the significance of Franklin D. Roosevelt?

  1. was a Rough Rider and founded the Bull Moose Party

  2. blamed for the stock market crash and subsequent depression

  3. made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII

  4. elected 4x; created New Deal; tried packing the S. Court


Correct Option: D

Which of the following best describes the significance of Woodrow Wilson?

  1. created the New Deal and tried packing the Supreme Court

  2. created the 14 Points for lasting peace at the end of WWI

  3. made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan

  4. argued for a "Return to Normalcy" and was part of a scandal


Correct Option: B

Which of the following best describes the significance of Theodore Roosevelt?

  1. enhanced the Monroe Doctrine and created Bull Moose Party

  2. created the New Deal and attempted to pack the court

  3. created the 14 Points at the end of WWI

  4. made the decision to drop atomic weapons on Japan


Correct Option: A

Which of the following best describes the significance of John F. Kennedy?

  1. was the first General to be elected president

  2. promoted New Frontier & was assassinated while in office

  3. cut taxes and balanced the federal budget

  4. promoted Great Society & grew credibility gap during Vietnam


Correct Option: B

Which of the following best describes the significance of Lyndon B. Johnson?

  1. was the first General to be elected president

  2. promoted New Frontier & was assassinated while in office

  3. cut taxes and balanced the federal budget

  4. promoted Great Society & grew credibility gap during Vietnam


Correct Option: D

Which of the following best describes the significance of Richard Nixon?

  1. was part of "Return to Normalcy and Teapot Dome Scandal

  2. grew NASA and was president during Iran-Contra Affair

  3. presided over a healthy economy & was impeached for perjury

  4. promoted Vietnamization and part of Watergate Scandal 


Correct Option: D

Which of the following best describes the significance of Warren Harding?

  1. was part of "Return to Normalcy and Teapot Dome Scandal

  2. grew NASA and was president during Iran-Contra Affair

  3. presided over a healthy economy & was impeached for perjury

  4. promoted Vietnamization and part of Watergate Scandal 


Correct Option: A

Which of the following best describes the significance of Clarence Darrow?

  1. he rebelled against the draft by burning his draft card

  2. he defended modernism and Scopes' right to teach evolution

  3. he encouraged the U.S. to adopt term limits

  4. he was the General in charge of the invasion of Normandy


Correct Option: B

Which of the following best describes the significance of William J. Bryan?

  1. he campaigned for president on a segregationist platform

  2. he was the only American to win the Medal of Honor in WWI

  3. he led a campaign to repeal the 18th amendment

  4. ran for president 3x; prosecuted Scopes in the Monkey Trial


Correct Option: D

Which best describes the significance of Andrew Carnegie?

  1. invented the assembly line

  2. invented the telephone

  3. used the Bessemer Process to produce steel at a high rate

  4. he harnessed electricity into a usable power source


Correct Option: C

Which best describes the significance of Charles Lindbergh?

  1. he was the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

  2. he was the first to fly over the South Pole

  3. he was the first to fly around the world 

  4. he was the first to fly over the North Pole


Correct Option: A

Which best describes the significance of Henry Ford?

  1. Invented the incandescent light bulb

  2. Invented the assembly line

  3. Invented the telephone

  4. Invented the elevator


Correct Option: B

Which best describes the significance of Thomas Edison?

  1. invented the incandescent light bulb

  2. invented the elevator

  3. invented the telephone

  4. invented the assembly line


Correct Option: A

Which best describes the significance of Jonas Salk?

  1. created a vaccine for polio

  2. discovered a cure for AIDS

  3. discovered a cure for cancer

  4. created a vaccine for smallpox


Correct Option: A

Which best describes the significance of Alexander Graham Bell?

  1. Inventor of the assembly line

  2. Inventor of the elevator

  3. Inventor of the telephone

  4. Inventor of incandescent light bulb


Correct Option: C

Which best describes the significance of Sandra Day O'Connor?

  1. a conservative and first female on the Supreme Court

  2. led a campaign to ratify the 19th amendment

  3. led the fight for women supporting prohibition

  4. opposed the Equal Rights Amendment


Correct Option: A

Which best describes the significance of Thurgood Marshall?

  1. founder of the NAACP

  2. organized an educational and vocational college for blacks

  3. founder of the Black Panthers

  4. lawyer for NAACP and first black justice on Supreme Court


Correct Option: D

Which best describes the significance of Rosa Parks?

  1. led the fight to ratify the 19th Amendment

  2. her refusal to give up a seat launched a bus boycott

  3. campaigned to stop the Equal Rights Amendment

  4. spearheaded the "Just Say No" campaign


Correct Option: B

Which best describes the significance of Cesar Chavez?

  1. first Hispanic to win the Congressional Medal of Honor

  2. first Hispanic billionaire

  3. organized migrant farm workers and an agricultural boycott

  4. owner of a monopolistic corporation in the Gilded Age


Correct Option: C

Which best describes the significance of Susan B. Anthony?

  1. an early suffragist and women's rights activist

  2. co-founder of the NAACP

  3. founder of the Hull House for women and children

  4. first female justice of the Supreme Court


Correct Option: A

Which best describes the significance of W.E.B. DuBois?

  1. organized Montgomery Bus Boycott

  2. a civil rights leader who called for civil disobedience

  3. an early civil rights activist who helped found the NAACP

  4. a civil rights activist who founded a black college


Correct Option: C

Which best describes the significance of Malcolm X?

  1. founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Council

  2. a civil rights leader who called for violence when necessary

  3. first black justice on the Supreme Court

  4. organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott


Correct Option: B

Which best describes the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

  1. an influential Civil Rights leader; wrote "I Have a Dream"

  2. a Civil Rights leader who called for violent action

  3. a televangelist

  4. first black justice on the Supreme Court


Correct Option: A
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