Quiz on US History Regents Review
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How was the election of 2000 similar to the elections of 1824 and 1876?
Which was is most closely associated with the emergence of the United States as a world power?
Which action has come to symbolize the end of the Cold War?
President Ronald Reagan used the concept of supply-side economics when he proposed
Which action was a major foreign policy achievement of President Jimmy Carter?
The baby boom after WWII led directly to
The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren made several landmark decisions that
Women played a role in WWI by
During WWI, the Manhattan Project was the name of the plan to
The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s reflect the efforts of Congress to
Which movement's primary goal was the ratification of a constitutional amendment - Prohibition
Which development clearly illustrates the nativist attitudes that existed in the US in 1920
The vote by the United States Senate on the Treaty of Versailles (1919) demonstrated
Which action was a result of the other three?
Literacy tests & grandfather clauses were enacted in the South after the Reconstruction Era to
The formation of national labor unions in the late 1800s was mainly a response to
In the late 1800s, rapid industrial development resulted in
In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to
Why was Lincoln lenient toward the south after the Civil War?
During the 1830s, the development of a national two-party system was mainly the result of
How did the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 affect United States commerce?
What was a significant effect of the Supreme Court decisions under Marshall
The primary purpose of the Federalist Papers was to
Which idea guided the development of the Articles of Confederation?
Colonists showed their opposition to the British taxation & trade restrictions of the 1760s by
In the 1700s, the triangular trade led directly to the
Which geographical area was added to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase?
Primary sources of information about the colonial era would include
The decision in Schenck v US and the Patriot Act demonstrate the principle that fed gov can
One way the New Deal and the Great Society are similar is that both programs were based on
The terms Teapot Dome, Watergate, and Iran-Contra are most closely associated with
Changes in policies during the administrations of both President Wilson and FDR show that
Authors, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sinclair Lewis wrote about
One unique feature of the election of 2000 between Bush and Gore is that
The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), signed by Nixon with the Soviet Union was
Which action is the best example of the use of civil disobedience
Which action did President Eisenhower take to enforce Brown v. BOE
McCarthyism in the 1950s is most closely associated with
The Berlin airlift was used during the Cold War to
The GI Bill helped soldiers who served in World War II by
The Nuremberg War Crimes trials of 1945-1949 established the international precedent that
FDR said the US needed to be the "great arsenal of democracy" because he was trying to
Which action is an example of international appeasement?
What was a basic cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s?
The Red Scare, the growth of the KKK, and the murder conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti were
President TR's Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine primarily affected Latin America by
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were efforts by the federal gov to
Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell are examples of
During the late 1800s, which development led to the other three?
The term robber baron was used to describe some owners of big businesses primarily because they
Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws were used in the south to
In the 1870s, the Granger Movement was organized to promote the interests of
After the Civil War, the sharecropping system emerged in the South primarily as a way to
Before the start of the Civil War, many southern political leaders supported
The majority of immigrants who arrived between 1800-1860 came from
President Andrew Jackson used the spoils system to
What was one result of the Supreme Court's decision in Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Judicial review is most accurately described as the power of the
Which headline illustrates the use of the unwritten constitution?
A strict interpretation v a loose interpretation of the Constitution is seen in
Which document is most closely associated with John Locke's social contract theory of gov?