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US History Test for STAAR Prep

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Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice?

  1. Sonia Sotomayer

  2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  3. Sandra Day O'Connor

  4. Oliver Wendell Holmes


Correct Option: C

Which case stated that the segregation of Mexican-American students was unconstitutional?

  1. Sweatt v. Painter

  2. Edgewood ISD v. Kirby

  3. Brown v. Board

  4. Mendez v. Westminster


Correct Option: D

What organization was created to help protect member states from Soviet aggression?

  1. NAFTA

  2. NATO

  3. The UN

  4. The League of Nations


Correct Option: B

What ended after 444 days of captivity for US citizens?

  1. Iran-Contra Affair

  2. The American Revolution

  3. The Persian Gulf War

  4. Iran Hostage Crisis


Correct Option: D

Who was killed in the Obama Administration as a result of his involvement in the 9/11 attacks?

  1. Saddam Hussain

  2. Quadafi

  3. Osama Bin Laden

  4. Yasser Arafat


Correct Option: C

Which group launched the 9/11 attack?

  1. Al Qaeda

  2. ISIS

  3. PLO

  4. Boca Raton


Correct Option: A

What policy that George HW Bush ran on is depicted below?

  1. The Persian Gulf

  2. The Deficit

  3. "Read my lips, No New Taxes."

  4. The End of the Cold War


Correct Option: C

In order to free Kuwait George HW Bush started what conflict?

  1. The Cold War

  2. Vietnam War

  3. The Invasion of Afghanistan

  4. The Persian Gulf War


Correct Option: D

Which president is shown in the political cartoon below?

  1. Richard M. Nixon

  2. Harry S. Truman

  3. Ronald Reagan

  4. George HW Bush


Correct Option: C

Which woman led the fight against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment?

  1. Susan B. Anthony

  2. Gloria Steinem

  3. Phyllis Schlafly

  4. Harriet Beecher Stowe


Correct Option: C

Concept that the US had a God-given right to control the lands b/t the Atlantic and Pacific.

  1. Social Darwinism

  2. Social Gospel

  3. Manifest Destiny

  4. Patronage


Correct Option: C

Which made it so candidates could not simply give jobs away based on political support?

  1. The Pendleton Act

  2. The Dawes Act

  3. The Chinese Exclusion Act

  4. The Homestead Act


Correct Option: A

Which of the following gave settlers 160 acres of land if they developed it?

  1. The Dawes Act

  2. The Pendleton Act

  3. The Homestead Act

  4. The Chinese Exclusion Act


Correct Option: C

Which of the following was an attempt to stop immigration from a particular country?

  1. Nativism

  2. The Dawes Act

  3. The Chinese Exclusion Act

  4. Imperialism


Correct Option: C

Which Era happened last?

  1. The Gilded Age

  2. WWI

  3. The Progressive Era

  4. The Roaring 20's


Correct Option: D

Which Era happened first?

  1. WWI

  2. The Modern Era

  3. WWII

  4. Vietnam


Correct Option: A

Which war ended on the 38th parallel exactly where it started?

  1. Vietnam

  2. WWI

  3. The Spansh-American War

  4. The Korean


Correct Option: D

In 1912 due to Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft splitting the vote who won the election?

  1. Taft

  2. Roosevelt

  3. Wilson

  4. Debs


Correct Option: C

What concept is demonstrated by the following cartoon?

  1. Free Trade

  2. Big Stick Diplomacy

  3. The Rise of Dictators

  4. NAFTA


Correct Option: B

Who is represented by the following cartoon?

  1. Teddy Roosevelt

  2. Franklin Roosevelt

  3. William Howard Taft

  4. Woodrow Wilson


Correct Option: A

Who was most responsible for creating the New Deal?

  1. LBJ

  2. JFK

  3. FDR

  4. Hoover


Correct Option: C

What created a free trade zone between the US, Mexico, and Canada?

  1. NATO

  2. The UN

  3. NAFTA

  4. UEA


Correct Option: C

What act attempted to Americanize the Indians?

  1. Tammany Hall Act

  2. Dawes Act

  3. Pendelton Act

  4. Free Trade Act


Correct Option: B

What was it called when large numbers of African-Americans moved to large urban centers?

  1. The Great Importation

  2. The Great Migration

  3. The Great Transportation

  4. Immigration


Correct Option: B

Who helped Co-Found the NAACP?

  1. MLK

  2. Malcolm X

  3. Jesse Jackson

  4. WEB Dubois


Correct Option: D

What was the plan to help countries in Europe, after WWII, if they did not turn communist?

  1. The Truman Doctrine

  2. Warsaw Pact

  3. The Marshall Plan

  4. NATO


Correct Option: C

Who was behind the Communist "Witchhunts" of the 1950's?

  1. Dwight D. Eisenhower

  2. Joseph McCarthy

  3. Harry S. Truman

  4. George Marshall


Correct Option: B

What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific during WWII?

  1. Pearl Harbor

  2. Hiroshima

  3. Nagasaki

  4. Midway


Correct Option: D

Which President established a detente with China?

  1. LBJ

  2. JFK

  3. Richard Nixon

  4. Gerald Ford


Correct Option: C

During the Reagan Administration illegal sales of arms for money was called?

  1. Iraqi Freedom

  2. Iran-Contra Affair

  3. Grenada Assault

  4. Detente


Correct Option: B

Which President created a universal healthcare plan?

  1. George W. Bush

  2. Ronald Reagan

  3. Barack Obama

  4. Richard M. Nixon


Correct Option: C

Which President made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

  1. Franklin D. Roosevelt

  2. George W. Bush

  3. Barrack Obama

  4. Harry S. Truman


Correct Option: D

Which President was known as "Trustbuster!"

  1. George W. Bush

  2. Theodore Roosevelt

  3. William Howard Taft

  4. Harry S. Truman


Correct Option: B

What is it when a company owns all like producing companies?

  1. Vertical Integration

  2. Horizontal Integration

  3. The Industrial Revolution

  4. Robber Barrons


Correct Option: B

What's it called if a company owns all materials from the ground up in production of a product?

  1. Vertical Integration

  2. Horizontal Integration

  3. The Industrial Revolution

  4. Robber Barrons


Correct Option: A

Which political party backed silver, direct election of sens., and had a large no. of farmers?

  1. The Bull-Moose Party

  2. The Progressive Party

  3. The Democratic

  4. The Populist


Correct Option: D

Which Amendment called for the direct election of Senators?

  1. The 16th

  2. The 17th

  3. The 18th

  4. The 19th


Correct Option: B

Which amendment allowed the federal government to have an income tax?

  1. The 16th

  2. The 17th

  3. The 18th

  4. The 19th


Correct Option: A

Which Amendment gave women suffrage?

  1. The 16th

  2. The 17th

  3. The 18th

  4. The 19th


Correct Option: D

Which Amendment Prohibited Alcohol?

  1. The 16th

  2. The 17th

  3. The 18th

  4. The 19th


Correct Option: C

Which was NOT a reform from the Progressive Era?

  1. Recall

  2. Referendum

  3. initiative

  4. patronage


Correct Option: D

What is journalism that lies about the truth?

  1. Muckraking

  2. Pulitzer Prizes

  3. Imperialism

  4. Yellow Journalism


Correct Option: D

Which best describes the Bill of Rights?

  1. It's not for lefties

  2. The 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution

  3. Declaration of Independence

  4. The Articles of Confederation


Correct Option: B

Who was a Gilded Age tycoon in the steel industry that was associated with the Social Gospel?

  1. John D. Rockefeller

  2. Andrew Carnegie

  3. Thomas Edison

  4. JP Morgan


Correct Option: B

What concept was Susan B. Anthony associated with?

  1. Women's Suffrage Movement

  2. The Social Gospel

  3. The Bull-Moose Party

  4. Pure Food and Drug Act


Correct Option: A

Which did NOT lead to the Great Depression?

  1. Bank Closures

  2. Stock Speculation

  3. Buying on Credit

  4. Cash Purchases


Correct Option: D

Who ran Tammany Hall?

  1. Boss Tweed

  2. Teddy Roosevelt

  3. William McKinley

  4. William Howard Taft


Correct Option: A

What concept, from the Gilded Age, does the political cartoon below represent?

  1. The Industrial Revolution

  2. Expansion West

  3. Nativism

  4. Urbanization


Correct Option: C

Who had a monoploy on oil in the Gilded Age?

  1. Andrew Carnegie

  2. John D. Rockefeller

  3. Thomas Edison

  4. Teddy Roosevelt


Correct Option: B

Who was the 1st President of the US?

  1. Thomas Jefferson

  2. George W. Bush

  3. George HW Bush

  4. George Washington


Correct Option: D
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