US History STAAR Quiz

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Which is NOT a progressive era reform designed to increase voter participation?

  1. Initiative

  2. Recall

  3. Referendum

  4. Assimilation


Correct Option: D

Which is NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

  1. Stock market speculation

  2. Stock market crash

  3. High tariffs

  4. Unemployment


Correct Option: D

What event was sparked by nativism & identified by the rounding up of Communists within the US?

  1. Chinese Exclusion Act

  2. Mexican Repatriation

  3. Red Scare

  4. Great Migration


Correct Option: C

Which foreign policy is characterized by the U.S. desiring an isolated western hemisphere?

  1. Dollar Diplomacy

  2. Open Door Policy

  3. Moral Diplomacy

  4. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine


Correct Option: D

Which foreign policy is described by the U.S. wanting to participate in Chinese trade?

  1. Dollar Diplomacy

  2. Open Door Policy

  3. Moral Diplomacy

  4. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine


Correct Option: B

Which definition best describes laissez-faire?

  1. Government stays out of business affairs

  2. Strict laws and regulations in the stock market

  3. Government-provided unemployment insurance

  4. The outlawing of monopolies


Correct Option: A

Which scandal involved the first Cabinet member to be arrested for corruption and bribery?

  1. Court-packing Scheme

  2. Sinking of Lusitania

  3. Sinking of U.S.S. Maine

  4. Teapot Dome 


Correct Option: D

Which describes a positive impact of the Harlem Renaissance?

  1. Impressionist art

  2. Jazz as an American music form

  3. W.E.B. DuBois increases his influence

  4. Lynching is outlawed


Correct Option: B

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan are closely associated with the struggle between - 

  1. Modernism and Fundamentalism

  2. Progressivism and the Gilded Age

  3. Expansionism and Isolationism

  4. Freedom and Tyranny


Correct Option: A

Which invention directly allowed for the mass-production of manufactured goods?

  1. Assembly Line

  2. Bessemer Process

  3. Steam Power

  4. Model T


Correct Option: A

Which muckraker is associated with The Jungle, exposing the dangers of meat-packing industry?

  1. W.E.B. DuBois

  2. Susan B. Anthony

  3. Upton Sinclair

  4. Ida B. Wells


Correct Option: C

What reporting technique is described by exaggerated, embellished, sensational news stories?

  1. Propaganda

  2. Investigative Journalism

  3. Yellow Journalism

  4. Fireside Chats


Correct Option: C

Which best describes a lasting impact of the Treaty of Versailles?

  1. Germany was severely punished

  2. The U.S. joined the League of Nations

  3. The U.S. eliminated all war debt

  4. Germany and France became allies


Correct Option: A

What situation best describes the Western Front during World War I?

  1. Espionage

  2. Stalemate

  3. Lopsided Victory

  4. Blitzkrieg


Correct Option: B

Which is NOT a cause of World War I?

  1. Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

  2. Militarism

  3. Alliances

  4. The invention of the tank


Correct Option: D

Which describes a feeling of resentment and dislike of foreigners?

  1. Nativism

  2. Patriotism

  3. Expansionism

  4. Imperialism


Correct Option: A

Which amendment, active during the 1920s, caused an increase in organized crime?

  1. 16th

  2. 17th

  3. 18th

  4. 19th


Correct Option: C

Which amendment would have been supported by populists, because it created an income tax?

  1. 16th

  2. 17th

  3. 18th

  4. 19th


Correct Option: A

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

  1. 16th 

  2. 17th

  3. 18th

  4. 19th


Correct Option: D

Which law encouraged settlers to move west by offering cheap land for settlers to improve?

  1. Espionage and Sedition Acts

  2. Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  3. The Homestead Act

  4. Selective Service Act


Correct Option: C

Which laws were meant to discourage criticism against the United States during World War I?

  1. Agricultural Adjustment Act

  2. Selective Service Act

  3. Anti-Trust Laws

  4. Espionage and Sedition Acts


Correct Option: D

Which time period is identified with low taxes, high tariffs, and growth of investments?

  1. The Industrial Revolution

  2. The Progressive Era

  3. Emergence of the U.S. as a World Power

  4. The Roaring Twenties


Correct Option: D

Which time period is identified with the Spanish-American War and World War I?

  1. The Industrial Revolution

  2. The Progressive Era

  3. Emergence of the U.S. as a World Power

  4. The Roaring Twenties


Correct Option: C

Which time period is identified with social reforms, anti-trust laws, and political reform?

  1. The Industrial Revolution

  2. The Progressive Era

  3. Emergence of the U.S. as a World Power

  4. The Roaring Twenties


Correct Option: B

Which time period is identified with factories, monopolies, and large-scale immigration?

  1. The Industrial Revolution

  2. The Progressive Era

  3. Emergence of the U.S. as a World Power

  4. The Roaring Twenties


Correct Option: A

Which political group desired free coinage of silver and was popular among poor farmers?

  1. Republicans

  2. Bull Moose

  3. Progressives

  4. Populists


Correct Option: D

Which best describes the purpose of the Bill of Rights?

  1. to limit personal freedoms

  2. to limit the power of the national government

  3. to declare our independence from Great Britain

  4. to create a system of checks and balances 


Correct Option: B
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