SOL Pretest #3

1. SOL Pretest #3 Good Luck….Get in the SOL CLUB!!

2. Question #1 • _____1. Which of the following WAS NOT a part of the Radical Republicans plan for Reconstruction? • A. The 13th Amendment to end slavery. • B. The Freedman’s Bureau to aid former slaves. • C. The 15th Amendment to insure suffrage. • D. Establishing Black Codes (Jim Crow Laws) in Southern States

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

4. Question #3 • _____3. Which of the states below is a Northeastern State? • A. Ohio • B. Washington • C. Maryland • D. New Hampshire

5. Question #4 • _____4. Which of the following states would be considered a Southeastern State? • A. Nebraska • B. Arizona • C. Pennsylvania • D. Alabama

6. Question #5 • _____5. The dry, arid, grassland which starts around the 100’W meridian and extends west to the Rocky Mountains is known as – • A. The Central Plains • B. The Interior Lowlands • C. The Great Plains • D. The Steppe

7. 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 – • A. Homestead Act • B. Dawes Act • C. Western Lands Act • D. Sedition Act

8. Question #7 • _____7. The Central Pacific railroad hired these immigrants because they worked efficiently and did dangerous work without complaint – • A. German immigrants • B. Chinese immigrants • C. Russian immigrants • D. Mexican immigrants

9. 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. 

10. Question #9 • _____9. All of the following were reasons for American settlers to move West EXCEPT – A. better opportunities for former slaves. B. the discovery of gold and silver deposits in the West. C. advances in transportation. D. Violent conflicts between Native American tribes and Mexicans settlers.

11. Question #10 • _____10. The immediate outcome of the Battle of Little Bighorn was – A. victory for the United States Army: the Sioux retreated to the reservation. B. defeat for Custer and his men; they were forced to retreat to St. Louis, MO. C. victory for the United States Army; the Sioux tribe fled to Canada. D. defeat for the U.S. Army; Custer was killed and the 7th Cavalry was wiped out.

12. Question #11 • “I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed…the 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.” • _____11. Identify the chief quoted in the text box on the bottom of this page – A. Tecumseh B. Crazy Horse C. Sitting Bull D. Chief Joseph

13. Question #12 • _____12. This former Indian reservation was opened up for settlement in 1889; the land was first come first serve – A. Dakota Territory B. California C. Oklahoma D. Colorado

14. Question #13 • _____13. Which region of the nation was most closely associated with the textile manufacturing industry? A.The Southwest B. New England C. The Great Plains D. Pacific Northwest

15. Question #14 • _____14. Which city is most closely associated with the steel industry? A. Pittsburgh B. New York City C. Philadelphia D. Detroit

16. Question #15 • _____15. Which city is closely tied to the automobile industry? A. St. Louis B. Cincinnati C. Detroit D. Philadelphia

17. Question #16 • _____16. Which of the cities below is most closely associated with the meatpacking industry? A. Washington, D.C. B. Chicago C. Santa Fe D. Seattle

18. Question #17 • _____17. Which of the inventors below was credited with creating the first telephone? • A. Alexander Bell • B. Thomas Alva Edison • C. Henry Ford • D. Cyrus McCormick

19. Question #18 • _____18. Which of the following reasons WAS NOT a cause of the growth of urban centers in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s? A. Immigration of Europeans to the United States B. The migration of African-Americans to Northern cities C. Manufacturing jobs in northern industrial centers D. The Homestead Act

20. Question #19 • _____19. Parties who organized immigrant neighborhoods to vote for their candidates by providing favors or simply buying their votes were called – • A. partisans • B. political machines • C. libertarians • D. socialists

21. Question #20 • _____20. She was the founder of the Chicago settlement house called Hull House – • A. Susan B. Anthony • B. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • C. Dorothea Dix • D. Jane Addams

22. Question #21 • _____21. Which of the following factors caused a rise in big businesses across America during the late 1800s? A. Cheap Immigrant Laborers B. Catalogs and new types of advertising C. Larger Markets due to improved transportation D.All of the Above

23. Question #22 • _____22. Andrew Carnegie was a famous businessman who dominated this industry – A. Oil B. Steel C. Banking D. Automobiles

24. Question #23 • _____23. John D. Rockefeller was the entrepreneur who created a monopoly called – • A. U.S. Steel Corp • B. Standard Oil • C. Ford • D. B & O Railroads

25. Question #24 • _____24. The man’s who’s company dominated the automobile manufacturing business was – • A. Henry Ford • B. Andrew Carnegie • C. James P. Morgan • D. John D. Rockefeller

26. Question #25 • _____25. Unions began to form in the late 1800s as laborers combined to fight against – • A. Low Wages • B. the 12-hour work day • C. child labor • D. unsafe working conditions • E. All of the Above

27. Question #26 • _____26. Samuel Gompers was the founder of this trade union – A. Congress of Industrial Organizations B. Knights of Labor C. Molly Maguire’s D.American Federation of Labor

28. Question #27 • Unsafe Working Conditions • Long Hours • Low Pay • Child Labor was common and dangerous. • _____27. All of the problems in the text box above were opposed by – A. Andrew Carnegie and other industrialists. B. NAACP and the Niagara Movement. C. Progressives and Union Leaders. D. Suffragists

29. Question #28 • _____28. The woman’s suffrage movement’s goal was – A. to end child labor. B. to outlaw the consumption of alcohol and “demon rum.” C.to gain the right to vote in national elections. D.“equal pay for equal work.”

30. Question #29 • _____29. 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 – A.Elizabeth Cady Stanton B.Sojourner Truth C.Eleanor Roosevelt D.Shirley Chisholm

31. Question #30 • “Trustbuster” who sued the Standard Oil Company. • Conservationist who established several National Parks. • Passed Pure Food and Drug Act. • _____30. Which progressive President was responsible for these achievements? A.William Howard Taft B.Woodrow Wilson C.William McKinley D.Theodore Roosevelt

32. Question #31 _____31. • President Theodore Roosevelt is associated with the phrase “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” This phrase meant Roosevelt— A. respected other nations and refused to interfere B. was always ready to help other countries C. was ready to volunteer for battle D. viewed the United States as the policeman of the Caribbean

33. Question #32 • _____32. Sugar cane crops were the economic interest that the United States was trying to protect in this country leading up to the Spanish-American War. • A. Hawaii • B. Spain • C. Cuba • D. Philippines

34. Question #33 _____33. • All of the following were results of the Spanish American War except— A. Cuba gained its independence from Spain B. The United States joined the League of Nations C. The United States emerged as a world power. D. The United States gained Spanish possessions.

35. Question #34 • _____34. This man was the author of the novel The Great Gatsby – A. John Steinbeck B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. Sinclair Lewis D. Upton Sinclair

36. Question #35 _____35. • In 1925, Tennessee school teacher John Scopes was accused of – A. teaching about species of monkeys. B. teaching the Christian version of Creationism in a public school. C. teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in a public school. D. robbing a shoe factory

37. Question #36 • _____36. Which amendment gave women the right to vote in national elections? A.17th Amendment B.18th Amendment C.19th Amendment D.21st Amendment

38. Question #37 • _____37. This African-American leader demanded immediate equality for people of color in the United States; he established both the NAACP and the Niagara Movement – A.W.E.B. Dubois B.Booker T. Washington C.George Washington Carver D.Elijah Lovejoy

39. Question #38 • _____38. This African-American leader argued that education and job skills were the key for future equality for African-Americans – A.Stokely Carmichael B.Frederick Douglass C.Booker T. Washington D.Robert Smalls

40. Question #39 • _____39. Which of the following methods was used to prevent African-American men from voting in the South during the late 1800s and early 1900s? A.the 15th Amendment B.literacy tests C.political machines D.blacklists

41. Question #40 • _____40. Which Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal in the South as long as the institutions created were “Separate but Equal..”? A. Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KS B.Plessy V. Ferguson C.Marbury V. Madison D. Eberwein V. Loring

42. Question #41 • _____41. Feelings of great pride in one’s nation, which can cause conflicts between overly sensitive nations, is called – • A. Colonialism • B. Nationalism • C. Militarism • D. Alliance System

43. Question #42 _____42. The text box above is an example of – A. Nationalism B. Militarism C. Alliance System D. Free Trade • The Triple Entente • Great Britain • France • Russia • Each nation pledged to defend the others in the event of enemy attack.

44. Question #43 • _____43. Which of the following nations was WAS NEVER a member of the Central Powers? • A. Germany • B. Austria-Hungary • C. Ottoman Empire • D. France

45. Question #44 • _____44. One of the causes of World War I was the assassination of this man on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist – • A. Woodrow Wilson • B. Kaiser Wilhelm II • C. Franz Ferdinand • D. Czar Nicholas II

46. Question #45 • _____45. During World War I, the fighting between enemies was usually – • A. sea battles between ironclads. • B. bombings from airplanes over capital cities like Paris, Berlin, or Washington, D.C. • C. trench warfare and machine gun fire along lines dug in by large armies. • D. horseback cavalry charges

47. Question #46 • _____46. He was the President of the United States of America during World War I: • A. William J. Bryan • B. Woodrow Wilson • C. Theodore Roosevelt • D. Warren G. Harding

48. Question #47 • _____47. From the start of World War I in 1914 to the spring of 1917, the President advised Americans – • A. To support the Central Powers by sending weapons and supplies to Germany. • B. To buy war bonds to help support the war. • C. To remain neutral in mind as well as in action. • D. To trade with both sides and make as much money as possible off of the war.

49. Question #48 • _____48. This English passenger liner was sunk off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915 by a German u-boat. Over 1000 men and women died, including 128 Americans – • A. The USS Sussex • B. The Lusitania • C. The USS Sultana • D. The HMS Titanic

50. Question #49 • REASONS FOR UNITED STATES ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR I: •  The Zimmermann Telegram • Freedom of the Seas • __________________ • _____49. Which of the following reasons would best complete the chart? • A. United States’ alliance with France and England. • B. To Make the World Safe for Democracy • C. Militarism • D. Imperialists hopes to gain territory in Asia and Africa