Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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_______ is a business in which there is no competition in the industry. a. |
cartel | c. | oligopoly | b. | enterprise | d. | monopoly | | | | |
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To
prevent people from stealing inventions, the federal government issues _______. a. | patents | c. | degrees | b. | merits | d. | citations | | | | |
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One
of the things that made people want to come to the United States in the early 20th Century was
_______. a. | professional
sports | c. | jobs in
factories | b. | college education | d. | none of the above | | | | |
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4.
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The
United States funded much of the War effort by the purchase of _______. a. | Bonds | c. | Margins | b. | Stocks | d. | Taxes | | | | |
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The
Industrial Revolution started in ______. a. | England | c. | France | b. | Russia | d. | United
States | | | | |
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A(n)
_________________ is somebody who takes a risk to invest large sums of money on a new idea or
product. a. | capitalist | c. | entrepreneur | b. | pretender | d. | extortionist | | | | |
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7.
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The
Allied Invasion of France on June 6, 1944 has been called __________. a. | Escape at
Dunkirk | c. | Battle of the
Bulge | b. | V-E Day | d. | D-Day | | | | |
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The
Treaty of __________ ended World War I and was a cause of the start of WWII. a. | Versailles | c. | Versace | b. | Paris | d. | Ghent | | | | |
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The
reform movement at the turn of the Twentieth Century was called _______. a. | Reformist
Movement | c. | Progressive
Movement | b. | Liberal Movement | d. | None of the Above | | | | |
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The
date of the stock market crash was ________________. a. | September 29,
1929 | c. | October 28,
1928 | b. | October 29,
1929 | d. | December 29,
1929 | | | | |
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Black
__________ is the name given for the day that the stock market crashed. a. | Friday | c. | Wednesday | b. | Tuesday | d. | Thursday | | | | |
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An
economic system in which all people are supposed to have the same amount of wealth is called
_______. a. | Capitalism | c. | Democracy | b. | Aristocracy | d. | Socialism | | | | |
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__________ is an economic system where the goods and services of a country are
privately owned and land is privately owned as well. a. | socialism | c. | communism | b. | capitalism | d. | mercantilism | | | | |
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14.
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The
first machines of the Industrial Revolution used ______. a. | Combustion
engine | c. | Nuclear
energy | b. | Steam | d. | Ethanol | | | | |
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________ is a famous photographer from the Great Depression era. a. | Jacob
Riis | c. | Dorothea
Lange | b. | Alfred Stieglitz | d. | George Eastman | | | | |
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________ the Riveter became a symbol of women working in factories during World War
II. a. | Wanda | c. | Rosie | b. | Rocky | d. | Roxie | | | | |
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The
______________ were the only group of people denied entry to this country by law. a. | German | c. | Chinese | b. | Irish | d. | Japanese | | | | |
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The
______ declared neutrality in World War I when it started. a. | Germany | c. | Austria-Hungary | b. | United States | d. | Russia | | | | |
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During the 1920’s the ______ Amendment prohibited the purchase and consumption of
alcohol. a. | Equal
Rights | c. | Prohibition | b. | Suffrage | d. | First | | | | |
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A
________ was a very overcrowded and dirty apartment complex. a. | referendum | c. | settlement
house | b. | tenement | d. | referendum | | | | |
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A
system by which Americans conserved materials because they were only allowed to purchase a certain
amount of a particular good was called ________. a. | conscription | c. | rationing | b. | propaganda | d. | recycling | | | | |
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The
internment of tens of thousands of __________-Americans was a horrible civil liberties violation of
World War II in the United States. a. | Chinese | c. | Japanese | b. | African | d. | German | | | | |
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_______ was a robber baron in the steel industry of Pittsburgh. a. | John D.
Rockefeller | c. | J.P.
Morgan | b. | Andrew Carnegie | d. | John Heinz | | | | |
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The
________ was completed in 1869 and linked the transportation networks of the East and
West. a. | Transcontinental
Railroad | c. | World Wide
Web | b. | Intercontinental
Subway System | d. | Interstate
Highway system | | | | |
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The
Japanese attack on the United States at __________ was the reason the United States gave for entering
World War II. a. | Bulge | c. | Pearl
Harbor | b. | Stalingrad | d. | Manhatten | | | | |
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_______ became president when Kennedy was assassinated. a. | Richard
Nixon | c. | Jimmy
Carter | b. | Gerald Ford | d. | Lyndon B. Johnson | | | | |
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The
Stock Market Crash ushered in what is known as ______________. a. | Era of
Slum | c. | The Great
Recession | b. | Poor Era | d. | The Great Depression | | | | |
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_____________ is an intense loyalty toward one’s country or
ethnicity. a. | imperialism | c. | nationalism | b. | militarism | d. | alliance | | | | |
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______ refers to local goverment a. | Municipal | c. | State | b. | Federalism | d. | injunction | | | | |
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On
June 28, 1914 the archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated. His name was
_____. a. | Franz
Ferdinand | c. | Gavrilo
Princep | b. | Wilhelm | d. | Franz Josef | | | | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson’s domestic program was called ________. a. | The New
Frontier | c. | The Great
Society | b. | The New Deal | d. | The Fair Deal | | | | |
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President ________ was the youngest elected president of the United
States. a. | Kennedy | c. | Nixon | b. | Teddy Roosevelt | d. | Eisenhower | | | | |
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a. | Martin Luther
King | e. | Rosa
Parks | b. | Malcolm X | f. | Black Panther Party | c. | Little Rock
Nine | g. | Thurgood
Marshall | d. | Brown vs. Board of Education | h. | James Meredith | | | | |
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33.
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Court
decision that integrated the school
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An
organization founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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35.
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Became national minister of the Nation of Islam
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36.
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Delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech
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37.
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Sparked the civil rights movement for refusing to move from her seat on the
bus.
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38.
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Were
the first African-Americans to go to white school in Arkansas
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39.
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Fought to go college at Ole Miss (University of Mississippi)
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40.
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First
African-American Supreme Court justice
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