Chapter 7 Ss Practice Test
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Ch 7 SS practice test
- 1.Americans became intersted in Alaska
- A.
As a good place to grow cotton
- B.
After gold was discovered there
- C.
Until they realized that it had few natural resources
- D.
Because it was so close to Russia
- 2.Which of these Americans gained control of the land and trade in Hawii?
- A.
Missionaries and sugar planters
- B.
Tobacco planters and cotton planters
- C.
Sea captains and merchants
- D.
Fishing shipowners and whaling shipowners
- 3.Which two areas gained by the United States in the Spanish-American War remain U.S. possessions today?
- A.
Guam and Cuba
- B.
Puerto Rico and the Philippines
- C.
Puerto Rico and Guam
- D.
Cuba and te Philippines
- 4.President Theordore Roosevelt wanted the United States to use its power in the world because
- A.
Most countries considered the United States to be work
- B.
He wanted to fight in all the world's wars
- C.
He wanted to force other countries to buy only American-made goods
- D.
He believed that events in the rest of the world affected the United States
- 5.Why did the United States want to build the Panama Canal?
- A.
To move the Navy out of the Caribbean Sea into the Pacific
- B.
To fight in the spanish-American War
- C.
To link American territories in the Atlantic and Pacific
- D.
To increase trade between Mexico and the United States
- 6.The main goals of the progressives were to
- A.
Improve government and make life better
- B.
End wars and make peace
- C.
Stop immigration and foreign trade
- D.
Help farmers learn new ways and grow new crops
- 7.Theodore Roosvelt called his program of progressive reforms the
- A.
Square Deal
- B.
Great Society
- C.
Good Neighbor Policy
- D.
United Way
- 8.Governor Robert La Follette started a merit system to Wisconsin to
- A.
Reduce the number of hours in a workday from 16 to 14
- B.
Make sure that children could be hired for any jobs they wanted
- C.
Make sure that people who got government jobs were qualified for them
- D.
Make sure that high school graduates could read and write
- 9.The goal of the National Urban League was to
- A.
Help unions win the right to strike
- B.
Find jobs and homes for African Americans living in cities
- C.
Stop the railroads from charging city customers high fares
- D.
Stop immigrants from coming to the United States
- 10.Why did the United States enter World War I?
- A.
Russia asked for its help
- B.
France started killing American soldiers
- C.
The Turkish navy sank the battleship Maine
- D.
German submarines sand American ships
- 11.The most feared of the new weapons used in World War I was
- A.
Barbed wire
- B.
Poison gas
- C.
The machine gun
- D.
The handgun
- 12.How did women contribute to the war effort in World War I?
- A.
They helped men fight in the trenches in France
- B.
They were drafted into the Army and Navy
- C.
They flew airplanes in battles over France
- D.
They took over the jobs left by men going to war
- 13.The government agency set up to plan production of goods that were needed to fight World War I was the
- A.
Creel Committee
- B.
War Industries Board
- C.
NAACP
- D.
Committee on Public Information
- 14.The members of Congress voted not to join the League of Nations because
- A.
They wanted the United States to stay out of other countries' problems
- B.
The League refused to elect an American to head to organization
- C.
The League wanted to United States to pay for the organization
- D.
They believed that wars were the only way to won new territories
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