EOC Practice Test 3
- 1.How did government policies of the Gilded Age of the late 1800s promote industrialization
- A.
Imperialism fueled steel production in the United States.
- B.
New Deal policies created jobs for many of the unemployed.
- C.
The Sherman Antitrust Act allowed for regulation of big business.
- D.
Laissez-faire economic policies allowed private businesses to operate freely.
- 2.Which situation resulted from the OPEC oil embargo of 1973?
- A.
Oil shortages and rising prices
- B.
Oil shortages and falling prices
- C.
Oil surpluses and rising prices
- D.
Oil surpluses and falling prices
- 3.During the late nineteenth century, many anti-Imperialists worried that Imperialism might threaten United States democratic values by
- A.
Opening more doors of diplomacy
- B.
Considering the needs of native peoples
- C.
Violating fundamental human rights
- D.
Establishing protection for weaker countries
- 4.Which of these statements describes both the Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
- A.
Suffrage cannot be denied on the basis of race.
- B.
Anyone born in the United States is a citizen.
- C.
Congress has the power to collect taxes.
- D.
Slavery cannot exist in the United States.
- 5.How did the Paris Peace Accords lead to the end of the Vietnam War in 1973?
- A.
It called for a final withdrawal of the United States troops.
- B.
It called for a withdrawal of Soviet troops.
- C.
It allowed the United States to rightly claim victory in Vietnam.
- D.
It allowed French leaders to intervene with the Vietnamese.
- 6.Why did large numbers of African Americans migrate to the North in the early twentieth century?
- A.
Northern states offered them free farmland.
- B.
Labor unions in the North recruited them as members.
- C.
Southern Jim Crow laws restricted their job opportunities.
- D.
New laws forced them to leave the South or pay heavy fines.
- 7.Why did many immigrants move from eastern and southern Europe to the United States between 1880 and 1920
- A.
To escape the threat of war in Europe
- B.
To spread new political ideas from Europe
- C.
To bring new industrial techniques to the United States
- D.
To take advantage of economic opportunities in the United States
- 8.The federal government’s approach to regulating monopolies in the early 1900s was to
- A.
Break up corporate trusts
- B.
Avoid interfering with strikes
- C.
Regulate corporate profits
- D.
Avoid free and open competition
- 9.How did the Democratic administration influence politics during the Great Depression and World War II?
- A.
They broadened states rights to avoid military conflict.
- B.
They engaged in propaganda to defeat other political parties.
- C.
They expanded government involvement in people’s lives.
- D.
They followed a laissez-faire economic approach to avoid regulation.
- 10.Which of these factors led to the formation of a region called the Rust Belt during the late twentieth century?
- A.
A shrinking industrial base in the North
- B.
More agricultural jobs in the Mountain West
- C.
A growing commercial base on the East Coast
- D.
More manufacturing jobs in the Great Plains
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