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As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union army

a. gained thousands of new soldiers because African Americans were officially allowed to enlist.

b. experienced mass desertions by white soldiers.

c. suffered a series of military defeats as Confederate forces became more determined to defeat

the Union.

d. began to employ African Americans in noncombat support roles.

Which of the following African American leaders was particularly concerned with protecting and exercising voting rights?

 

a. W.E.B. Du Bois

b. Mary Church Terrell

c. Booker T. Washington

d. Ida B. Wells

Rosa Parks’s action resulted in a

a. restaurant sit-in.

b. bus boycott.

c. school protest.

d. riot.

Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?

a. Langston Hughes

b. Paul Robeson

c. Duke Ellington

d. Marcus Garvey

One outspoken critic of the Equal Rights Amendment was

a. Betty Friedan.

b. Kathy Striebel.

c. Phyllis Schlafly.

d. Shirley Chisolm

At the Comstock Lode, miners found rich deposits of

a. copper.

b. diamonds.

c. gold.

d. silver.

At Love Canal, residents experienced health problems because of

a. a radiation leak.

b. toxic waste from local factories.

c. lead paint in many homes.

d. underground toxic waste leaking.

The process used by prospectors to extract shallow deposits of ore was called

a. placer mining.

b. quartz mining.

c. strip mining.

d. surface mining.

Deep deposits of minerals led to the creation of a legendary boomtown in the Colorado mountains, known as

 

a. Comstock.

b. Leadville.

c. Pike’s Peak.

d. Virginia City.

Construction of the Union Pacific Railroad pushed west from

a. Chicago, Illinois.

b. Ogden, Utah.

c. Omaha, Nebraska.

d. St. Louis, Missouri.

A center of creativity and freedom where many artists, writers, and intellectuals of the 1920s gathered was

a. Boston.

b. Greenwich Village.

c. Charlestown.

d. Haight-Ashbury.

African American arts flourished in the 1920s in what became known as the

a. Great Transformation.

b. Great Awakening.

c. South Side Renaissance.

d. Harlem Renaissance.

Who was the leader of the 1936 rebellion in Spain that quickly became a civil war?

a. Benito Mussolini

b. Vladimir Lenin

c. Francisco Franco

d. Gerald M. Nye

During the 1950s, the entertainment and advertising industries found a new, independent market in

a. the African American community.

b. beat writers and artists.

c. new suburban communities.

d. the new youth culture.

In April 1968, James Earl Ray was arrested for

a. killing Martin Luther King, Jr.

b. killing Robert F. Kennedy.

c. rioting at the Democratic National Convention.

d. violence at Kent State.

What were two jobs that women performed in the armed services during World War I?

a. infantry and nursing

b. drafting and nursing

c. administration and clerical work

d. nursing and clerical work

The part of the Educational Amendments that prohibited federally-funded schools from discriminating

against girls and young women in nearly all aspects of their operations was

a. Title VII.

b. Title VIII.

c. Title IX.

d. Title X.

Rosie the Riveter was a symbol of

a. the campaign to hire women to work in factories during the war.

b. women who joined the armed forces.

c. Japanese civilians who were sent to internment camps.

d. Mexican farmworkers who helped with the harvest.

Who formed the National Woman’s Party, whose members picketed and went on hunger strikes in

support of suffrage?

a. Carrie Chapman Catt

b. Lucretia Mott

c. Alice Paul

d. Lucy Stone

Mary Church Terrell was an African American leader who campaigned against lynching, worked for

woman suffrage, and helped to found the

a. Atlanta Compromise.

b. Colored Farmers’ National Alliance.

c. Exodusters.

d. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

One reason for America’s industrial success was its

a. abundant raw materials.

b. access to oceans.

c. small workforce.

d. wide open spaces.

With his ragged and battered troops surrounded and outnumbered, General Lee surrendered to

General Grant on April 9, 1865, at

a. Appomattox Courthouse.

b. Atlanta.

c. Mobile Bay.

d. Cold Harbor

As part of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Nixon and Brezhnev agreed to

a. exchange weapons technology.

b. exchange prisoners.

c. end the Cold War.

d. exchange scientific information.

The Great Northern became the most successful transcontinental railroad in part because of

a. bribes the company gave to members of Congress.

b. its founder’s good decisions and honest business practices.

c. its investors’ ability to manipulate stock prices.

d. land grants given to the company by the federal government.

A glut of wheat on the world market led to

a. an increase in the number of bonanza farms.

b. an increased general demand for wheat.

c. construction of new railroad lines.

d. falling wheat prices paid to farmers.