US History OST Review

Question 1

Historians evaluate credibility of sources based on which of the following?

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Question 2

Which source would be most credible for information about daily life of factory workers in the 1880s?

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Question 3

What perspective held by Hispanic-American farmers led to the United Farm Workers?

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Question 4

Before 1950, most US immigrants came from Europe. What changed in the 1965 Immigration Act?

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Question 5

Who was in charge of investigating communist activities during the 2nd Red Scare (1940s-1950s)?

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Question 6

Which event was a result of domestic policy changes after the attack on Pearl Harbor?

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Question 7

Which reason explains why the US Senate refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles after WWI?

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Question 8

Persecutions over the spread of communism after WWII became known as

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Question 9

How did US national security policy change at the end of the Cold War?

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Question 10

Which social change was encouraged by the movement for prohibition in the US?

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Question 11

Which excerpt from the Declaration of Independence describes the Enlightenment idea of natural rights?

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Question 12

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, how did industrialization affect U.S. agriculture?

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Question 13

Which situation contributed to the growth of labor organizations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

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Question 14

What was the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

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Question 15

Which group relocated from the South to the North in the largest numbers during the Great Migration?

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Question 16

What foreign policy did the United States follow in the period immediately following World War I?

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Question 17

What was one effect of the New Deal?

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Question 18

The attack on Pearl Harbor caused changes in American domestic policies. Which event was a consequence of the attack on Pearl Harbor?

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